The Main Event Agenda

 



MAIN STAGE AGENDA
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26

 

 

 


8:00 - 10:00 AM
MAIN STAGE ARENA

OPENING SESSION

Matt Lauer, Co-Anchor, NBC News, The Today Show

Al Roker, Weather & Feature Reporter, NBC’s The Today Show, President & CEO, Al Roker Entertainment

Diane Sawyer, Anchor of ABC World News

Suze Orman, America's Personal Finance Expert

Larree Renda, Executive Vice President, Safeway President, Safeway Health

Brian Williams, Anchor and Managing Editor, NBC Nightly News introduces Values, Vision, and Voice: Men Who Get It:

 

Dr. Jill Biden, Second Lady of The United States

A Film Produced Exclusively for The Women‟s Conference by Jesse Dylan, FreeForm TV

First Lady of California Maria Shriver 

Michelle Obama, First Lady of The United States

 

 

10:00 – 10:30 AM
Break

 

10:30 – 11:30 AM
  MORNING BREAKOUT CONVERSATIONS

 

 

11:30 – 12:30 PM
Visit the Village & Book Signing Opportunities
* See below for list of authors and books

 


12:30 – 2:30 PM
MAIN STAGE ARENA

LUNCHEON SESSION

Anne Sweeney, Co-Chair, Disney Media Networks, President, Disney/ABC Television Group

Diane Sawyer, Anchor of ABC World News introduces A Conversation With Legendary Supreme Court Justices:


Eve Ensler, Playwright, Performer, Activist

Sponsor Spotlight: Kodak

Leslie Dance, Director and Vice President of Brand Marketing and Communications, Eastman Kodak Company 

Mary Oliver, Pulitzer Prize-Winning & National Book Award-Winning Poet

Laura Bush, Former First Lady of the United States

Governor Schwarzenegger and Matt Lauer introduce Who We Are, Where We Are Going:

 


2:30 – 3:00 PM
Break

 

3:00 – 4:00 PM
AFTERNOON BREAKOUT CONVERSATIONS

 

 

4:00 – 5:00 PM
Visit the Village & Book Signing Opportunities
* See below for list of authors and books

 

 

5:00 - 7:00 PM
MAIN STAGE ARENA

THE GRAND FINALE FEATURING THE MINERVA AWARDS 2010

Azure Antoinette, Poet, Spoken Word Artist

Mary J. Blige, Grammy Award-Winning Singer, Songwriter, Producer and Actress

The Minerva Legacy Film 

Presentation of Former Minerva Winners

Laysha Ward, President, Community Relations, Target Corporation

First Lady Maria Shriver presents The Minerva Awards 


Sarah McLachlan, Grammy Award–Winning Singer and Songwriter

Conference Highlight Film

First Lady Maria Shriver 

 


*11:30 - 12:30 PM BOOK SIGNING
(Located in Exhibit Hall A)

Jillian Michaels, The Master Your Metabolism Cookbook
Deepak Chopra, Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New You
Loung Ung, Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind
Billie Jean King, Pressure is a Privilege: Lessons I’ve Learned from Life and the Battle of the Sexes
Martha Beck, Steering by Starlight
Al Roker, The Morning Show Murders: A Novel
Dr. Susan M. Love & Dr. Alice D. Domar, Live a Little: Breaking the Rules Won’t Break Your Health
Lisa Oz, US: Transforming Ourselves and the Relationships that Matter Most
Nick Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

 

*4:00 - 5:00 PM BOOK SIGNING
(Located in Exhibit Hall A)

Lisa & Laura Ling, Somewhere Inside: One Sister’s Captivity in North Korea and the Other’s Fight to Bring Her Home
Mary Oliver, Swan: Poems & Prose Poems
Laura Bush, Spoken from the Heart
Eve Ensler, I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World
Katherine Schwarzenegger, Rock What You've Got: Secrets to Loving Your Inner and Outer Beauty from Someone Who's Been There and Back


* Speakers and Program Subject to Change