Room: 151 Tulane Law School
Friday Oct. 28:
8:30: Registration and check-in
9:15: Welcome and opening remarks
Speakers:
David D. Meyer
Kim P. Talus
9:30: Session 1: US-China’s Conflicted Technology Relationship
Moderator: Kim P. Talus (Director, Tulane Center for Energy Law)
Speaker: Josh Seidel (Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect for Financial Services, Databricks)
Speaker: Jacob R. Adams (Litigator and Associate Professor, University of Stavanger)
Speaker: Armistead Sapp (Partner at Sapp Brothers, LLC, and former CTO of SAS Institute)
11:00: Break
11:05: Session 2: US-China Investment Trends; a Two-Way Street
Moderator: Knud Berthelsen (Adjunct Lecturer, Freeman School of Business, Tulane)
Speaker: Nargiza Salidjanova (Director, China, Rhodium Group)
Speaker: Dan Eberhart (CEO of Canary, LLC)
Speaker: Drew Combs (Director of North Dakota Trade Office)
Presentation title: “North Dakota’s China Dilemma”
12:35: LUNCH
1:30: Session 3: US-China Energy Investment and Trade Relations
Moderator: Pierre Conner (Executive Director, Tulane Energy Institute)
Speaker: Stefano Russo (Managing Director Global Finance and M&A, Canadian Solar)
Speaker: Urosh Tomovich (Principal, UTE Consulting)
Speaker: Eric Smith (Professor of Practice, Freeman School of Business, Tulane)
Speaker: Eric Butter (External Partner, FLOW Partners LLC)
3:00: Coffee break
3:15: Session 4: The US-China relationship in light of the Russian-Ukrainian War
Moderator: Kristoffer Svendsen (Senior Research Fellow, Tulane Center for Energy Law, Tulane Law School)
Speaker: Zongyuan Zoe Liu (Fellow for International Political Economy, Council on Foreign Relations)
Speaker: Samuel Bresnick (Assistant Editor & Senior Research Analyst, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
Presentation title: How US-China tensions over Taiwan have evolved in the months following Russia’s invasion
Speaker: Yun Sun (Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the East Asia Program and Director of the China Program at the Stimson Center) (confirmed)
Presentation title: The outlook of Sino-Russia relations in the context of the strategic competition between US and China
Speaker: S T Hsieh (Research Professor and Director of the US-China Energy and Environmental Technology Center, Tulane University)
5:00: Closing remarks: Kristoffer Svendsen
5:00-6:00: Reception