Sixth Annual Arctic Encounter Symposium - April 25-26, 2019

SEATTLE, WA, USA | PROUDLY HOSTED BY ALASKA AIRLINES

HOSTED AT THE BELL HARBOR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTER

- 2019 CONFIRMED SPEAKERS -

U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, United States Senate, Alaska (United States)
U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell, United States Senate, Washington (United States)
U.S. Senator Patty Murray, United States Senate, Washington (United States)
President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland, 1996 - 2016; Chairman of the Arctic Circle Assembly (Iceland)
The Honorable Kirsti Kauppi, Ambassador of Finland to the United States (Finland)
The Honorable Premier Robert R. McLeod, Northwest Territories (Canada)
The Honorable Rick Larsen, United States Representative for Washington State (United States)
The Honorable Don Young, United States Representative for Alaska (United States)
Vice Admiral Linda L. Fagan, Commander, U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area and Commander, Defense Forces West (United States)
The Honorable Kevin Meyer, Lieutenant Governor, State of Alaska (United States)
Dr. Jim Reilly, Director, U.S. Geological Survey; former NASA Astronaut (United States)
Mr. Andrey Bondarev, Senior Counselor, Head of Economic Affairs Office, Embassy of the Russian Federation to the U.S. (Russia)
The Honorable Jenny A. Durkan, Mayor of Seattle, Washington (United States)
Ambassador Peter Thomson, United Nations Special Envoy for the Ocean, Office of the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Ocean (France) [Video Message]
Chief Dana Tizya-Tramm, Vuntut Gwitchin Government, Old Crow, Yukon (Canada)
The Honorable Ethan Berkowitz, Mayor, City of Anchorage, Alaska (United States)
Senator Cathy Giessel, Senate President, Alaska State Legislature, District N (House Districts 27 & 28) (United States)
Mr. Delbert Rexford, President & CEO, Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation (United States)
Dr. Brendan Kelly, Executive Director of the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH); former Chief Scientist, Monterey Bay Aquarium; former Science Advisor, the White House Office of Science and Technology (United States)
Ms. Marilyn Romano, Regional Vice-President (Alaska & Hawaii), Alaska Airlines; Platinum Sponsor & Strategic Co-Host of the Arctic Encounter, 2017-2019 (United States)
Ms. Janet Weiss, President, BP Alaska (United States)
Mr. Ben Kellie, CEO, The Launch Company (United States)
Ms. Jackie Qataliña Schaeffer, Senior Project Manager, Division of Environmental Health and Engineering, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (United States)
Mr. Mead Treadwell, Chairman, Arctic Circle Task Force on Shipping and Ports; President, Treadwell Development; Former Lieutenant Governor of Alaska; Chair, U.S. Arctic Research Commission 2006-2010; Co-Chair, Polar Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center Polar Initiative (United States)
Ms. Gail Schubert, President & CEO of the Bering Straits Native Corporation (United States)
Dr. Steven Cohn, Alaska State Director, The Nature Conservancy (United States)
Dr. Dwayne Ryan Menezes, Founder and Managing Director, Polar Research and Policy Initiative (PRPI) and Commonwealth Policy Development Centre (CPDC); Honorary Fellow, UCL Institute of Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London; Associate Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London (United Kingdom)
Ms. Kristina Woolston, External Relations Manager, Donlin Gold (United States)
Mr. Mike Perry, Executive Director, City of Kawartha Lakes Family Health Team; PhD student, School for the Study of Canada, Trent University (Canada)
Captain Dan Blanchard, Owner & CEO, UnCruise Adventures (United States)
Mr. Jonathan Simon, Partner, Van Ness Feldman LLP (United States)
Ms. Una Særún Jóhannsdóttir, Counselor, Embassy of Iceland, Washington D.C. (Iceland)
Captain Ed Page, Executive Director, Marine Exchange of Alaska (United States)
Mr. Jack Hébert, CEO & Founder, Cold Climate Housing Research Center (United States)
Mr. Joel Clement, Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Arctic Initiative (United States)
Dr. David Keith, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, Harvard University (United States)
Mr. Greg Boos, Immigration Attorney, Cascadia Cross-Border Law; Adjunct Professor, Western Washington University; President, Pacific Corridor Enterprise Council (United States)
Ms. Heather Fathali, Immigration Attorney, Cascadia Cross-Border Law; formerly, Judicial Extern to Justice Charles W. Johnson at the Washington State Supreme Court (United States)
Major-General Randy “Church” Kee, USAF (retd), Executive Director of the Alaska Domain Awareness Center, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence hosted at the University of Alaska (United States)
Mr Tony Penikett, Senior Associate, Centre for Dialogue, Simon Fraser University; Former Premier of Yukon; Former Deputy Minister of Negotiations and, later, Labour, Government of British Columbia; 2013-14 UW Canada Fulbright Visiting Chair in Arctic Studies, University of Washington (Canada)
Ms. Lori Davey, Vice President of Enterprise Markets, GCI (United States)
Ms. Rebecca Lynge, First Secretary to the Greenland Representation in Washington D.C. (Greenland)
The Honorable Richard Beneville, Mayor of Nome, Alaska (United States)
Dr. James Kendall, Director, Alaska Office, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (United States)
Mr. Hugh Patkotak Sr., President, Olgoonik Corporation (United States)
Mr. John Iani, Partner, Perkins Coie LLP (United States)
Ms. Tina Grovier, Partner, Stoel Rives LLP (United States)
Mr. Pat Galvin, Chief Commercial Officer & General Counsel, Great Bear Petroleum (United States)
Dr. Nuno Alves, Senior Business and Technical Advisor, BP America (United States)
Dr. Angela Michaud, Senior Clinical Director, Traditional Healing Clinic, Southcentral Foundation (United States)
Mr. Joseph Sprague, CEO, Wings Airways, Juneau, Alaska; Arctic Encounter Board of Directors (United States)
Ms. Meghan Gavin, Attorney, Cascadia Law Group PLLC; Arctic Encounter Board of Directors (United States)
The Honorable Lucy Nelson, Mayor, The Northwest Arctic Borough (United States)
Ms. Piper Foster Wilder, CEO & Founder, 60Hertz Microgrids (United States)
Ms. Tashina Duttle, Division of Health and Engineering, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (United States)
Mr. Scott Habberstad, Director of Sales & Community Marketing, Alaska Airlines; Platinum Sponsor & Strategic Co-Host of the Arctic Encounter, 2017-2019 (United States)
Mr. Ole Øvretveit, Director, Arctic Frontiers (Norway)
Mr. Zachary Schulman, Arctic Policy Coordinator, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters (United States)
Ms. Cara Condit, Director, Center for Arctic Study & Policy, U.S. Coast Guard Academy (United States)
Mr. Phillip Thorne, Arctic Program Specialist, U.S. Coast Guard District 17 (United States)
Lieutenant Commander Jereme Altendorf, Arctic Planner, U.S. Coast Guard Sector Anchorage (United States)
Ms. Elizabeth Hodges Snyder, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor of Public Health; Co-Founder/Co-Director, Food Research, Enterprise, and Sustainability Hub (FRESH), College of Health, University of Alaska Anchorage (United States)
Mr. Verner Wilson III, Senior Oceans Campaigner, Friends of the Earth (United States)
Mr. Kamrul Hossain, Research Professor & Director, Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law, The Arctic Centre, University of Lapland (Finland)
Mr. Robert P. McCoy, Ph.D., Director, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks (United States)
Mr. Hugh Short, President, Pt Capital (United States)
Mr. Benjamin Backer, President & Founder, American Conservation Coalition (United States)
Ms. Katherine Jernstrom, Launch Alaska; Co-Founder, The Boardroom (United States)
Ms. Wendy Lindskoog, Vice President of Communications and External Affairs at BP Alaska (United States)
Mr. Randy Sulte, Manager, BP Alaska (United States)
The Honorable Merven Gruben, Mayor of Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories (Canada)
Dr. Leslie Field, Founder and CTO, Ice911 Research (United States)
Ms. Anna Leng'iq Sattler, Indigenous Foods and Alaska Native Culture Bearer, Chef and Host; Owner, Anna's Alaska (United States)
Ms. Tanya Krackovic, eCamion (United States)
Mr. Matt Carter, Founder of Carter Wind (United States)
Mr. Jacob DeWitte, Founder of OKLO (United States)
Mr. Buddy Custard, President & CEO, Alaska Maritime Prevention & Response Network (United States)
Ms. Jennifer Gore Dwyer, Owner & President, St. George Marine; Member of the Board of Directors, Arctic Encounter; Board Member, ALS-TDI (United States)
Mr. Kaleb Froehlich, Director, Holland & Hart; Senior Advisor, Arctic Encounter (United States)
Mr. Paul Fuhs, Consultant, Alaska Marine Exchange; Member of the Arctic Marine Transportation & Infrastructure Investment Working Groups at the Arctic Economic Council (United States)
Ms. Rachel Kallander, Founder and Executive Director, Arctic Encounter; Managing Partner, Kallander & Associates (United States)
Dr. Nadine C Fabbi, Managing Director, Canadian Studies Center and Arctic and International Relations, The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington (United States)
Ms. Anna Leng'iq Sattler, Indigenous Foods and Alaska Native Culture Bearer, Chef and Host; Owner, Anna's Alaska (United States)
Mr. Jackson Blackwell, Outreach Development Coordinator, Arctic Encounter; Associate, Kallander & Associates (United States)

