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Day 1 - Tuesday: April 22, 2008
Luncheon	12:00-2:00 PM
Keynote	Sen. Mary Landrieu	Member of United States Senate, Disaster Recovery Senate Subcommittee Chair
Guest Speaker	Paul Rainwater	Executive Director of Louisiana Recovery Authority
Guest Speaker	Tom McAllister	Office Director for Response, Mississippi Emergency Management Agency
Guest Speaker	Dr. Eng Lim-Goh	Chief Technology Officer and Senior VP, Silicon Graphics Inc
Presenter	Dr. Ramesh Kolluru	Assistant VP, Research & Graduate Studies Executive Director, NIMSAT Director, Center for Business and Information Technologies University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Session 1: CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION
Tracks 1- 3	2:30-4:00 PM
Track 1	Ports and Facilities
Moderator	Gary LaGrange	President and CEO, Port of New Orleans
Panelist	Hal Hudgings	Vice President of Security, Alabama State Port Authority
Panelist	Wade Battles	Executive Director, Port of Houston
Panelist	Joseph Accardo, Jr.	Executive Director, Port Association of Louisiana
Track 2	Logistics and Transportation
Moderator	Dr. Robert Gramling	Professor of Sociology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Panelist	CPT A.J. Gibbs	President, Crescent River Port Pilots' Association
Panelist	LTC Murray P. Starkel	Dpty District Commander, US Army Corps of Engineers
Panelist	Dr. William Ankner	Secretary, Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development
Panelist	Arne Hook	President, Hook Consulting Company: Eden Enterprise
Panelist	Dr. George Woddell	Associate Professor of Environmental Sociology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Track 3	Utilities: Power
Moderator	Charlie Fisher	Director of Utility & Critical Infrastructure Practice, James Lee Witt Associates
Panelist	Mark Drexel	Department Manger: Emergency Management-Electric Operations, Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc.
Panelist	Randy Helmick	VP, Transmission, Entergy
Panelist	Rod West	CEO, Entergy New Orleans
Panelist	Dr. Geoff Parker	Associate Professor of Information And Operations Management, Tulane University
Panelist	Dr. Roger King	Associate Dean of Research & Graduate Students, Mississippi State University
Day 2 - Wednesday: April 23, 2008
Plenary Presentations	8:30-10:15 AM
Presenter	Thomas Bossert	Special Assistant to President Bush for Homeland Security and Senior Director for Preparedness Policy, Homeland Security Council
Presenter	Col. Merrick Krause	Director of Infrastructure Analysis and Strategy, Department of Homeland Security
Session 2: CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION (Continued)
Tracks 1 - 3	10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Track 1	Energy and Petrochemical
Moderator	Eric Smith	Visiting Professor Entergy-Tulane Energy Center
Panelist	Jamin Kazarian	Safety Manager, Valero St. Charles Refinery
Panelist	Chris John	President, Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Assn. (LMOGA)
Panelist	Don G. Briggs	President, Louisiana Oil and Gas Association (LOGA)
Panelist	Dan Borne	President, Louisiana Chemical Association
Panelist	Henri Boulet	Executive Director, LA 1 Coalition
Panelist	Lars Herbst	Regional Director, Gulf of Mexico, US Mineral Management Service
Track 2	Critical Supply Chains
Moderator	Dr. Geoff Stewart	Assistant Professor College of Business Administration, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Panelist	Jon Seltzer	Associate Director, National Center for Food Protection and Defense, University of Minnesota
Panelist	Mark Ehlen	Economist, NISAC
Panelist	John "Jock" Menzies	Chairman, The Terminal Corporation, American Logistics Aid Network
Panelist	Don Broussard	Water Operations Manager, Lafayette Utilities System
Panelist	Dr. Glen Richey	Assistant Professor at College of Business Administration at the University of Alabama
Track 3	Communications
Moderator	Tab Troxler	Director of St. Charles Parish Office of Emergency Preparedness
