Placer Valley 2023 Sessions

Warner Thomas - President and CEO at Sutter Health

Moderated by: TBA Aly Zimmermann - City of Rocklin, City Manager Dom Casey - City of Roseville, City Manager Sean Rabe - City of Auburn, City Manager Sean Scully - City of Lincoln, City Manager Wes Heathcock - Town of Loomis, City Manager

Moderated by Joshua Huntsinger - Agricultural Commissioner/Sealer of Weights and Measures at Placer County Andy Klein - Monk's Cellar Dr. Grover Lee - Wise Villa Winery Mike Fournier - Project 8 Scott Pruett - Pruett Vineyards

Moderated by: Niki DaSilva - U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation Richard Robinson – Kaiser Permanente Scott Stepheson - Swinerton Business Technology

Margaret O’Mara is the Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American History at the University of Washington. Margaret is a leading historian of Silicon Valley and the author of two acclaimed books about the modern American technology industry: The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America (Penguin Press, 2019) and Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search For The Next Silicon Valley (Princeton, 2005). She also is a historian of the American presidency and author of Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections that Shaped the Twentieth Century (Penn Press, 2015). She is a coauthor, with David Kennedy and Lizabeth Cohen, of the widely used United States history college textbook, The American Pageant (Cengage). Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, WIRED, MIT Technology Review, Foreign Affairs and other outlets. She is an active public speaker, appears regularly in national and international broadcast media, and has contributed her expertise to development of Mattel's American Girl dolls. Margaret is an OAH Distinguished Lecturer and a past fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Forum on the Future of Liberal Education. She is a series editor of the Politics and Society in Modern America series at Princeton University Press and serves on the editorial board of Modern American History. She received her MA/PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and her BA from Northwestern University. She is an alumna of Little Rock Central High School. Prior to her academic career, she served in the Clinton Administration, working on economic and social policy in the White House and in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Monique Brown, Co-founder & Managing Director at The Growth Factory

Tony Wood, SIOR - KW Commercial Real Estate Services, Northern and Southern California Matt Click - AICP - Executive Director of PCTPA

Jane Christenson, Chief Executive Officer, Placer County, Auburn, CA Amy B. Schulz, PhD, MBA, Dean of Career, Continuing, and Technical Education - Sierra Community College District, Rocklin, CA Caroline Godkin, Executive Director, Climate & Wildfire Institute, Sacramento, CA Andy Fecko, General Manager, Placer County Water Agency, Auburn, CA

We are also thrilled to announce our Keynote Speaker: Summer Sanders! Sanders is an Olympic Gold-Medalist, swimmer, and co-host of CBS Sports Net’s “We Need to Talk”. She is also the author of “Champions Are Raised, Not Born: How My Parents Made Me a Success”. We are very excited to bring Roseville native, Summer Sanders, back to Roseville for this exclusive speaking opportunity! She was raised in Roseville, Ca and graduated from Oakmont High School in 1990.