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Preliminary Symposium Schedule

7:00Continental Breakfast - Exhibits Room
7:00Registration Desk Open
8:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
  • Mr. John Kasiski, Symposium Chairman
  • Ms. Sandra Carraway, President, Tidewater Association of Service Contractors
  • Dr. Jo Ann Gora, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Old Dominion University
  • Ms. Michelle Currier, Government Co-Moderator, Tidewater Government-Industry Council
  • Mr. David Anthony, Industry Co-Moderator, Tidewater Government-Industry Council
    • 8:30 Keynote Address - "View from the Hill"
    Congressman Owen B. Pickett, Virginia's 2nd Congressional District
    9:15"Financial Realities"
    Mr. Charles P. Nemfakos, Senior Civilian Official for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (FM&C)
    10:00Break, Visit Exhibits
    10:30"Acquisition Force Challenges"
    Mr. Stan Soloway, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (AR) and Director, Defense Reform
    11:15"Public/Private Partnerships"
    Dr. Ira Bratstein, Deputy Assistant Director for Programs, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)
    12:00Lunch
     Luncheon Address – "Virginia IT/Revolution in Government Business
    Mr. Barry E. DuVal, Virginia Secretary of Commerce & Trade
    1:30 "Search for the Purveyor of Business Alliances"
    RADM Gwilym Jenkins, SC, USN, Deputy for Acquisition and Business Management, ASN (RD&A)
    2:15Panel Discussion – "The Government-Industry Matrix: Business in the Virtual Age"
    Moderator: Ms. Barbara Ciara, WTKR Managing Editor
  • RADM Gwilym Jenkins, SC, USN, Deputy for Acquisition and Business Management, ASN (RD&A)
  • Mr. Eugene Newman, Business and Technical Manager, JTASC
  • Mr. Kevin Coleman, Vice President and Chief Strategist, Netscape
    (Gene Newman's Lead-in to the Panel Discussion)
    • 3:30Networking/Social, Exhibits Area
    Hors d'oeuvres & Cash Bar
    4:00Symposium Concludes