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WEDNESDAY, MAY 22
Keynote Speakers 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM

Jeffrey L. Painter, Chairman, Virginia Alcoholic Beverage
Control Authority, NABCA Chairman of the Board KATE ANCKETILL
Expert in Innovation and
Founder & CEO of GDR
TUESDAY, MAY 21 Creative Intelligence
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM

JON MEACHAM MICHAEL STEELE
Presidential Historian Author and American
and Author Conservative Political
Commentator and Former
Republican Party Politician

General Session II:

Technology Tomorrow

For many of us, keeping up with the newest
personal and professional technology, at
times, seems next to impossible. If we can’t
keep up with technology today, how can we
General Session I: stay on top of technology tomorrow? With
the growth of A.I., how much longer before
Politics in Perspective robots become an integral part of our
lives? It’s also become apparent that there
are unintended consequences using social
“It’s never been this bad!” “Our politics are broken!” “Who can media platforms that inventors had perhaps
we believe?” Constant negative media headlines coupled not considered. It’s not just a question of how
with shrill and inflammatory comments from our political to understand and utilize the technology,
leaders would lead us to believe that we are on the verge of but how do we regulate the different
an apocalypse. Perhaps if we took a longer view, we would platforms to reduce potential illegal and
find that the country has suffered far worse such as secession unsavory behavior? It’s a brave new world,
and civil war, dueling vice presidents, a great depression, and and it’s coming at us at breakneck speed.
so on and so forth. Democracy is not easy. It’s hard work and Since there is no going back, we must learn
every now and again it threatens to overwhelm us. Let’s take a how to appreciate the new reality and learn
trip through our past and rediscover the trials and tribulations how best to create oversight for everyone’s
we’ve been through to become the “shining city on the hill” to benefit.
the rest of the world.

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