Homeland Security Conference

AUDIO PROCEEDINGS

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Day 1 – Thursday, October 25, 2007 (Casino Windsor Hotel)
7:30 - 8:00	Continental Breakfast
8:00 - 8:30	Welcoming remarks: Representatives of Dalhousie University and University of Windsor; Robert Noble, Consul General, Government of Canada Consulate General - Detroit
8:30 – 9:15	Address: Nature of the Border (Steve Flynn—Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations and author of America the Vulnerable and The Edge of Disaster)
9:15 – 10:00	Address: Political Challenges of Managing the Security/Commerce Tradeoff (Jim Turner, Arnold & Porter, LLC partner and former ranking Democrat on homeland security issues in U.S. House of Representatives)
10:00 – 10:15	Break
10:15 – 11:15	Panel 1: Discussion of issues raised by opening addresses (Stephen Blank, Gregory McCann and Sarah Hubbard)
11:15 – 12:00	Panel 2: Preparedness, Response, and Consequence Management (Dave McIntyre, Alok Chaturvedi, and Michael Theilmann)
12:15 – 1:30	Lunch Address: John Costanzo, President, Purolator USA
1:30 – 2:00	Research Study: The Cost and Cost Incidence of Canada-U.S. Border Security (Prem Gandhi, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Plattsburgh State University, and Wayne Glass, Schoolcraft College, Livonia, Michigan)
2:00 – 3:15	Panel 3: Border Control and Trade – Public Sector Perspective (Robert Trotter, Jim Turner and Lynda Watson)
3:15 – 3:30	Break
3:30 – 4:45	Panel 4: Border Control and Trade – Private Sector Perspective (Alok Chaturvedi, Ann Arquette, Michael Belzer, and John McPherson)
5:00 – 6:30	Reception
Day 2 – Friday, October 26, 2007 (Casino Windsor Hotel)
7:30 – 8:00	Continental Breakfast
8:00 – 8:30	Address: The Canada-U.S. Security Partnership (Kevin O’Shea, Political Minister, Canadian Embassy in U.S.)
8:30 – 9:45	Panel 5: Border Partner Perspectives (Mary Brooks, Paul Storer, and Michael Hart)
9:45 – 10:00	Break
10:00 – 11:15	Panel 6: Facing (and Planning for) the Future (Pete DiPonio, Robert Trotter, and Edward Alden)
11:15 – 11:30	Closing remarks