9:00 – 10:00 a.m.

Welcome                                                                         
 
His Royal Majesty, Nene Adamtey I, Suapolor,
Se (Shai) Traditional Area

10:00 – 11:00 a.m.

Keynote Address                                                            
 
Roland Martin, Journalist, Author and CNN Contributor

11:00 – 11:15 a.m. 

Break

11:15 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.

Panel 1:  Entrepreneurship                                              

Facilitator:
Jayfus Doswell, Ph.D., President/CEO, Juxtopia, LLC

Panelists:
Estelle Akofio-Sowah, Managing Director, Busy Internet

Sonia Galliard, Founder of Synergos Partners

Isaac B. Horton III, Ph.D., Founder and Chairman, Remote Light, Inc.

Zachary Pessin, President and CEO, Distributed Capital Group

Ghanaian Student

12:45 – 2:30 p.m.

Lunch                                                                          Bali Hai Restaurant

Erik A. Brewer, Ph.D., Professor Computer Science, University of California at Berkley

2:30 – 4:00 p.m.

Panel 2:  Business and Government Policy                

Facilitator:
TBD

Panelists:
JiNan Glasgow, CEO, Neopatents
Invited Ghanaian government ministry officials

4:00 – 4:15 p.m.

Break

4:15 – 5:30 p.m.

Business Development Brainstorming                        

Facilitator:
TBD

5:30 p.m

Conclusion of Day One.   Free evening. 

9:00 – 9:30 a.m.

Opening Comments                                                      
 
Sandra K. Johnson, Ph.D., Vice President, Life for Africa,
and Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Systems and Technology Group, IBM Corporation

9:30 – 10:30 a.m.

Keynote Address                                                            
 
Mark Harris, Country General Manager, IBM South Africa, IBM Corporation

10:30 – 10:45 a.m.

Break

10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Panel 3:  Educational Infrastructure                           

Panelists:

Adjo Amekudzi, Ph.D., Associate Professor at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology

Emmanuel K. Glakpe, Ph.D., Professor, Howard University

Professor Aboagye Menyeh, Ph.D., Provost College of Science Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)

Michael Smith, Ph.D., ICT Program Director, University of Trinidad and Tobago

Professor Haruna Yakubu, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast

Professor, University of Ghana, Legon

Ghanaian Student

12:15 – 2:00 p.m.

Lunch                                                                          

2:00– 3:30 p.m.

Panel 4: Technology Infrastructure                             

Facilitator:
Thomas Mensah, Ph.D., Technology Inventor, Founder of
Georgia Aerospace Systems

Panelists:
Siisi Adu-Gyamfi, Senior Vice President, International &
Marketing, Textron Inc.

Fred McBagonluri, Ph.D., Director of Engineering, Siemens

Yaw Owusu, Managing Director, Gateway Innovations Ltd.

Ato Sarpong, Managing Director, AfricaOnline.com Ltd.

Ghanaian Student

3:30 – 3:45 p.m.

Break

3:45 – 5:15 p.m.

Education and Technology Brainstorming                 

Facilitator:
Professor Wesley Harris, Ph.D., Associate Provost, Faculty Equity, MIT

5:15 – 7:00 p.m.

Break and Free Time 

7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Networking Reception