2008 - "Innovation in the Northwest"
Tacoma, Oregon
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Chair: Paul Sommers, Seattle University

2007 - "Technology and Science in Regional Economic Development"
Portland, Oregon
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Chair: Michael J. Scott, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Featured Speakers:

• Angelos Angelou
  Founder and CEO, AngelouEconomics, Austin, Texas
• David Wyss
  Chief Economist, Standard & Poor's, New York
• Paul Peterson
  Professor, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government

2006 - "Economic and Policy Issues on the Pacific Northwest's Horizon"
Portland, Oregon
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Chair: Tom Potiowsky, State of Oregon Office of Economic Analysis

Featured Speakers:

• Paul R. Krugman
  Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Princeton University
• Anthony Downs
  Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy, The Brookings Institution
• Nigel Gault
  Director, US Macroeconomic Service, Global Insight, Inc.

2005 - "New Economic Horizons"
Bellingham, Washington
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Chair: Hart Hodges, Western Washington University

Featured Speakers:

• David Wyss
  Chief Economist, Standard & Poor's
• Mark Drabenstott
  Director, Center for the Study of Rural America, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
• Irving Mintzer
  Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Global Change, University of Maryland, College Park
• Roger Bolton
  William Brough Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Williams College

2004 - "New Formulas and Partnerships Emerging"
Tacoma, Washington
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Chair: Riley Moore, Saint Martin's College

Featured Speakers:

• Benjii Bittle
  Arts Administrator, Economic Development Department, City of Tacoma
• Josh Farley
  Assistant Professor, Community Development and Applied Economics

Associate Professor, Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, U. of Vermont
• William H. Gates, Sr.
  Founding partner, Preston Gates & Ellis

Chair, 2002 Washington State Tax Structure Study Committee
• Geoffrey J.D. Hewings
  Professor, Departments of Geography, and Urban and Regional Planning

Director, Regional Economics Applications Laboratory, University of Illinois
• Ron Irvine
  Owner, Vashon Winery
• Desmond O'Rourke
  Professor Emeritus, Agricultural and Resource Economics Department, Washington State University

Head and Founder, Belrose, Inc.
• David Wyss
  Chief Economist, Standard & Poor's

2003 - "Picking Up the Pieces: Challenges to Recovery and Growth in the Pacific Northwest"
Spokane, Washington
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Chair: Tom Trulove, Eastern Washington University

Featured Speakers:

• Nariman Behravesh
  Chief Economist and Managing Director, Global Insights
• Mark R. Drabenstott
  Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Director, Center for the Study of Rural America
• Thomas Rice
  Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Health Services, UCLA
• Jeffrey J. Schott
  Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics, Washington D.C.

2002 - "Challenges to Economic Security"
Portland, Oregon
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Chair: Terry Morlans, Northwest Power Planning Council

Featured Speakers:

• Alice M. Rivlin
  Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution
• James K. Galbraith
  University of Texas
• Dallas Burtraw
  Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future
• Mark Zandi
  Chief Economist and co-founder of Economy.com

2001 - "Knowledge, Resources and Public Policy for the New Regional Economy"
Victoria, British Columbia
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Chair: D.C. Lawless, B.C. Ministry of Finance and Corporate Relations

Featured Speakers:

• Kenneth S. Courtis
  Goldman Sachs
• John Lipsky
  J.P. Morgan
• Don Drummond
  TD Bank Financial Group
• Philip Resnick
  University of British Columbia
• Peter Kuhn
  University of California at Santa Barbara
• Peter H. Pearse
  University of British Columbia

2000 - "Beyond 2000: Regional, Boarder and Global Issues for the Pacific Northwest"
Bellingham, Washington
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Chair: David E. Merrifield, Western Washington University

Featured Speakers:

• Honorable Roger Simmons, P.C.
  Consul General of Canada, Seattle
• Alison Lynn Reaser
  Bank of America Asset Management Group
• Dale Orr
  WEFA Inc.
• Ann Markusen
  University of Minnesota
• Gary Hufbauer
  Institute of International Economics, Washington D.C.

