Past Sessions
2011 Texas Tribune Festival
Energy
A talk by John Cornyn - U.S. Senator
San Antonio is Energy City
Julián Castro - Mayor, San Antonio
The Coming Crisis Over Water
Allan Ritter - State Representative, R-Nederland
Thomas G. Mason - Former General Manager, Lower Colorado River Authority
Andrew Sansom - Executive Director, River Systems Institute
Laura Huffman - Executive Director, the Nature Conservancy of Texas
Is Clean Energy an Oxymoron?
Michael Webber - Associate Director, Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy at the University of Texas at Austin
Laura Miller - Texas Director of Projects, Summit Power
Mary Beth Stanek - Director, Federal Environment and Energy Federal Affairs, General Motors Company
An Energy Plan for Texas
Barry T. Smitherman - Texas Railroad Commissioner
Jerry Patterson - Texas Land Commissioner
James L. Keffer - State Representative, R-Eastland
Special Screening: Haynesville: A Nation's Hunt for an Energy Future
Gregory Kallenberg - Director, "Haynesville: A Nation's Hunt for an Energy Future"
Justin Furnace - President, Texas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners Association
David Blackmon - Senior Adviser for Government and External Affairs, El Paso Exploration and Production Company
Ian Duncan - Associate Director and Research Scientist, Bureau of Economic Geology, UT-Austin
Big Oil and National Security
Amy Myers Jaffe - Director of the Energy Forum at the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University
The EPA vs. Texas
Tom “Smitty” Smith - Director of Public Citizen’s Texas Office
Bryan W. Shaw - Chairman, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
H.B. “Trip” Doggett - President and C.E.O., Electric Reliability Council of Texas
James D. Marston- Director, National Energy Program at the Environmental Defense Fund
The Pickens Plan: 2.0
T. Boone Pickens- Chairman, BP Capital Management
How Green is My City?
Laura Spanjian - Director, Office of Sustainability, City of Houston
Lucia Athens - Chief Sustainability Officer, City of Austin
Katherine Barnett-White - Sustainability Administrator, City of Denton
Chris Lash - Renewable Resources Manager, City of McAllen
Public & Higher Education
A talk by Margaret Spellings - Former U.S. Secretary of Education
A Colloquy About Higher Education Reform
Bill Powers - President, The University of Texas at Austin
Different is Better: Innovations in Public Education
Mike Feinberg - KIPP Co-Founder and Superintendent, KIPP Houston
Steven Farr - Chief Knowledge Officer, Teach for America
Jeanne Goka - Principal, Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders
The 82nd Session and Education: Lessons Learned
Rob Eissler - State Representative, R-The Woodlands
Florence Shapiro - State Senator, R-Plano
Judith Zaffirini - State Senator, D-Laredo
Dan Branch - State Representative, R-Dallas
How to Pay for Public Education
Dan Patrick - State Senator, R-Houston
Talmadge Heflin - Director, Texas Public Policy Foundation's Center for Fiscal Policy
F. Scott McCown- Executive Director, Center for Public Policy Priorities
Scott Hochberg - State Representative, D-Houston
What Now for the State Board of Education?
Don McLeroy - Former Chairman, State Board of Education
Thomas Ratliff - Member, State Board of Education
Kathy Miller - President, Texas Freedom Network
Jonathan Saenz - Director of Legislative Affairs, Liberty Institute
Why Accountability Matters
Robert Scott - Texas Commissioner of Education
Can Public Universities Make the Grade?
Diana Natalicio - President, the University of Texas at El Paso
R. Bowen Loftin - President, Texas A&M University
Richard M. Rhodes - Incoming President, Austin Community College
Renu Khator - Chancellor, University of Houston System; President, University of Houston
Making Big-City Schools Work
Meria Joel Carstarphen - Superintendent, Austin Independent School District
Curtis Culwell - Superintendent, Garland Independent School District
John M. Folks - Superintendent, Northside Independent School District
Race & Immigration
A talk by Thomas A. Shannon, Jr. - U.S. Ambassador to Brazil
Criminal Justice and Illegal Immigration: How Much is Too Much?
Henry Cuellar - U.S. Representative, D-Laredo
Lisa Graybill - Legal Director, ACLU of Texas
Blake Farenthold - U.S. Representative, R-Corpus Christi
Charles C. Foster - Co-Chairman, FosterQuan, LLP
Why the U.S. Needs Mexico and Vice Versa
Tony Garza - Former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
A View From Mexico: What Could Possibly Come Next?
Alejandro Junco de la Vega - Publisher, Grupo Reforma
Was the 82nd Legislative Session Good for Hispanics?
Jessica Farrar - State Representative, D-Houston
Jose Aliseda - State Representative, R-Beeville
Dee Margo - State Representative, R-El Paso
Veronica Gonzales - State Representative, D-McAllen
Violence in Mexico: Perception vs. Reality
Fred Burton - Vice President of Intelligence, STRATFOR
Héctor Murguía Lardizábal- Mayor, Ciudad Juárez
Raul G. Salinas - Mayor, Laredo
The Economics of Immigration Reform
Sylvia Acevedo- CEO, CommuniCard, LLC
Eddie Aldrete - Senior Vice President, IBC Bank
Todd Staples - Commissioner, Texas Department of Agriculture
Aaron Peña - State Representative, R-Edinburg
Is Our Border Secure?
Chad Foster - Former Mayor, Eagle Pass
Silvestre Reyes - U.S. Representative, D-El Paso
Michael McCaul - U.S. Representative, R-Austin
José Rodríguez - State Senator, D-El Paso
Population Change and Immigration in the United States: Historical and Current Patterns and Impacts
Steve H. Murdock- Former Director of the U.S. Census Bureau
Health & Human Services
A talk by Neera Tanden - Former Senior Obama Adviser on Health Reform
The Case Against Obamacare
Michael Burgess - U.S. Representative, R-Lewisville
Has Tort Reform Been Good for Health Care?
Howard Marcus - Chairman, Texas Alliance for Patient Access
Jay Harvey - Partner, Winckler & Harvey, L.L.P
David A. Hyman - Director, Epstein Program in Health Law and Policy at the University of Illinois
Michael Hull - Partner, Hull Hendricks, L.L.P.
Can Texas Cure Cancer?
Doug Ulman - President and CEO, Lance Armstrong Foundation
Raymond N. DuBois Jr. - Provost and Executive Vice President, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Joseph S. Bailes - Vice Chairman, Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas
Texas and the Transformation of Medicaid
Tom Suehs - Executive Commissioner, Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Governance and Health Care: Who Decides?
Arlene Wohlgemuth - Executive Director, Texas Public Policy Foundation
Leo Linbeck III - President and CEO, Aquinas Companies
Charles E. Begley - Professor, University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston
Spencer Berthelsen - Managing Director, Kelsey-Seybold Clinic
Now What? Health Care After the 82nd Legislative Session
Anne Dunkelberg - Associate Director, Center for Public Policy Priorities
John Zerwas - State Representative, R-Simonton
Dianne White Delisi - Former State Representative, R-Temple
Garnet Coleman - State Representative, D-Houston
Is Patient Privacy Possible in the Electronic Age?
J. James Rohack - Former President, American Medical Association
Nora Belcher - Executive Director, Texas e-Health Alliance
Deborah Peel - Founder and Chair, Patient Privacy Rights
Michael Stearns - President and CEO, e-MDs
Winning the Next Generation: Reproductive Health in the iPhone Age
Cecile Richards - President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
