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Key

 C:  Twenty-First Century Preservation: Cultivating Broader Perspectives  

 E:  The Money Tree: Sowing the Seeds of Economic Development  

 P:  Training New Growth: Planning for Change in Historic Contexts  

 T:  Tending to the Technical: Best Practices in Building Preservation 

 I:  New Shoots in Old Ground: Industrial Roots and Reuse
 T = Tickets Required (not included in Regular Registration)  

THURSDAY, MAY 3
8:00 am–12:00 pm	Registration	Registration and Exhibitor Set-up
9:00 am–12:30 pm	Study Tour	Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park T
9:00 am–12:30 pm	Study Tour	From the Fox to Pflueger - Golden Age of Theaters in California T
9:00 am–12:30 pm	Study Tour	Rebuilding Community Through Urban Agriculture T
9:00 am–12:30 pm	Workshop	Is Newer Better? Using Substitute Materials in Historic Preservation Projects T
9:00 am–5:00 pm	Study Tour	Oakland's Food Industries: A Behind-the-Scenes Tour T
10:00 am–3:00 pm	Forum	Local Government Forum T
12:00–6:00pm	Registration	Registration, Bookstore, Auction and Preservation Products & Practice Exhibit Hall
1:30–5:00 pm	Study Tour	WWII to Present – Adaptively Re-Using Structures of the Past T
1:30–5:00 pm	Study Tour	The Balancing Act in East Bay Regional Parks T
1:30–5:00 pm	Study Tour	Historic Homes of Oakland T
1:30–5:00 pm	Workshop	Snapshot in Time: Designation and Documentation Programs in the Digital Era T
1:30–5:00 pm	Workshop	Successful Rehabilitation Tax Credit Applications: Advice and Examples T
5:30­–7:30 pm	Event	Opening Reception at the Rotunda T
8:30–10:30 pm	Event	Emerging Professionals Reception T
FRIDAY, MAY 4
8:00 am–6:00 pm	Registration	Registration, Bookstore, Auction and Preservation Products & Practice Exhibit Hall
9:00–10:30 am	Event	Opening Plenary Session at First Unitarian Church of Oakland
11:00 am–12:30 pm	Special Session	Design Roundtable: Tending the Crop
11:00 am–12:30 pm	Special Session	Preservation 101
11:00 am–12:30 pm	Tour	Old Town Oakland Walking Tour T
2:00–3:30 pm	Session	Cultural and Ethnic Significance	C
2:00–3:30 pm	Session	Fire and Life Safety Upgrades of Historic Buildings	T
2:00–3:30 pm	Session	Whizzing Rockets and Cold War Paranoia: Modern Age Evaluation Methodologies	I
2:00–5:15 pm	Mobile Session	UC Berkeley Campus: Development through Time T	P
2:00–5:15 pm	Mobile Session	Rocking and Rolling in Uptown: How the Fox Theater Renovation Spurred Reinvestment T	E
3:45–5:15 pm	Session	Tool Shed: Virtual Building Blocks for Historic Preservation	C
3:45–5:15 pm	Session	Pruning a Hospital to Grow Apartments at the Presidio, San Francisco	T
3:45–5:15 pm	Session	By Land, Air, and Sea: Transforming Big Industrial Buildings for 21st Century Uses	I
6:00–7: 30 pm	Invitation Only	President’s Circle Reception at Guy Hyde Chick House
8:00–10:30 pm	Event	Three-Minute Success Stories at Kaiser Center Lakeside Theater T
SATURDAY, MAY 5
8:00 am–7:30 pm	Registration	Registration, Bookstore, Auction and Preservation Products & Practice Exhibit Hall
9:00–10:30 am	Session	Pruning Public Parks: Landscapes Under Pressure to Perform	P
9:00–10:30 am	Session	Pier 70: A Study in Public-Private Partnership	E
9:00–10:30 am	Session	Transforming Spaces From Industry to Art	I
9:00 am–12:15 pm	Mobile Session	Affordable Housing: Successfully Combining HPTC and LIHTC T	C
9:00 am–12:15 pm	Mobile Session	Water and Wood as Frienemies at Wooden Window, Inc Factory T	T
10:45 am–12:15 pm	Session	New Tools in the Shed: Form-Based Codes and Community Character	P
10:45 am–12:15 pm	Session	What’s Next for Redevelopment Agencies in California	E
10:45 am–12:15 pm	Session	Food for Thought: Oakland along the Food Trail Waterfront	I
12:30–1:45 pm	Event	CPF Annual Membership Meeting at Washington Inn T
2:00–3:30 pm	Session	Mixed Uses Fabricated from Industrial Sites	P
2:00–3:30 pm	Session	Old Facades, New Investigative Tools	T
2:00–3:30 pm	Session	Economic Development Toolkit	E
2:00–5:15 pm	Mobile Session	Tour of the Mission Armory T	C
2:00–5:15 pm	Mobile Session	Industrial Waterfront Parks: Turning Grit into Green T	I
3:45–5:15 pm	Session	Grafted Stock: Evaluating Contemporary Additions	P
3:45–5:15 pm	Session	Get me to the Greek: Three Buildings, Three Seismic Retrofit Solutions at UC Berkeley	T
3:45–5:15 pm	Session	Learning from Viagra: Affecting the Supply and Demand Cycle in Favor of Reuse	E
5:15–7:30 pm	Event	Closing Fiesta Auction & Reception
7:30–8:30 pm	Tour	Necklace of Lights T
SUNDAY, MAY 6
9:00 am–12:30 pm	Study Tour	Ranches and Redwoods: Oakland’s Early History T

