CGI U 2009 Meeting Agenda

Registration

Etter-Harbin Alumni Center, UT Austin

Opening Plenary
Making a Difference on Campus: A Call to Action

Gregory Gymnasium, UT Austin

Now more than ever, young people are answering the call to action, whether they are cutting carbon emissions on their campuses or expanding global access to clean water. The opening plenary session will engage a diverse group of leaders on how to take action in CGI U’s five focus areas: education, energy & climate change, global health, peace & human rights, and poverty alleviation. This session will explore the transformative capacity of students and universities to develop and implement innovative, sustainable solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges.

Opening Remarks:
William Powers, President, The University of Texas at Austin

Program Participants
William J. Clinton, Founder, The William J. Clinton Foundation; 42nd President of the United States
Paul Bell, President, Dell Global Public, Dell, Inc.
Mambidzeni Madzivire, Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Graduate School
Blake Mycoskie, Founder - Chief Shoe Giver, TOMS Shoes
Natalie Portman, Actress and Activist

Plenary Session: The Future of Food

Gregory Gymnasium, UT Austin

Few issues strike at the nerve of our global interdependence as profoundly as food. In the developing world, drought and ineffective agricultural policies have skyrocketed world grain prices and sent many of the world’s poor only deeper into poverty. In the developed world, the quiet epidemics of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes continue to take their toll on even the most advanced health care systems. Meanwhile, global warming and the rapidly increasing demand for biofuels further threaten the planet’s already unstable food supply chains. Most short-term solutions to the food crisis rarely address the longer-term issues of climate change, biodiversity, desertification, and population growth. How can a planet troubled with both obesity and starvation find common solutions? From community gardens on campus to cutting-edge agricultural science research, this panel will explore tangible ways that students and universities can help to create local and global food systems that are both secure and sustainable.

Program Participants
Will Allen, Chief Executive Officer, Growing Power
Emma Clippinger, Student, Brown University
Peter McPherson, President, National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC)
Morgan Spurlock, Film Director, Warrior Poets
Roy Steiner, Deputy Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Social Reception

Etter-Harbin Alumni Center, UT Austin

Program Participants
Paul Begala, President, Hat Creek Enterprises, Inc.
Keshav Rajagopalan, Student Body President, Student Government, The University of Texas at Austin
Myron Rolle, Rhodes Scholar and College Football Safety, Florida State Seminoles
Keisha Senter, Director, Clinton Global Initiative University, Clinton Global Initiative

Performances by:
The Pajamas
Gary Clark, Jr.