Event Program

Post

Time

Agenda

8:30 a.m.

VIRTUAL COFFEE RECEPTION

9:00 a.m.

WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS

  • Hon. Rex Richardson, President, SCAG
  • Hon. Karen Bass, U.S. Representative, California 37th District; Chair, Congressional Black Caucus

9:15 a.m.

FEATURED ADDRESS: “HOW DO WE BUILD AN INCLUSIVE ECONOMY?”

  • Bina Shrimali, Manager, Community Development, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

9:30 a.m.

SCAG REGION ECONOMIC UPDATE

  • Wallace Walrod, Ph.D., SCAG Chief Economic Advisor

9:45 a.m.

SESSION 1:
PANEL ON “LOCAL GOVERNMENT RESILIENCY IN THE ERA OF DISRUPTION”

  • Tom Modica, City Manager, Long Beach
  • Lori Ann Farrell Harrison, City Manager, Costa Mesa
  • Cherian George, Global Head of Infrastructure and Project Finance, Fitch Ratings

Moderator: Kate Gordon, Director, Governor’s Office of Planning and Research

10:40 a.m.

SESSION 2:
ROUNDTABLES ON “TAKING ACTION TOWARDS A MORE INCLUSIVE ECONOMY”

  • ROUNDTABLE A: IMPROVING ACCESS TO TRANSPORTATION
    Facilitator: Evelyn Blumenberg, Ph.D., Director, Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies UCLA
  • ROUNDTABLE B: IMPROVING ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING
    Facilitator: Cecilia Estolano, Chief Executive Officer, Estolano Advisors
  • ROUNDTABLE C: IMPROVING ACCESS TO GOOD JOBS
    Co-Facilitator: Karthick Ramakrishnan, Ph.D., Director, Center for Social Innovation, UC Riverside
    Co-Facilitator: Michael Bates Ph.D., Director, Economic Mobility Group, UC Riverside

11:25 a.m.

ROUNDTABLES RECAP

11:35 a.m.

KEYNOTE: “A CASE FOR OPTIMISM IN CHARTING AN ECONOMIC PATH FORWARD”

  • Thomas Friedman, New York Times Columnist and Bestselling Author

12:00 p.m.

SUMMIT WRAP-UP