Conference Workshop, Session and Mobile Workshop Speakers (as of 2/9/12)

Peter Acworth, Owner, Kink.com, Tour of the Mission Armory – 1800 Mission Street, San Francisco

Monty Anderson, Principal, Cody Anderson Wasney Architects, UC Berkeley Campus: Development Through Time

Dave Armstrong, Principal &  Founder, Armstrong Real Estate Advisers, What’s Next for Redevelopment Agencies in California

Claire Ball, Oakland Standard Project Assistant, Oakland Museum of California, Tool Shed: Virtual Building Blocks for Historic Preservation

Karin Betts, Public Information Officer, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Post-Industrial Parks: Turning Grit into Green

        Tim Brandt, AIA, Senior Restoration Architect, California Office of Historic Preservation,           Successful Rehabilitation Tax Credit  Applications: Advice and Examples, Local                       Government Forum, Grafted Stock: Evaluating Contemporary Additions

Mike Buhler, Executive Director, San Francisco Architectural Heritage, Economic Development Toolkit

William Burg, State Historian, California Office of Historic Preservation, Snapshot in Time: Designation and Documentation Programs in the Digital Era

Kathryn Carroll, Senior Associate, Gensler, UC Berkeley Campus: Development Through Time

Jeff Chew, Oakland Redevelopment Agency, Rocking and Rolling in Uptown: How the   Fox Theater Renovation Spurred Reinvestment in one Oakland Neighborhood Economic Development Toolkit

Robert Clocker, Senior Associate, Perkins & Will, Pruning a Hospital to Grow Apartments at the Presidio, San Francisco

Laura Cole Rowe,  lauracolerowe consulting, What’s Next for Redevelopment Agencies in California

Denise Connley, Pier 70: A Study in Public-Private Partnership

Jay Correia, Supervisor, Registration Unit, California Office of Historic Preservation, Preservation 101 Snapshot in Time: Designation and Documentation Programs in the Digital Era

Martha Crusius, Project Manager, Cesar Chavez Special Resource Study, National Park Service, Cultural and Ethnic Significance

Karen Cusolito, Founder, American Steel, From Industry to Art

Roberta Deering, Sr.Planner for Historic Preservation, City of Sacramento, Community Development Dept., Pruning Public Parks: Landscapes Under Pressure to Perform

Julianna Delgado, MArch, PhD, AICP, Associate Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, New Tools in the Shed: Form-Based Codes and Community Character

Christina Dikas, Architectural Historian, Page & Turnbull, Whizzing Rockets and Cold War Paranoia:  Modern Age Evaluation Methodologies

Kathleen Diohep, Project Manager, Port of San Francisco, Pier 70: A Study in Public-Private Partnership

Cheryl Domnitch, Senior Fire Protection Engineer, Hughes Associates, Fire and Life Safety Upgrades of Historic Buildings

Alan Dreyfuss, Associate Principal, Wiss Janney Elstner, Fire and Life Safety Upgrades of Historic Buildings

Dan Eilbeck, Associate Principal, Wiss Janney Elstner, Old Facades, New Investigative Tools

