[Salon] AMERICAN GROWTH SUMMIT - INVITE

Greetings friends — If you are receiving this note from me, it means you are in my network. Many of you will be interested in this big ECON super summit in Washington, DC on Thursday this week, 4 December 2025, and some of you may not (and to you, apologies). And others of you may not be in or near DC, so if you are far away in Australia or Slovakia or Japan or Antarctica, feel free to send me a note asking us to send you the entire American Growth Summit video. But I wanted to write and share this with all of you as it’s a beginning of an annual summit that Widehall is going to produce — and we are so grateful to our sponsors and partners Citi, NVIDIA, Coinbase, The National Interest, Tychos, and upNEXT.

This conference is a line up of interesting folks and YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN US — opening at 8:30 am with US Senator Dave McCormick — and we have coming Jarrod Agen from the White House Energy Dominance Council, Pierre Yared who chairs the White House Council of Economic Advisors. We have some of his predecessors Jared Bernstein and Cecelia Rouse. Senators Chris Coons, Mark Warner, and Sheldon Whitehouse are joining. US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment Jacob Helberg will be anchoring the day before our big reception. There’s Barbara Humpton of USA Rare Earth and Mike Keogh of Provalus that is rewiring fly over cities in America to help get them on better eocnomic footing; AOL co-founder and Revolution CEO Steve Case, Treasury’s Joe Lavorgna and so many more…..

There is no charge for this conference. If you can’t come and want the video, zap us a note. Here is the agenda and a roster of all the speakers, and just sign up here if you want to be with us Thursday. By the way, there are NO BREAKS. YOU can take a break — but we will keep going — and yes, we are providing coffee and tea in the morning, lunch while the show goes on, and crafted cocktails at the end. It’s just the way we do it….but boy, the drinks at the reception will be well earned!

Register here. Email me directly if you want us to send you the whole show. All best,

Steve Clemons

Editor at Large, The National Interest

Chairman & CEO, Widehall

AMERICAN GROWTH SUMMIT:

What it Will Take to Win

presented by CITI, Coinbase and Nvidia

in partnership with Widehall, The National Interest, upNEXT and Tychos Analytics Group

Thursday, 4 December 2025

Willard Intercontinental Hotel (1401 Pennsylvania Ave NW)

RSVPs required for all attendees -- respond to me or register here

AGENDA

8:30 AM Welcoming Remarks

Faryar Shirzad, Chief Global Policy Officer, Coinbase

Track ONE

Erupting Growth: Energy, AI, and Core Elements of American Competitiveness

8:35 AM

Sen. Dave McCormick, Member, Joint Economic Committee, US Senate

8:50 AM

Jarrod Agen, Executive Director, National Energy Dominance Council

9:05 AM

Roger Martella, EVP, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, GE Vernova

9:20 AM

Eric Breckenfeld, Director of Technology Policy, NVIDIA

9:30 AM

Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), Member, Appropriations Committee, US Senate

9:45 AM

Former Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA); member of the board, Apollo Global Management

9:55 AM

Greg Degen, Head of International Affairs, Commonwealth Fusion Systems

10:05 AM

Mike Keogh, President, Provalus

10:20 AM

Afsaneh Beschloss, Founder & CEO, RockCreek

Track TWO

Building Resilience: Building an Economy and Nation that Can Surf the Waves

10:35 AM

Maya MacGuineas, President, Committee for a Responsible Budget

10:55 AM

Teresa Carlson, CEO of General Catalyst Institute

11:10 AM

Rep. Dave Schweikert (R-AZ), Chair, Joint Economic Committee, US House of Representatives

11:30 AM

Cecilia Rouse, President, Brookings Institution and former Chair, WH Council of Economic Advisers

11:50 AM

Richard Vague, Founder & CEO, Tychos Analytics Group; former Secretary of Banking & Securities, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

12:10 PM

Bobby Franklin, President and CEO, National Venture Capital Association

Track THREE

What Big Bets to Prevail in the Geo-Economic/Geo-Strategic Race?

12:30 PM

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Member, Finance Committee, US Senate

12:50 PM

Stephen Moore, Economist, Former Trump Transition Team

1:10 PM

James Schenk, President & CEO, PenFed Credit Union, Diana Rothschild, Vice President, Strategic Reach & Workforce Partnerships, College Board & College Student

1:40 PM

Jared Bernstein, Former Chair, Council of Economic Advisers

Track FOUR

What Innovation and Economic Growth Need

2:00 PM

Steve Case, Chairman & CEO, Revolution; former Co-Founder & CEO, AOL

2:15 PM

Pierre Yared, Acting Chair, White House Council of Economic Advisors

(off the record)

2:30 PM

Javier Palomarez, President & CEO, United States Hispanic Business Council

2:45 PM

Neil Bradley, Executive Vice President, Chief Policy Officer, and Head of Strategic Advocacy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

3:00 PM

Faryar Shirzad, Chief Policy Officer, Coinbase

3:15 PM

Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform

Track FIVE

The Game Plan: Re-wiring the American Economy Means What?

3:30 PM

Vince Haley, Director, WH Domestic Policy Council
(off the record)

3:50 PM

TBD Citi Executive

4:05 PM

Barbara Humpton, CEO, USA Rare Earth

4:25 PM

Joe Lavorgna, Counselor the Secretary, Department of Treasury

4:45 PM

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), Member, Senate Finance Committee

5:00 PM

Jacob Helberg, Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and Environment

5:15 PM

Ambassador Jamieson Greer, United States Trade Representative

5:30 PM

Speaking Program Concludes, Crafted Cocktails Start & Reception Begins

7:00 PM

Reception Concludes

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[Salon] AMERICAN GROWTH SUMMIT - INVITE - 4 DECEMBER, THURSDAY