Rwanda Conference Agenda

Saturday, 5th of July 2008 Swissotel Hotel, Chicago Illinois

9.00 Opening Statement by Urusaro Bakuramutsa, President of the Rwanda Convention

9:15 Welcome Note from Chicago Mayor Daley Office

9:25 Keynote Address by Stephen Kinzer

9:55 Welcoming Speech from Ambassador Eng. James Kimonyo

10.15 PANEL DISCUSSIONS 1: Education - Building a Knowledge based Society

- Mutoni Karasanyi, RCA Education Program Director
- Michael Brotchner, Executive Director of Orphans of Rwanda
- Zachary Kaufman, Executive Director of Kigali Public Library Fund
- Alexandre Dauge-Roth, Friends of Tubeho

11.30: PANEL DISCUSSIONS 2: Business and Investment

Davis Kayonga, Director of Kivu Technology
Michael Cant- Global Market Community
Liliane Nzamwita- UNDP TOKTEN

12.30: LUNCH BREAK

AFTERNOON SESSION

1:30: ART SHOW: Duhirwe Rushemeza/ Chicago Local Artist

2:00 PANEL DISCUSSIONS 3: Media/Cinema and Rwanda

* Collin Haba, Editor of RCA NewsLetter(Moderator)
- Alfred Ndahiro, Hotel Rwanda or Tutsi Genocide as Seen by Hollywood
- Gabriel Cowan, “Flowers in the Gun Barrel
- Gilbert Ndahayo, “BEHIND THE CONVENT”

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