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November 17
8:00 am–3:00 pm
Hyatt Regency 151 E. Wacker Dr., Chicago
Cost for MPC donors: $50.00
Cost for non-donors: $50.00
This gathering brings together leaders from the business, civic,
government, and academic communities in the Chicago region and surrounding Great Lakes states to discuss and
refine a national infrastructure plan. It will aim to identify and build
consensus around strategic infrastructure priorities and approaches in the Great
Lakes megaregion that could be included in a national infrastructure plan and
the authorization of a new federal surface transportation bill in 2009.
This forum is part of
America 2050 (www.America2050.org), a national
initiative to develop an infrastructure strategy for
America
's future growth,
competitiveness and sustainability.
The forum is co-sponsored by the Metropolitan
Planning Council and Regional Plan Association, with funding support
from the Rockefeller
Foundation,Surdna
Foundation, and Lincoln Institute of
Land Policy.
Confirmed speakers as of
11/12:
Introductory
Comments
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MarySue
Barrett, President, Metropolitan Planning Council
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Robert
Yaro, President, Regional Plan Association
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Representative
Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)
Featured Speakers
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Hon.
Peter Gordon MacKay, Canadian Minister of National Defence and Minister for
the Atlantic Gateway
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Anne
Pramaggiore, Executive VP of Customer Operations, Regulatory and External
Affairs, ComEd.
Congressional Plenary
Panel
Moderator: John McCarron,
Adjunct Lecturer, Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism,
contributing columnist to the Chicago Tribune
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U.S.
Representative Earl
Blumenauer (D-OR)
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U.S.
Representative Thomas Petri
(R-WI)
MPO Panel
Moderator: Robin Snyderman,
Vice President of Housing & Community Development, Metropolitan Planning
Council
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Randy
Blankenhorn, Executive Director, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
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John
Swanson, Executive Director, Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission
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Chester Jourdan, Executive
Director, Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission
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David
Warm, Executive Director, Mid-America Regional Council
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Steve Ernst, Study Director, Rockford Area Transportation Study
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Terry
Kohlbuss, Executive Director,Tri-County Regional Planning
Commission
Water
Roundtable
Moderator:
Al
Appleton, Former Commissioner, New York City Department of Environmental
Protection
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Samuel
W. Speck, Commissioner, International Joint
Commission
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Deborah Shore,
Commissioner,
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
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MaryAnn
Dickinson, Executive Director, Alliance
for Water Efficiency
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Katherine
Baer, Senior Director for Clean Waters, America Rivers
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Cameron Davis, President,Alliance
for the Great Lakes
Energy
Roundtable
Moderator:
Catherine Morris, Keystone Center
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Kyle Barry, Vice
President of Business Expansion, McGuire Woods Consulting
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Wally
Tyner, Professor of Agricultural Economics, Purdue
University
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Anne
Evens, Director of Energy, Center for Neighborhood
Technology
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Sadhu Johnston, Chief Environmental Officer for the City
ofChicago
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Val
Jensen, Vice President, Marketing and Environmental Programs,
ComEd
Transportation
Roundtable
Moderator:
Petra
Todorovich,
Director, America
2050
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Ann
Drake, CEO, DSC Logistics
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Maureen
McAvey, Executive Vice President, Infrastructure Initiatives, Urban Land
Institute
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Rob
Puentes, Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program, The Brookings Institution
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Ilana
Preuss, Director of Campaign Parternships, T 4 America
Supporting
sposnors for the conference include the
Builders Association, Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Ltd., CN,
Illinois Railroad Association, and NIPSCO. For more information
Josh Ellis
Associate
(312) 863-6045
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