AGENDA
Confirmed speakers are marked with a †.
| 8:00 am | Registration and coffee |
| 8:45 am | Introduction
Event Chair Steve Marshall†, Executive Director, Center for Advanced Transportation and Energy Solutions Egils Milbergs†, Executive Director, Washington State Economic Development Commission Bruce Agnew†, Policy Director, Cascadia Center for Regional Development Stephanie Meyn†, Program Manager, Western Washington Clean Cities Coalition |
| 9:00 am | Welcome
Fred Jarrett†, King County Deputy Executive Tom Rasmussen†, Seattle City Councilmember and Chair of the Transportation Committee |
| 9:15 am | Opening Keynote: Reinventing the Automobile and Energy Conservation
Amory Lovins†, Rocky Mountain Institute author of Reinventing Fire Introduction by David Allen†, McKinstry and RMI board member, and Eric Leonhardt†, Director, Vehicle Research Institute at WWU |
| 10:15 am | The West Coast Corridor: Advancing an Integrated Solution
KC Golden†, Policy Director, Climate Solutions John Boesel†, President and CEO, CALSTART Concluding remarks by Rt. Rev Bishop Greg Rickel†, Episcopal Diocese of Olympia on behalf of Earth Ministry |
| 11:00 am | Keynote Address
Bob Lutz†, former vice chair of General Motors, father of the Chevy Volt and member Via Motors board of directors |
| 11:45 am | Boxed Lunch |
| 12:30 pm | Panel: The Role of NW Electricity in Transforming
Transportation
Charlie Allock†, Director of Economic Development, Portland General Electric Bill Gaines†, Superintendent Tacoma Public Utilities Phil Jones†, WUTC Commissioner and incoming president of the National Association of Regulatory and Utility Commissioners |
1:15 pm | Views on Washington’s Transportation Future
Hon. Rob McKenna†, Washington State Attorney General and candidate for Washington state governor Introduction by Slade Gorton†, former U.S. Senator and co-chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Transportation Committee Jay Inslee† (via video), former U.S. Congressman and candidate for Washington state governor Introduction by Mike Grady†, Chair of New Energy Solutions |
| 2:00 pm | The HUD/EPA/USDOT Sustainable Communities Initiative
Shelley R. Poticha†, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, on behalf of Shaun Donovan, Secretary of HUD Introduction by Mary E. McBride†, Regional Administrator, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development |
| 2:30 pm | Washington's Electric Highway and the Future of West Coast Transportation
Paula Hammond†, Secretary, Washington State Department of Transportation |
| 3:00 pm | Making Vehicles Smart: Software, Connections and Information
Bryan Mistele†, CEO of Inrix Gordon Feller†, Director of Urban Innovation, Cisco Humphrey Chen†, Verizon Kamyar Moinzadeh†, President, Airbiquity Introduction by John Milbrath†, Vice President, AAA Washington, and by Mark Spain, Verizon |
| 4:00 pm | Self-Driving Cars
Steve Underwood†, Director of the Connected Vehicle Proving Center at the University of Michigan Corey Clothier†, TARDC (Tank Automotive Research and Development Center at Department of Defense and ARIBO |
| 4:45 pm | Announcements and Displays: Nissan Leaf, Ford Focus Electric, Tesla Roadster and Tesla Model S, Fisker Karma, Via Motors EREV, Mitsubishi iMiEV, Toyota plug-in Prius, AAA Electric response truck, Coda Electric, Chevrolet Volt, Western Washington University's X-Prize Vehicle |