AGENDA

11:30 am-12:00 pm
Registration and networking

12:00 -12:30 pm
Lunch

12:30 - 1:00 pm
Donald Lewis, acclaimed academic attorney on China-USA law, will be the keynote speaker during lunch and will discuss America's effort to create a 'single window' for paperless, trade facilitation documentation.
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 1:00 - 2:30 pm
Making Hay: The Future of U.S. Competitiveness in the Age of Globalization 

Dan Gardner
Founder and President,
Trade Facilitators, Inc.

Presentation abstract
Speaker Bio.

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Whereas the U.S. has been a proponent of liberalized trade for the last seventy years, it now runsthe risk of succumbing to the very market forces it helped to foster throughout Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa. Rife with little known or oft-forgotten facts, the true story behind the United States' role in the globalization of trade is one of irony, unintended consequences and self-fulfilling prophecies.

In a contrarian style that blends exhaustive research with years of international experience, Dan Gardner's, "Making Hay" chronicles America's journey from a crusader for market-driven economies to a casualty of its own best intentions. Of greater import, this thought provoking storyline presents a series of measures that the U.S. can take to assure its position as the world's number one economy. Key elements of the presentation are:

• The economic evolution of the United States from 1945-2014: Five critical inflection points
• Post WWII America: The geo-political factors that impacted U.S. industrial competitiveness
• The road to globalization: How it really happened
• Through the looking glass: What globalization means to U.S. job creation
• U.S. competitiveness in the Age of Globalization

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