2025 Summer Conference Preliminary Agenda

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Tuesday, July 8 - Skill Building Day 

9:00 am - 5:00 pm - Registration 

10:00 am - 11:00 am - Funding Infrastructure Projects 

11:00 am - 12:00 pm - City/County Managers Contracts & Evaluations 

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm - Networking Lunch 

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm - Council-Manager Relations via Tactical Strategies (Orientation, Workplans/Goal Setting, Meetings)

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm - Panel Q&A with Experienced & New City Managers

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm - Networking Break 

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm - What You Need to Know about HR

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm - Welcome Reception & New Attendee Mingle 

6:00 pm - 8:30 pm - Dinner on Your Own 


Wednesday, July 9

7:30 am - 5:00 pm - Registration 

7:35 am - 6:00 pm - Sponsor Exhibits Open 

8:00 am - 9:00 am - Continental Breakfast 

9:00 am - 10:30 am - Keynote: Joe Brown - Why are Most Teams Ordinary and a Select Few ELITE? What's Different and How to get it.... 

10:30 am - 10:45 am - Break 

10:45 am - 11:45 am - Building Belonging: A Networking Session with Purpose

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm - Networking Lunch 

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm - Reimagining Elected Essentials: Innovating Training for Oregon's Leaders 

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm - Snack Break 

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm - Tour option 1: OSU Cascade & Innovation District Tour 

                Tour option 2: Bend Core Area Redevelopment Tour

1:00 pm - 5:00 pm - OCCMA Board of Directors Meeting 

6:00 pm - 8:30 pm - President's Reception and Dinner, Worthy Brewing Company 


Thursday, July 10 

7:30 am - 4:30 pm - Registration 

7:30 am - 5:00 pm - Sponsor Exhibits Open 

8:00 am - 9:00 am - Continental Breakfast 

8:00 am - 9:00 am - Veterans Committee Meeting

9:00 am - 10:00 am - Communication Techniques Surrounding the Budget Process 

10:00 am - 11:00 am - Generative AI: A Practical Guide for Cities and Counties 

11:00 am - 11:15 am - Break 

11:15 am - 12:15 am - Alternative Services Delivery of Local Government Services 

12:15 pm - 1:30 pm - Working Lunch, LOC Legislative Update

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm - Ethics Court 

1:00 pm - 5:00 pm - Golf Tournament 

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm - Snack Break 

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm - Tour option 1: Bend UGB & Affordable Housing Tour 

        Tour option 2: Downtown Sisters Tour

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm - Women in Leadership Reception 

6:00 pm - 8:30 pm - Dinner on Your Own 


Friday, July 11 

8:30 am - 9:00 am - Breakfast and Networking 

9:00 am - 10:00 am - Moving the Needle on Housing 

10:00 am - 11:00 am - Stronger Together: Reflections from AOC and LOC on the 2025 Legislative Session and Local Government Advocacy in Salem 

Sponsor/vendor Information

The exhibitor area will open on Wednesday, July 9, at 7:35 a.m. and close on Thursday, July 10, at 5:00 p.m. Sponsors can either have a table during this event or opt not to. If you're a potential sponsor interested in sponsoring the 2025 OCCMA Summer Conference, please contact Claire Wilson at cwilson@orcities.org. Thank you to all our sponsors!  

2024 Summer Conference Schedule and Handouts

The 2024 Summer Conference schedule and handouts can be accessed here

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