(exact times and panelists are subject to change)
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10:00 – 10:15
Welcome from VCOG’s president Craig Fifer and Williamsburg City Manager Jack Tuttle
10:15 – 11:25
PANEL 1: Lax: Are Virginia’s laws as bad as they say?
Sarah Bryner, Center for Responsive Politics
Vivian Paige, Political observer
Gordon Witkin, Center for Public Integrity
11:30 – 1:10
Lunch, VCOG’s annual open-government awards and featured speaker
Aneesh Chopra, former U.S. Chief Technology Officer and Virginia Secretary of Technology
1:15 – 2:25
PANEL 2: The Virginia Way: Time for a new path?
Benson Dendy, Vectre Corporation
Waldo Jaquith, Open Virginia
Gordon Morse, Political observer
Ginger Stanley, Virginia Press Association
2:30 – 3:00
Speaker: Lt. Governor Bill Bolling
3:00 – 4:00
PANEL 3: Reform: What does the future hold?
Ernie Gates, Stars & Stripes
Quentin Kidd, Christopher Newport University
Brian Schoneman, Bearing Drift
Julian Walker, Virginian-Pilot