Speaker Information

Confirmed Speakers
   (as of March 13th)

Robert W. Bailey, P.E., CH2M HILL, President – Water Business Group

Dr. Sam Baldwin, Chief Science Officer at the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy

Thomas Eason, Deputy Director of Habitat and Conservation, FWC

Dr. Blair Feltmate, Associate Professor in the Faculty of environment, University of Waterloo

Dr. Nancy Gassman, Natural Resources Administrator, Energy and Sustainability Program, Broward County, FL

Dr. Dave Gustafson, Director, ILSI-RF Center for Integrated Modeling of Sustainable Agriculture & Nutrition Security (CIMSANS)

Dr. Kirk Hatfield, Event Co-Chair, Professor and Director of the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment  

Dr. Karl Havens, Director, Florida Sea Grant

Rick Hirsekorn, P.E., CH2M HILL, Vice-President and New York City Area Office Manager

Dr. John Ingram, NERC Food Security Leader, University of Oxford, UK 

Tim Jackson, PE, Senior Principal Planner, Kittelson & Associates, Inc. Transportation Engineering, Orlando, FL

Dr. Molly Jahn, Former Deputy and Acting Undersecretary of Agriculture, Professor in the Laboratory of Genetics and Department of Agronomy, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dr. James Jones, Event Co-Chair, Distinguished Professor and Director of the Florida Climate Institute

Dr. Kier Klepzig, Assistant Director, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service  

Dr. Fred Kirschenmann, Distinguished Fellow for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University and President of Stone Barris Center for Food and Agriculture in NY

Shelley Lauten, Partner TriSect LLC, former Director of myregion.org, Florida Director for the Urban Land Institute

Dr. David McClary, Senior Technical Consultant, Elanco

Fred Merrill, Urban Planning Consultant, Principal at Sasaki Associates Architecture and Planning, Boston    

John Pait, Sr. VP for Sales, Marketing, and Product Development for ArborGen

Dr. Jack Payne, Sr. VP of IFAS

Todd Powell, Director of Real Estate, Plum Creek, Envision Alachua Project

Dr. Sara Pryor, Provosts Professor of Atmospheric Science, Associate Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs, Indiana University

Steve Merritt Seibert, Co-Founder TriSect LLC, Senior Strategic Advisor to UF-IFAS

Dr. Brent Shanks, Mike and Jean Steffenson Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering and Director of NSFs Engineering Research Center for Bio-renewable Chemicals at Iowa State University

Ron Sims, Former Deputy Secretary for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Former Executive of Martin Luther King Jr. County, Washington State

Dr. Josias Zietsman, Head of the Environment and Air Quality Division at Texas A & M Transportation Institute (TTI)