CANCELLED DUE TO LOW REGISTRATION - SPECIAL DINNER WITH STACY MITCHELL WILL BE HELD FRIDAY EVENING, CALL 845-331-2670 FOR INFO. TOO MANY LOCAL-FIRST FESTIVALS HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND BECAUSE THE VALLEY IS 'WAY AHEAD OF THIS CONFERENCE, I SUSPECT!

Day 2: Living Economies: A “Local-First” Approach to Green Development

9:00	Keynote: Stacy Mitchell, Institute for Local Self-Reliance
10:00	Localization and New York's Policy Context, David Hess, Ph.D., Professor, Science and Technology Studies, RPI
10:30	BREAK
10:45	Work Force Development Panel
11:30	Local Models in the Hudson Valley: Round Table Lance Matteson, President, Ulster County Development Corporation Patti Kelly, Village of Saugerties Mary Ann Johnson, Northern Dutchess Alliance Rene Van Schaack, Green County Industrial Development Agency
12:30	Lunch Entrepreneur of the Year Award Keynote: Jay Gilbert, B-Lab: Announcing a New Corporate Form, the B-Corporation
2:00	The Hudson Valley Sustainable Business Exchange: A Green Accelerator for the Region, Ajax Greene and Michael O'Hara
2:30	Plenary discussion: the path forward