CEA president and CEO Gary Shapiro opens the 2008 Washington Forum.
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The Honorable Carlos M. Gutierrez, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, talks about the bright future for the consumer electronics industry and how free trade is important to not only the industry, but the economy and the entire country.
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Secretary Gutierrez is the first standing cabinet secretary to address Washington Forum.
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Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez speaks to a full crowd on trade policies, including members of CEA and the Global Business Dialogue.
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Gary Shapiro displays CEA's free trade ad campaign.
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John Shalam, chairman and CEO of Audiovox Corp., poses a question to Sec. Gutierrez during the opening trade session.
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Michael Petricone, CEA's senior vice president of government affairs, introduces keynote speaker Anne Kim.
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Anne Kim, director of the Middle Class Program and senior policy advisor for the Third Way, presents ideas on how to turn the tide in favor of free trade.
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Rob Atkinson, president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, explains both sides of the trade argument.
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CEA's Sage Chandler moderates moderates the morning trade panel, "What Trade Means in Real Life Terms to Real Life Business."
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Panelist Kathy Gornik of THIEL explains how international trade has benefitted her small business.
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Robert Scott, director at the Economic Policy Institute, weighs in on the benefits of free trade.
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Sean Spicer, assistant U.S. trade representative, illustrates how tariffs on products from consumer electronics to trucks can inflate pricing to prohibitive levels.
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Gary Shapiro and Larry Richtenstein of Unwired Technologies LLC speak before day one lunch keynote.
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CEA's grassroots and political action committee manager Stacie Aman speaks with Peter Lesser and Bill Matthies during lunch.
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Gary Shapiro welcomes lunch keynoter Tony Blankley, conservative commentator and executive vice president of Edelman.
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Gary Shapiro introduces lunch keynoters Donna Brazile and Tony Blankley.
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Democratic pundit and strategist Donna Brazile discusses the presidential nomination process and outlines future policy possibilities.
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Blankley and Brazile evaluate the current political atmosphere and changes indicated by the primary season.
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Brazile is applauded after a rousing speech displaying her optimism that America is bridging racial and gender divides with its historic 2008 democratic candidates.
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CEA's Shawn Dubravac moderates the afternoon session "Trade: Where Economics Meets Politics."
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Former California Congressman Victor Fazio discusses the economics behind international trade.
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The Honorable Chris Padilla, Under Secretary for International Trade, outlines pending free trade agreements and legislation.
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Ed Gresser addresses the economic impact of trade on the global supply chain.
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Jeff Park of HDMI Licensing LLC speaks during a roundtable discussion on the challenges of HDMI technology.
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CEA's Megan Pollock updates Dave Graveline of Into Tomorrow on CEA's efforts to educate consumers about digital television.
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Congressman Rick Boucher (D-VA) delivers Thursday morning's opening keynote, focused on the upcoming DTV transition. "The public is going to receive tremendous benefits," he said, citing better pictures, more program choices and free spectrum available for first responders among others.
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Retail giant Bill Crutchfield poses a question during Congressman Boucher's keynote address.
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CEA senior vice president Jason Oxman says "Goodbye to Analog, Hello to HDTV" in the first panel on day two of Washington Forum. Oxman announced CEA's "Convert Your Mom" consumer education campaign, featuring spokeswoman Florence Henderson of Brady Bunch fame.
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Tony Wilhelm, director of the NTIA's consumer education surrounding the television converter coupon program, displays the coupon card during the morning panel.
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NAB's Jonathan Collegio brings his broadcast perspective to the discussion on the DTV transition.
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The Federal Communication Commission's Monica Desai outlines their successful trilateral approach to the DTV transition: regulation, enforcement and consumer education.
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Meredith Baker, acting administrator for NTIA, commends CEA's efforts in the DTV transition during her luncheon keynote.
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Tim Herbert, CEA's senior director of market research, share the results of a new consumer research study demonstrating that analog-only households expect to remove fewer than 15 million TVs from homes through 2010, 95 percent of which will either be sold, donated or recycled.
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Mark Sharp of Panasonic discusses consumer behavior and what the industry is doing to educate consumers on the importance of recycling TVs. "There is recognition of the growing importance of electronics recycling and the response from manufacturing is already well underway."
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