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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