BORDER SECURITY CONFERENCE: A Binational Strategy for Border Protection and Effective Commerce

(Agenda as of July 30, 2008; subject to change)

August 11, 2008 – Undergraduate Learning Center, Room 106

12:00-7:00 p.m. Exhibit Hall Open

12:30-1:30 p.m. Registration (Lobby)

1:30-2:15 p.m. Master of Ceremonies BG (Ret.) José Riojas Vice President for Strategic Initiatives Executive Director, National Center for Border Security and Immigration The University of Texas at El Paso

Conference Welcome and Opening Remarks Dr. Diana Natalicio President The University of Texas at El Paso

The Honorable Silvestre Reyes Chairman, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence U.S. House of Representatives

Robert S. Mueller, III Director Federal Bureau of Investigation

2:30-3:45 p.m. Panel 1 - Integrating Technology LTG (Ret.) John Costello Vice President Business Development & Strategic Planning Raytheon Company

James Jasinski Executive Vice President Cogent Systems

Dr. Christian Meissner Department of Psychology The University of Texas at El Paso

MG (Ret.) John Thomas Senior Vice President and General Manager, Operations, Intelligence and Security SAIC

Lee Wright Director, National Communications and Homeland Security General Dynamics

P.T. Wright Director of Homeland Security Programs CSC

3:45-5:00 p.m. Panel 2 - Border Contraband Leslie Bassett Deputy Chief of Mission U.S. Embassy in Mexico

The Honorable David Johnson Assistant Secretary of State Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs

Anthony Placido Assistant Administrator, Chief of Intelligence Drug Enforcement Administration

Michael Sullivan Acting Director Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

John Torres Deputy Assistant Secretary for Operations U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos Mexico Deputy Attorney General for

Special Investigation into Organized Crime

5:00-5:45 p.m. Reception

6:00-7:00 p.m. Remarks The Honorable Patricia Espinosa Cantellano

Mexico Secretary of Foreign Affairs

BORDER SECURITY CONFERENCE: A Binational Strategy for Border Protection and Effective Commerce

August 12, 2008 – Undergraduate Learning Center, Room 106

7:30 a.m. Breakfast (Lobby)

7:30a.m.-12:00 p.m. Exhibit Hall Open

8:15 a.m. Master of Ceremonies BG (Ret.) José Riojas Vice President for Strategic Initiatives Executive Director, National Center for Border Security and Immigration The University of Texas at El Paso

Welcome and Opening Remarks Dr. Diana Natalicio President The University of Texas at El Paso

National Center for Border Security and Immigration Roll-Out The Honorable Silvestre Reyes Chairman, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence U.S. House of Representatives

The Honorable Jay Cohen Under Secretary for Science and Technology Department of Homeland Security

8:30-9:30 a.m. Remarks General Gene Renuart Commander U.S. Northern Command

9:30-10:45 a.m. Panel 3 - Educating Our Next Generation of National Security Professionals The Honorable Jay Cohen Under Secretary for Science and Technology Department of Homeland Security

Jay Nunamaker, Jr., PhD Director Center for Management of Information University of Arizona

Jill Rhodes Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Education, Training, Integration and Collaboration Office of the Director of National Intelligence

BG (Ret.) José Riojas Vice President for Strategic Initiatives Executive Director, National Center for Border Security and Immigration The University of Texas at El Paso

Dennis Soden, PhD Dean, University College Executive Director, Institute for Policy and Economic Development The University of Texas at El Paso

10:45-11:45 a.m. Panel 4 - Effective Trade and Commerce Lic. Jorge Cazares Castillo Director of Border Affairs Secretary of Economy, Mexico

Jamie Estrada Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing U.S. Department of Commerce

Maria Luisa O’Connell President Border Trade Alliance

Thomas Winkowski Assistant Commissioner, Office of Field Operations Customs and Border Protection

12:00-1:30 p.m. Luncheon Speaker and Closing Remarks (Tomás Rivera Conference Center, Union Building-East, 3rd floor, UTEP)

The Honorable W. Ralph Basham Commissioner Customs and Border Protection