Please add and update the following to the Reuters
Diary for the Week Ahead for Saturday, September 22 through
Friday, September 28, 2012:
Saturday, September 22
ADDS SESSIONS
(GOP/RADIO/SESSIONS) ADVISORY — At 11:06 a.m., Sen.
Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) delivers the Republican response to the
president’s weekly radio address.
Contact: 202-225-5107
Sunday, September 23
ADDS FINAL PANEL
9 a.m. — STATE OF THE UNION WITH CANDY CROWLEY (CNN):
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) discusses
“2012 Politics; Democratic Agenda; Immigration Reform; U.S.
Troop Drawdown in Afghanistan.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) a member of the Senate
Armed Services Committee, discusses “2012 Politics; Republican
Agenda; Immigration Reform; U.S. Troop Drawdown in Afghanistan.”
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers
(R-Mich.) discusses “State Dept. Ad Campaign in Pakistan; Libya;
Anti-American Violence; and Congressional Fight Over Foreign
Aid.”
+Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster; Anna Greenberg, a
Democratic pollster; Susan Page of USA Today; and Ron
Brownstein, a CNN senior political analyst, discuss “2012
Politics; and the Latest Polling Numbers.”
Monday, September 24
No items added or updated.
Tuesday, September 25
10:30 a.m. — (TECH/BROADBAND/GENACHOWSKI) DISCUSSION
— Vox Media hosts a discussion on “Broadband Challenges and
Opportunities.” Participants include Federal Communications
Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski; Jim Bankoff, CEO of Vox
Media; and Nilay Patel, managing editor at Verge.
Location: Vox Media, 1740 N Street NW
Contact: Callie Schweitzer, 914-262-9513,
callie.schweitzer@voxmedia.com
Note: The event will be webcast at
http://www.fcc.gov/live
Wednesday, September 26
No items added or updated.
Thursday, September 27
10 a.m. — (MEXICO/OUTLOOK) PANEL DISCUSSION — The
George Washington University Center for Latin American Issues
and the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute hold
a panel discussion “The New Mexican Government and Its
Prospects.” Participants include George Grayson, professor in
the department of government at The College of William and
Mary; Steve Johnson, director of the Americas Program at the
Center for Strategic and International Studies; and Jeffrey
Welch, chairman of the department of political science at ITAM
(Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico).
Location: George Washington University, 2201 G
Street NW, Duques Hall, Suite 451
Contact: 202-994-5205
Note: RSVP required.
11 a.m. — (ASIA/DEFENSE/ECONOMY) SEMINAR — The Hudson
Institute holds a seminar on “The Next Thirty Years Peace in
the Asia-Pacific.” Participants include Christopher Ford,
director of the Center for Technology and Global Security at
the Hudson Institute; and Eric Brown, research fellow at the
Hudson Institute.
Location: 122 Cannon House Office Building
Contact: 202-223-7770
3 p.m. — (DEFENSE/CYBER) DISCUSSION — The
Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative holds a panel
discussion on “Lessons from Our Cyber Past: History of Cyber
Intelligence,” on lessons learned from the history of cyber
conflict. Participants include Samuel Cox, director of
intelligence at Cybercom; Jason Healey, director of the Cyber
Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council; Sean Kanuck,
national intelligence officer for cyber issues at the Office of
the Director of National Intelligence; and Matt Devost,
president and CEO at FusionX.
Location: Atlantic Council, 1101 15th Street NW,
11th Floor
Contact: Taleen Ananian, 202-778-4993,
press@acus.org
Note: RSVP at, 202-778-4955,
3 p.m. — (STATE/HEALTH/WOMEN) DISCUSSION — The
Woodrow Wilson Center (WWC) holds a discussion on “Preventing
Injuries During Childbirth: Programmatic and Policy
Recommendations for Addressing Obstetric Fistula and Uterine
Prolapse.” Participants include Kate Grant, executive director
of the Fistula Foundation; Evelyn Landry, deputy director of
the Fistula Care Project at EngenderHealth; Gillian Slinger,
technical specialist and obstetric fistula coordinator at the
Campaign to End Fistula at the United Nations Populatin Fund;
Luc de Bernis, senior maternal health adviser at the United
Nations Population Fund; and Lauri Romanzi, clinical associate
professor at the New York University Langone Medical Center.
Location: WWC, One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, Ronald
Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Contact: 202-691-4000
Note: RSVP at
7 p.m. — (STATE/DEFENSE/OUTLOOK) DISCUSSION — Young
Professionals in Foreign Policy (YPFP) holds a discussion on
“Driving in the Dark: Ten Propositions About Prediction and
National Security.” Participants include Richard Danzig,
chairman of the Center for a New American Security.
Location: YPFP Global Headquarters, 1800 K Street
NW, Suite 400
Contact:
Friday, September 28
8 a.m. — (SECURITY/TECH/NAPOLITANO) DISCUSSION —
National Journal and Government Executive hold a Cybersecurity
Summit.
Highlights
8:10 a.m.: Homeland Security Secretary
Janet Napolitano, opening one-on-one keynote interview.
10:25 a.m.: Andy Greenberg, author of
“This Machine Kills Secrets: How Wikileakers, Cypherpunks, and
Hactivists Aim to Free the World’s Information,” delivers
closing keynote remarks.
Location: The Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Contact:
10:30 a.m. — (EDUCATION/DUNCAN) EVENT — The
HistoryMakers holds its third annual “Back to School” program
to encourage students to “COMMIT” to excellence and to
finishing their education. Participants include Education
Secretary Arne Duncan.
Location: McKinley Technical High School, 151 T
Street NE
Contact: 312-674-1900,
Noon — (ECONOMY/BUDGET/POLITICS) DISCUSSION — The
Aspen Institute holds a book discussion on “Red Ink: Inside the
High-Stakes politics of the Federal Budget.” Participants
include author David Wessel, economics editor at The Wall
Street Journal.
Location: Aspen Institute, 1 Dupont Circle NW, Suite
700
Contact: 202-736-2299
Note: RSVP required.
—–
—–
The Reuters Diary for Week Ahead Advisory
Week of September 15 – 21, 2012
REUTERS
(Reporting By Timothy Ryan)
