Wednesday, May 14, 2003

8:00 AM Registration Opens 9:00 AM Sessions Begin

Event Sponsor: The Sacramento Bee

Joel Garreau Cultural Correspondent, Washington Post Author, Edge City A student of global culture, values, and change, Joel Garreau offers the hypothesis that the 1990s, like the 1950s, set the stage for a social-cultural revolution now unfolding in the new millennium. The author of best-selling books Edge City: Life on the New Frontier and The Nine Nations of North America, Garreau is the nation’s foremost chronicler of how humans build cities that are the cornerstones, capstones and sometimes millstones of their civilization. The Future of the Valley through 2025 A panel of experts share insights on where they think the Valley is headed. Dawn Garcia, Stanford University, Moderator Karen Ross, California Association of Winegrape Growers Hans Johnson, Public Policy Institute of California John V. White, Center for Energy Efficiency & Renewable Technologies Dan Walters, The Sacramento Bee

Event Sponsor: SBC

Kevin Johnson Saint Hope Corporation Kevin Johnson, a 12-year veteran of the National Basketball Association who retired after the 2000 season, was raised in the Oak Park neighborhood of Sacramento, an economically disadvantaged area confronted with many of the social ills affecting inner cities across America. In 1989, Johnson founded Saint Hope Academy, an after-school educational program located in the heart of Oak Park. Recently expanded to the Saint Hope Corporation, the organization oversees several nonprofit entities, all striving to improve the quality of life in inner cities.

Thursday, May 15, 2003

7:30 AM Legislative Breakfast 9:00 AM Sessions Begin

Event Sponsor: Kaiser Permanente

Philip R. Lee, MD Professor Emeritus of Social Medicine University of California San Francisco School of Medicine Socioeconomic Status and Health in the Central Valley - Speech given on May 14, 2003 at the Great Valley Conference. Economic indicators such as employment and household income levels reveal much about the health outcomes of communities. Dr. Philip R. Lee, Professor of Social Medicine at the University of California San Francisco, School of Medicine, and former Assistant Secretary for Health at the US Department of Health and Human Services, will draw on years of health care policy experience to survey opportunities for creating a better, healthier future by making California’s Great Central Valley a more prosperous region. Dr. Marvin J. Cetron Futurist and Author 12 Trends to Bringing Continued Prosperity to California's Central Valley - speech given May 15, 2003 at the Great Valley Conference. “To meet human nutritional needs over the next 40 years, global agriculture will have to supply as much food as has been produced during all of human history,” predicts Marvin Cetron, noted futurist, author, founder and president of Forecasting International. Cetron notes that if the world is to have enough food in the future, US agriculture must encourage young people to become career farmers and ranchers. During his 20-year career in research and development planning, Dr. Cetron has consulted for governmental agencies here and abroad and more than 150 businesses and industrial organizations. Billy Riggs Billy Riggs Enterprises Billy Riggs is the world’s first and only dis-illusionist. During the past 20 years, Billy has delivered his message to more than two million people on five continents. His blend of magic and motivation go well beyond its initial dis-illusioning. Billy understands the value of human potential and the need to increase performance and maximize personal growth. His illusions, or rather dis-illusions, are focused more on reality than illusion and contain a solid message with lots of take-home value.