2015 Emerging Markets Forum: Entrepreneurship for a Global Marketplace

Friday, April 24th, 2015

8:30 – 9:00 Registration

9:00 – 9:15

Welcome: Dr. Kislaya Prasad, Director, Center for International Business Education and Research, University of Maryland Welcome: Dr. Joyce Russell, Vice Dean, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

9:15 – 9:30 Opening Remarks: Mohamed Abdel-Kader, Deputy Assistant Secretary, International and Foreign Language Education, U.S. Department of Education

9: 30–10:20 Introduction: Dr. Joyce Russell Keynote: Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets, Iqbal Quadir, Founder and Director Emeritus, Legatum Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

10:25 – 11:45

Policy Panel: Facilitating Global Entrepreneurship

Panelists:

Samuel Pienknagura, World Bank

Philip Auerswald, Executive Director, Global Entrepreneurship Research Network, & George Mason University

Harry Broadman, CEO Proa Global Partners & Johns Hopkins University

Moderator: Dr. Bennet Zelner, Associate Professor, University of Maryland

11:45 – 12:45 Book Signing and Buffet Lunch

12:45 – 1:30

Introduction: Rebecca Bellinger, Director of Global Initiatives, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland Distinguished Luncheon Speaker: Dr. Anil K. Gupta, Michael Dingman Chair in Strategy, Globalization and Entrepreneurship, University of Maryland

1:30 - 2:00 Introduction: Dr. Kislaya Prasad Afternoon Keynote: Benjamin H. Wu, Deputy Secretary, Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development

2:00 – 3:00

Practitioner Panel: Perspectives on Going Global (Organized by State of Maryland’s Department of Business and Economic Development)

Panelists:

Robin Weiner, President and Founding Partner, Get Real Health

Chris Isham, Director of Sales, Sidus Data

Clifton Broumand, CEO of Man and Machine

Moderator: Bill Burwell, Director of US Commercial Service in Maryland

3:00-3:30

Introduction: Anthony Uhl, President, Emerging Markets Association, University of Maryland Speaker: Entrepreneurship is Global...but are entrepreneurs? Elana Fine, Managing Director, Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship, University of Maryland

3:30 – 3:35 Closing Remarks: Dr. Kislaya Prasad