Agenda

Monday, February 9 and Tuesday, February 10

MONDAY | FEBRUARY 9, 2009

8:00 - 8:25 am | Welcome

James B. Hunt, Jr., Former Governor, North Carolina; Chair, Institute for Emerging Issues
James L. Oblinger, Chancellor, North Carolina State University
Anita R. Brown-Graham, Director, Institute for Emerging Issues

8:25 - 9:25 am | the National Infrastructure Imperative

Christopher J. Dodd, U.S. Senator, State of Connecticut

9:25 - 10:20 AM |The Road to Resiliency

Ken Livingstone, Former Mayor of London

10:40 - 11:25 AM | Putting the Strategy in the Stimulus

Moderated by Leslie Winner, Executive Director, Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation
G.K. Butterfield, Congressman from NC’s 1st District, U.S. House of Representatives
David Price, Congressman from NC’s 4th District, U.S. House of Representatives
Heath Shuler, Congressman from NC’s 11th District, U.S. House of Representatives
Virginia Foxx, Congresswoman from NC's 5th District, U.S. House of Representatives

 

11:25 - 12:00 Pm | Making the Grade: NC's Infrastructure Report Card

Wayne Klotz, President, American Society of Civil Engineers

12:00 - 1:30 | Lunch

A New Vision for North Carolina

A message from Beverly Perdue, Governor, State of North Carolina

A business Response to the Governors's Vision

Jack Cecil, President Biltmore Farms
Cynthia Marshall, President, AT&T North Carolina

1:30 - 3:00 Pm | Construction Zone: Planning for Action

State leaders will facilitate workshops on the following topics: Energy Infrastructure, Transportation, Water/Sewer Systems, School Construction, Disaster Planning, and Integrated Technology.

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3:10 Pm - 4:00 pm | Making Space for the Natural Place

Rand Wentworth, President, Land Trust Alliance

4:00 - 4:45 pm |Equity by Design

Andres Duany,  Founding Principal at Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company and author of The New Civic Art and Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

4:45 - 5:00 pm | Closing

 

TUESDAY | FEBRUARY 10 , 2009

8:00 - 8:15 am | Welcome

James B. Hunt, Jr., Former Governor, North Carolina; Chair, Institute for Emerging Issues

8:15 - 9:05 am | New Infrastructure for a New Civic Structure

David Brooks, Columnist, New York Times

9:15 - 10:00 am | Funding Good Growth in Tough Times

Moderated by Wendell McCain, Founding Partner, Parish Capital Advisors, LLP
Janet Cowell, North Carolina Treasurer
Thomas F. Darden, Chief Executive Officer, Cherokee Investments
Stephen Zelnak, Chairman and CEO, Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.

10:15 - 11:00 am | Managing Growth: A Governance Centered Approach

Bruce Katz, Vice President and Director, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution

11:00 - 11:40 am | Managing Growth: A Market Centered Approach

Megan McArdle, Associate Editor, The Atlantic

11:40 - 12:25 Pm |In the Trenches: Lessons from the Experts

Moderated by Senator Dan Clodfelter, N.C. General Assembly
Rachel Tompkins, President, Rural School and Community Trust       
Catherine L. Ross, Harry West Professor and Director of the Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development, Georgia Institute of Technology
Richard Little, Director, Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy, University of Southern California

12:25 - 1:45 pm | Lunch | Rebuilding Our Innovation Infrastructure

John Kao, author of Innovation Nation, and Chairman and CEO, Kao and Company, LLC

1:45 - 2:00 PM |Closing

James B. Hunt, Jr., Former Governor, North Carolina; Chair, Institute for Emerging Issues

**agenda subject to change**