Agenda Highlights include:

Welcome
• Ron Brown, Chair, Bay Area Open Space Council and Executive Director, Save Mount Diablo

Keynote Address: Collaboration among Federal Partners
• Lynn Scarlett, Deputy Secretary, U. S. Department of Interior

Collaborative Leadership: What it Takes and When It is Needed
• Moderator: Joseph McIntyre, Ag Innovations Network
• Brian O’Neill, Superintendent, Golden Gate National Recreation Area
• Sam Schuchat, Executive Officer, State Coastal Conservancy
• Ken Kirkey, Senior Planning Director, Association of Bay Area Governments
• Torri Estrada, Environmental Justice Solutions and Program Officer, Community Foundation

Regional Collaboration: From Vision to Reality
• Tom Steinbach, Executive Director, Greenbelt Alliance
• Amy Hutzel, Bay Area Program Manager, State Coastal Conservancy
• Bettina Ring, Executive Director, Bay Area Open Space Council

The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area
• Richard Walker, Author and Professor, UC Berkeley

SF Bay Area Upland Habitat Goals Project: Project Purpose and Progress to Date
• Nancy Schaefer, Land Conservation Services and Project Consultant, Bay Area Open Space Council
• Stuart Weiss, PhD, Science Adviser, Creekside Center for Earth Observation
• Ryan Branciforte, GIS Specialist, GreenInfo Network

Integrative Solutions: Protecting Land and the Community
• Moderator: Emilyn Sheffield, California State University Chico
• Felicia Marcus, Executive Vice President, Trust for Public Land
• Bill Leahy, Executive Director, The Big Sur Land Trust
• Juliet Ellis, Executive Director, Urban Habitat
• Sudeep Motupalli Rao, Executive Director, Literacy for Environmental Justice

To Cross Boundaries, To Come Together
• Dr. Michel Gelobter, President, Redefining Progress