2008 Port Productivity Conference
Schedule of Events

Monday, April 7:

 2PM: Registration Opens

3PM: Exhibits Open

2:45PM-3:45PM: Workshops Part I:

Improve your Port Productivity: Tools and Techniques
Joe Palazzolo, Principal, Palazzolo & Associates
Topic: Productivity Tools and
Technologies Outside the Fence

Peter A. Crosby, Principal, Supply Chain Practice,
CGR Management Consultants LLC
Topic: Productivity and the Clean Truck Program

Enviromental Planning: Surviving the NEPA Proces
(National Environmental Protection Act)
Workshop Leader: Applied Technology
Tony Maglione, B.S., Vice President,
Environmental Science, Applied Technology

Bo Ellis, PE, Vice President,
Ports and Harbors, NEPA Specialist, Applied Technology

Kim Beatley, PE, Principal, Transystems

4:PM-4:45PM: Welcome Session:
Legislating Cargo Movement:
Will freight finally get a chance to vote?
 There are legislative agendas and issues on the table that could impact, one way or the other, your transportation-and-goods movement for years to come. A featured conversation between the Waterfront Coalition, representing the shippers’ voice in Washington DC, and a top Federal Government representative, will seek to address some of these important legislative issues as these two distinctive voices representing the public and private sectors.
Session Leader: Robin Lanier, Executive Director,
Waterfront Coalition

Leslie Blakey, Executive Director
Coalition for America’s Gateways and Trade Corridors

 5:PM-6:30PM: Opening Keynote and Exhibitor Reception
Eleanor Clift, White House Reporter, Newsweek;

Regular Panelist, McLaughlin Group;

Political Analyst; Fox News Network

 
Keynote Topic: The Road to the White House

7:30PM: Meet for Collaboration Dinners
 

Tuesday, April 8:

8:30AM-9:30AM: Marine Terminal Investments Update:
A Phase One check-up
How are the new breed of marine terminal investors faring? How has it impacted the industry, such as with operations, productivity and value? What is the return value of these investments?

Session Leader: Larry Keller, Director, Ports and Services
Kennedy Jenks
(former executive director, Port of Los Angeles)

Jeff Holt, Vice President, Goldman Sachs

Tom Simmers, President and CEO, Ceres Terminals Inc.

15-minute break
 
9:45AM-10:45 AM: Concurrent Workshops Part II.
  
Latest Techniques in Port Automation:
The Missing Link in North American Supply Chain
Allen Thomas, vice president, operations, APS Technology Group

Remmelt Thijs, Senior project manager,
TBA from The Netherlands

Dennis Kelly, Vice President, Trapac Jacksonville Terminal

Latest techniques in Port Engineering
Steve Kemp, PE, General Manager of Operations
Operating Services, Port of Charleston

Dennis Padron, Executive Vice President of Halcrow, Inc.

15-minute break

11AM-12:15AM: General Session
Inland Productivity: Connectivity in action
Warehousing and distribution is getting better connected to inland corridors and transportation networks and a group of multi modes and disciplines examine these encouraging developments.
Session Leader:
Jim Brennan, Partner, Norbridge Inc.

Peter A. Crosby, Principal, Supply Chain Practice
CGR Management Consultants LLC

Carl Warren, Director Business Development, CSX Intermodal

Michael C. Dempsey, Vice President, Market Development
Navis, a Zebra Technologies Company

Jim Newsome, Vice President, Hapag Lloyd

Other speakers TBA shortly

12:30PM-2PM: Lunch and Keynote
Jim Micali, Chairman and President, Michelin, North America

2:15PM-3:30PM: General Session
 The Blue Sky Port: What will productive cargo gateways and technologies look like in the future?
From Port Automation to 15,000-TEU ships, a session of
experts that looks at the slightly far-flung futures of ports
and related technologies.

Leader: Mark Sisson, PE, DMJM -Harris

Participants:
Barry. D. Michaels, AVP -Premium Operations – Network,
Union Pacific RR

Tom Ward, Chief Engineer, Marine Terminals Corp

Dr. Juergen Sorgenfrei, Chairman, Port of Hamburg

 
Wednesday, April 9

Golf Tournament

Stono Ferry Golf Links
www.StonoFerryGolf.com

Starts at 9:00 AM.
4-Person teams. 18-Hole captain’s choice format.
Greens fees, carts, hot lunch (burgers, hot dogs, chips, iced tea and soda), & range balls included. Valuable door prizes and awards. $100 per person.

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