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Day 1: Tuesday,
February 12, 2008
A.M.
7:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 Grand Entry and Color Guard
Opening Prayer and Welcome
Gerald Danforth, Chairman,
Oneida Nation of Wisconsin
Setting the Stage
Master of Ceremonies Artley
Skenandore
9:15 Vibrant Local Communities –
Growth Is Not an Accident
Ron His Horse Is Thunder, Chairman,
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
10:00 BREAK
10:15 Road Map to a Preferred Future –
Tribal Governance Policy
Development
Miriam Jorgensen, Associate Director for Research,
Native Nations Institute and Research Director,
Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development
11:00 Business Owner Panel I: Our Experience –
Business Development in
Rural Native Communities
Panel discussion
moderated by Tom Ourada,
Wisconsin Department of
Revenue
P.M.
12:00 LUNCH
Competing in Today’s
Global Market:
Good Business Is Good
Business
Margo Gray, President,
The Horizon Companies,
Tulsa, OK
1:30 Tribal Leaders Panel: Creating Successful Economies
All Tribal leaders invited
2:45 Capital Infusion – Legal Systems That Support
Economic Sovereignty
Panel discussion moderated by Brian
Pierson,
Godfrey & Kahn, S.C.
• Lender’s Perspective on Tribal
Secured
Transactions Laws
• Overview of the Model Tribal
Secured
Transactions Act
• Wisconsin UCC Filing System Option
for Tribes
3:45 Closing Comments
4:00 Adjourn
6:00 Reception
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Day 2: Wednesday,
February 13, 2008
A.M.
7:30 Registration and Breakfast (on your own)
8:30 Welcome and Opening Prayer
9:00 Business Owner Panel II:
Our Experience – Business Development in
Urban Wisconsin
Panel discussion moderated by Gwen Carr,
Wisconsin Department of Transportation
10:00 BREAK
10:15 Wisconsin Business Talking Circles – Personal
Roles and
Responsibilities
Participants will
self-select into one of four
tracks to discuss tools
and strategies for
moving private business
forward in
Wisconsin’s Tribal
communities.
P.M.
12:15 LUNCH
Changing Paths –
Realize Your Preferred Future
DJ Vanas, Native Discovery,
Inc.
1:30 Leveraging Partnerships to Meet the Challenges
in Development
Panel discussion moderated by
Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council
2:30 Wisconsin Business Talking Circles –
An Interdependent Response
A moderated discussion of the Talking
Circle
dialogue and a determination of next
steps
3:45 Closing Comments
4:00 Adjourn
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