1999 - Looking Back -- "Looking Ahead: The Economic and Social Conditions of the Pacific Northwest"
Boise, Idaho
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Chair: Michael H. Ferguson, Chief Economist - Idaho

Featured Speakers:

• Kurt Karl
  WEFA, Inc.
• Patty Gwartney
  Oregon Survey Research Laboratory
• Joseph Taylor
  Iowa State University
• Vernon Henderson
  Brown University
• Gene Epstein
  Barron's
• Ted Strong
  Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission

1998 - "Conflict and Collaboration: how Government, Business, and Academia shape the Pacific Norhtwest Economy"
Olympia, Washington
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Chair: Lorrie Jo Brown, Washington Department of Revenue

Featured Speakers:

• Conference introduction by Gary Locke
  Washington State Governor
• John Donahue
  Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government
• Hugh Knox
  Associate Director for Regional Economics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce
• Jack Triplett
  Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution
• David Wyss
  Research Director & Chief Financial Economist, DRI

1997 - "Regions in Transition"
Spokane, Washington
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Featured Speakers:

• Calvin L. Beale
  Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
• Roger E. Brinner
  DRI/McGraw-Hil
• Jerry L. Jordan
  Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
• Jack Ward Thomas
  University of Montana

1996 - "The Pacific Northwest -- Opportunities, Challenges and Prospects"
Portland, Oregon
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Featured Speakers:

• John Kain
  Harvard University
• Paul Getman
  Regional Financial Associates
• Alice Rivlin
  Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
• Phil Burgess
  Center for the New West
• Governor Cecil Andrus
  Former Governor of Idaho

1995 - "Public Lands and Public Policies in the New West"
Missoula, Montana
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Featured Speakers:

• Bob Gannon
  Montana Power Company
• Peter Jaquette
  The WEFA Group
• Emory Castle
  Oregon State University
• Roger Bull
  Pacific Northwest Economic Region
• George Treyz
  Regional Economic Models, Inc.

1994 - "The Pacific Northwest Economy in a Competitive World"
Seattle, Washington
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Featured Speakers:

• Brian Motley
  Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
• Nancy Rutledge Connery
  World Bank
• David E. Raphael
  Marcar Management Institute

1993 - "Pacific Northwest Economy and the Environment"
Kennewick, Washington
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Featured Speakers:

• Robert Parry
  Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
• Ernie Stokes
  WEFA - Canada, Toronto
• Salah El Serafy
  World Bank
• Pierre Crosson
  Resources for the Future
• John Warren
  Research Triangle Institute

1992 - "Public Policy and Competitiveness"
Victoria, British Columbia
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Featured Speakers:

• Kenneth S. Courtis
  Deutsche Bank Capital Markets
• John F. Helliwell
  Harvard University and
  University of British Columbia
• F.L.C. Reed
  University of British Columbia
• Donald A. Calder
  Business Planning/British Columbia Telephone Company

1991 -"The Pacific Northwest: 25 Years Retrospective and Prospective"
Portland, Oregon
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Featured Speakers:

• Alice Rivlin
  The Brookings Institution
• Jack Triplett
  Bureau of Economic Analysis
• Nariman Behravesh
  Oxford Economics
• John Meyer
  Harvard University
• Mancur Olson
  University of Maryland
• Charles Leven
  Washington University
• Werner Z. Hirsch
  University of California - Los Angeles
• W. Lee Hoskins
  Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

1990 - "Economic Integration in the 1990s: Issues for the Pacific Northwest"
Bellingham, Washington
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Featured Speakers:

• Jack Beebe
  Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
• William H. Cavitt
  Office of Canada/U.S. Department of Commerce
• Donald Lorentz
  Washington State Dept. of Trade and Economic Development
• William Schaffer
  Georgia Institute of Technology
• Donald Ratajczak
  Georgia State University

1989 - "Human Resources and Economic Development"
Corvallis, Oregon
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Featured Speakers:

