2016 Maritime Industry Economic Breakfast - 11/18 at Pacific Marine Expo

Click HERE for more details and to register. 

ABOUT THE BREAKFAST   
Join the Seattle Propeller Club, the Port of Seattle, North Seattle Industrial Association, the Seattle Marine Business Coalition, Washington Maritime Federation, Port of Seattle Marine Exchange of Puget Sound, Northwest Marine Trade Association, Pacific Merchant Shipping Association, and King County maritime businesses for the 2016 Maritime Industry Economic Forecast Breakfast at Pacific Marine Expo.  Corporate breakfast partners: American Seafoods, Compass Courses Maritime Training, Crowley Maritime, Economic Development Council of Seattle and King County, Foss Maritime, Harley Marine Services, Kane Environmental, Maxum Petroleum, Miller Nash Graham & Dunn, Pacific Fishermen Shipyard & Electric, Vigor and Washington Maritime Federation.

The purpose of the breakfast is to bring leaders together to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the area’s workboat and fishing industries and to showcase our region’s important maritime industry.  Last year’s Maritime Industry Economic Forecast Breakfast attracted more than 300 top labor, business, local and federal government and community leaders.  

2016 Program

2016 Speakers
Roger Millar, Washington Secretary of Transportation (confirmed)
Brian Bonlender Director, Washington Commerce Department (invited)
Fred Felleman, Port of Seattle Commissioner (confirmed)
John Wolfe, CEO, The Northwest Seaport Alliance, and CEO Port of Tacoma (confirmed)
Port of Seattle Commission President John Creighton, (invited)
Joshua Berger, Washington State Maritime Sector Lead (confirmed)
Mark Gleason, Washington Maritime Federation Director (confirmed)

Economic Forecast Presentations
Modernization of the North Pacific Fishing Fleet (confirmed)
Update of Maritime Industry Cluster Study (confirmed)

Emcee:
Jerry Fraser, Publisher, WorkBoat and National Fisherman magazines (confirmed)


WHEN/WHERE:
8 – 10 a.m., Friday, November 18, 2016
West Club Lounge
CenturyLink Field Event Center

To reach the West Club Lounge, you can either enter from the Occidental Street Entrance (just north of the Event Center) or via the Event Center Parking Garage Entrance at the north end of the 5th Floor.  We'll have directional signage for the event.

Following the breakfast, guests are invited to tour the Pacific Marine Expo, the West Coast’s largest commercial marine trade show. Your name badge will provide free admission.

PRICE
$60 per ticket
Tables of 10 - $600

We encourage you to invite elected officials and government staff to attend the breakfast and then to give them a tour of the Pacific Marine Expo show floor.  32% of the 550 PME exhibitors are based in King County!

NOTE: Registration for the 2016 Maritime Industry Economic Forecast Breakfast does not include registration to the Pacific Marine Expo.  Breakfast attendees must register separately to attend the Expo. To register for the Pacific Marine Expo click here

For reservation questions contact Polly Lynch at (206) 443-3830 or polly@marexps.com

INTERESTED IN BECOME A SPONSOR OF THE BREAKFAST?
Gold Sponsorship - $1,000
10 tickets for a table at the breakfast with preferred table location, recognition by the breakfast emcee and company logo on the event PowerPoint presentation.  Company logo on a full page ad in Pacific Marine Expo program; on a banner in the Pacific Marine Expo registration area; on the King County Maritime website; and, on the brochure distributed at the breakfast.
 
Silver Sponsorship - $500
5 tickets for the breakfast with preferred seating, recognition by the breakfast emcee and company name on the event PowerPoint presentation. Company name on the brochure distributed at the breakfast and your logo on the King County Maritime website.

Sponsorship Details:
Ken Saunderson, (206) 282-6858 or Ken@SaundersonMarketingGroup.com