Program 2008 - What is NH?

Thursday, October 18, 2007
Pease Trade Authority, One New Hampshire Avenue, Portsmouth, NH

Action Assignment

AGENDA
This Program Day is proudly sponsored by the following Pease Tradeport Businesses:
Two International Group LLC, Ocean National Bank, Pierce Atwood, Foss Manufacturing and Irving Oil


7:45 Coffee
8:00 Check in
9:00 What is New Hampshire? - goals for the day
9:15 Who is New Hampshire? New Hampshire's changing demographics: age, race, income, housing, in-migration, out-migration: Peter Francese
10:00 Break
10:15 Where is New Hampshire? Where the jobs are, where they used to be, what influences where they will be: Ross Gittell, UNH
11:00 Discussion with Peter and Ross: New Hampshire's past and future advantages
12:00 Lunch
Afternoon facilitation by Steve Norton, LNH Class of 2007

Steve Norton's PowerPoint Slides
1:00 Our Towns: How and why are they so different? Group discussion (hint: be prepared to talk about your town's vital statistics and its place in New Hampshire)
2:00 Our Changing State
3:00 Group report out
4:00 New Hampshire Is… (personal reflections)
4:30 Wrap-up, evaluations, next session, etc.
5:00 Adjourn to a convivial location for group development - Red Hook Brewery for tour and social hour

DIRECTIONS
Map of Pease  
Please click here for Directions to the Tradeport, or visit Mapquest for directions from your own home. We will be meeting at One New Hampshire Avenue (at the intersection of Pease Boulevard and New Hampshire Avenue) on the 3rd floor, directly across from the elevators. Breakfast will be set up there. Parking is available right on site.

HOW TO DRESS
Business Casual

BIOS
Peter Francese
Peter Francese is a widely recognized demographics and consumer markets expert. He started American Demographics Magazine and speaks and writes frequently on demographic and consumer trends. His most recent book is titled: Marketing Insights to Help Your Business Grow. Francese has also authored two other books on how to better target consumer markets: Capturing Customers and Marketing Know-How, and was the co-author of Health Care Consumers. Francese was the creator and author of a weekly newspaper column called "People Patterns", which reported on demographic trends for a business audience. People Patterns had been syndicated in about 50 newspapers, but later appeared monthly in the six regional editions of The Wall Street Journal. In 1979 he founded and began publishing American Demographics magazine, which quickly became the nation's most authoritative source on consumer trends for business leaders and was nominated three times for a National Magazine Award. American Demographics is now part of Advertising Age magazine. He is the recipient of the Silver Bell Award from the Advertising Council for distinguished public service. He holds a graduate degree from Cornell University and has served two terms on the University President's Council. Among his other work, Francese is Demographic Trends Analyst for Ogilvy & Mather. Last year The New England Economic Partnership appointed him to be their Director of Demographic Forecasts.

Ross Gittell
Ross Gittell is James R.Carter Professor at the University of New Hampshire's Whittemore School of Business and Economics. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, M.B.A. from University of California at Berkeley, and A.B in Economics from the University of Chicago. Gittell is the author of two books, Renewing Cities (Princeton University Press, 1993) and Community Organizing: Building Social Capital as a Development Strategy (with Avis Vidal, Sage Publications, 1998). He is also the author of "Making Social Capital Work: Social Capital and Community Economic Development" (with Phil Thompson) in Susan Saegert, Phil Thompson and Mark Warren (eds.) Social Capital and Poor Communities (New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2002) and "Business Development and Entrepreneurship in the Inner City," (with Phil Thompson) in William Dickens and Ronald Ferguson (editors), Research Frontiers in Community Development (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institute, 1998) and has published in numerous academic journals including the New England Economic Review, Economic Development Quarterly, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Regional Studies, National Civic Review and Journal of Entrepreneurial and Small Business Finance. In 2002 Professor Gittell received the University of New Hampshire's Excellence in Public Service award. Gittell's research and policy activities in New Hampshire include work for the state of New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Business Industry Association, the NH Charitable Foundation, the NH Small Development Center, Children's Alliance of New Hampshire and the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy on economic development, income disparity and fiscal issues. Professor Gittell is also currently engaged as the principal investigator on a three-year sponsored research project funded by the United States Department of Commerce. The project involves an economic valuation of innovations in weather and air quality forecasts on the energy and other industries. Professor Gittell is Vice President, forecast manager and on the board of the New England Economic Project. He is also on the board of the Exeter Trust Company and Network NH and is a member of the New Hampshire Consensus Review Estimating Committee and the New Hampshire Task Force on Philanthropy.

Steve Norton
Steve is the Deputy Director of the NH Center for Public Policy Studies. Between 1998 and 2006, Steve worked for the NH Department of Health and Human Services in a variety of capacities. As Medicaid director, he focused on efforts to modernize the Medicaid program through the use of private sector best practices. Prior to that role, he directed the Office of Policy and Analysis and the Department's efforts to use information in decision-making. Between 1990 and 1998, Steve worked as a Research Associate at the Urban Institute in Washington DC where he conducted health services research and published extensively. An avid Nordic skier, Steve has coached the NH Eastern High School team for the last 5 years.