Conference Speakers Plenary and Keynote Speakers Michael Enright Sun Hung Kai Professor of Business Administration, University of Hong Kong; Director of the Asia-Pacific Competitiveness Program, Hong Kong Institute of Economics and Business Strategy bio Randall Kempner VP, Regional Innovation, US Council on Competitiveness bio Ifor Ffowcs-Williams CEO, Cluster Navigators Ltd Wellington, New Zealand bio AnnaLee Saxenian Dean and Professor in the School of Information; Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley bio Emiliano Duch President and Founder, COMPETITIVENESS bio Dr. Bob Sutor Vice President, Open Source and Standards, IBM Corporation bio Carol Sanford CEO, InterOctave Development Group bio Carol Coletta President and CEO, CEOs for Cities; host and producer of the nationally syndicated public radio show Smart City. bio Dr. Stuart Rosenfeld Principal and founder of RTS, Inc. bio Joe Cortright Vice President and Economist, Impresa Consulting bio Rizwan Khaliq Worldwide Business Development Leader for IBM's Wireless Broadband and Sensing solutions for the public sector bio Harry Feuerstein Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President, Siemens One bio Dr. Alec Hansen President, Economic Competitiveness Group, Inc. bio Antoni Subirà Professor, IESE Business School, University of Navarra bio Breakout Session Speakers Allen Alley Governor's Chief of Staff for Energy, Transportation and Economic Development, State of Oregon bio Göran Andersson VINNOVA Marc Baldwin Executive Policy Advisor to Governor Christine Gregoire, State of Washington bio Kevin Banister Vice President, Business Development, Finavera Renewables Ocean Energy bio Arthur Bayhan Acting Vice President, Asia-Pacific, TCI; Chief Executive Officer, The Competitiveness Support Fund bio George Beard Senior Instructor and Consulting Principal, Executive Leadership Institute, Portland State University's Hatfield School of Government bio Spencer Beebe President and Founder, EcoTrust bio Brian Bender Association of Canadian Community Colleges, Ottawa, Canada bio Rob Bennett Clinton Climate Initiative bio Anne Berblinger US Economic Development Administration, recently retired bio Susan Bladholm Corporate Marketing Manager, Port of Portland bio Bob Breault Chairman and Founder, Breault Research Organization, Inc. bio Eric Bunis CEO, Läns Teknik Centrum AB bio Michael Cloughesy Jay Coalson President and CEO, Green Building Services bio Mike Crowe Networking and Communications Manager, Desert Knowledge Australia bio Carolyn Cummins Policy Associate, Economic Development, Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges bio Xabier de la Maza Research Assistant, Institute for Kompetitiveness Development, Orkestra, San Sebastiáan, Spain bio Dalee Sambo Dorough Founder, President and CEO, Yellowknife Construction Inc. bio Eileen Drake Vice President, Administration & Legal Affairs, PCC Structurals, LLC bio Tim Dubel Dr. Lars Eklund Director of Competitiveness, VINNOVA; TCI president and representative for Europe, Middle East and Africa bio Eric Eldon Reporter, VentureBeat bio Leo Frishberg Principal Architect, User Experience, Logic Analyzer Advanced Development Group, Tektronix Inc. bio Diane Gasaway bio Nigel Gwynne-Evans Department of Economic Development, Cape Town, South Africa bio Gordon Feller CEO, Urban Age Institute bio David Griswold President and Founder, Sustainable Harvest bio Yves Guyon General Manager, Lyon Chambre De Commerce bio Klaus Haasis Managing Director, MFG Baden-Württemberg bio Dr. Eric Hansen President, Economic Transformations Group, New York bio Melissa Harris Thirsk Vice President, Waggener Edstrom bio Connie Hatfield Co-Founder, Oregon Country Natural Beef bio Doc Hatfield Co-Founder, Oregon Country Natural Beef bio Thor Hinckley Renewable Power Program Manager, Portland General Electric bio Kent Hudson Director, KHNET bio Tom Hughes Mayor, City of Hillsboro, Oregon bio Connie Ireland Regional Administrator, Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development bio Amir Jahangir Consultant on media and communication, Competitiveness Support Fund bio Dr. Vinod Jain Director, Center for International Business Education and Research; Professor, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland bio Cecilia Johansson VINNVÄXT Programme Management bio Jim Jungwirth Co-owner, Jefferson State Forest Products; Planning Commissioner, Trinity County, California bio Lynn Jungwirth Co-owner, Jefferson State Forest Products; Executive