Events - GOVERNING - Georgia Leadership Forum - 2013

PAST EVENT

May 29, 2013

Agenda

Complete Schedule

Wednesday May 29

Time	Session
8:30 - 9:00AM	Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15AM	Welcome Speakers: Erin Waters - Publisher, GOVERNING
9:15 - 9:45AM	Shared Fortunes - Building a Better Georgia The state's governor, a Republican, and the mayor of its largest city, a Democrat, discuss how they are working together to advance a common agenda.... more Adding 169891756 to Unordered. Moderated by: Erin Waters - Publisher, GOVERNING Speakers: Hon. Nathan Deal - Governor of Georgia Hon. Kasim Reed - Mayor, City of Atlanta, Georgia
9:45 - 10:45AM	Shared Fortunes - Sorting Things Out The twin forces of permanent fiscal scarcity and tectonic demographic shifts will greatly alter the relationships among the levels of government. Sooner or later, there... more Speakers: Hon. Stacey Y. Abrams - House Minority Leader, Georgia House of Representatives Mark Funkhouser, Ph.D. - Director, GOVERNING Institute, former mayor, Kansas City, Missouri Douglas R. Hooker, P.E. - Executive Director, Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) Ross King - Executive Director, Association of County Commissioners of Georgia
10:45 - 11:10AM	Break
11:10 - 12:10PM	Concurrent Sessions
	Management - Staffing to Win in a Post-Recession World Attracting, training and retaining highly talented and motivated staff is critical to achieving high-performance government, and it has never been more difficult. Layoffs, furloughs, pay... more Speakers: Duriya Farooqui - Chief Operating Officer, City of Atlanta Monica Ivey - Director of Human Resources, Georgia Department of Transportation Ross King - Executive Director, Association of County Commissioners of Georgia Erin Waters - Publisher, GOVERNING
	Regional Collaboration - Economic Development In "Collaborate or Perish! Reaching Across Boundaries in a Networked World," Zachary Tumin of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and William Bratton, former police... more Adding 170015156 to Unordered. Moderated by: Zach Patton - Executive Editor, GOVERNING Speakers: Blake Ashbee - Interim Executive Director, Governor's Office of Workforce Development Mike Beatty - Commissioner, Georgia Department of Community Affairs Steve Brown - Chairman, Fayette County Board of Commissioners, Georgia
12:10 - 12:45PM	Lunch
12:45 - 1:45PM	Luncheon Keynote - Thomas Jefferson and the Lewis and Clark Expedition Few economic-development endeavors have been as ambitious and perilous as Thomas Jefferson's decision to purchase the Louisiana Territory from France and then to send Meriwether... more Speakers: Clay Jenkinson, portraying Thomas Jefferson - nationally acclaimed humanities scholar and award-winning first-person interpreter of Jefferson
1:45 - 2:00PM	Break
2:00 - 3:00PM	Concurrent Sessions
	Management - Pension and Other Post-Employment Benefit Costs According to the National Association of State Retirement Administrators, pensions account for about 3 percent of all state and local government spending, which is down... more Adding 185919692 to Unordered. Moderated by: Erica Pyatt - Associate Publisher, Finance, GOVERNING, Finance, GOVERNING Speakers: J. Anthony "Jim" Beard - Chief Financial Officer, City of Atlanta, Georgia Richard C. Dreyfuss - Senior Fellow, Center for State & Local Leadership, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, New York James R. Meynard - Executive Director, Georgia Firefighters' Pension Fund, Georgia Firefighters' Pension Fund Steve Vaughn, AIF(R) - Retirement Services Director, ACCG/President and CEO, GEBCorp
	Regional Collaboration - Meeting the Infrastructure Challenge For decades, the research evidence has been clear that successful regions are those with well-functioning infrastructure systems. In transportation, water, wastewater treatment, energy and other... more Adding 169891516 to Unordered. Moderated by: Jonathan Walters - Executive Editor, GOVERNING Speakers: Steve Allred - Former Director of the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality,former Assistant Secretary of the, former Assistant Secretary of the, U.S. Department of the Interior Toby Carr - Director of Planning, Department of Transportation, State of Georgia Biju George - Interim Executive Director, Greater Cincinnati Waterworks,, Cincinnati, Ohio Bob Hartnett - President and CEO, Transportation & Expressway Authority Membership of Florida
3:10 - 4:10PM	Concurrent Sessions
	Management - Balancing Risk and Innovation Can governments learn? There is no learning without mistakes, and yet governments historically have had an extremely low tolerance for errors. For that reason, the... more Adding 169891516 to Unordered. Moderated by: Jonathan Walters - Executive Editor, GOVERNING Speakers: Kevin Coughlin - Policy Initiative Advisor - Executive, Division of Long Term Care, Department of Health Services, State of Wisconsin Sandra Elizabeth Ford - Director James R. Meynard - Executive Director, Georgia Firefighters' Pension Fund, Georgia Firefighters' Pension Fund Rosa Waymon - Director, Office of Human Resource Management, Georgia Department of Human Services, Office of Human Resource Management, Georgia Department of Human Services
	Regional Collaboration - Functional Consolidation and Shared Services Regional Collaboration - Functional Consolidation and Shared Services It is the paradox of region and place. To achieve efficiency in service delivery, we need the economies... more Adding 170015156 to Unordered. Moderated by: Zach Patton - Executive Editor, GOVERNING Speakers: W. Burrell Ellis, Jr. - Chief Executive Officer, DeKalb County, Georgia Honorable Brittany Pittman - Sole Commissioner, Murray County, Georgia Calvin Rhodes - Chief Information Officer, State of Georgia
4:10 - 5:00PM	Reception Join the GOVERNING staff, our sponsors, our speakers and your colleagues as we rehash the highlights of the day over drinks and appetizers.... more

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