FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 25,
2003
CONTACT: Val Kogan, Mid-Atlantic - Russia Business
Council, tel: (215) 708-2628, email: val@ma-rbc.org
THE IRAQI RECONSTRUCTION
CONFERENCE
July 1-2,
2003
Capital Hilton
1001 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC
WASHINGTON, DC - You are invited to join 500 top business and government
leaders at The Iraqi Reconstruction Conference, to be held July 1 and 2 at the
Capital Hilton in Washington. This event will be organized by Equity
International and supported by the Mid-Atlantic - Russia Business Council.
The worldwide forum features the latest
information on Iraqi reconstruction programs and funding, which could reach $60
billion over the next five years. Defense Undersecretary Dov Zakheim told
Congress that reconstruction "will be very expensive and will take years,
not months." Significant business opportunities exist for all sizes of companies
across a vast spectrum of goods and services.
Some of the speakers include:
George
Glass, U.S. Department of State; Charito Kruvant,
President of Creative Associates; Peter Sava, U.S.
Export-Import Bank; Sheryl Swed, U.S. Small Business
Administration, Mike Mele, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers;
George Sigalos, Halliburton; Pierrette Vu-Thi,
UNICEF, Charles McCormack, Save the Children;
Daniel Benjamin, U.S.-Iraq Business Council and many
more.
Some of the hundreds of confirmed participants in the
conference include USAID, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of
Commerce, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, U.S. Small Business
Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of
Transportation, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, GE Medical
Systems, Evergreen International Aviation, Harris Corporation, Maersk, Defense
Products Marketing, and business executives and diplomats from Jordan, Turkey,
Spain, Israel, Austria, Finland, Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Estonia, and many
other countries.
Participants will receive the latest information on
subcontracting opportunities, the latest information on USAID programs, the
latest information on ORHA reconstruction initiatives, and strategies for
successful business development in the largest reconstruction effort since the
Marshall Plan. Senior U.S. officials will be speaking, along with USAID
contractors.
