7:00

Registration & Continental Breakfast

7:30

Pre-Conference Orientation - An Ecosystem Services Primer
This session will provide an introduction and overview of the ecosystem services markets concept, including where the idea came from, why markets are needed, what they are and how they work, and the scope of ecosystem markets locally and globally. 

8:15

Welcome

8:30

9:15

Session 2. The State of Ecosystem Markets
Markets require – at a minimum – standardization, open information, and certainty. Yet each ecosystem is unique and its ranges of values may change over time. This session speaks to the basic needs of a marketplace in light of those variables. Panelists will give an overview of ecosystem markets globally, how they developed over time, how the interplay between regulation and market forces must work, and how commercial investments will help to scale up these markets from their current nascent stage. They will also address the environmental and species challenges and risks in such markets, and how these markets are developing in the Northwest. 

Moderator: Tom Lindley, Perkins Coie LLP

        ¨        Ecosystem Markets Worldwide
- Wolfgang Ortloff, Equator Environmental, LLC
¨        Challenges and Risks
- Sara Vickerman, Defenders of Wildlife
¨         Integration, the Northwest Model
- Dan Heagerty, David Evans Enterprises

10:30

Networking Break 

11:00

Session 3. Market Mechanisms: What Works?
In order to function, markets need regulations and policies that support their use. Participants in an ecosystem market need to know how to quantify the benefits of restoration and how to translate those benefits into units of measure relevant to specific regulations. And, participants need a way to register, account for, and track credits as they are created and sold to offset impacts. Panelists will cover hot topics and lessons learned locally and regionally about the mechanisms needed to make ecosystem markets work. 

Moderator: David Primozich, Willamette Partnership

¨        Measurement & Valuation
- Kevin Halsey, Parametrix 

¨        Registry and Trading Infrastructure
- Bobby Cochran, Clean Water Services

¨        Regulatory Requirements & the Pathway to Change
- Gail Achterman, Oregon State University

12:15

Luncheon & Presentation - The Economics of Ecosystem Restoration
We live in a world where our economic system is out of sync with our environment. Our system dates back from a time when natural capital (the goods and services nature provides) were infinite and capital and labor were scarce. But today, that dynamic has flipped: labor and capital are, for the most part, plentiful, while natural capital is becoming scarce. What does this mean for our society, for business, and for the environment? How can the economic system be "re-tuned" to the current era? This talk will explore what the future holds and ways that ecology and economy (two words that share a common linguistic root) might be re-united.
   - Ricardo Bayon, EKO Asset Management Partners

1:40

Session 4. Current Buyers & Market Potential
The panelists will share their experiences and challenges in paying for the mounting costs of ecosystem services. They will discuss how valuation of integrated markets can be incorporated into management decision-making, and predict the future of markets from their perspectives. 

    Moderator: Kathi Futornick, URS

¨        The Portland Initiative
 - Dan Vizzini, Portland Bureau of Environmental Services

¨        Columbia Basin
 - Bruce Aylward, Ecosystem Economics, LLC 

¨      Puget Sound
 - Jim Cahill, Puget Sound Partnership 

2:55

Networking Break

3:15

Session 5. Current Sellers & Market Opportunities
Ecosystem market diversity is limited only by what is available to buy. A cross section of sellers will present what they have to market. The audience will then have the opportunity to let the sellers know how they would like those products packaged or modified to best fit buyer needs. 

    Moderator: Mark Madison, CH2M HILL

¨       Forest Lands
- Bettina von Hagen, Ecotrust

¨        Wetlands & Species
- Kemper McMaster, Wildlands Inc.

¨        An Integrated Project
- Diane Taniguchi-Dennis, City of Albany

4:30

Session 6. Ecosystem Markets: What’s Next?
This session will provide an opportunity for speakers and audience members to review where we are in the Northwest and what remains to be done in light of the day’s presentations. 

    Moderators:  Dan Heagerty, David Evans Enterprises

                            Tom Lindley, Perkins Coie LLP

Cocktail Reception