Director, Watershed Research and Training Center bio Dr. Amit Kapoor Chief Economist, Datamonitor; Professor, Strategy and Industrial Economics, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon bio Teshome Kebede Redie Owner, Genuine Leather Craft Pvt Ltd Co bio Christian Ketels Harvard Business School faculty at Professor Michael E. Porter's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness bio Shahab Khawaja Secretary, Ministry of Industries, Production and Special Initiatives, Pakistan bio Duane Kissick President, Planning and Development Collaborative International, Inc. bio Dr. John Kitzhaber Former Governor of Oregon; Physician bio James Ku Manager, Tractus bio Terry Lawhead, CEcD Regional Manager, Washington Department of Community Trade and Economic Development bio Michael Lazarus Director, Seattle Office of Stockholm Environmental Institute bio Mary Ann Leffel President, Monterey County Business Council Jim Lopez Chief of Staff, King County Washington bio Ted Lyman Senior Principal, The Economic Competitiveness Group bio Holly Macfee Director, Brand Strategy, Travel Oregon bio Joan Marti Head of Strategic Change Management, Center for Innovation and Business Development, Department of Innovation, Universities and Enterprise, Government of Catalonia bio Dr. Sheila Martin Director, Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies, Portland State University bio Dr. Heike Mayer Assistant Professor, Urban Affairs and Planning program, Virginia Tech bio Mark Michelson Associate Director-General, Investment Promotion, Invest Hong Kong bio Egils Milbergs Founder and President, Center for Accelerating Innovation bio Karen Gordon Mills President, MMP Group; Special Advisor to the Governor of Mainebio Frederic Miribel Agence pour le Dévelopement Economique de la Région Lyonnaise, Lyon, France bio Glenn Montgomery Sustainable Development Liaison, Oregon Economic & Community Development Department bio Burke Murphy Regional Administrator, Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development Kevin Murphy President and Co-Founder, JE Austin Associates bio Dr. Anwar Nasim Science Advisor, COMSTECH, Islamic Academy of Sciences bio David Nordfors Senior Research Scholar, Standford Center for Innovations in Learning; Special Advisor to the Director General, VINNOVA bio Josu Ocariz Innovation and Business Transformation Department, SPRI bio Michael Paul bio Sean Penrith Executive Director, Earth Advantage Inc bio Ron Pernick Co-Founder and Principal, Clean Edge bio Alberto Pezzi Department of Industry, Catalonia, Spain bio Joe Poire Executive Director, Port of Whitman County, Washington bio Garry Powers Director, Economic Development Initiatives, CTC Public Benefit Corporation bio Dr. Alexei Prazdnitchnykh Principal, Bauman Innovation; Associate Professor, Russian Academy of National Economy bio Dr. Alonso Ramos Vaca Board member: Chihuahua State Council on Economic Development, Canacintra, Coparmex, Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Chihuahua, City Council for Economic Development bio Rey Ramsey Founder and CEO, One Economy Corporation bio Elisabeth Reynolds Brookings Institution bio Jørgen Rosted Director, FORA, Danish Ministry for Economic Affairs bio Pernilla Rydmark Senior Program Manager, Vinnova Learning Labs bio Inés Sagrario Consultant bio Annika Sällström General Business Manager, Center for Distance-Spanning Technology at Luleå University of Technology bio Jan Sandred Program Manager, VINNOVA bio Karin Skalman General Manager, Marketing and Sales, Ericsson bio Madeline Smith Manager, Industries Intelligence, Scottish Enterprise bio Randall Smith President, CH2M Hill Electronics & Advanced Technology bio Timothy W. Smith Architect, City Planner and Principal, SERA Architects bio Rauli Sorvari Director, EduCluster bio Dave Stangis Director, Corporate Responsibility, Intel Corporation bio Kathryn Studwell Senior Associate, Applied Development Economics bio Stephanie Swanson Principal, MarketShift Strategies bio Kirk Thomson Director, Environmental Affairs, The Boeing Company bio Dr. Steve VanAusdle President, Walla Walla Community College, State of Washington bio Ydir Vissirs Junior Partner, Monitor Group, Amsterdam bio Helene Vogelmann Consultant bio Dave Williams CEO, ShoreBank Pacific bio Thomas Winther Consultant bio Emily Wise Consultant and Research Fellow bio Erik Wolf President and CEO, International Culinary Tourism Association bio Klaus Wurpts Business Director, Industrial Initiative, Central Germany bio