Adam Engelskirchen, Director for Real Estate, Presidio Trust, Learning from Viagra – affecting the supply and demand cycle in favor of reuse

Mark English, Principal, Mark English Architects, Tool Shed: Virtual Building Blocks for Historic Preservation

Bill Essert, President, Wooden Window, Water and Wood as Frienemies: Repairing Wood Windows and Testing for Performance

Chris Fedukowski,  CFC - Distinctive Sustainable Development, Rocking and Rolling in Uptown: How the Fox Theater Renovation Spurred Reinvestment in one Oakland Neighborhood

David Friedman, Principal, Forrell Elsessor, Get me to the Greek: Three Buildings, Three Seismic Retrofit Solutions at UC Berkeley

Tim Frye, Preservation Coordinator, San Francisco Planning Department, Tour of the Mission Armory – 1800 Mission Street, San Francisco

Mike Garavaglia, Principal, Garavaglia Architecture, What’s Next for Redevelopment Agencies in California

David Gazek, Director of Economics, AECOM, Learning from Viagra – affecting the supply and demand cycle in favor of reuse

Erin Gettis, Historic Preservation Officer, City of Riverside, Cultural and Ethnic Significance

Meg Glynn,  Page & Turnbull, Grafted Stock: Evaluating Contemporary Additions

Catherine Gudis, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Public History Program, University of California Riverside,, Cultural and Ethnic Significance

Karana Hattersly-Drayton, Historic Preservation Project Manager, City of Fresno, Planning Dept., Pruning Public Parks: Landscapes Under Pressure to Perform

Sarah Hayden, Lawyer, Law Office of Sarah K. Hayden, Economic Development Toolkit

Jim Horner, Landscape Architect, UC Berkeley Campus Landscape Architect, UC Berkeley – Capital Projects, UC Berkeley Campus: Development Through Time

Mark Horton, Architect, Mark Horton Architecture, By Land, Air, and Sea: Transforming Big Industrial Buildings for 21st Century Uses

Mark Huck, AIA, Restoration Architect, California Office of Historic Preservation, Successful Rehabilitation Tax Credit  Applications: Advice and Examples

Elaine Jackson-Retondo, Acting History Program Manager, National Park Service, Western Regional Office, Snapshot in Time: Designation and Documentation Programs in the Digital Era

Laura Jones, Director, Stanford University Heritage Services and Special Projects, Whizzing Rockets and Cold War Paranoia:  Modern Age Evaluation Methodologies

Bevan Jones, Principal Fire Engineer, Holmes Fire, Fire and Life Safety Upgrades of Historic Buildings

Frederic Knapp, Principal, Knapp&Ver Planck, UC Berkeley Campus: Development Through Time; Affordable Housing: Successfully Combining HPTC and LITHC;  Successful Rehabilitation Tax Credit  Applications: Advice and Examples  

Erik Kneer, Associate Principal, Degenkolb Engineers, Post-Industrial Parks: Turning Grit into Green

Marc L’Italien, Architect, EHDD, By Land, Air, and Sea: Transforming Big Industrial Buildings for 21st Century Uses

Shannon Lauchner, State Historian, California Office of Historic Preservation, Local Government Forum

Janelle Leafblad, Sr. Staff I – Building Technology, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, Water and Wood as Frienemies: Repairing Wood Windows and Testing for Performance

Don Libbey, Senior Project Manager, Plant Construction, Pruning a Hospital to Grow Apartments at the Presidio, San Francisco

Jim Lindberg, Senior Field Officer, Denver Field Office, National Trust for Historic Preservation, New Tools in the Shed: Form-Based Codes and Community Character

Reuben Lombardo, Project Manager, Spectra Company, Is Newer Better? Using Substitute Materials in Historic Preservation Projects

Joe Maffei, Principal, Rutherford Chekene, Get me to the Greek: Three Buildings, Three Seismic Retrofit Solutions at UC Berkeley

Meredith Manning, Senior Planner, Mid-peninsula Regional Open Space District, Whizzing Rockets and Cold War Paranoia:  Modern Age Evaluation Methodologies

David Mar, Principal, Tipping Mar, Get me to the Greek: Three Buildings, Three Seismic Retrofit Solutions at UC Berkeley

Emily Marthinsen, Campus Planner, UC Berkeley U.C. Berkeley, Physical and Environmental Planning/Capital Projects, UC Berkeley Campus: Development Through Time

