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Getting
Ahead of the Curve
A Working Conference to Generate
Ideas, Innovations,
and an Agenda for Future Prosperity
Lexington
Convention Center
Lexington, Kentucky
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November
16, 2004 |
Policy
Note No. 18 offers policy options for future economic
development and "action ideas" offered by conference participants.
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| 8:45 – 9:00 |
Welcome,
Dr. Paul B. Cook
Chair, Kentucky Long-Term Policy Research Center Board
of Directors |
| 9:00 – 9:40 |
Kentucky’s Economic Development Issues: A
Legislative Perspective, a panel of legislative leaders will be
moderated by Jaci Carfagno, business editor, Lexington Herald-Leader,
in a discussion of economic development issues confronting the
Kentucky General Assembly
- Senator Alice Forgy Kerr
- Representative Ruth Ann Palumbo
- Senator Katie Kratz Stine
- Senator Damon Thayer
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| 9:45 – 10:40
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The Future Economic Context: Competing in a
Global Economy that Continues to Evolve, Ed Barlow, Founder of
Creating the Future, Inc. |
| 10:40 – 11:00 |
Break |
| 11:00 – Noon |
Getting Ahead of the Curve – Bill Goodman,
host of KET’s award-winning “Kentucky Tonight,” will lead a panel of
state and national experts in a wide-ranging discussion of the many
opportunities we must seize to get ahead of the economic development
curve. This panel will be filmed by KET for later broadcast. Panelists include:
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Deborah D. Brock, William and Kay Moore Chair
of Entrepreneurship and Management, Berea College
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Jim Clinton, Executive Director, Southern Growth Policies
Board
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Luther R. Deaton, Jr., Chairman/President and
CEO, Central Bank & Trust Co.
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Kris Kimel, President, Kentucky Science and Technology
Corporation
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Hilda Legg, Administrator, USDA, Rural Utilities Service
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Dr. Walt Plosila, Vice President, Public Technology Management,
Battelle
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Dr. James Ramsey, President, University of Louisville
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Rep. Jody Richards, Speaker of the House, KY General Assembly
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Phil Wilkins, CEO, Diverse Wealth Systems
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Sen. David Williams, President of the Senate, KY General
Assembly (invited)
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| Noon – 1:30 PM |
Governor Fletcher
Presentation of the 2004 Hellard Award |
| 1:30 – 2:45 |
Breakout Sessions: Building Blocks of Economic
Development, experts discuss and gather ideas on what Kentucky
needs to do in each of these areas with respect to economic
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Transportation
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Paul E. Toussaint, Director, University of Kentucky, Transportation Center
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Dr. Merl Hackbart, Professor of Finance and Public Administration,
University of Kentucky
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Gary Mielcarek, Public Affairs Manager, United Parcel Service
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Richard L. “Dick” Murgatroyd, Deputy Secretary, Transportation
Cabinet
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Information Technology
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Brian Mefford, President and CEO, ConnectKentucky and the Center
for Technology Enterprise (CiTE)
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Darrell D. Brock, Jr., Commissioner, Governor’s Office for Local
Development (GOLD) and Assistant to the Governor for Public Policy
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Joe Mefford, Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Director of
Economic Development for the Kentucky League of Cities (KLC)
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Larry Whitaker, County Judge Executive, McLean County
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Workforce Development
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Nancy Laprade, President, The Pawleys Group
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Keith Bird, Chancellor, Kentucky Community
and Technical College System
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Kenneth M. Carroll, Executive Director, Bluegrass State Skills
Corporation
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Pam Cox, Owensboro Medical Health System
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Ann Guarnieri, Executive Director, Office of Budget and Administration, Kentucky Education Cabinet
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Entrepreneurism
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Andrew V. McNeill, Chief of Staff to Commerce
Secretary Jim Host, Commonwealth of Kentucky
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Deborah D. Brock, William and Kay Moore Chair
of Entrepreneurship and Management, Berea College
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Jim Clinton, Executive Director, Southern
Growth Policies Board
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Dr. Thomas S. Lyons, Director, Center for Research on
Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development (CREED), University of
Louisville
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Dr. Eric Scorsone, Kentucky Entrepreneurial Coaches Institute (KECI),
University of Kentucky
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Innovation
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Dan Hall, Vice President for External Affairs, University of
Louisville
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George Emont, Triathlon Medical Ventures, LLC
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Joanne Lang, Executive Vice President, Kentucky Science and
Technology Corporation
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Dr. Donald M. Miller, Director, James Graham Brown Cancer
Center
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Dr. Walt Plosila, Vice President, Public Technology Management,
Battelle
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Taxes and Regulation
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Mary E. Lassiter, Deputy Executive Director of the Governor’s
Office for Policy Research
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Brad Cowgill, Kentucky State Budget Director
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Charles J. (Chaz) Lavelle, Immediate Past Chairman, Kentucky
State Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and attorney with
Greenebaum, Doll & McDonald, PLLC
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Dr. David Wildasin, Endowed Chair in Public Finance in the Martin
School of Public Policy, University of Kentucky
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Environment
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Marshall D. Slagle, Marshall Slagle Planning,
LLC
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Steve Austin, President and C.E.O., Bluegrass Tomorrow
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Russell A. Barnett, Director for Research and
Development, Kentucky Institute for the Environment and
Sustainable Development, University of Louisville
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Scott R. Smith, Kentucky Environmental and
Public Protection Cabinet
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Dr. Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr., Attorney at Law
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Community-level Development
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Sylvia L. Lovely, President, NewCities
FoundationTM
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Hilda Legg, Administrator, USDA, Rural Utilities Service
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Tad Long, Senior Advisor for Business
Development, NewCities FoundationTM
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Kevin T. Sheilley, Executive Director/CEO, Team Taylor County
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| 2:45 – 3:00 |
Break |
| 3:00 – 4:00 |
Bringing It All Together, Ed Barlow will help
us gather and make sense of the action-items discussed in the
breakout sessions. Center staff will use this information for a
planned white paper presenting a “to do list” for a more prosperous
future. |
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