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Monday, September 15
Conference sessions begin promptly at 3:00 p.m.

WELCOME
Terry Duffy, Executive Chairman, CME Group
Craig Donohue, Chief Executive Officer, CME Group

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Paul Volcker, Former Federal Reserve Chairman

GLOBAL FX:  A CENTRAL BANK VIEW
Moderator: Paul Volcker
Panelists: Dr. Paul Fisher, Head of Foreign Exchange Division, Chairman of the Foreign Exchange Joint Standing Committee, Bank of England
George Pickering, Financial Markets Advisor, Bank of Canada

EVENING POOLSIDE RECEPTION


Tuesday, September 16
Conference sessions begin promptly at 8:30 a.m.

EMERGING MARKETS FOLLOWING THE BRIC ROAD
Ian Bremmer, President, Eurasia Group

EMERGING MARKETS:  GLOBAL VANTAGE POINTS
Moderator: Ian Bremmer
Panelists: Dr. Gustavo Franco, Former President, Brazilian Central Bank
James McGregor, Foremost Expert in Business in China and Author of One Billion Customers
Professor Raghuram Rajan, India Expert and Former Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Tony Blair, Former Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

ENERGIZED COMMODITIES:  PRESSURES AND POTENTIAL
Panelists: John Block, Former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and Former President and Chief Executive Officer, Food Distributors International
David Hale, Economist and Founder, David Hale Global Economics

THE RISE OF INDEXING
Dr. Burton Malkiel, Chairman of Economics, Princeton University

INDEXING PERSPECTIVES:  A 360 DEGREE VIEW
Moderator: Dr. Burton Malkiel
Panelists: Dr. David Blitzer, Managing Director and Chairman of the Index Committee, Standard & Poor's
Dr. Stephen Bloom, Senior Vice President, NASDAQ Financial Products, NASDAQ
Nick Gendron, Global Head of Index Products, Lehman Brothers

THE GLOBAL CREDIT CRISIS:  LESSONS LEARNED?
Phillip Falcone, Senior Managing Director, Harbinger Capital Management

PERSPECTIVES ON THE GLOBAL CREDIT CRISIS
Moderator: Phillip Falcone
Panelists: Thomas Detelich, Group General Manager and Group Executive, HSBC North America Holdings Inc.
Ken Griffin, Chief Executive Officer, Citadel Investment Group
Robert Shiller, Author of Subprime Solution, Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics, Yale University

DINNER AND FEATURED ENTERTAINMENT


Wednesday, September 17
8:00 a.m. start

CME GROUP PRO-AM GOLF TOURNAMENT


The conference agenda is subject to change without notice.