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Pollster and bestselling author John Zogby discusses the 2016 election and insights about
the millennial generation.
“The United States was walking away from manufacturing,”
Mulally said. “Seventy percent of all the research and development in
the world and in the United States is associated with manufacturing.
No country has ever been prosperous for a long time if they didn’t
have a really strong innovation and research and development
manufacturing economy.”
a full schedule
T h e Po l i c y S u m m i t
k i c ke d o f f Tu e s d a y
with the traditional
The three-day Policy Summit agenda includes time
outdoors at the beautiful Suncadia Resort.
golf tournament to benefit
Washington Business Week.
Afterward, attendees mingled and tasted Washington-made hard
cider at the evening welcoming reception.
Wednesday’s main event began with a talk by Gov. Jay Inslee,
who discussed AWB’s collaboration with many other bipartisan
groups who worked successfully to help the state pass its first
transportation package in 10 years.
Longtime Seattle sportscaster Tony Ventrella spoke about the
power of teamwork — and answered a few football questions in his
current capacity as digital media host for the Seattle Seahawks.
Morning panel discussions featured business and leadership
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pharmaceutical innovator Leen Kawas, CEO of M3 Biotechnology.
Born in Jordan and educated at Washington State University, she is
now part of the flourishing life sciences field in Washington.
“It’s a very important industry,” Kawas said, “because we are truly
solving problems that people face today.”
Salina Savage, a founder and co-owner of Savage Logistics,
discussed how she inspected transportation companies for the
Department of Energy at Hanford, then decided that instead of
at a glance
For the first time ever, the Policy Summit featured two separate discussion tracks. While
senators, representatives and mayors talked
public policy in one room, employers talked
high-tech manufacturing, cybersecurity and
education in another. (Short video highlights
from each of the breakout sessions are online
at www.bit.ly/PS15-breakouts)
The Policy Summit was a return to Washington for keynote speaker Alan Mulally, who
spent 37 years at Boeing before being called
to serve as CEO and president of the Ford
Motor Co.
Gov. Jay Inslee opened his talk with praise
for Washington’s newly passed $16 billion
transportation investment and reform
package, which has been a key AWB
legislative priority.
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