7:30 am Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:15 am Welcome/Opening Remarks
Dick Spees - Councilmember, City of Oakland
8:30 am Loma Prieta - The Local Experience and Lessons Learned
• Art Agnos - Secretary's Representative, HUD; former Mayor, City of San Francisco
• Katherine Beiers - Mayor, City of Santa Cruz
• Dick Spees - Councilmember, City of Oakland
• Oscar Rios - Mayor, City of Watsonville
Moderator: Richard Eisner - Director, Coastal Region, Governor's Office of Emergency Services
9:15 am Community Response - Collaboratives, Partnerships, Neighborhoods
• Fred Collignon - Chair, Dept. of City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley
• Ana-Marie Jones - Governor's Office of Emergency Services
• Gregg O'Ryon - Chief Program Officer, American Red Cross (Bay Area Chapter)
• Frannie Winslow - Director of Emergency Services, City of San Jose
Moderator: Don Parker - Fire Chief, City of Vallejo; former Assistant Fire Chief, City of Oakland
10:00 am BREAK
10:15 am Community Recovery - Small Businesses,
Multi-Cultural Communities, Multi-Family Housing,
Code Standards
• Peggy Brutsche - Disaster Director, American Red Cross (Greater Los Angeles Chapter)
• Charles Eadie - Director of Campus and Community Planning, UC Santa Cruz
• Barbara Garcia - Deputy Director, Population Health and Prevention, San Francisco
• Janiele Maffei - Associate, Degenkolb Engineers
Moderator: Sarah Nathe - Project Manager, Disaster Resistant University Project, UC Berkeley
11:00 am Earthquake Mitigation - Hospitals, Schools, Historic Buildings, Construction Quality
• Eric Elsesser - President, Forell-Elsesser Engineers
• Stephan Kiefer - Building Official, City of Livermore
• Kurt Schaefer - Deputy Director, Facilities Development Division,
Office of Statewide Health
Planning and Development
• Dan Shapiro - Principal Engineer, SOH Engineers; California Seismic Safety Commission
Moderator: Bill Ward - Councilmember, City of Hayward
11:45 am Lunch
12:30 pm Luncheon Keynote Address
Dr. Charles Groat - Director, United States Geological Survey
1:00 pm Who Will Pay?
• Brian Cowan - Senior Policy Advisor, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
• Jim Hamerich - Project Manager, Business Contingency Planning, Washington Mutual
• Rick Wells - Claims Consultant, State Farm Insurance
• Mark Leonard - Legislative and Public Affairs Coordinator, CA Earthquake Authority
Moderator: Kay Winer - Deputy City Manager, City of San Jose
2:00 pm Field Trip
- UC Berkeley, Richmond Field Station
(Transportation courtesy of AC Transit)
• Jim Cater - Senior Transportation Supervisor, AC Transit
• Sarah Nathe - Project Manager, Disaster Resistant University Project, UC Berkeley
• John Hall - Professor, CUREe-CalTech Woodframe Project - see how
to best strengthen
wood-frame homes
• Stephan Mahin - Professor, UC Berkeley, SAC Steel Project - learn how research is improving safety
• Jack Moehle -Director, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research
Center (PEER) - learn about the
latest projects
• Andrew Whittaker - Associate Director, PEER - Shaking
Table Demonstration - watch how
simulated seismic shaking impacts structures
4:30 pm Depart UC Berkeley Richmond Field Station (Anticipated arrival to MetroCenter 5:00 pm)