Thursday, September 29, 2005

PROGRAM THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29th, 2005

TIME

TOPIC

SPEAKERS

8:30 AM

Registration
Coffee and Rolls

Tracy Metz
Moderator

9:00 AM

Opening & Welcome

9:20 AM

Wetscapes

Shane Coen
Principal, Coen + Partners, Inc.
Minneapolis
&
Cor Geluk
Partner, Juurlink en Geluk b.v.
Rotterdam

10:40 AM COFFEE/TEA BREAK (20 minutes)

11:00 AM

Wetscapes

Rob Rejman
Director of Lakefront Construction
Chicago Park District
Vasile Jurca
Project Manager
Chicago Department of Environment
&
Jerry van Eyck
Principal-Partner-Landscape architect-Industrial designer
West 8, Rotterdam

Panel

All Speakers

12:40 PM LUNCH (50 minutes)

1:30 PM

Policy on Sustainable Development

Cathy Hudzik
Assistant to the Mayor for River Initiatives
City of Chicago
&
George Nassos
Director, MS in Environmental Management program IIT - Stuart Graduate School of Business &
Director, Center for Sustainable Enterprise

2:50 PM COFFEE/TEA BREAK (20 minutes)

3:10 PM

Policy on Sustainable Development

Annemieke Nijhof
Advisor to the Prime Minister of the Netherlands on Environmental & Sustainability Policies

Panel

All speakers

4:15 PM

New Orleans
and
the Netherlands -
Living Below
Sea-Level

Dico van Ooijen
Senior Advisor for dikes and dams, Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management (Rijkswaterstaat)
&
Peter Torbijn
Director of National Spatial Planning Policy & Advisor to the Dutch Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment
&
Larry J. Prather
Assistant Director of Civil Works,
US Army Corps of Engineers
&
Dave Sanford
Director, Navigation Policy and Legislation,American Association of Port Authorities

Panel

All speakers

6:00 PM

END OF FIRST DAY