• Chairman’s Lifetime Achievement Award to National Intelligence Director John Negroponte.

• Chairman’s Dinner broadcast live on C-SPAN.  Conference news coverage by C-SPAN, NHK-TV, ITAR-TASS, and VOA.

• Our Distinguished International Journalist Award to Anne Garrels of NPR.

• Keynote luncheon with Dr. Richard Haass on Our Opportunity to Change History.      

• Major sponsorships from Anheuser-Busch, Siemens, Northrop Grumman, Gambrinus, and American Airlines.

• Plenary sessions by Roderick MacFarquhar on China, Kenneth Deffeyes on Oil, Paulo Sotero on Brazil, Amb. Tom Pickering on India, and Jack Matlock on Russia.

• Receptions at Brazilian, Taiwanese, Chinese, Indian, and EU missions.

• Luncheons with Ambassadors from China, France, Hungary, Poland, Sweden, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Palestinian Authority, Afghanistan, Tunisia, Morocco, Taiwan, Vietnam, Singapore, Venezuela, and Mexico.

• Book signings for Beyond Oil, Reagan and Gorbachev, The Opportunity, Naked in Baghdad, and Three Billion New Capitalists.

• Discussion groups on population, human rights, microenterprise, avian flu, overcoming poverty, media’s impact, corruption, recovery from the tsunami, partnership with India, China, new capitalists worldwide, and art crimes.

• Operations workshops on school programs, World in Transition, Flagship Travel, marketing councils, high school WorldQuest competitions, open-floor discussions for large and small councils, and the National Geographic.

• First-ever 12-hour pre-conference workshop on council fundraising featuring speeches by Rafi Mohammed on The Art of Pricing and Alphonce Brown on Non-profit Fundraising Nationwide.

• President’s Awards for Council Excellence to Houston, Oregon, Jacksonville, and Juneau Councils.  Marquis Award for School Program Excellence to Minnesota.

• Friday night banquet based on Indian, Chinese, Brazilian, and Russian cuisine.

• National President presented Achievements of the Last Decade.