To be announced.

Every Dollar Counts: A Budget Reform Proposal for New York

Speaker — Thomas P. DiNapoli, New York State Comptroller

Achieving Universal Health Care Coverage in New York: Lessons from Maine and Massachusetts

Speakers — Celia Wcislo, Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Board Member and Assistant Director, 1199 Massachusetts Division; Elizabeth Kilbreth, Associate Professor, Institute for Health Policy, University of Southern Maine, Muskie School of Public Service; Reactors: Deborah Bachrach, Deputy Commissioner, NYS Department of Health; Jane Preston, Chief of Staff to the Senate Health Committee; Bryan O’Malley, Legislative Assistant for Assembly Health Chair Richard N. Gottfried; and Moderator: James Knickman, President and CEO, New York State Health Foundation

Reconnecting Local Government With the People

Speaker — Lloyd Constantine, Senior Advisor to Governor Eliot Spitzer

Intergovernmental Approaches for Strengthening K-12 Accountability Systems

Participant speakers — Lynn Olson; Chester E. Finn Jr., President, Thomas B. Fordham Foundation; Michael Cohen, President, Achieve; John Merrow, Executive Producer/Host and President, Learning Matters, Inc.; Susan Traiman, Director of Education & Workforce Policy, Business Roundtable; John Bishop, Associate Professor of Human Resource Studies, Cornell University; Margaret Goertz, Co-Director, Consortium for Policy Research in Education; Eva Baker, Co-Director, National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing; Lauress Wise, President, Human Resources Research Organization; Gordon Ambach, International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement/Former Executive Director, CCSSO/Former NYS Commissioner of Education; Wayne Camara, Vice President for Research and Development, College Board; Bethany Little, Vice President, Policy and Federal Advocacy, Alliance for Excellent Education; Lorraine McDonnell, Professor of Political Science, University of California at Santa Barbara; Lisa Hansel, Managing Editor, American Educator; Scott Marion, Associate Director, National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment; Mitchell D. Chester, Senior Associate Superintendent for Policy and Accountability, Ohio Department of Education; Cynthia Schmeiser, President and Chief Operating Officer Education Division, ACT; Thomas Toch, Co-Director, Education Sector; Bryon Gordon, Assistant Director for Education, Workforce, and Income Security Issues, U.S. Government Accountability Office; Robert Linn, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Education, University of Colorado; David Abrams, Assistant Commissioner for Standards, Assessment and Reporting, New York State Education Department.

Restructuring New York State’s Health System

Speaker — Stephen Berger, Chairman, Odyssey Investment Partners (OIP), LLC

The Budget Outlook for 2008

Speaker — Paul Francis, Director, NYS Division of the Budget, and Senior Advisor to Governor Spitzer

An Integrated Agenda for a Healthy, Sustainable New York

Speaker — Pete Grannis, Commissioner, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation

Choices and Challenges in New York’s Health Insurance Market: Views from Health Plan, Business and Labor Leaders as Universal Coverage Discussions Begin

Speakers — Jaqueline Martinez, Senior Program Director, New York State Health Foundation; David H. Klein, CEO, Excellus; William J. Cromie, MD, President/CEO, CDPHP; David J. Uba, Vice President, Strategic Planning, HealthNow New York, Inc.; Michael W. Cropp, President and CEO, Independent Health; Denise V. Gonick, Executive Vice President for Legal Affairs, MVP Healthcare; John A. D’Ambrosio, Ed.D., President, Orange County Chamber of Commerce; Steve A. McCormick, Plant Manager, Anheuser-Busch; Ted Potrikus, Vice President/Director of Government Relations, Retail Council of New York State; Mike Fishman, President, SEIU Building Service Local 32BJ; Troy Oechsner, Deputy Superintendent for Health, New York State Insurance Department; Kathleen Shure, Director, Division of Managed Care and Program Evaluation, New York State Department of Health; Jim Tallon, President, United Hospital Fund (moderator)

Community Colleges and the State Workforce

Speakers — John B. Clark, Interim Chancellor, The State University of New York; Edward F. Cox, State University of New York Board of Trustees; Dennis Golladay, Vice Chancellor for Community Colleges, State University of New York; Donald C. Katt, President, Ulster County Community College; Phil White, Dean of the Schools of Business and Engineering and Industrial Technologies, Hudson Valley Community College; Robert N. Brower, CEO, Institute for the Application of Geospatial Technology, Cayuga Community College, Inc.; Richard P. Nathan, Co-Director, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government; Steven Bruckman, Executive Vice Chancellor, California Community Colleges; Robert B. Ward, Deputy Director, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government; Edward Reinfurt, Acting Executive Director, New York State Foundation for Science, Technology, and Innovation; and Mario Musolino, Executive Deputy Commissioner, New York State Department of Labor

What Works in Redistricting Reform? Evidence from the States

Speaker — Bruce Cain, Director of the Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California at Berkeley, and Director of the UC Washington Center, Washington, D.C.

Can and Should NYC’s Campaign Finance Reforms Be Extended to State Offices?

Speakers — Nicole A. Gordon, Vice President, JEHT Foundation; Amy Loprest, Executive Director, New York City Campaign Finance Board; and Michael J. Malbin, Executive Director, Campaign Finance Institute

Constitutions and Effective Government: The Case of New York

Speaker — Peter J. Galie, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Political Science, Canisius College

Charter Schools: Issues and Outlook

Speakers — Judy Doesschate, Albany City Schools Board of Education, and William Lake, Vice President for School Fiscal Accountability, Charter Schools Institute, State University of New York