AGENDA
VMA Market Outlook Workshop
August 9-10, 2012
The Blackstone, A Renaissance Hotel
Chicago
THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 2012
7:30 am
Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 am
Welcome
8:15 am
Session 1: Water/Wastewater
Tom Decker, Vice President, Brown and Caldwell
9:00 am
Session 2: Power
Kevin Geraghty, VP, Power Generation, NV Energy
9:45 am
Break
10:00 am
Session 3: Brazil
Chris Garman, Director, Latin America, Eurasia Group
10:45 am
Session 4: Wall Street Perspective
Michael Halloran, Senior Research Analyst, Vice President,
Robert W. Baird and Company
11:30 am
Session 5: Nuclear
Presenter from AREVA, Inc. (to be announced)
12:15 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
Session 6: Oil and Gas
John Spears, President, Spears and Associates
2:15 pm
Session 7: Petrochemical
Mark Eramo, Vice President, IHS Global Insight
3:00 pm
Break
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3:30 pm
Session 8: Hydrocarbon Processing
Mark Peters, Group Publisher, Offshore Magazine
4:15 pm
Session 9: Domestic Economic Outlook
Alan Beaulieu, President, Institute for Trend Research
5:30 to 6:30pm
Reception (Sponsored by Robert W. Baird and Company)
Dinner on your own
FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2012
7:30 am
Continental Breakfast
8:15 am
Session 10: Shale Gas
Stuart Kemp, Assistant General Counsel, Halliburton
9:00 am
Session 11: International Economic Outlook
Mark Witte, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Economics,
Northwestern University
9:45 am
Break
10:15 am
Session 12: Managing Millennials
Steven Jacobs, Human Capital, Ernst & Young
11:00 am
Adjourn
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