• Bob Buchannan
  Oregon Dept. of Economic Development
• W. Lee Bawden
  Human Resource Policy Center, The Urban Institute
• Senator Mark Hatfield
  U.S. Senator, State of Oregon
• R. Scott Fosler
  Committee for Economic Development
• Dr. Nathan Rosenberg
  Stanford University
• Jerry Godshaw
  Wharton Econometric Forecasting Association

1988 - "The Location and Timing of Economic Development"
Boise, Idaho
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Featured Speakers:

• Charles Trabandt
  Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
• Chris Caton
  Data Resources, Inc.
• Hon. Robert E. Smylie
  Former Governor, State of Idaho
• Peter Johnson
  Former Administrator, Bonneville Power Administration
• Jack Beebe
  Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
• Glen Pulver
  University of Wisconsin
• Hon. Bob Andrew
  Minister of Trade and Investment, Province of Saskatchewan
• Jerry Jordan
  First Interstate Bancorp

1987 - "Restructuring the Pacific Northwest Economy"
Seattle, Washington
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Featured Speakers:

• Ronald E. Kutscher
  Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Glenn Pascall
  Columbia Group
• C. Fred Bergsten
  Institute for International Economics
• Nancy Rutledge
  National Council on Public Works
• Benjamin Chinitz
  University of Lowell
• Bruce R. Lippke
  Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates

1986
Missoula, Montana
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Featured Speakers:

• George Turman
  Lt. Governor, Montana
• Edwin Coleman
  U.S. Dept. of Commerce
• Jerry Jordan
  First Interstate Bank

1985
Portland, Oregon
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Featured Speakers:

• Jack Triplett
  Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Christopher Caton
  Data Resources, Inc.
• Alan Rowe
  Canadian Consul, Seattle
• Lawrence Krause
  Bookings Institution
• Verle Johnston
  Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

1984
Olympia, Washington
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Featured Speakers:

• Roger Brinner
  Data Resources, Inc.

1983
Bellingham, Washington
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Featured Speakers:

• Charles Cicchetti
  Madison Consulting Group
• Bruce Yandle
  Federal Trade Commission
• John R. Sharpe
  Consul General of Canada in Seattle

1981
Boise, Idaho
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Featured Speakers:

• Ed Moscovitch
  Data Resources, Inc.
• Marion Clawson
  Resources for the Future
• Sherwood Fawcett
  Battelle Pacific NW Laboratories
• Larry Meyer
  Washington University, St. Louis
• John Meyer
  Harvard University

1980
Portland, Oregon
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Featured Speakers:

• Jack Triplett
  Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Robert Eisenmenger
  Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
• Walter Mead
  University of California, Santa Barbara
• William Niskanen
  Ford Motor Company
• Henry Wallich
  Federal Reserve Board
• Emory Castle
  Resources for the Future

1979
Vancouver
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Featured Speakers:

• Robert Triffin
  Yale University
• David Slater
  Economic Council of Canada

1978
Issaquah, Washington
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Featured Speakers:

• Otto Eckstein
  Data Resources, Inc.
• William Burke
  Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

1977
Eugene, Oregon
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Featured Speakers:

• Charles P. Kindleberger
  Massachusettes Institute of Technology

1976
Victoria, British Columbia
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Featured Speakers:

• Charles Leven
  Washington University, St. Louis
• Harry Johnson
  University of Chicago
• Wendy Holm
  Anti-Inflation Board, Government of Canada

1973
Portland, Oregon
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Featured Speakers:

• John Balles
  Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
• Catherine Bedell Smith
  US Tariff Commission
• John Meyer
  National Bureau of Economic Research
• Wassily Leontief
  Harvard University

1968
Pullman, Washington
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Featured Speakers:

• William Wolman
  Business Week

1967
Seattle, Washington
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1966 - "Inaugural Conference"
Portland, Oregon
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Featured Speakers:

• Charles Levin
  Washington University, St. Louis
• Benjamin Chinitz
  Brandis University