Progressive Business Leaders Network’s 3rd Annual Washington, DC Summit Business Leadership and Public Policy: Inventing a More Sustainable Economy Tuesday, May 11, 2010 | Washington, D.C.

Together we have begun to move this timely idea of a progressive business leaders network to the next level of action; but we are just beginning. Recently, at the incomparable, energizing and third annual PBLN Washington Summit, we gathered on Capitol Hill for a day unlike any other in Washington. 100 CEOs and other top business leaders came together for dynamic, interactive sessions with top Congressional and Obama Administration leaders and senior White House staff.

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Highly Interactive Sessions

• Pricing Carbon for Competitiveness, Growth and Jobs
• The Role of Business in Healthcare Reform and Innovation
• How School Reform Can Help Drive Growth and Opportunity
• Financial Market Regulation After the Financial Crisis – Protecting Access to Capital and the Future of Innovation
• Calibrating the Role of Government to Support Job Growth

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Featured Speakers

Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) Rep. Michael Capuano (D-MA) Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), Chair, House Financial Services Committee Rep. Paul Hodes (D-NH) Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA), Chair, House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming Trent Bauserman, Legislative Aide to Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) David Belluck, Managing Partner, Riverside Partners Jared Bernstein, Chief Economist and Economic Policy Advisor to Vice President Joseph Biden Joshua Boger, Ph.D., Founder & former CEO, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Peter Cunningham, Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education Paul Egerman, co-founder & former CEO, eScription, and Member, US Department of Health & Human Services Health IT Policy Committee

Maria Ghazal, Director of Public Policy & Counsel, Business Roundtable Diane Hessan, President & CEO, Communispace Lindsay Hunsicker, Senior Education Policy Advisor for Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY) Gloria Larson, President, Bentley University Will Marshall, President, Progressive Policy Institute Terrell McSweeny, Domestic Policy Advisor to Vice President Joseph Biden Shailagh Murray, National Politics Reporter, Washington Post Melanie Nakagawa, Professional Staff Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Barry O'Callaghan, CEO, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt James Roosevelt, Jr., President & CEO, Tufts Health Plan Paul Sagan,  President & CEO, Akamai Technologies Neera Tanden, COO, Center for American Progress Mitch Tyson, CEO, Advanced Electron Beams

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Member Spotlight

Diane Hessan, President & CEO - Communispace
According to Advertising Age Communispace is one of the fastest growing marketing and technology companies in the country, with a Blue Chip client list that would make a Madison Avenue giant jealous. A pioneer in creating online communities to help marketers deeply engage customers, Diane helped found Communispace in 1999 and hasn't looked back.