The Katrina Reconstruction Summit is hosted by U.S. Senator Mel Martinez and organized by Equity International as a public service.

The Summit is designed to bring together Congressional leaders, business leaders, and relief and reconstruction experts, discussing details of the $62.3 billion passed by Congress for Katrina relief and reconstruction; specifics of Katrina relief and reconstruction programs; economic infrastructure reconstruction priorities, including energy, housing, healthcare, and other sectors; creating jobs; building small business; and corporate philanthropy.

Confirmed participants include top executives from KBR, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, L3-Titan, IBM, DynCorp, Accenture, Deloitte, Clark Construction Group, 3M, CACI, Unisys, Lucent, and Parsons, and many government officials and diplomats.

The program begins at 8:30 a.m. and the keynote address is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. See the agenda below.

Equity International is a prominent Washington business development firm. Since 1998, we have been a leading facilitator in advancing homeland and global security (see www.globalsecurity.bz). Since 1996, we have also been instrumental in facilitating the reconstruction of countries and regions devastated by war, political transition, and natural disasters, ranging from Bosnia to Iraq (see www.rec-dev.com).