PDT EDT 8am Opening: 11am Welcome from Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, Publisher, The Irish Echo Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Boston, MA

8:15am Hope and Humanity: What Can Irish America Bring to our Understanding of the Covid Pandemic? 11:15am Chair: Professor Christine Kinealy, Chair Institute of Ireland’s Great Hunger, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT Panel: Kevin Davis, Principal Davis Healthcare Consulting, Norlina, NC Ryushin Paul Haller, Zen Center of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Professor LeAnne Howe, (Choctaw), University of Georgia, GA

8:40am Dispatches: Buffalo, Meitheal, AOH and Maine Irish Heritage Center 11:40am

8:50am In This Together: Irish American Societies and Networks Leading the Coronavirus Fightback 11:50am Chair: Eileen Scully, Founder, The Rising Tides, New Haven, CT Panel: Judge James McKay III, Immediate Past-President Ancient Order of Hibernians, New Orleans, LA Joan Moody, Board Member Harp & Shamrock Society of Texas, San Antonio, TX Larry McCarthy, President-Elect GAA, New York, NY Liam Frost, President Irish Cultural Societies of San Francisco, CA Dr Brett Carey, Friends of St Patrick, Big Island, Hawaii

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9:15am Mick Mulvaney, US Special Envoy to Northern Ireland in conversation with 12:15pm Ray O’Hanlon, Editor, The Irish Echo

9:30am Opening a New Chapter: Irish arts, theatre and music and the places in which we gather – 12:30pm picking up the pieces Chair: Paddy Meskell, Co-Chair Solas Nua, Washington D.C. Natalie O’Shea, Executive Director, Celtic Junction Arts Center, St. Paul, MN Thom MacNamara, Wren Theatre, Los Angeles, CA Maureen Kennedy, Irish American Theatre of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH Kathy Carew, ADCRG, Owner Mulkerin School of Irish Dance, West Haven, CT James Maynard, PhD, Curator, The Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

10am Amazing Grace: Leni Sloan V 1pm Dispatches: Arizona Irish Cultural Center, Solas Nua, Friendly Sons of St Patrick, Hawaii and JAACRES

10:10am Leading from the Front: Reimagining the role of our Irish Centers 1:10pm Chair: Dr Elizabeth Stack, Executive Director, Irish American Heritage Museum, Albany, NY Panel: Martina Curtin, President Irish Cultural Center of New England, Canton, MA Anne Cassidy Carew, President United Irish Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA Paul Finnegan, Executive Director New York Irish Center, NY Honorable Lois Galgay Reckitt, Representative Maine State Legislature, Vice Chair at the Maine Irish Heritage Center Cathy Ward, Executive Director, The Irish Outreach Center, San Diego, CA 10:40am Dispatches: Museum of Irelands Great Hunger, Quinnipiac University and Dan Dennehy, Hudson Valley Irish Fest. 1:40pm 10:45am Amid a Challenging Outlook, Promoting a Two-Way Street of Trade and Investment Across the Atlantic 1:45pm Chair: Lisa Maloney, Senior VP, Berkadia Commercial Mortgage, VP Irish American Business Chamber & Network, Philadelphia, PA Panel: Shaun T. Kelly, Board Member CRH, Deputy-Chair Ireland Funds, former Global Chief Operating Officer KPMG International, Naples, FL Bill McKiernan, Founder WSM Capital, Board Member Ireland Funds USA, San Francisco, CA Ivan Houlihan, Vice President, IDA Ireland, Boston Steve Harper, Executive Director International Business, Invest NI, Belfast

11:10am All In This Together: Andy and Ryan Cooney 2:10pm

11:15am For Entrepreneurs Timing is Everything—Challenges and Opportunities for Start-ups in a Pandemic 2:15pm Chair: Séamus McAteer, Entrepreneur, San Francisco, CA Alison Darcy PhD, Founder Woebot, San Francisco, CA Dr Scott Fischaber, COO and co-founder, Analytics Engines, Belfast Colm Long, Managing Director, Clairmar Consulting, Cork

11:40am A Message from Mayor Jim Kenney, Philadelphia, PA 2:40pm Larry Kirwan: Stronger and Better

11:50am Campfire Chat. 2:50pm Film-Making Frozen: What Now For Those Who Tell Our Stories in Film — and For The Cinemas in Which We Watch Them? Chair: Geraldine Hughes, NY Panel: Terry George, Academy Award-Winning Director Denis Hamill, Journalist/Screenwriter/Novelist, New York, NY

