7:30-11 a.m.
502A
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Professional Development Preconference: Supercharge Your Talent
Convention Center
7:30–8 a.m: Breakfast and Introductions
8-9:15 a.m.: What’s Your Blind Spot?
What’s your blind spot and how does it impact the decisions you make, the conversations you carry and your behavior toward others? Learn how to spot your hidden preferences and find strategies for overcoming these blind spots when working with colleagues and others in the legislature.
Speaker: Paul Meshanko, Legacy Business Cultures, Maryland
9:15-10:15 a.m.: The Balanced Life: Your Most Productive Self at the Legislature
Working in a legislative environment is exciting, challenging, always changing, and often, chaotic. How do you maintain a healthy stress level while juggling all the responsibilities of your role at the capitol? Learn from a top mindfulness executive how to live a balanced and productive professional life while maintaining a happy, healthy mindset.
Speaker: Dr. Megan Jones Bell, Headspace, California
10:15-10:30 a.m.: Break
10:30–11:30 a.m. How to Conquer Your Fear of Failure and Minimize Your Risk
Failure can lead us to the best personal and organizational results. Most of us have failed at something, then been embarrassed. For some, we stop trying new things. Yet others embrace their failures and turn them into successes. Explore the need for failure and risk, creating an environment where it's safe to fail and ways to flip the negative impression of failure. Learn to see failure as a developmental process, and how you can embrace the results and turn them around.
Speaker: Curt Stedron, NCSL
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7 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
South Lobby
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Summit Registration
Los Angeles Convention Center
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1-4 p.m.
Hall JH
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Summit Exhibit Hall Open
Los Angeles Convention Center |
11:15 a.m.-Noon
301B
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LSS Business Meeting and Lunch
Los Angeles Convention Center
Have lunch and meet with the Leadership Staff association Executive Committee. Vote for Incoming officers and directors, watch the presentation of the Legislative Staff Achievement Awards, sign up to be on the next year’s committees and more.
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Noon-1:15
304 ABC
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Summit New Attendee Orientation
Los Angeles Convention Center
First time at the Summit? Grab a box lunch and attend this interactive orientation and learn how to navigate your way through the meeting. Learn about the business meeting, deep dive sessions, and tips to help you make the most of your time in LA.
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1:15-3 p.m.
Hall K
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General Session: State Networking Event and CEO Forum: The Next Generation of Innovation
Los Angeles Convention Center
1:15 pm–1:45 pm: State Networking Event
Find your state table and connect with fellow Summit attendees from your state.
1:45 pm–3:00 pm: CEO Forum: The Next Generation of Innovation
Hear from leading technology CEOs about the next generation of innovation and how tech will play an active role in identifying our country’s most promising opportunities and solving its biggest challenges. The conversation will address key policy issues facing the tech industry and legislative bodies, and ways to spur innovation and job creation across America. NCSL is pleased to offer this general session in conjunction with TechNet, the voice of the innovation economy.
Moderator: Andrea Deveau, TechNet, California
Panelist: Tim Chen, Nerdwallet, California
Panelist: Brynne Kennedy, Topia, California
Panelist: Marco Zappacosta, Thumbtack, California
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3:15-4:30 p.m.
403 AB
402 AB
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The U.S. Supreme Court has had a busy year of cases, many of which have meaningful implications for states. Attendees will explore these cases—from gerrymandering and elections to religious and gay rights, sports gambling and online sales taxes—and gain insider information about our nation’s highest court.
Moderator: Representative Timothy R. Johns, South Dakota
Speaker: Lisa Soronen, State & Local Legal Center, Washington, D.C.
- Writing Short: A Workshop
The digital era is fundamentally changing the way we communicate. As it does, legislative communicators and others are working to adapt their writing to social media and other digital platforms. How do you tell your story and communicate your message in new, much more succinct ways? Learn from an expert who has mastered the art of writing short.
Speaker: Sam Parr, Founder, The Hustle, California
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4-5:15 p.m.
502 B
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Changing Revenue Landscape
State revenue streams have become increasingly volatile, and revenue estimating has become more challenging for states. Hear Lucy Dadayan with the Rockefeller Institute of Government discuss revenue volatility and recent trends in state finances.
Speaker: Lucy Dadayan, Rockefeller Institute of Government, New York
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4:45-5:30 p.m.
501 ABC
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Security and Emergency Response Systems for Legislatures
Learn about and discuss best practices for security and emergency notification systems in legislatures.
Moderator: Peter Capriglione, North Carolina General Assembly
Panelist: Martin Brock, North Carolina General Assembly
Panelist: Anthony (Steve) Pike, Virginia Legislature
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5:30-7 p.m. |
Opening Reception
JW Marriott at L.A. Live
Meet us at JW Marriott LA LIVE!
Feel the vibrancy of Los Angeles with the opening reception at the JW Marriott LA LIVE! Feel as though you’ve been transported to wine country as you experience a California wine tasting inside the Gold Ballroom. As you make your way outside, you’ll enjoy sights and sounds typical of LA’s iconic Olvera Street. Revel in the LA sunshine while networking with peers at this exciting event that is within walking distance of the convention center. You must have your badge to enter.
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