Betty Marvin, Historic Preservation Planner, City of Oakland/CEDA, Food for Thought:  Oakland Along the Food Trail Waterfront

Brandon McCormick, Manager of Corporate Communications & Public Policy, Facebook, Tool Shed: Virtual Building Blocks for Historic Preservation

Chandler McCoy (TBD),  Presidio Trust, By Land, Air, and Sea: Transforming Big Industrial Buildings for 21st Century Uses

Mark McMillan, Architectural Conservator, Architectural Resources Group, Is Newer Better? Using Substitute Materials in Historic Preservation Projects

Naomi Miroglio, Principal, Architectural Resources Group, Affordable Housing: Successfully Combining HPTC and LITHC, Successful Rehabilitation Tax Credit  Applications: Advice and Examples 

Nicole Neditch, Cultural Funding Coordinator, City of Oakland, From Industry to Art

Marie Nelson, State Historian, California Office of Historic Preservation, Local Government Forum

Andrea Osgood, Project Manager, Eden Housing, Affordable Housing: Successfully Combining HPTC and LITHC

Dan Parolek, AIA, Principal, Opticos, New Tools in the Shed: Form-Based Codes and Community Character

Ronald Parsons, State Historian, California Office of Historic Preservation, Local Government Forum

Jane Pojawa, Communications Director, Friends of the Michael White Adobe, Tool Shed: Virtual Building Blocks for Historic Preservation

Fred Pollack, Partner, Van Meter Williams Pollack, Affordable Housing: Successfully Combining HPTC and LITHC

Margot Prado, Senior Business Development Specialist, City of Oakland/CEDA, Food for Thought:  Oakland Along the Food Trail Waterfront

Leslie Pritchett, Co-Director, Friends of The Gateway (FOG), Post-Industrial Parks: Turning Grit into Green

Carol Roland, Ph.D.,  Senior Historian, Mead & Hunt, Inc., Pruning Public Parks: Landscapes Under Pressure to Perform

Jenan Saunders, Acting Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer, California Office of Historic Preservation, Preservation 101

Stephen Schafer, Owner/Photographer, HABSPHOTO.com, Snapshot in Time: Designation and Documentation Programs in the Digital Era

Kurt Schindler, Principal, ELS Architecture, Rocking and Rolling in Uptown: How the Fox Theater Renovation Spurred Reinvestment in one Oakland Neighborhood

Carolyn Searls, Senior Principal, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, Old Facades, New Investigative Tools, Pruning a Hospital to Grow Apartments at the Presidio 

Smitha Seshadri, Senior Project Manager, BRIDGE Housing Corporation, Affordable Housing: Successfully Combining HPTC and LITHC

Richard Sinkoff, Director of Environmental Programs and Planning, Port of Oakland, Post-Industrial Parks: Turning Grit into Green

Mary Slater, Associate Architectural Conservator, Architectural Resources Group, Is Newer Better? Using Substitute Materials in Historic Preservation Projects

Sandhya Sood, Principal, Accent Architecture, Mixed Uses Fabricated from Industrial Sites

Taryn Stubblefield, Senior Staff II, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, Old Facades, New Investigative Tools

Matt Taecker, Planner, Taecker Planning & Design, Mixed Uses Fabricated from Industrial Sites

Corey Teague, Planner, San Francisco Planning Department, Mixed Uses Fabricated from Industrial Sites

Rebecca Vogel,  Page & Turnbull, Grafted Stock: Evaluating Contemporary Additions

Richard Walker, Professor, College of Letters and Science/  Geography, UC Berkeley, Food for Thought:  Oakland Along the Food Trail Waterfront

Chris Wasney, Principal, Cody Anderson Wasney, Get me to the Greek: Three Buildings, Three Seismic Retrofit Solutions at UC Berkeley

Steve Wertheim, Planner, San Francisco Planning Department, Mixed Uses Fabricated from Industrial Sites

Ian Winters, Executive Director, Northern California  Land Trust, From Industry to Art

Marcy Wong, Architect, Marcy Wong Donn Logan Archtiects, By Land, Air, and Sea: Transforming Big Industrial Buildings for 21st Century Uses

Elizabeth Yost, Principal, Pyatok Architects, Affordable Housing: Successfully Combining HPTC and LITHC

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