12:15pm The Importance of Diplomacy in the Age of COVID 3:15pm Ambassador of Ireland to the USA, Dan Mulhall In conversation with Andrew Elliott, Director, NI Bureau, Washington, D.C. Moderated by Maura Kelly, Founder, Purple Mountain Media

12:30pm The Show Must Go On: What will Irish Festivals of the Future Look Like? 3:30pm Chair: Catherine Barry Director, Irish Culture Bay Area, San Francisco, VP Irish Literary and Historical Society Panel: Colleen Kennedy, President, Milwaukee Irish Fest Foundation, Milwaukee, WI Frankie McCormick, Chair North American Province, Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, New York NY Alison LeRoy, Director, Irish Fest Dublin, OH Martin Cottingham, Chairman The Great Irish Fair of New York, New York, NY Cindy Lerick, Irish Fair of Minnesota, St Paul, MN

1pm Dispatches: Jim Clerkin, CEO, Moët Hennessy North America and Board Member, Co-Operation Ireland 4pm Declan Barry, Export Explore and Liam Lynch, Irish Studio LLC 1:10pm Digging Deep: Ramping up Irish American Philanthropy in a Changed World 4:10pm Chair: Mary Sugrue, CEO Irish American Partnership, Boston, MA Panel: Lori Gallagher, Director William Flynn Center for Irish Studies, University of St Thomas, Houston, TX Mike Clune, Chairman, Clune Construction Inc, Chicago, IL Susan Whoriskey, Biotechnology Entrepreneur, Whoriskey Associates, Boston, MA Carol Wheeler, Founder and Board Chair Washington Ireland Program, DC Co-ordinator Project Children, Washington, D.C.

1:40pm A visit to the Hinch Distillery in County Down 4:40pm Meet entrepreneur and Hinch Distillery founder Terry Cross

1:50pm Coming Back Stronger and Better with Labor at the Helm 4:50pm Chair: Cathy Reinholdt, President, Irish Railroad Workers Museum, Baltimore Panel: Robbie Hunter, President State Building and Construction Trades Council of California, Sacramento, CA Mike Monahan, IBEW International Vice-President Second District, Boston, MA Deirdre Feerick, Senior Director, Legal Dept., Transport Workers Union, Local 100, New York, NY (Invited) James F. Coyne, Business Manager, Plumbers Local 130 UA, Chicago, IL, Chair St Patrick’s Day Parade of Chicago

2:15pm Dispatches: Niall Gibbons, CEO, Tourism Ireland, Paul Keating, Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, North America, 5:15pm and Mayor Kathy Sheehan, Albany, NY

2:25pm From Two Million Visitors to Zero — and Back Again. Reviving Tourism from the US to Ireland 5:25pm Chair: Senator Tim Kennedy, Chair of the Transport Committee, New York Legislature, Buffalo, NY Panel: Alison Metcalfe, Executive VP US & Canada, Tourism Ireland, New York, NY Elizabeth Crabill, CEO, CIE Tours International, Morristown, NJ Dr J. Patrick Greene, Director, EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum, Dublin Jim Lamb, Director Ireland Institute of Pittsburgh, Honorary Consul General of Ireland, Pittsburgh, PA Bill Byrne, Director Global Sales/Sr. VP North America, Aer Lingus, Jericho, NY

2:55pm Dispatches: Jack Butler, CFO, MRP & Team 5:55pm

3pm Séan Ó Coinn, Príomhfheidhmeanach/CEO, Foras na Gaeilge, Dublin 6pm

3:05pm Irish America at the Vanguard of the Irish Language Revival 6:05pm Chair: Ray MacMánais, Irish Department, Marino Institute of Education, Dublin Panel: Jerry Sullivan, Butte, Montana Máirín Uí Chéide, Cumann na Gaeilge, Boston Gerry O’Rahilly, Director Gael Scoil, Yardley, PA Pádraic Ó Raighne, Head of Marketing, TG4 3:30pm Close 6:30pm

4pm Join us for a post-Campfire treat 7pm Zoom Dinner with Irish winemaker David O'Reilly of Owen Roe Wines, Wapato, WA, and Francis Schott, Restaurateur Stage Left Steak, New Brunswick, NJ In Association with the Big Irish Echo Campfire Details: https://www.stageleft.com/ or phone Francis on 732-828-4444

Our recommended reading for the Campfire is the new thriller from Boston Irish American author Kyle Darcy, ‘Under the Impression’. A sequel to his Boston Globe Bestseller ‘Under Current Conditions’, it is a transatlantic tale of intrigue and sedition. You can get your copy of Under the Impression from amazon.com or from kyledarcy.com