• Rick Jacobs, Courage Campaign
• Ted Costa, original proponent, 2003 recall of Gray Davis
• Peter Schrag, author, Not Fit For Our Society
• Rob Stutzman, Stutzman Public Affairs
• with response by Andreas Gross, member, Swiss Parliament and Council of Europe

• Tyrone Reitman, Healthy Democracy Oregon
• Jennie Bowser, National Conference of State Legislatures
• Derek Cressman, Common Cause
• David Langdon, Ohio
• Rep. Jennifer Garrison, D-Ohio
• Brandon Holmes, Citizens in Charge Foundation
• With response by Ramon Casiple, Philippines, Institute for Political and Electoral Reform

• Remarks by Ralph Nader
• Krist Novoselic, Former Nirvana bassist and chair of FairVote
• John Fund of the Wall Street Journal
• Gerald Haefner, European Parliament

Includes author book signing: Theresa Amato, Bruno Kaufmann, Joe Mathews, Mark Paul, Bob Stern, Jung-Ok Lee, Susie Iventosh [More...]

• Barry Fadem, National Popular Vote
• Ross Day, Common Sense Oregon
• Paul Grant, attorney in private practice, defendant in Meyer v. Grant case
• James Harrison, Remcho, Johansen & Purcell

• Thad Kousser, UCSD professor and visiting scholar, Bill Lane Center for the American West
• Roy Ulrich, Common Cause and Visiting Fellow, Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley
• Rick Hasen, Loyola Law School, the Election Law Blog
• Mark Paul, New America Foundation
• Allison Hayward, Center for Competitive Politics
• Alexander Moll, Citizens in Charge Foundation

• Fernando Mendez, Center for Democracy , Aarau, Switzerland
• Bailey Ludlam, Ballotpedia
• Bruno Kaufmann, IRI Europe
• Brandon Holmes, Citizens in Charge Foundation
• David Altman, University of Santiago Chile, world assessment
• Representative of UC Hastings, Ballot Initiative Database
• Susan Mart, research librarian

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS (10 minutes):

• Eric Ehst, Arizona Clean Elections Institute
• Rob Kampia, Marijuana Policy Project
• Marcia Fritz, president, California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility
• Steven Hill, author of Europe\'s Promise, on Instant Runoff Voting
• Tim Mooney, Silver Bullet Inc and Save Our Secret Ballot, Nevada
• Tim Eyman, Voters Want More Choices, Washington
• with response by Jung-OK Lee, Korea Democracy Foundation

• Patrick McGuigan, CapitolBeatOK.com
• Jane Hamsher, film producer, blogger, Firedoglake
• Dan Morain, Sacramento Bee
• Jon Fleischman, California Flash Report
• Bettina Inclan, former Communications Director for Citizens in Charge Foundation and Press Secretary for Poizner for CA Governor Campaign

Presentation by Former U.S. Sen. Mike Gravel (D-Alaska) With responses by: Evan Ravitz, Vote.org Atanas Slavov, Bulgaria Michael Freeman, Transamerican Alliance for a National ConsensusMike Arno, Arno Political Consultants

• Greetings by Jung-Ok Lee, Korea Democracy Foundation and Co-President of the 2009 Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy in Seoul/Korea
• Greetings by Gerald Häfner, Member of European Parliament
• Phil Ting, San Francisco assessor

• Theo Schiller, Chairman, Initiative and Referendum Institute Europe
• Teh-Fu Huang, President, Taiwan Foundation for Democracy
• John Matsusaka, University of Southern California
• Atanas Slavov, Head, Institute for Direct Democracy in Sofia, Bulgaria
• Ramon Casiple, Director, Institute for Political and Electoral Reform
• Ugochukwu Osuagwu, human rights lawyer, Nigeria
• Nigel Smith, UK
• Rolf Rauschenbach, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Suresh Nautiyal, Green Party, India
• Cyd Ho, Member of Hong Kong Legislative Council

• Bryan Merica, Activate Direct
• Michael Remmert, Council of Europe, head of section for E-Voting
• Jennifer Pahlka, Code for America
• Paul Wittenberg, social media expert
• Ramon Casiple, the Philippines

• "A More Democratic Approach to Science Funding? California, Prop 71 and Stem Cell Research" Joanna Weinberg, UC Hastings.
• "Direct democracy and European integration: An analysis of the motives for holding EU related referendums" Vicky Triga, C2D, Switzerland
• "The Parties and the People: A Reconciliation", by Ethan Leib, professor of law, University of California Hastings

• Mark Linder (Dir, Parks & Rec, City of Cupertino)
• Greg Greenway (Exec Dir, Threshold 2009)
• Alice Siu (Assoc Dir, Center for Deliberative Democracy – Stanford Univ)

• Local Direct Democracy (Theo Schiller, IRI Europe)
• World Activist Forum (Angelika Gardiner and Gerald Hafner, More Democracy, Germany)
• Education & Infrastructure (with Atanas Slavov, Bulgaria and Martin Buhler, IRI Europe)
• Transnational Direct Democracy (with Carsten Berg, ECI campaign)
• Building transpartisan coalitions (Paul Jacob and the Citizens in Charge Foundation)
• Work on Best practices document/San Francisco Declaration (Joe Mathews)

• Victor Cuesta, Las Palmas University on Europe
• Diasma Sandi Swandaru, Gadjah Mada University, Bali, Indonesia
• Grace Cainoy Weitman, Empowerment Congress, Los Angeles
• Saruul Tugs, Ulan Bataar, Mongolia
• Shana Kaiser, International IDEA

• Jung-Ok Lee, Korea Democracy Foundation
• Suzann-Viola Renninger, Swiss Monthly Magazine
• Claudine Nierth, More Democracy, Germany
• Jane Kim, president, SF Board of Education