Program

Agenda

8 – 8:45 a.m. Breakfast and Registration

9 – 10 a.m. Opening Plenary (Renaissance Ballroom)

• Welcome: Tom Arnold, CEO, Concern Worldwide
• Keynote address: Maria Otero, U.S. under secretary of state for democracy and global affairs
• Video address: Hillary Rodham Clinton » U.S. secretary of state
• Keynote address: Kevin Farrell » special envoy for hunger, Ireland
• Video address: Melinda French Gates » co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, introduced by David Beckmann, president, Bread for the World
• Keynote address: David Nabarro » special representative of the U.N. secretary-general for food security and nutrition

10 – 11:45 a.m. 1,000 Days to Scale Up Nutrition: Building a Movement moderated by Ray Suarez, senior correspondent, PBS NewsHour

Panelists:

• Anna Lartey, associate professor and former head of department, nutrition and food science, University of Ghana, president-elect of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences
• Charles MacCormack, CEO, Save the Children U.S.
• Cassim Masi, executive director, National Food and Nutrition Commission, government of Zambia, Masi's presentation »
• Shamim Hayder Talukder, CEO, Eminence, Bangladesh, Dr. Talukder's presentation »
• Paul Weisenfeld, assistant to the administrator, Bureau for Food Security, USAID

12 – 1:30 p.m. SUN/1,000 Days Stakeholders Meeting: Harnessing Early Lessons (Renaissance Ballroom) Boxed lunch will be provided. Introduced and facilitated by Tom Arnold

• Tony Hall, executive director, Alliance to End Hunger
• Lucy Martinez Sullivan, director, 1,000 Days/CCS and Alan Dangour, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• David Nabarro, special representative of the U.N. secretary-general for food security and nutrition
• Paul Isenman, consultant, SUN

1:45 – 3 p.m. Plenary: Overcoming Poverty through Better Nutrition (Renaissance Ballroom)

• Video address: Andrew Mitchell, U.K. secretary of state for international development
• Conversation: Robert  B. Zoellick, president, The World Bank, and David Beckmann

3:15 – 5 p.m. Working Groups (all rooms are on Meeting Room Level)

• Advocacy and Communications (Rooms 8 & 9)
• Capacity Building (Room 16)
• SUN Implementation at the Country Level (Rooms 12-14)
• Nutrition Sensitive/Intersectoral Approaches (Rooms 10 & 11)

5:15 – 6:15 p.m. SUN Stakeholders Summary and Next Steps (Congressional C Ballroom)

6:15 – 6:45 p.m. Reception

7 – 9 p.m. Dinner and Program

• Keynote Address: Mark Bittman, opinion columnist, New York Times, and lead food writer,The Times Magazine