Thank you for your interest in the Energy Ocean Conference & Exhibition. Due to a lack of sufficient time to plan a suitable event for the market, Energy Ocean has been postponed for 2015. It will not take place June 2-4, 2015 in Portland, Maine. Please stay tuned for future announcements regarding the event’s timing. Energy Ocean is your opportunity to meet with Energy Producers, Technology Developers, Policy Makers, Scientists, Eng...

The Office of Infrastructure Protection (IP) cordially invites you to participate in the Maine Climate Change Adaptation Tabletop Exercise (TTX) to be held on May 7th from 8:30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. This Tabletop Exercise (TTX) will employ the Third National Climate Assessment (NCA 3) and the Climate Resilience Toolkit (CRT) to lead Federal, State, local, and private sector stakeholders through the Five Step Climate Change Adaptation Planning Proces...

Facilitation is a skill that promotes effective and efficient use of time, people and energy and provides a deliberate process that leads to specific outcomes. If you work with teams or citizen or staff groups you will gain strategies that will make those meetings productive. This workshop features multiple opportunities for each participant to practice new tools and receive feedback. Participants leave with invaluable core facilitation skills.

THIS IS NOT A TACTICAL TRAINING COURSE Given today's ever-changing threat environement, preparing for and training employees to cope with workplace violence should be a key piece of an organization's incident response planning. A Unique Training Opportunity Concordia University and the National Protection and Programs Directorate Office of Infrastructure Protection within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are hosting a one-day Security...

AWRA, the premier multidisciplinary water resources professional society, is coming to Portland, OR, for its 48th Annual Water Resources Conference. The AWRA Annual Conference hosts a diverse group of water resources professionals who present their latest research and case studies, discuss current hot topics, and share new ideas. Conference attendance is usually between 400-500 people. Important Dates General Call for Abstracts (with accepted...

And the winner is…open sourceCome celebrate 15 years of OSCON and open source success Join us July 22-26 at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2013 in Portland, Oregon. We know you won't want to miss it: we're celebrating the 15th anniversary of OSCON, and it's going to be an extraordinary experience. OSCON is the must-attend gathering of the best and brightest minds in technology, an opportunity to challenge your assumptions and spark...

Uncertain how public records and open meetings laws apply to you? Find out what Oregon law has to say about balancing the public's right to information with the individual's right to privacy. If you're involved with a public entity or if you represent the media, you need to know the ins and outs of federal and state public records and open meetings laws. Join us for this seminar and you'll get updates on recent developments in the interpretati...

ACORE is conducting regional outreach throughout the country to further mobilize our member thought-leaders on federal, state and regional energy planning and public policy, and to provide a new channel for peer collaboration. Renewable resources in the U.S. are not aligned according to state boundaries. Policy guiding use of renewable energy is set at the Federal, state and local levels of government, however, while renewable energy solutions...

Non-hydro renewable electricity generation has doubled in the last four years and nearly half of all the new electrical generating capacity installed in the United States in 2012 came from renewable energy sources. Utilities across the U.S. are employing a host of strategies to integrate renewable energy into their operating systems. This Forum will examine these strategies and the opportunities and challenges related to the expanded use of re...

The OpenStack Summit is a four-day conference for OpenStack developers, ecosystem members, service providers and enterprise users. Attendees can expect industry-leading keynote speakers, 150+ breakout sessions, hands-on workshops, collaborative design sessions and lots of networking over the four days.Keynote sessions and the majority of breakout sessions will take place Tuesday and Wednesday. The Design Summit, a special track for active tech...