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NATERA 2012 26th Annual Conference
Will be held at the TradeWinds Resorts at St. Petersburg Beach, Florida
Sunday, October 21, 2011 through Tuesday, October 23, 2012
NATERA 2011 25th Annual Conference Anniversary
Will be held at the TradeWinds Resorts at St. Petersburg Beach, Florida
Sunday, October 23, 2011 through Tuesday, October 25, 2011
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Please make your reservations directly with the TradeWinds Island Resorts at St. Pete Beach at
1.877.544.8688, enter ID 7404125 or click here to make your reservations online, before September 25, 2011.
To obtain the special daily room rate $185.00, be sure to refer to NATERA’s Annual Conference.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
2:00 - 6:00 P.M. Pre-Conference Registration
2:00 - 4:00 P.M. Board of Directors Meeting
4:00 - 4:15 P.M. Welcome and Opening Remarks
— Jeannine Boettcher, NATERA Chairman
— Harold P. Coxson, Jr., Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak &
Stewart, P.C., NATERA Program Chair
4:15 - 5:00 P.M. Opening Keynote Speaker
— Honorable Marco Rubio (R), United States Senate, Florida
(invited)
5:00 - 7:00 P.M. Opening Cocktail Reception
Monday, October 24, 2011
MEETING FUTURE INDUSTRY CHALLENGES: LEARN FROM THE LEADERS
7:30 – 8:30 A.M. Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 8:45 A.M. Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:45 – 9:30 A.M. — Rep. John L. Mica (R-FL), Chairman, Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure, U.S. House of Representatives
(invited)
9:30 – 10:15 A.M. — Thomas J. Donohue, President and Chief Executive Officer, U.S.
Chamber of Commerce
10:15 – 10:30 A.M. Morning Break
10:30 – 11:15 A.M. — Barbara Windsor, President and Chief Executive Officer, Hahn
Transportation, Inc. (outgoing Chair, ATA)
11:15 – 12:00 P.M. “Economic Outlook in the Transportation Industry”
— Noël Perry, Economist, Transportation Research Consulting
Group
12:00 – 1:30 P.M. Lunch – On Your Own – Free Time
“SOLUTIONS FOR TODAY’S PROBLEMS: WHAT KEEPS YOU UP AT NIGHT?”
1:30 – 2:15 P.M. “Multi-Employer Withdrawal Liability, Pension Legislation and new
FASB Rules: Portending the Demise of the Pension System?”
— Herve H. Aitken, Ford & Harrison LLP
— Aliya Wong, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
2:15 – 3:00 P.M. “Challenges in the Courtroom: Class & Collective Action Law Suits
and Independent Contractor Status”
— James H. Hanson, Scopelitis, Garvin, Light, Hanson & Feary, P.C.
— Robert A. Jones, Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
3:00 – 3:15 P.M. Afternoon Break
3:15 – 4:00 P.M. “The Politics of Government Regulation”
— Harold P. Coxson, Jr., Ogletree Governmental Affairs, Inc.
4:00 – 4:45 P.M. “The NLRB - Now What?”
— Honorable Brian Hayes, Board Member, NLRB
— Honorable Peter Schaumber, Past Chairman, NLRB
4:45 – 5:00 P.M. Prize Drawing (courtesy of Ogletree Deakins) and Closing Remarks
6:30 – 8:30 P.M. CHAIRMAN’S DINNER (Special 25th Anniversary Dinner
Highlighting NATERA’s Quarter Century of Service to the
Industry and Honoring Past NATERA Chairs)
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
“TELL ME SOMETHING I DON’T KNOW”
7:30 - 8:15 A.M. Continental Breakfast
8:15 - 8:30 A.M. Opening Remarks
8:30 – 9:15 A.M. — Honorable Raymond LaHood, Secretary of Transportation
(invited)
9:15 – 10:00 A.M. “Disasters Happen! Are You Prepared?”
— Michael Lowder, Director, Office of Intelligence, Security and
Emergency Response, U.S. Department of Transportation
— Don Osterberg, Senior Vice President, Security, & Driver
Training, Schneider National, Inc.
10:00 - 10:45 A.M. “The Future of ‘Big Labor’ - The Fiscal Crisis & Public Sector
Collective Bargaining”
— Thomas Krukowski, Krukowski & Costello, SC
10:45 – 11:30 A.M. “Health Care: The Future of Wellness Programs in Transportation”
— Elaine Papp, Division Chief, Office of Medical Programs, Federal
Motor Carrier Safety Administration, U.S. Department of
Transportation (invited)
11:30 - 12:15 P. M. “Insurance: Managing Workers Compensation in the Transportation
Industry”
— Ken Erler, Associate General Counsel, Sentry Insurance
12:15 – 1:30 P.M. Buffet Lunch - “The Wacky, the Wild and the Wicked - Bizarre Cases
from 2010 and their Lessons for Management”
— Peter Reed Corbin, Ford & Harrison LLP
— John Jansonius, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
— Harold P. Coxson, Jr., Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart,
P.C.
1:30 – 2:15 P.M. “Recruiting & Retaining Top Transportation Talent”
— Dr. Lee Meadows, Walsh College
2:15 – 3:00 P.M. “Managing Global Transportation Operations”
— Kathryn Martel, Senior Director of Labor Relations - Americas /
Associate Regional Compliance Officer - Americas, DHL Global
Forwarding
3:00 – 3:45 P.M. “Social Networking and its Impact on the Workplace”
— Michael Peterson, Associate General Counsel, HR Policy
Association
— Jeannine Boettcher, SPHR, former Director, Human Resources,
FedEx Freight
3:45 – 4:30 P.M. “Top 10 Takeaways from the 2011 NATERA Conference”
— John Schulz, Media Consultant, Logistics Management
Magazine
4:30 – 4:45 P.M. Final Prize Drawing (courtesy of Ogletree Deakins) and
Closing Remarks
5:00 P.M. Board Meeting
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