MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
7:30 a.m
Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:15
Moderator for the Day - Margaret Anderson Kelliher, President and CEO, MN High Tech Association
8:20
WELCOME [Video]
Eric Kaler, President, University of Minnesota
8:30 - 8:45
Clusters and the U.S. Economic Development Administration's Agenda [Video]
Introduction: Margaret Anderson Kelliher
Matt Erskine, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Development, Economic Development Administration
8:45 - 9:30
The U.S. Cluster Mapping Project: A New Tool for Regional Economic Development [Video] [Slides]
Scott Stern, David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology, MIT Sloan School of Management
Mercedes Delgado, Professor of Strategic Management, Fox School of Business, Temple University
9:30 - 10:00
Using the U.S. Cluster Mapping Tool [Video]
Sarah Jane Maxted, Research Manager, Harvard Business School
Doug Marcey, Director of Engineering, Phase2 Technology
10:00 - 10:45
Clusters and Regional Competitiveness [Video] [Slides]
Introduction: Tim Welsh, Board Chair, GREATER MSP and Director, McKinsey & Company
Michael Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, Harvard Business School
10:45 - 11:00 BREAK
11:00 - 12:15
The Practice of Cluster-based Economic Development: where we are, and how to get to next level? Interactive Audience Panel [Video]
Moderator: Christian Ketels, Faculty and Principal Associate, Harvard Business School
• Chip Laingen, Executive Director of The Defense Alliance, Advanced Power & Energy Cluster [Slides]
• Brian Kelsey, Director of Economic Development, National Association of Development Organizations (NADO)
• David Wolfe, Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs , University of Toronto
• John Spears, Director of Clusters and Skills Initiatives, U.S. Small Business Administration
• Daniel Cunningham, CEO of The Long-Stanton Group, Ohio [Slides]
Using the U.S. Cluster Mapping Tool: Questions - Sarah Jane Maxted and Doug Marcey [Video]
12:15 - 1:15 Buffet Lunch, Atrium
1:15 - 2:15
Freight Rail: The Backbone of the Midwest Economy [Video]
Introduction: Jim Hovland, Mayor of Edina, Co-Chair, Regional Council of Mayors
Matt Rose, Executive Chairman, Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railway Company
Tom Horan, Visiting Scholar, Humphrey School; Professor, Claremont Graduate School [Slides] [Freight Economy website]
Steve Weiby, Vice President of Global Transportation, C H Robinson [Slides]
2:15 - 3:15
Transportation and Logistics: Moving the Goods to World Markets [Video]
Moderator - Laurie McGinnis, Director, Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota
• Lee Munnich, Director, State & Local Policy Program, Humphrey School, University of Minnesota [Slides]
• Glenn Stevens, Vice President, MICHauto, Strategic Development, Detroit Regional Chamber [Slides]
• John Spacek, Vice President, Centreport, Winnipeg Inland Port, Manitoba, Canada [Slides]
3:15 - 3:30 BREAK
3:30 - 4:45
Knowledge Creation and Education: The Role of Public/Private Partnerships [Video]
Moderator: David Wolfe, Professor and Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab, University of Toronto
• Brian Herman, Vice President of Research, University of Minnesota
• Dan Duncan, Executive Director, Nebraska Innovation Campus Development Corporation [Slides]
• Mark Norman, Greater Omaha Economic Development Partnership (Iowa and Nebraska) [Slides]
4:45 - 6:30
Reception in the Humphrey Forum hosted by Canadian Consul
Remarks from Dean Eric Schwartz and Consul General Jamshed Merchant
6:30
Ride the METRO Green Line to dinner with a cluster leader

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
7:30 - Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 - Welcome Moderator Shaye Mandle, President and CEO, Life Science Alley
8:10 - 8:45
Water Technology: An Emerging Cluster in the Midwest? [Video] [Slides]
Introduction: Commissioner Katie Clark Sieben, Department of Employment and Economic
Development
Doug Baker, Chairman and CEO, Ecolab, Inc.
8:45 - 10:00
Food-Water-Energy Nexus [Video]
Moderator: Jeremy Lenz, Lenz Consulting LLC.
• Alan Perlstein, Midwest Energy Research Consortium, Milwaukee [Slides]
• Teresa Harten, Cincinnati Water Technology Cluster Team Lead
Office of Research and Development, United States Environmental Protection Agency [Slides]
• Dr. Kevin D. Kephart, Vice President for Research, South Dakota State University [Slides]
• Stephen Lowe, USDA Geospatial Officer, U. S. Department of Agriculture [Slides]
10:00 - 10:15 BREAK
10:15 - 10:30
Commercializing Advanced Technologies in the Carbon Value Chain [Video]
Doug Cameron, Co-President and Director, FirstGreen Partners
10:30 - 11:30
Clusters, International Trade and Global Competitiveness [Video]
Moderator: Prof. Myles Shaver, Strategic Mgmt/Entrepreneurship, Carlson School of Business
• David Griggs, Vice President of GREATER MSP, Bilateral Cluster Focused Opportunities
• Christian Ketels, Principal Associate, Harvard Business School and President of The Competitiveness Institute
• Jamshed Merchant, Canadian Consul General, Canadian Consulate [Slides]
11:30 - 12:30
How Do We Work Together as a Region? What Are Our Priorities? [Video]
Where the Midwest might go with the topical areas of the conference:
Transportation and Logistics; Knowledge Creation and the Role of Public Private Partnerships;
Food-Water-Energy Nexus; International Trade and Global Competitiveness
Comments by Christian Ketels, Jamshed Merchant, and Jeremy Lenz
Closing remarks
L. Burke Murphy, Conference Coordinator
Lee Munnich, Senior Fellow and Director, State and Local Policy Program, Humphrey School of Public Affairs