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 
 
                
              
 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
             
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                