This one-day conference will examine the first months of the Obama Administration.  The event is co-sponsored by the California Chamber of Commerce Public Affairs Council, the Center for American Progress Action Fund (a think tank dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through ideas and action), Declare Yourself (a nonpartisan youth voter registration and empowerment organization dedicated to national service and activism), Gen Next (a bipartisan organization of young entrepreneurs and executives dedicated to policy reform and issue advancement), HealthNet (a Southern California-based health care provider), POLITICO, the USC Department of Political Science, and the USC Political Student Assembly.

Panels will be co-moderated by Jonathan Martin, White House Correspondent for POLITICO, Mike Allen, Chief Political Correspondent for POLITICO, and Dan Schnur, Director of the USC Unruh Institute of Politics.

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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

10-11:30 a.m. Panel Discussion: "Fixing a Broken Economy" (USC Davidson Conference Center)

• Tom Campbell, former U.S. Congressman and California State Budget Director
• Loren Kaye, President, California Foundation for Commerce and Education
• Matt Miller, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Action Fund; and former senior economic adviser to President Clinton
  
• Jennifer Palmieri, Senior Vice President of Communications, Center for American Progress Action Fund
  

12-1:15 p.m. Lunch Discussion: "Political Organizing in the Internet Age" (Radisson Hotel, Los Angeles Midtown at USC)

• Jon Fleischman, Publisher, The FlashReport Website on California Politics
• Adam Mendelsohn, Partner, Mercury Public Affairs
• Leslie Miller, Senior Communications Director, Obama for America Campaign
• Jennifer Palmieri, Senior Vice President of Communications, Center for American Progress Action Fund
  

1:45-3:00 p.m. Panel Discussion: "Foreign Policy and National Security" (USC Davidson Conference Center)

• David Demarest, former White House Communications Director
• Jerrold Green, President and CEO, Pacific Council on International Policy
• Nina Hachigian, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Action Fund
  
• Mickey Kantor, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative
  

3-4:15 p.m. Panel Discussion: "Energy and The Environment" (USC Davidson Conference Center)

• Brooke Coleman, Executive Director, New Fuels Alliance
• Bob Hertzberg, former California State Assembly Speaker
• Joe Sparano, President, Western States Petroleum Association
• Thomas Stickel, Founder, Southwestern Utilities Network, LLC
• Daniel J. Weiss, Director of Climate Strategy, Center for American Progress Action Fund