7:00 AM Registration: Sponsored by Wostmann & Associates and ACS Breakfast sponsored by The Alaska Committee

8:00 AM Welcome • National Anthem & Alaska State Flag Song: Sung by the JDHS Chamber Singers • Welcome – Alec Mesdag, President, Southeast Conference • Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska- Richard Peterson, President • Welcome – Beth Weldon, Mayor, City & Borough of Juneau

8:30 AM Keynote Address

Ben Stevens, Chief of Staff for Governor Dunleavy

8:50 AM Southeast Alaska by the Numbers Meilani Schijvens Rain Coast Data *2025 Planning process begins

9:15 AM Economic Development: Industry Panel

• Kara Moriarty President/CEO, Alaska Oil & Gas Association • Deantha Crockett Executive Director, Alaska Miners Association • Sarah Leonard President & CEO, Alaska Travel Industry Association • Jeremy Woodrow Executive Director, Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute

10:15 AM Economic Development Networking Break Sponsored by OneAlaska 10:30 AM Economic Development: State and Federal partners

• Shirley Kelly: Economic Development Administration • Jason Hoke: Denali Commission, Federal Co-Chair • Keith Perkins: SE Area Director, USDA Rural Development • Sandra Moller: Director DCRA, AK Dept. of Commerce

11:30 AM AIDEA – Empowering Enterprise in Southeast Alan C. Weitzner, Chief Investment Officer Noon Tuesday Keynote Luncheon:

Howard Sherman, Executive Vice President of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings. Lunch Sponsored by Icy Strait Point - Huna Totem Corporation

1:00 PM Senate Leadership:

Senate President Senator Cathy Giessel, Senate Finance Co–Chairs, Senator Bert Stedman and Senator Natasha von Imhof, Minority Leader Senator Tom Begich

Tuesday, February 4, 2020 Agenda

Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall 320 W. Willoughby Ave, Juneau

2:00 PM Energy Industry

Alec Mesdag, Chair Director of Energy Services, AEL&P • Kirk Warren: Alaska Energy Authority, Director Engineering & Energy • Crystal Enkvist: Alaska Power Association, Executive Director • Gwen Holdmann: Director, Alaska Center for Energy and Power • Statewide Biomass – Roundtable Updates

3:00 PM Energy Networking Break sponsored by Electric Power Systems, Inc. 3:30 PM CEDS Workshop

4:00 PM Southeast Legislators Invited: • Senator Bert Stedman • Senator Jesse Kiehl • Representative Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins • Representative Dan Ortiz • Representative Sara Hannan • Representative Andi Story

5:30 PM Legislative Reception at the Sealaska Heritage Walter Soboleff Building 105 S Seward St. (note the change of venue for this event)

Sponsored by the Sealaska Heritage Institute and Sealaska

Take time during the Mid-Session Summit week to go visit with legislators. If you’d like help setting up appointments, let us know.

THANK YOU TO THE GRIND COFFEE COMPANY FOR THEIR GENEROUS DONATION OF FRESH BREWED KALADI BROTHERS COFFEE

Wednesday, February 5, 2019

7:30 AM Registration Sponsored by Wostmann & Associates and ACS Breakfast Sponsored by Central Council Tlingit & Haida

8:00 AM Transportation Dennis Watson, Chair • Mary Siroky, Deputy Commissioner of Transportation • Economic Impact of IFA in 2019: Ron Curtis, General Manager, IFA • AMHS Reform continues: McDowell Group & Elliot Bay Design Group

9:00 AM House Leadership Speaker of the House Rep. Bryce Edgmon, House Finance Co-Chair Rep. Jennifer Johnston, Rep. Louise Stutes, Rep. Tiffany Zulkosky, Minority Leader Rep. Lance Pruitt

9:45 AM Path to Prosperity – 2020 Winners Announcement

10:15 AM Break sponsored by Southeast Alaska Pilots Association

10:30 AM Maritime: SEC Committee Co–Chair Julie Decker, AFDF; Sam Rabung: Director of Commercial Fisheries, State of Alaska Fish and Game; Seafood Industry Economic Impacts – Dan Lesh, McDowell Group; Mariculture – Meta Mesdag, Salty Lady Seafood, President, AK Shellfish Growers

11:30 AM CEDS Workshop

11:45 AM David Parish - The Facts of the Matter

NOON Wednesday Luncheon: Flying High-er Carl Ramseth: General Manager, Alaska Seaplanes Lunch Sponsored by Southeast Conference Admiral Sponsors!

1:00 PM The Tongass – a Working, Multi-use Forest David Schmid: USFS Alaska Regional Forester; Bryce Dahlstrom: Viking Lumber; Trey Acteson: CEO, SEAPA; Mike Satre: Hecla Greens Creek Mine; Dan Kirkwood: Eco-tourism: Pack Creek Tours; Kyle Moselle: Acting Director of the Office of Project Management and Permitting

2:15 PM Resource CEDS overview Meilani Schijvens Rain Coast Data

2:30 PM Healthcare Southeast Alaska Healthcare Workforce Analysis – UAS Chancellor Rick Caulfield Jared Kosin, President, ASHNA – Innovation and the changing landscape of Alaska’s healthcare industry

3:00 PM The First Economic Engine Jaeleen Kookesh: Sealaska Vice President, Policy & Legal Affairs Will Ware: Chief of Project Development, Central Council Tlingit & Haida

3:30 PM Break SEARHC - Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium

3:45 PM Alaska’s Regional Development Organizations Meet the statewide leaders in regional economic development

4:30 PM CEDS Wrap-Up

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