2014 Future of Florida Forum: Speakers

 

12:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. Moving Florida Forward…Faster — Welcome & Opening Luncheon

• Bentina Terry, Chair, Florida Chamber Foundation Board of Trustees; Vice President,Customer Service and Sales, Gulf Power Company
• W. Todd Johnson, Global Channel Leader, Entrepreneurship and Job Creation, Gallup

 

Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship: Driving Job Creation While Ensuring Floridians Have the Skills to Succeed

• Moderator: Dwayne Ingram, President and CEO, IT Capital Services; Chairman, CareerSource Florida
• Angela Pate, Executive Chair, OwnForce, Co-Founder, Startup Quest
• Helen Stewart, Executive Director, JPMorgan Chase
• Mike Tomas, President and CEO, Bioheart Inc.; Chairman, Florida International University Global Entrepreneurship Center
• Sherry Sacino, Founder and President, Youth Empowerment Alliance, Inc.
• Tony McGee, CEO, HNM Global Logistics

 

• Steve Knopik, Chair-Elect, Florida Chamber of Commerce; CEO, Beall’s Inc.
• Attorney General Pam Bondi

 

2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Breakouts

Florida’s Leaky Buckets: Lost Opportunities, Underfunded Pensions, Costly Prisons and Medicaid

• Moderator: David Hart, Executive Vice President, Florida Chamber of Commerce
• Senator Nancy Detert
• Representative Jason Brodeur
• Representative Jim Boyd
• Lori Costantino-Brown, President and CEO, Bridges of America

 

Governing at the Local Level: Opportunities vs. Challenges for Competitive Growth

• Moderator: Daniel Martell, President and CEO, Economic Council of Palm Beach County
• Commissioner Doug Smith, Martin County
• Representative MaryLynn Magar
• Representative Daniel Davis
• Mayor Sam Ferreri, City of Greenacres

 

Optimizing the Innovation Ecosystem

• Moderator: Leslie Hielema, Vice President for The Orlando Center, Florida Institute of Technology
• Carlos Carbonell, Co-Founder, Echo Interaction Group
• Carol Craig, Founder and CEO, Craig Technologies
• Mary Spio, Founder, Next Galaxy Corp.
• Philip Holt, Co-Founder and CEO, SPLYT

 

• Moderator: Leslie Hielema, Vice President for The Orlando Center, Florida Institute of Technology
• Carol Craig, Founder and CEO, Craig Technologies
• Patricia Gehant, MA, CCIO, Managaging Principal, Gehant & Associates, LLC
• Shelley Lauten, Founding Partner, triSect

 

4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Breakouts

Encore Careers: Boomer Entrepreneurs

• Moderator: Jeff Johnson, State Director, AARP
• Bevan Rogel, President and Founder, Encore Tampa Bay
• Tom Esselman, CEO, Institute for the Ages

 

Florida’s Water Future: Sustainable Solutions to Preserving our Resources

• Opening Comments: Representative Matt Caldwell
• Moderator: David Childs, Attorney, Hopping, Green & Sams
• Jeff Littlejohn, P.E., President, Littlejohn, Mann & Associates
• Ernie Cox, President, Family Lands Remembered, LLC
• Commissioner Grover Robinson IV, Escambia County

 

Prosperity for all Floridians: A Look at the Gaps

• Moderator: Tony Carvajal, Executive Vice President, Florida Chamber Foundation
• Dean Asher, Immediate Past President, Florida REALTORS®
• Robin Safley, Director of Food, Nutrition and Wellness, Florida Department of Agriculture
• Ted Granger, President, United Way of Florida

 

8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. State of the State Report and General Session Breakfast

• Bentina Terry, Chair, Florida Chamber Foundation Board of Trustees; Vice President, Customer Service & Sales, Gulf Power Company
• Jesse Panuccio, Executive Director, Florida Department of Economic Opportunity

 

 

12:00 p.m. – 2:15 pm. Diversifying our Economy to Secure Florida’s Future — Lunch and General Session

• Belinda Keiser, Vice Chancellor of Community Relations and Student Advancement, Keiser University
• Lieutenant Governor Carlos Lopez-Cantera
• Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater
• Will Seccombe, President and CEO, VISIT FLORIDA

 

 

Marketing Florida’s Competitiveness

• Moderator: Mark Wilson, President and CEO, Florida Chamber of Commerce
• Melissa Medley, Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President, Enterprise Florida, Inc.
• Stuart Rogel, President and CEO, Tampa Bay Partnership
• Stan Connally, President and CEO, Gulf Power Company

 

 

International Update:

• Doug Davidson, Global Commercial Banking Market Executive for North and Central Florida, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch
• G. Lee Sandler, Founding Member, Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A.

