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Program:
Meeting of the Minds event, July 30-31, 2008
Wednesday, July 30
8:00 Welcome
Gordon Feller, Meeting of the Minds
8:05 The Sustainable Mobility Policy
Imperative
Gail Achterman, Program Host & Chair,
Oregon Transportation Commission
Irv Miller, Group Vice President,
Toyota Motor Sales USA (principal sponsor, Meeting of the Minds)
8:30 SEGMENT ONE: The Road Ahead
OVERVIEW:
More of the Same or a Different Game?
Presentation by Michael
Meyer, Georgia Institute of Technology
9:00
Audience Polling Exercise
- Ed Warnock, Cumulus Resources LLC.
9:15 Panel Discussion,
moderated by Michael Meyer
Sue Keil,
Director, City of Portland Department of Transportation
Lynn
Peterson, Clackamas County Commissioner
Pat
Reiten—President, Pacific Power
Bill
Wyatt, Director, Executive Director, Port of Portland
Susan
Zielinski, Sustainable Mobility & Accessibility Research and Transformation (SMART), a project of CARRS, the Center for Advancing Research and Solutions for Society at the University of Michigan
9:45 Break
10:00 KEYNOTE:
Transportation at the Crossroads
The Honorable Theodore Kulongoski,
Governor of Oregon
10:30 Panel Reconvene (continues)
11:00 Question and Answer Session
11:15
Audience Polling Exercise
- Ed Warnock, Cumulus Resources LLC.
11:30 Breakout Time/Personal Networking
12:00 Lunch
12:30 LUNCH ADDRESS:
The Impacts of Climate Change on the Pacific Northwest
Tim Barnett,
Ph.D., Scripps Institute
1:30 SEGMENT TWO:
Vehicles, Propulsion Systems and Fuel Options
OVERVIEW:
Silver Bullets … or Silver Buckshot?
Panel Moderator: Steve Marshall, Senior
Fellow, Cascadia Center
1:45
Audience Polling Exercise
- Ed Warnock, Cumulus Resources LLC.
1:55 Panel Discussion
Brian
Silverstein, Vice President, Operation & Planning, Bonneville Power
Administration
Jim
Francfort, Idaho National Labs
Steven
Hawke, SVP Customer Service and Delivery, Portland General Electric.
Curtis
Robinhold, BP Alternative Energy
Maja
Vekjkovic--- Director General of the National Research Center (Canada)
Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation (NRC-IFCI), formerly the Innovation
Centre and of the National Fuel Cell Program.
2:40 Audience Q&A
3:00 Break
3:30 SEGMENT THREE:
What Others are Doing
Learning
Cities as a Strategy for Leading Change and Shaping the Future
Tim Campbell, Chairman, Urban Age
Institute
Flexible Carpooling, A Case in Point -- What Can Portland, Seattle,
Vancouver (or Your City) Learn from San Francisco and Washington D.C.?
Paul Minett, Managing Director, Trip
Convergence LTD
4:15 Audience Q&A
4:30
Audience Polling Exercise
- Ed Warnock, Cumulus Resources LLC.
4:45 Wrap Up
5:00 Reception at Portland Art Museum’s
Mark Building
Thursday, July 31
8:00 Welcome from Gordon Feller
8:05 Yesterday in Review; Today in
Preview
Gail Achterman, Program Host & Chair,
Oregon Transportation Commission
8:15 SEGMENT FOUR:
Urban Design & Development
OVERVIEW:
Can we live in a different way so we don’t have to drive so much?
Panel Moderator:
Meg Nealon, Partner, LandDesign
8:30
Audience Polling Exercise
— Ed Warnock, Cumulus Resources LLC.
8:40 Panel Discussion
Eric
Clifton, VP, Sustainable Business Development, Newland Communities
Paul
Farmer, Executive Director and CEO, American Planning Association
Scott
Griffith, CEO, Zipcar
Charles
Kelly, Chairman of The Canadian Public Affairs Consulting Group
Paul
Moore, Transportation Planner, Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin Inc.
9:15 Audience Q&A
9:30 Break
10:00 SEGMENT FIVE:
Tolls, Taxes, Technology and Takes on the New Carbon
Economy
OVERVIEW:
Turbo Charging the Installed Base (Transportation Systems
Management and Pricing Strategies to Improve Capacity)
Panel Moderator:
Arthur J. O'Donnell, Executive
Director, Center for Resource Solutions
10:15
Audience Polling Exercise
— Ed Warnock, Cumulus Resources LLC.
10:25 Panel Discussion
Rob
Bertini, Associate Professor, PSU and Director of the Oregon
Transportation Research and Education Consortium (OTREC)
Naveen
Lamba, IBM Global Services
Randy Pozdena, Managing Director,
EcoNorthwest
Geoff Wardle, Director, Advanced
Mobility Research, Art Center College of Design (Pasadena)
11:10 Audience Q&A
11:30 Breakout Time/Personal Networking
Noon Lunch
12:30 LUNCH ADDRESS:
Tales From My Travels With Toyota: Transportation
Anecdotes and Observations from Clients, Conference, and Countries
Worldwide
Bill Reinert,
National Manager of Advanced Technology for Toyota Motor Sales, USA
1:15 PLENARY ADDRESS:
As We End, Let Us Begin
Alan
Webber
2:00 Audience Q&A
2:15 Strategic Choices For The Road
Ahead: Next Steps, Closing Thoughts & Final
Audience Polling Exercise
Gail Achterman assisted by Ed Warnock
2:45 End of Program
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