2:00 – 3:45 pm
This Just In:  What I Couldn’t Tell You on TV
Bob Schieffer, CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent and Host of Face the Nation

Having covered many of the world-changing events of the past four decades, Bob Schieffer has a perspective few can claim. It’s this unique perspective, rife with experiences and eyewitness accounts of the events and personalities that have shaped our age, that Schieffer imparts to his audiences. With a sharp eye for intriguing details, he offers a one-of-a-kind vantage on the issues and headlines of the day. Witty, erudite, warm and engaging, he expands beyond the confines of the TV studio to provide a remarkable memoir of milestones in 20th-century history.

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8:30 – 10:00 am
Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance
Atul Gawande, MD,Staff Member, Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute; Assistant Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Associate Director for the BWH Center for Surgery and Public Health; staff writer for the New Yorker

As a practicing surgeon and an accomplished writer, teacher and speaker, Dr. Atul Gawande offers audiences a unique perspective on the joys and uncertainties that lie at the heart of modern medicine and a thoughtful, sensible approach to U.S. health care reform. Dr. Gawande received the MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as the “genius prize,” in 2006, for the “fresh and unique perspective, clarity, and intuition” in his written work and his “energetic and imaginative” approach to finding practical ways to improve surgical practice. Dr. Gawande uses the high stakes challenges that he faces as a surgeon to explore the universal struggle to perform well. Through gripping stories of diligence, ingenuity, and what it means to do right, he gives us an inside look at the life of a practicing surgeon and offers unique insights into what it takes to succeed in any area of human endeavor.

2:00 – 3:30 pm
True North Leadership
Bill George, Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School and author of True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership

Bill George knows true authentic leadership. Even after successfully leading Medtronic to record breaking profits and writing Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value, Bill still wanted to do more. He became a Harvard Business School professor in order to pass on the invaluable experiences that he has amassed so that others would be able to learn the secrets to true authentic leadership. In conjunction with his professorship, Bill launched a study to map out the exact qualities that are needed to become a top business leader, and to discover the “authentic leadership” inherent in top CEO’s, Presidential cabinet members, leadership scholars, and the like. In this leadership tour de force, George presents many surprising conclusions as to what makes a great leader, some of which are actually contrary to previous research.

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James Carville

4:00 – 5:30 pm
All’s Fair:  Love, War and Politics
Mary Matalin, Celebrated Conservative Voice and Presidential Adviser and James Carville, Media Personality and Political Icon

Washington’s best-loved couple gives audiences an enlightening and entertaining look at today’s most important political issues as well as a behind-the-scenes look at Washington politics. Co-authors of the national best seller All’s Fair: Love, War, and Running for President, Matalin and Carville are key players on the national political stage, having between them worked for every president over the last 25 years. In this presentation, Carville and Matalin combine their unique experience as perennial political insiders to provide audiences with a stimulating, candid and provocative analysis of the day's headlines and today’s hot-button political issues from both sides of the political aisle for a lively and engaging exchange of views.

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Saturday, July 26TH

8:30 – 10:00 am
The Future of Health and Health Care
Ken Dychtwald, PhD, President and CEO, Age Wave

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Will the demographically driven age wave produce pandemics of chronic disease—needing a wide range of innovative and cost-effective solutions? How far will boomers go in their pursuit of the “fountain of health?” What are the new frontiers of medicine—from genomics, antiaging therapies, organ cloning, and virtual surgery to pharmaceuticals, cosmeceuticals, and nutraceuticals—and how might the public react to impending breakthroughs? Ken Dychtwald offers a sweeping view of how rising longevity, the aging of the population, and the personality style of the boomer generation are converging to transform nearly every aspect of our health care system—from professional training to IT, and from facilities to service delivery. He also explores how the new empowered consumer, hoping to live a healthy “cyclic” life, will place a wide range of new demands on medical and social service professionals in the years ahead.

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