Buffet breakfast to start the day.

MARAD’s Gus Hein leads a panel discussion of Pacific Island port representatives to highlight activities, issues, challenges, and opportunities.

DreanaLee Kalili Deputy Director
Hawaii Department of Transportation

Gus Hein Mid-Pacific Gateway Director
U.S. Maritime Administration

Rory Respicio General Manager
Port Authority of Guam

An expanded session to allow both Port and Associate members to provide updates on activities, issues, and trends.

Focus on operation and maintenance, revenue/occupancy and major operational changes coming. Presented by Scott Grindy, President, Pacific Coast Congress of Harbormasters and Port Managers.

Scott Grindy President
Pacific Coast Congress of Harbormasters and Port Managers

Discuss the importance of an integrated plan for “Last Mile Logistics” from ports to consumers post disaster.  Using examples from Hurricanes Maria and Milton we will show the ability to effectively move cargo out of the port is a challenge.  Resilience and Recovery is more than opening the port – it is getting food, water […]

Michael Legler Transportation Planner
Federal Emergency Management Agency

Following on their very successful and well-received presentation from the 2024 Winter Conference, Mary Anne Rooney, Port of Hueneme, and Ruben Duran, BBK Law, carry on the discussion of port governance.

Mary Anne Rooney Commissioner, Oxnard Harbor District/The Port of Hueneme
Port of Hueneme

Ruben Duran Ontario Office Managing Partner
Best Best & Krieger LLP

Hawaii’s ten commercial ports operate on a hub-and-spoke system with more than 90 percent of all goods coming through Honolulu Harbor. Honolulu’s three-stage modernization plan has been in effect for nearly 20 years, yet 1920s infrastructure built remains pervasive. Viewed as a case study in major long-term transformation when policy leaders operate on short term […]

Melissa Pavlicek Executive Director
Hawaii Public Policy Advocates, LLC

All are welcome.

While it will still be early days into the Trump Administration, this panel will highlight anticipated and speculative changes that could be expected related to grants, electrification and decarbonization, budgets, and priorities, among other key decisions.

Derek Chow Business Development Manager,
Burns & McDonnell

Jeannie Beckett Principal
The Beckett Group

Jeff Wingfield Deputy Port Director of Regulatory and Public Affairs
Port of Stockton

Michael Legler Transportation Planner
Federal Emergency Management Agency

Details to follow…

Jason Chodachek South East Territory Manager
Vector Corrosion Technologies

Jason Middleton, PNW Regional Manager, United Grain, speaks from the perspective of a port user on the importance of ports to international trade and its impact on the local economy. Looking specifically at the grain industry, Middleton will highlight how collaboration and close interaction with the Port of Umatilla provides much needed support for both […]

Over the past few decades, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Seattle District (Corps) has issued hundreds of individual construction permits and numerous programmatic general permits for projects in or over marine waters in the state of Washington. The Corps is required, under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), to consult with National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]

Ryan Pessah Director of Government Relations
Western Wood Preservers Institute

Following closing remarks, attendees will get a preview of the 111th Annual Conference, hosted by the Port of Nanaimo – August 10 to 13, 2025