2024 Leadership Summit Breakout Teasers

Breakouts Round 1
Industry Consortia: New Model for Talent Development - Dan Malinaric, Vice President of Fab 4 Operations, Microchip; Jennifer Purcell, Director, Future Ready Oregon; Brooke Brownlee, Senior Manager of Labor, Workforce, Community Engagement, PGE
Securing Industrial Land - Curtis Robinhold, Executive Director, Port of Portland
Forest Health and Wildfires - Karla Chambers, Co-Owner and Vice President, Stahlbush Island Farms; Matt Donegan, Donegan Advisors and OBC Fellow
What Next, Portland? Dan McMillan, President and CEO, The Standard; Nolan Lienhart, Principal and Director of Planning and Urban Design, ZGF Architects
Meeting Our Transportation Challenges - State Representative Susan McLain; State Senator Chris Gorsek
Building Capacity for Rural Economic Development - Dr. Gina Nikkel, Executive Director, Association of Oregon Counties; State Representative Mark Owens
Breakouts Round 2
Early Childhood and Child Care - Kali Thorne Ladd, CEO, Children’s Institute; Dana Hepper, Director of Policy & Advocacy, Children’s Institute
Energy and Transmission Planning - Larry Bekkedahl, Vice President of Transmission & Distribution, PGE; Nicole Hughes, Executive Director, Renewable Northwest
Managing Water for the Environment, the Economy and Communities - State Representatives Ken Helm and Mark Owens; Geoff Huntington, Senior Natural Resources Advisor to Governor Kotek
Southern Willamette Valley Innovation Corridor - Tina Guldberg, Assistant Vice President Economic Development & Strategic Relations, University of Oregon; Rebecca Robinson, Associate Vice President for Economic Development and Industry Relations, Oregon State University
Modernizing Oregon’s Approach to Regulation - Angela Wilhelms, President and CEO, Oregon Business and Industry; Paloma Sparks, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Oregon Business & Industry
The Housing Production Agenda - Matthew Tschabold, Housing and Homelessness Initiative Director for Governor Kotek