Conference guests also will be privy to panel discussions on conservative issues, policy debate, organisation strategy and a so-called activism boot camp.
Should serious leadership rifts develop over domestic issues, policy toward the United States could well become part of the political battle.
But for several years, Nebraska has lagged behind most others on the criteria for membership — primarily competitive research financing and the share of faculty in the National Academies, which issues policy reports and advice.
London's mayor, Boris Johnson, is a keen cyclist, who issues policy papers with auspicious titles like "Cycling Revolution" and has continued his predecessor's biking program by introducing a cycle-rental project and building new bike lanes.
In spite of the lingering issues, policy makers, analysts and executives, along with a growing number of environmentalists, say that at stake is the future of the country's largest source of clean energy.
Paul Morrison, public issues policy adviser at the Methodist Church, said the churches were concerned that the benefit cuts were "a symptom of an understanding of people in poverty in the United Kingdom that is just wrong".
