8 - 8:45 am Continental Breakfast

8:45 - 9 am WELCOME

9 - 10:30 am PANEL I: Emerging Models in Economic Development
Moderator: Dr. Don Cotten, Associate Vice- Chancellor for Research & Technology Transfer, Arkansas State University;

Phil Baldwin, President and Chief Operating Officer, Southern Development Bancorporation Diane Bell McKoy, President and Chief Executive Officer, Empower Baltimore Management Corporation
Bill Bynum, Chief Executive Officer, Enterprise Corporation of the Delta Alan McVey, Chief Deputy Director, Arkansas Department of Economic Development
Kathleen Shields, Program Director- IDA, Foundation for the Mid South
Moses Williams, President, Northeast Louisiana Delta Community Corporation.
10:30 - 10:45 BREAK
10:45 - noon Panel II: Healthcare In The Delta Region: Creating Opportunities from Challenges
Moderator: William M. Bourn, Dean, College of Health Sciences, the University of Louisiana at Monroe

Wayne Bing, CEO, Morehouse General Hospital
Dr. Susan Hanrahan, Dean of Nursing and Health Professions, Arkansas State University
Susan Moreland, Executive Director, North Louisiana AHEC
Becky Hall, Director of the Delta Area Health Education Center, The Univ. of Arkansas
Helen P. Perkins, Chair of the Hollandale, Mississippi Nutrition Intervention Research Initiative
Dr. Terry Sharrer, Curator of Health Sciences, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Noon ­ 12:30 Panelists and Speakers available for media

12:30 - 2 pm Lunch SPEAKER

2:15 - 3:30 pm Panel III: The Role of Regional Industries, Institutions, and Universities in Economic Development
Moderator: Clyde Williams, William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation
Dr. Brent Hales, Director, Center for Community and Economic Development,
Delta State University
Karl Hampton, United States Department of Agriculture
Mike Maulden, Director of External Affairs, Entergy Corporation
Dr. Greg Phillips, Dean of the College of Agriculture, Arkansas State University
Dr. Jerry Wall, Director of Business and Economic Research, University of
Louisiana-Monroe
Mark Young, Director, Delta Center for Economic Development, Arkansas State University.

3:45 - 4:15 pm Closing Session-Honorable Rodney E. Slater