8:30 AM – 2:00 PM

Golf Outing 18 Holes, (Optional)
Come and enjoy a relaxing round of golf at the Adirondack’s finest golf resort and America’s third oldest golf course,
Bluff Point Golf Resort www.bluffpoint.com. As you enter the resort “one hundred year old majestic cottonwood trees line the driveway. The course is beautifully maintained and nestled on picturesque Lake Champlain. In the backdrop, you’ll see the Green Mountains of Vermont and the inspiring Adirondack Mountains of New York. The views are unsurpassed and the golf is even better.”

Tee times will begin at 8:30 am. Please sign up on the online registration form.

1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Registration

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

INTRODUCTORY PLENARY PRESENTATION
Mike Flaherty, Consul and Senior Trade
Commissioner, Government of Canada

Registration

7:15 AM – 9:00 AM

Continental Breakfast

7:30 AM – 9:00 AM

g AS ACADEMIC SESSIONS
Presenters
Rosemary Reynolds, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
“Risk Mitigation in the E-Commerce Supply Chain”
Chunxing Fan, Tennessee State University
“The Impact of Relationship and Supply Chain Risk on Decision Making Risk Uncertainty”
Chris Enyinda, Alabama A & M University, Recipient of the Conference Best Paper Award
“Leveraging AHP-Based Risk Management within a U.S. Pharmaceutical Global Supply Chain”
Kevin O’Neill, SUNY Plattsburgh
“The Commodification and Supply of Financial Risk”

g RM WORKSHOP
"Supply Chain Risk Management"
Moderator
Dennis Kira, Concordia University, Montreal, Q.C.
Panelists
Brian Neureuther, SUNY Plattsburgh
Navneet Vidyarthi, Concordia University
Dr. Anjali Awasthi, Concordia University
Dr. Ila Manuj, University of North Texas

9:30 AM – 11:00 AM

g CB PANEL DISCUSSION
"Regulatory and Trade"
Moderator
Robert DeCamp, Director of Regulatory Affairs, A.N. Deringer
Panelists
Michelle Bunbury, Manager, Trade Management Service Group, UPS Supply Chain Solutions, Ottawa, O.N.
Ann Leduc, Manager, FedEx Trade Networks
Amy Magnus, District Manager, CBP Trade Ambassador,
A.N. Deringer
Ted Poplawski, Food & Drug Administration

g GC WORKSHOP: Sustainability & Efficiency
"How to Manage the Supply Chain While Improving Your Carbon Footprint"
Presenter
Colin Read, Professor of Economics, SUNY Plattsburgh
"Packaging Optimization: Route to Sustainability and Supply Chain Efficiency"
Presenter
Jack Ampuja, President and CEO, Supply Chain Optimizers

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Networking Break 

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS and LUNCH
Arthur Brohinsky, Director, Lean Six Sigma Efforts of KKR Capstone and former Executive Vice President of SmartOps
Ted Poplawski, Special Assistant to the Director, Division
of Import Operations and Policy, Office of Regional
Operations, Food & Drug Administration

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

g RM WORKSHOP
"Supply Chain Management in Recessionary Times"
Moderator
Mark Barie, President, Cross Border Development Corporation
Panelists
Herb Carpenter, Founder and Chairman, the Northeast
Group
Gerry Hopkins, President, Delgar Belcam Group
David Phelps, Vice President, ICE.com

g CB PANEL DISCUSSION
"Trade, Security and Border Processes"
Moderator
Robert DeCamp, Director of Regulatory Affairs, A.N. Deringer
Panelists
Diane Ashline, Supervisory Entry Specialist, CBP
Tom Bechard, Supervisory Import Specialist, CBP
Mike Sawyer, Import Surveillance Liaison Officer, USDA
Karen Stiles, Supervisory Officer, CBP

3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Networking Break

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM

g GC PANEL DISCUSSION
"Green Supply Chain Management ... the Path to Profitability"
Moderator
Robert Armstrong, Supply Chain Logistics Association, Canada
Panelist
Jack Ampuja, President and CEO, Supply Chain Optimizers

g RM WORKSHOP
"Supply Chain Intrusions, Vulnerabilities and Threats"
Presenter
James Phillips, President, Canadian/American Border Trade Alliance

EVENING PLENARY and DINNER
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Canada
David C. Jacobson, U.S. Ambassador to Canada

Registration

7:15 AM – 9:00 AM

Continental Breakfast

7:30 AM – 9:00 AM

g RM PANEL DISCUSSION
"Mitigating International Trade Risk "
Presenters
Carl Bastien, AVP Trade and Supply Chain, HSBC Canada
Alberto Q. Uy, CTP, Vice President, International and
Foreign Exchange Services, KeyBank, N.A.

9:30 AM – 11:00 AM

g RM PANEL DISCUSSION
"Financing of the Global Supply Chain"
Moderator
Claude Lamarre, Special Advisor, Trade Corridors, Fédération des Chambres de Commerce du Québec 
Panelists
Fergus Groundwater, Program Lead, Global Trade Management, Export Development Canada
Carl Bastien, AVP Trade and Supply Chain, HSBC Canada
René Sylvestre, Director, Invest-Quebec New York

g CB PANEL DISCUSSION
"Strategies and Best Practices in Trade"
Moderator
Joel Simon, Managing Partner, Simon, Gluck and Kane, New York, N.Y.
Panelists
Thaddeus M. Bingel, former Chief of Staff to the Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Don Luther, Executive Director, 19CFR Trade Consulting, Washington, D.C.
Teresa Polino, Thompson Coburn, Washington, D.C.

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Networking Break