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Day 1 – Thursday, January 7, 2021
9:00 am Welcome by MAC Chair Connie Lau, President/CEO, Hawaiian Electric Industries
Welcome Remarks from the State Legislature
- House Speaker Scott Saiki
- Senate President Ron Kouchi
9:15 – 9:45 Keynote address – ADM Philip Davidson, Commander, U.S. Indo-PACOM
INDOPACOM Year in Review and Leaning Forward in 2021
Q&A with ADM Davidson
9:45 BREAK before next session
10:00-11:15 Panel Discussion: “Key Initiatives & Community Partnerships”
An update on key initiatives: Red Hill, Homeland Defense Radar Hawaii and Training Lands. The panel will provide an update on these key initiatives as well as discuss key partnerships which look to support each endeavor.
Moderator: MAC Member Tony Paresa, Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company
Panelists:
- Red Hill
- CAPT James Meyer, Commanding Office, NAVFAC Hawaii
- Brennon Morioka, Dean, UH College of Engineering
- The Importance of Hawaii and PMRF to Missile Defense
- CDR Richard “Scott” McGowen, Assistant to the Director to INDOPACOM, Missile Defense Agency
- Fred Cowell, Kauai MAC Chair and Kauai Coffee
- Training Lands Retention
- LTC JR Borce, Commander, Pohakuloa Training Area
- Noelani Kalipi, Community Collaborator
11:15 am Day 1 Done
Day 2 – Friday, January 8, 2021
9:00 a.m. Welcome by MAC Chair Connie Lau, President/CEO, Hawaiian Electric Industries
Welcome: The Adjutant General Ken Hara, Hawaii Department of Defense
9:07 View from Washington, D.C. – Nicole DiResta, Cassidy and Associates
9:15 – 9:45 Keynote Speaker (invited)
9:45 BREAK before next session
10:00 – 11:10 Panel Discussion: Defense Opportunities & Economic Roundtable
Moderator: MAC Member Bob Lietzke, Booz Allen Hamilton
Panel:
- ADM Tom Fargo (ret) – Setting the Stage
- Carl Bonham, UH’s Economic Research Organization (UHERO)
- CAPT Greg Burton, Commander, Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard
- Iain Wood, Chair, Ship Repair Association
- Jodi Ito, CISO, University of Hawaii
- Maj Gen Robert Skinner, Director, Command, Control, Communications and Cyber (C4), U.S. Indo-Pacific Command
11:10 Closing: Jason Chung, Vice President for Military Affairs, MAC
Mahalo to our Sponsors
Mahalo to our Sponsors
Date and Time
Thursday Jan 7, 2021 Friday Jan 8, 2021
Location
Conference Link: The password is MAC2021 Virtual Conference Instructions:
https://hopin.com/events/2021-mac-partnership-conference
https://bit.ly/34Wc5yB
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