- 2019 GUEST PERFORMANCES, ART EXHIBITORS & INSTALLATIONS -

Ms. Susan Seubert, Award-winning National Geographic photography expert; President of Susan Seubert Photography
Ms. Bobby Itta of Bobby Itta Designs, Seamstress and Artist from Utqiagvik, Alaska; Adjunct Sewing Instructor at Ilisagvik College
MEKA Clothing, Aleut Inspired and Ready-To-Wear Fashion for Women
I AM INUIT Photography Installation; an Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC)-Alaska Project
My Perspective, My Home, Arctic Encounter Arctic Youth Initiative's 2018 International Photo Exhibition
Susie Silook, Siberian Yupik-Inupiaq Carver and Writer, Tribal Member of the Native Village of Gambell, Alaska
SEAWOLF KAYAK - Traditional Kayaks In A Modern World; Mr. Kiliii Yuyan & Ms. Addie Asbridge, Designers and Builders
Ms. Alice Bioff of Naataq Gear: Arctic Wear, Designer and Artist from Koyuk, Alaska
Ms. Michaila Taylor of Michaila Taylor Designs, Yup’ik Inspired Clothing and Jewelry Designer; Artist in many mediums
Ms. Teresa Smith, Jewelry designer in ivory, antler, and shells; Model kayak designer and builder
Ms. Laura John, also known as 'Stálhalamcen – Grizzly Paws', Member of Xwisten the Bear Clan, of Lillooet, British Columbia
Ms. Madison Leiren of Leiren Deigns, Norwegian Designer of Evening Gowns inspired by Viking history and legend
Mr. Dennis Davis aka “EskimoFixer”, Advocate, Drone Pilot, Videographer, and Educator in Shishmaref, Alaska