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Agenda
| Wednesday, May 14th | ||
| 8:00 a.m. | -3:00 p.m. | Check-In for Pre-Conference Events *All preconference events will take place at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management - Rice University |
| 9:00 a.m. | - 3:00 p.m. | Chief Diversity Officer's Forum |
| 9:00 a.m. | - 3:00 p.m. | Mentoring Summit |
| 9:00 a.m. | - 3:00 p.m. | Healthcare Diversity Summit |
| 11:30 a.m. | - 6:00 p.m. | GLBT Summit Keynote Speaker: Chastity Bono |
| 1:00 p.m. | - 7:00 p.m. | Hispanic/Latino Summit Keynote Speaker: Maria Hinojosa |
| 4:00 p.m. | - 7:00 p.m. | Conference Early Check-In Fourth Level Woodway Foyer |
| 6:00 p.m. | - 8:00 p.m. | VIP Reception |
| Thursday, May 15th | ||
| 6:15 a.m. | - 7:00 p.m. | Check-In |
| 7:00 a.m. | - 8:30 a.m. | Glass Ceiling Breakfast Keynote Speaker Dee Dee Myers |
| 8:40 a.m. | - 9:10 a.m. | Book Signing (Exhibit Hall)/Grand Prize Give Away |
| 9:45 a.m. | - 10:40 a.m. | Keynote Speaker: Spike Lee |
| 10:30 a.m. | - 11:45 a.m. | College Diversity Summit |
| 10:55 a.m. | - 12:10 p.m. | Session I |
| 11:45 a.m. | - 1:30 p.m. | Private Lunch with Spike Lee |
| 12:00 p.m. | - 1:30 p.m. | Lunch (Served in the Exhibit Hall/Job Fair) |
| 1:45 p.m. | - 3:00 p.m. | Session II |
| 3:15 p.m. | - 4:30 p.m. | Session III |
| 4:45 p.m. | - 5:15 p.m. | Grand Prize Give Away ( Exhibit Hall/Job Fair) |
| 6:00 p.m. | - 7:00 p.m. | Reception (Jeb Bush Dinner Participants) |
| 7:00 p.m. | - 9:00 p.m. | Scholarship Dinner Keynote Speaker: Jeb Bush |
| Friday, May 16th | ||
| 7:00 a.m. | - 12:00 p.m. | Check-In |
| 7:00 a.m. | - 8:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 a.m. | - 9:45 a.m. | Session I |
| 9:55 a.m. | - 11:10 a.m. | Session II |
| 11:05 a.m. | - 12:05 p.m. | Closing Keynote Speaker: John Ashcroft |
| 12:30 p.m. | - 2:30 p.m. | Fulbright & Jaworski's Legal Diversity Luncheon Keynote Speaker: John Ashcroft |