DAY 1 KEYNOTE SESSION - "MISSISSIPPI RIVER, A SCHOOL OF DEMOCRACY"

David Murray, Senior Writer, The Waterways Journal / Bound Media

DAY 1 BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Nina Struss, River Health and Resiliency Organizer, Prairie Rivers Network

Steve Hilberg, Midwest Climate Scientist, CoCoRaHS

Johanshir Golchin, Director General, Energy and Environment Research Group (EERG)

DAY 1 FIELD TOUR - NAHANT MARSH - "RESTORING RESILIENCE"

Brian Ritter, Director, Nahant Marsh

Rachel Perrine, Rock Island Plan Formulation Section Chief, USACE

DAY 1 PLATED DINNER - "AN EVENING WITH ALDO LEOPOLD"

Steve Brower, President, Leopold Landscape Alliance

Fr. Robert Grant, Professor of Environmental Ethics, St. Ambrose University

Dr. Jonathan Pauli, Professor, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

DAY 2 KEYNOTE - "MAKING THE RIVER MAGNETIC: PUBLIC SPACE DESIGN AT THE RIVER'S EDGE

Tom Klein, Center for Urban & Community Design, University of Miami

Scott Streeb, Principal and Director, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Denver Office

DAY 2 NEXT GEN SUMMIT ENVIRONMENTAL CAREER PANEL

Valery Aguilar and Tom Klein, WEDG (Waterfront Edge Design) Associates

Maiya May, Climate Reporter and TV Host, PBS

Andrew Layer, Program Manager, Living Lands and Waters

Steve Hilberg, Midwest Climate Scientist, CoCoRaHS

Dr. Sarah Lashley, Associate Professor and Co-Chair of Environment, Geography, and Geoscience, Augustana

DAY 2 PORTS PANEL - MODERATED BY BOB SINKLER

Illinois Waterways Ports Commission

Mid-America Port Commission

Ports of Eastern Iowa Authority

Port of Winona, MN

DAY 2 NETWORKING LUNCHEON

Maiya May, Climate Reporter and TV Host of PBS' "WEATHERED: Earth's Extremes

DAY 2 BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Holly Shutt, Working Lands Biologist, Ducks Unlimited

Scott Cagle, Iowa Assistant State Conservationist, Natural Resources Conservation Services

CLOSING PLENARY SESSION - "LESSONS FROM THE MESKWAKI NATION"

Joan Flecksing, Director, Meskwaki Nation Department of Natural Resources, Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa

HOST - RIVER ACTION

Kathy Wine, Executive Director and Founder, River Action