Time

Item

11:30 am – 12:00 pm

   Registration

12:00 pm – 12:15 pm

   Welcome (Main Room)

12:15 pm – 1:00 pm

   Keynote Speaker (Main Room)

Angela Avery

Executive Director of the Sierra Nevada Conservancy

1:00 – 1:30

     Speaker:  

Anecita Agustinez

Tribal Policy Advisor, Department of Water Resources

               How to Include Tribes in Building a Sierra Coalition

1:30 pm – 2:15 pm

     PANELS (Main Room)

   Panel 1:  Climate Change: What Do We Expect for the Sierras and How Are We Going to Adapt?

   Moderator:  John Shelton

                           Executive Director, San Joaquin Conservancy

   Speakers:

• Phil Saksa, Blue Forest Conservation
• Nikki Caravelli, Sierra CAMP Project Manager, Sierra Business Council
• Patty Kouyoumdjian, Executive Officer, Lahontan Regional Water Board, Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Strategy

2:15 pm – 2:30 pm

Break

2:30 – 3:15 pm

   Panel 2:  Forest Resilience and Vulnerabilities to Wildfire: Infrastructure, Communities and the Environment

                     Moderator:  Neysa King

                                              Environmental Resources Administrator

                                              Nevada Irrigation District 

   Speakers:

• Scott Conway, Conway Conservation Group
• Dirk Charley, Dunlap Mono Tribal
• Chris Anthony, CalFIRE - California Forest Management Task Force, Sierra & Eastside Regional Prioritization Group

3:15 pm - 4:00 pm

      Panel 3:  Headwaters Water Supply (How do we protect our water? State and      Federal Policies, ACWA Principles, etc.)

                     Moderator:  Pete Pumphrey, California Lawyers Association

    Speakers:

• Dave Eggerton, Executive Director, ACWA
• Andy Fecko, Placer County Water Agency
• Jule Rizzardo, State Water Resource Control Board

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Breakout Discussions

   Climate Change

   (Room 1)

Forest Resilience and Vulnerabilities to Wildfire 

(Room 2)

 Headwater Water Supply

 (Room 3)

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Reception on Patio

Poster Session

Time

Item

8:30 am – 8:45 am

Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:45 am – 9:15 am

  Keynote Speaker (Main Room)

Elizabeth Betancourt

State Water Resources Control Board and Candidate for Assembly District 1

9:15 am – 10:15 am

  PANELS DISCUSSION  (Main Room)

   Panel 4:  Regional Organizations

                   Moderator: Jen Greenburg, Lake Tahoe Conservancy

  Speakers:

• Brittany Covich, Sierra Nevada Conservancy – Watershed Improvement Program and Tahoe Central Sierra Initiative
• Sarah Di Vittorio, National Forest Foundation – Lake Tahoe West Restoration Partnership
• Elena DeLacy, American River Conservancy – American Rivers Headwaters Project
• Ed Smith, The Nature Conservancy – French Meadows Forest Restoration Project

10:15 am – 10:30 am

Break

10:30 am - Noon

Panel 5:   Water Resilience Portfolio

• Panel Presentations
• Listening Session

    Moderator: Holly Alpert, Inyo-Mono IRWM

  Speakers:

• Doug Smith, Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board
• Art Hinojosa, Department of Water Resources
• Melissa Sparks, ACWA
• Remieh Scherzinger, General Manager, Nevada Irrigation District

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm – 1:45 pm

PANELS (Main Room)

Panel 6:  Tools and Resources  

                 Moderator: Sara Monson, Sierra Nevada Alliance

Speakers:

• Kate Gladstein, CalFire
• Dore A. Bietz, Planner/Emergency Manager (Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians)
• Todd Thompson, DWR (invited)
• Alexandra Biering, Friant Water Authority

1:45 pm – 2:30 pm

Panel 7:  How Do We Build a Sierra Coalition?

                 Moderator: Jodie Monaghan, Sierra Water Workgroup

Speakers:

• Jenny Hatch, Executive Director, Sierra Nevada Alliance
• Anecita Augustinez, Tribal Policy Advisor, DWR
• Izzy Martin, CEO, Sierra Fund
• Kerri Timmer, Sierra Business Council
• TBD, Sierra Nevada Conservancy (invited)

2:30 pm – 2:45 pm

Break

2:45 pm – 3:45 pm

Breakout Discussions

Tools and Resources

 (Room 1)

How Do We Build A Sierra Coalition?

 (Room 2)

3:45 pm – 4:00 pm

Wrap-up