Concurrent Session 1: Energy, Carbon and the Environment
Roger Coupal, Milton Geiger and Don McLeod, University of Wyoming, “Potential Impacts of Federal Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on Wyoming’s Energy Derived Tax Revenue”
David T. Taylor, Thomas K Foulke, and Archie Reeve, “Habitat Equivalency Analysis for the Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline Project”
Cameron Stonestreet, Pacific Carbon Trust, “Pacific Carbon Trust: Investing in Quality Carbon Offsets”
Ken Corum, NW Power and Conservation Council, “Controlling Water Heaters to Maximize Benefits to the PNW Power System”

Concurrent Session 2: Municipal Issues, Trade and Modelling
Laura Lamb, Thompson Rivers University, “The Effectiveness of Tax Incentives on Green Giving in Canada”
Don Holley, Boise State University, “The Demand for New Automobiles: A State Model”
Andrew J. Cassey, Washington State University and Katherine N. Schmeiser, Mt. Holyoke College “The Agglomeration of Exporters by Destination”
Grant D. Forsyth, Eastern Washington University, “Municipal Economies of Scale and Scope and Post-Consolidation Economic Performance: A Literature Review”

Concurrent Session 3: Victoria Business and Business Models
Hannes Blum, CEO, AbeBooks (the world’s largest marketplace for new and used books)
Stacey Toews, Co-founder, Level Ground Trading (supplying direct fair trade coffee)
Deirdre Campbell, The Tartan Group (a leading PR firm, which specializes in travel, tourism, real estate, and resort development)

Concurrent Session 4: Vancouver’s Canada Line and Seattle’s Light Rail Link – Green Mass Transit
Jim Burke, Executive Vice-President and General Manager, Transportation Division, SNC-Lavalin
Joni Earl, Chief Executive Officer, Sound Transit (invited)
Geoff Young, Discovery Economic Consulting; Councillor, City of Victoria; and Chair, Capital Region Board

Concurrent Session 5: The U.S. Government’s EB-5 Immigration Program
Paul Sommers, Seattle University, “A Review of the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program in the United States”
Riley Moore, Saint Martin’s University & Lorrie Brown, Washington State Office of Financial Management, “Assessment of the trends in the EB-5 visa program and ramifications for regional economic development”
Hart Hodges, Western Washington University
Kim Atteberry, US Citizenship and Immigration Services, Washington, DC

Concurrent Session 6: Transportation and Infrastructure Issues in the Pacific Northwest
Patrick Balducci and colleagues, Battelle – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, “2010 Idaho Highway Cost Allocation Study”
Sara Simmons and Kenneth Casavant, Washington State University, “A Real Time Assessment of a Major Transportation Disruption” (lock outage, eliminating barge transportation)
Brian Scarfe, BriMar Consultants Ltd. and the University of Victoria, “The Costs and Benefits of Cruise Tourism to Victoria”

Concurrent Session 7: Impacts of Green Actions and Policies
Bruce Finnie, Linda Gibson and Jeff Stuart, Pacific Lutheran University, “The Unintended Global Consequences of the Green Movement”
Patrick Balducci and colleagues, Battelle – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, “Energy Storage Alternatives for Integrating Future Wind Resources: A Regional Assessment of the Northwest Power Pool”
Martina Lui, University of Victoria, “When do Economic Sanctions Encourage Compliance with an International Environmental Agreement?”
Olga V. Livingston, Fanglin Ye, David M. Anderson and Ryan S. Butner, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, “Impacts of Biofuel Mandates in Pacific Northwest Regions: Incorporating Land Classes into a Regional Computable General Equilibrium Model”

Concurrent Session 8: Regional Economic Development Issues
William B. Beyers, University of Washington and Ta-Win Lin, Washington Office of Financial Management, “Applying Shift-Share Analysis to Structural Change in Input-Output Models: Evidence from Seven Washington State I/O Models”
Gary W. Smith and James L. Latham, Pacific Northwest Regional Economic Analysis Project, “LSGL Analysis: An Alternative to Shift-Share for Calibrating and Diagnosing Industry Contributions and Patterns of Employment Growth for State or Local Economy”
Nate Stice, University of Oregon, “Putting Sector Strategies to the Test: An Empirical Analysis of Industry Clusters and Employment Outcomes in Washington State”

Concurrent Session 9: Green Development Issues
Jennifer Allen, Portland State University and Tom Potiowsky, State of Oregon and Portland State University, “Assessing Portland’s Green Building Cluster”
Jeffery Smith, President, Forum on Geonomics, “Sharing the Green in the Geonomic City”
Greg Payne, Portfolio Manager, Greenchip Financial, “Mobilizing capital for the green economy”
Scott Benson, Idaho State University, “Green Energy Powers Development: The unlikely case of Pocatello, ID”

Concurrent Session 10: Labour and Immigration Issues
Kerry Young, BC Ministry of Jobs, Tourism, and Innovation, “BC’s Labour Market Scenario Model”
Massoud Jourabchi, Northwest Power and Conservation Council, “Energy Efficiency and Jobs – making the invisible, visible”
Scott Bailey and Nick Beleiciks Washington Employment Security Department and Oregon Employment Department, “Solving mysteries of the labor market using On The Map”
Don DeVoretz, Asia Pacific Foundation and Simon Fraser University, “Hands Across the Border: The Impact of Canadians Living Abroad”