Panelist	Steve Majors	Senior Consultant, The Ehrhardt Group
Panelist	Matt Boyle	Logistics Management Specialist, FEMA Region VI
Panelist	Bill Grabner	Government Solutions Engineering Manager, Genesys
Panelist	Tom Ferrentino	Regional Program Manager, MyStateUSA
Panelist	Jeya Selvaratnam	Louisiana State Police, Dept. of Public Safety
Panelist	Rob Rolfsen	Director, Sustainable Development, CISCO
Luncheon	12:15-1:45 PM
Keynote	James Lee Witt	CEO of James Lee Witt Associates - A Unit of GlobalOption Group
Guest Speaker	Val A. Marmillion	Managing Director, America's Wetland Foundation President, Marmillion + Company
Session 3: PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT

Tools for CI/KR Interdependencies (2:00-2:45)
Moderator	Tony McDermott	Vice President of Technology, Priority 5
Panelist	Mike Kinder	National Center for Crisis and Continuity Coordination (NC4)
Panelist	Keith Dodrill	Entergy Infrastructer Team Lead from US Department of Entergy/TL
Panelist	Dr. Mark Ehlen	Economist, NISAC
Disaster PODS (2:45-3:30)
Moderator	Dr. Mark Smith	Professor College of Business Administration - University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Panelist	Connie Nunn	Florida Department of Emergency Management
Panelist	Bryan Koon	Senior Operations Manager, Emergency Management Department - Wal-Mart
Panelist	Richard M. Cheek	Director of Business Development, Deployed Resources
Panelist	Dr. Geoff Stewart	Co-founder & Associate Director, NIMSAT
Communicating Risk and Tools for Hazard Mitigation Planning (3:45-4:30)
Moderator	Dr. Jo Darlington	Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Panelist	Casey Levy	Louisiana State Hazard Mitigation, Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, GOHSEP
Panelist	Drew Sachs	V.P. of Crisis and Consequence Management, James Lee Witt Associates
GIS & Supercomputing Applications for Disaster Management (4:30-5:15)
Moderator	Dr. Eric Frost	Associate Professor Geological Sciences, San Diego State University
Panelist	Dr. Chaitan Baru	Division Director, San Diego Supercomputing Center at University of California in San Diego (UCSD)
Panelist	Dr. Daniel S. Katz	Director, Cyber Infrastructure Development, Center for Computation & Technology (CCT), LSU
Panelist	Brant Mitchell	Section Chief, GOHSEP
Day 3 - Thursday: April 24, 2008
Session 4: PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT (Continued)
Presentations	8:30 - 10:00 AM
Presenter	Jeanne Meserve	Homeland Security Correspondent, CNN
Presenter	Cindy Taylor	Director, Private Sector Office Federal Emergency Management Agency
Executive Roundtable	10:15 - 11:45 AM
Moderator	Dr. Geoff Stewart	Co-founder & Associate Director, NIMSAT
Moderator	Drew Sachs	V.P. of Crisis and Consequence Management, James Lee Witt Associates
Public Sector:
Panelist	Col. Merrick Krause	Infrastructure Analysis & Services Division (IASD), Department of Homeland Security
Panelist	Janet Woodka	Director of Legislative Affairs, Office of Federal Coordinator for Gulf Coast Rebuilding
Panelist	Mike Womack	Executive Director of Mississippi Emergency Management Agency
Private Sector:
Panelist	Melody Meyer	VP, Chevron - Gulf of Mexico
Panelist	Anthony Bunting	VP, Customer Service & Energy, Cleco
Panelist	Malcolm Ehrhardt	President, The Ehrhardt Group
Panelist	Martin Mayer	President & CEO, Stirling Properties
Panelist	Rob Rolfsen	Director, Sustainable Development, CISCO
Non-Profit Sector:
Panelist	Michael L. Williamson	Vice President, Field Leadership, United Way of America
Panelist	Kay Wilkins	CEO of the American Red Cross Southeast Louisiana Chapter
Closing Comments	11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
	Dr. Ramesh Kolluru	Assistant VP, Research & Graduate Studies Executive Director, NIMSAT Director, Center for Business and Information Technologies University of Louisiana at Lafayette
	Dr. Eric Frost	Associate Professor Geological Sciences, San Diego State University
	Greg Fenton	Director of Disaster Training and Technology James Lee Witt Associates