Agenda:
8:30 a.m. Introduction
8:35 a.m. Keynote Speaker
9:15 a.m. Suspension & Debarments
10:05 a.m. Break
10:20 a.m. Subcontracting Issues
11:10 p.m. Procurement Process and Bid Protests
12:15 p.m. Lunch (on your own)
1:30 p.m. Acquisitions and Mergers
2:10 p.m. Cost Accounting Standards and Principles
2:50 p.m. Break
3:05 p.m. Contract consolidation and budget impacts
3:40 p.m. Future of Government Contracting
4:15 p.m. Adjourn

Presenters:

S. Lane Tucker, Partner, Stoel Rives LLP, Chair, Alaska Bar Public Contracts Section
William K. Walker, Partner, Walker Reausaw
Dan Gordon, Associate Dean for government contracts law at the George Washington University Law School
Steve Schooner, Nash & Cibinic Professor of Government Procurement Law and Co-Director of the
Government Procurement Law Program
Karen Forsland, District Director, Alaska, U.S. Small Business Administration
Dave Drabkin, Director, Acquisition Policy at Northrop Grumman Corporation
Richard Bednar, Founder, Contractor Integrity Solutions, LLC and a director of the Procurement Roundtable
Stephen D. Knight, Member, Smith Pachter McWhorter PLC
Antonio R. Franco, Senior Partner, Piliero Mazza PLLC