 

 

2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. BREAKOUTS

Learners to Earners: A System Approach for the Talent Pipeline

• Moderator: Ed Moore, President, Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida
• Brittany Birken, Ph.D., CEO, Florida Children’s Council
• Marshall Criser III, Chancellor, State University System of Florida
• Jennifer Grove, Workforce Development Coordinator, Gulf Power Company
• Charles Hokanson, Senior Vice President and Chief Policy Officer, Helios Education Foundation
• Jim Murdaugh, Ph.D., President, Tallahassee Community College

 

 

Strategic Philanthropy: Live Here, Grow Here, Give Here

• Chester Spellman, CEO, Volunteer Florida
• Ned Pope, President, Florida Next Foundation
• David Biemesderfer, President and CEO, Florida Philanthropic Network

 

 

Transportation: Our Paths to Success and the Future

• Opening Comments: U.S. Representative Daniel Webster
• Moderator: John Kaliski, Principal, Cambridge Systematics
• Richard Biter, Assistant Secretary, Intermodal Systems Development, Florida Department of Transportation
• Jim Wood, Director of the Office of Policy Planning, Florida Department of Transportation
• Dale Allen, President, Florida Greenways and Trails Foundation

 

2:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Florida Chamber Healthcare Summit

Corporate Wellness Programs: Boosting Bottom Lines

• Moderator: David Christian, Vice President of Government Affairs, Florida Chamber of Commerce
• Shannon Colavecchio, Senior Director, Moore Communications Group; Owner, Badass Fitness
• Jon Urbanek, Senior Vice President, Florida Blue
• Jon Ferrando, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Development and Human Resources, AutoNation

 

Future of Healthcare: CEO Roundtable

• Moderator: Representative Matt Hudson
• Susan Davis, RN, Ed.D, FACHE, CEO, Sacred Heart Health Systems; Market Leader, Ascension Health Florida and Alabama Region
• Jonathan Ellen, M.D., President and Physician-In-Chief, All Children’s Hospital, John Hopkins Medicine
• D. Wayne Brackin, COO and Executive Vice President, Baptist Health South Florida

 

Healthcare Technology: Innovation and Research and Development

• Moderator: Representative Cary Pigman
• Lee Evans, Executive Director and Site Leader, North America Capability Center, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
• Leslie Molony, Ph.D., Senior Director, Office of Technology Management and Commercialization, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute
• Sarah Donatelli, Ph.D., Post Doctoral Fellow, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center

 

4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Breakouts

Right Direction Reform: Improving Workers’ Comp, Property Insurance, Lawsuit Abuse and Tax Reform

• Moderator: David Hart, Executive Vice President, Florida Chamber of Commerce
• Senator Kelli Stargel
• Representative Bryan Nelson
• Alan Bender, Director of Workers’ Comp and Casualty Insurance, Publix Super Markets
• William Large, President, Florida Justice Reform Institute

 

People Drive Innovation…What Drives Innovative People?

• Moderator: Jack Sullivan, President and CEO, Florida Research Consortium
• Eric Buffkin, Co-Founder and President, eTect, Inc.
• Jamie Grooms, CEO, Institute for the Commercialization of Public Research
• Shyam Mohapatra, Ph.D., Distinguished Health Professor, University of South Florida; Research Career Scientist, James A. Haley VA Hospital Tampa

 

Market Intelligence: Inside Scoop on Florida’s Consumers

• Rod Lewis, Ph.D., Vice President of Program and Policy, CareerSource Florida
• Dean Ridings, President and CEO, Intersect Media Solutions
• Brad O’Connor, Ph.D., Research Economist, Florida REALTORS ®
• Jacob Stuart, President, Central Florida Partnership

 

7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Moving Florida Forward…Faster — What’s Next for Our State

• Bentina Terry, Chair, Florida Chamber Foundation Board of Trustees; Vice President, Customer Service & Sales, Gulf Power Company
• House Speaker Will Weatherford
• Marian Johnson, Senior Vice President, Political Strategy, Florida Chamber of Commerce
• Gray Swoope, Florida Secretary of Commerce; President and CEO, Enterprise Florida, Inc.
• Eric Silagy, Chair, Florida Chamber of Commerce; President and CEO, Florida Power & Light Company

 

8:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. General Session Breakfast and Board of Governors Annual Meeting

• Eric Silagy, Chair, Florida Chamber of Commerce; President and CEO, Florida Power & Light Company
• Steve Knopik, Chair-Elect, Florida Chamber of Commerce; CEO, Beall’s Inc.
• Derek Yonai, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Free Enterprise and Associate Professor of Economics, Florida Southern College
• Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam