BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//AFCEA//Calendar//EN VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT24H X-WR-CALNAME:AFCEA Calendar X-WR-CALDESC:AFCEA Calendar BEGIN:VEVENT UID:28117afcea DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20240319T010000 LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE:20240319T010000 ORGANIZER:ArkLaTex Chapter DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121026T090000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121028T170000 SUMMARY:Startup Weekend Shreveport-Bossier LOCATION:Cohabitat Shreveport-Bossier Shreveport LA DESCRIPTION:Ever wondered what it takes to be an entrepreneur? The professional and personal challenges the high and lows the failures and the success? Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. It is the largest community of passionate entrepreneurs with over 400 past events in 100 countries around the world in 2011. http://shreveportbossier.startupweekend.org/ PRIORITY:3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:26669afcea DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20240319T010000 LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE:20240319T010000 ORGANIZER:Cold War Museum DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121027T090000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121027T170000 SUMMARY:50th Anniversary Cuban Missile Crisis Conference and Book Signing with Sergei Khrushchev LOCATION:George Mason University Fairfax VA DESCRIPTION:50TH ANNIVERSARY CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS CONFERENCE AND BOOK SIGNING WITH SERGEI KHRUSHCHEV< BR> < BR> (FAIRFAX VA September 22 2012)--The Cold War Museum in conjunction with the Department of History & Art History at George Mason University (GMU) will convene a distinguished panel of historians authors and first hand participants to discuss and commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. This FREE half day program will be held Saturday October 27 2012 in the Harris Theater on the main campus of GMU 4400 University Drive in Fairfax Virginia. Seating is limited. Pre registration required. Program starts at 10:00 a.m. Immediately following the conference there will be a book signing reception.< BR> < BR> Sergei Khrushchev son of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and author of " Nikita Khrushchev and the creation of a superpower" will provide the keynote address. Martin J. Sherwin Pulitzer Prize winning author on Robert J. Oppenheimer and GMU History Professor Michael Dobbs Washington Post Reporter and author of " One Minute to Midnight " and Svetlana Savranskaya editor of " The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis" and National Security Archive' s Director for Russian Archives and Institutes will conduct a roundtable discussion following Khrushchev' s remarks.< BR> < BR> U-2 pilot Colonel Buddy Brown (USAF Ret) and F8U-1P Crusaders pilot Lt. Commander Tad Riley (USN Ret) who overflew Cuban SA-2 missile sites during the crisis will discuss their mission objectives and recollections. Photographic interpreter Dino Brugioni author of " Eyeball to Eyeball" who briefed President Kennedy on the photos taken over Cuba will provide a dramatic first hand account of the behind the scene activities of the Kennedy administration during those tense thirteen days in October 1962.< BR> < BR> Immediately following the conference there will be a book signing and sale with Sergei Khrushchev (" Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower" ) Dino Brugioni (" Eyeball to Eyeball" ) Michael Dobbs (" One Minute to Midnight" ) Ken Jack (co-author " Blue Moon over Cuba: Aerial Reconnaissance during the Cuban Missile Crisis" ) Norman Polmar and John D. Gresham (" DEFCON 2: Standing on the Brink of Nuclear War During the Cuban Missile Crisis" ) Svetlana Savranskaya (editor " The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis" ) Harvey Simon (" The Madman Theory" ) and David Stokes (" Camelot' s Cousin" ).< BR> < BR> Sponsors include David Stokes Syneca Research Group Inc. and Whit Williams. For more info on sponsorship opportunities breakfast with the panelists or to register to attend visit www.coldwar.org. http://www.coldwar.org PRIORITY:3 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR