Speaker List for PPMRN Conference

The First Annual Public Performance Measurement and Reporting Network Conference will be held November 2-3, 2007 (see link on left-hand panel under "conferences"). PPMRN has just released the list of speakers and topics for the conference:

• Dr. MARC HOLZER Dean of the School of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers, Campus at Newark Roundtable Discussion “The Increasing Momentum for Performance Measurement and Improvement”
• MIKE LAWSON Executive Director, ICMA Center for Performance Measurement "Leadership, Management and the Role of Performance Measurement"
• HOWARD ROHM Executive Director, The Balanced Scorecard Institute "Managing for Results Using the Balanced Scorecard"
• MICHAEL JACOBSON Performance Management Director, King County Executive Office "Integrating Community Indicators and Agency Performance Measures: King County's AIMs High Website"
• STEVAN GORCESTER Executive Director Washington State Transportation Improvement Board "Transportation Improvement Board Dashboard: Performance Measurement Software"
• EMIL TURC AND MARCEL GUENOUN Institut de Management Public et Gouvernance Territoriale "Benchmark Implementation in Inter-organizational settings: A Study of Emerging Comparative Practices in French Inter-Communal Organizations"
• BILL TOMES Institute for Public Service and Policy Research University of South Carolina, "Performance Measurement Project with EMS Providers in South Carolina"
• BARBARA COHN BERMAN Vice President, Fund for the City of New York "Citizen Participation in Performance Measurement"
• MICHELLE THOMAS Director of Innovation and Performance Management, City of Newark, New Jersey "Newark Performance Measurement Initiatives"
• EVEANNA BARRY Director of Performance Reporting, Advancing Government Accountability "Service Efforts and Accomplishments (SEA) Reporting Program"
• DR. ERIC SCORSONE Michigan State University "Impact of State Mandates and Administrative Discretion on local Government Benchmarking Performance"
• REAGAN BURKHOLDER Summit Collaborative Advisors "Pitfalls and Problems of Making Comparisons Among Municipalities"
• DR. KATHE CALLAHAN, DR. KATHRYN KLOBY, And CHARLOTTE KAHN Rutgers-Newark, Monmouth University, and Boston Indicators Project "Internal and External Perspectives: Collaborating to Strengthen the Relevance of Performance Measurement"
• CHERYL HUBER Director of Research, New Yorkers for Parks, The Arthur Ross Center for Parks and Open Spaces "2007 Report Card on Beaches"
• DR. KENNETH A. SMITH Willamette University "Evaluating Performance Reports with AGA Criteria"
• THEODORE E. SHOGRY Performance Improvement Manager, City of Albuquerque "Strategic Planning and Budgeting, Citizen Participation, and Performance Measurement"
• DR. YUKO J. Nakanishi Nakanishi Research and Consulting "Strategic Benchmarking: Methods and Practices"
• ALICIA SCHATTEMAN Rutgers-Newark "Lessons to be learned: Municipal Performance Reporting in Ontario"
• RON PERRY, Deputy County Auditor, King County, Washington "Performance Measurement in King County, Washington State"
• CONSTANCE B. BOWENS Baruch College "Improving Public Higher Education Systems through Performance Management: An Examination of the Kansas Board of Regents' Performance Agreement Project"
• HYUN AH CHO “Application of Expectancy Disconfirmation Model of Citizen Satisfaction to Community Policing"
• DANIEL BROMBERG & SUNJOO KWAK National Center for Public Performance "New Jersey Municipal Performance Measurement System: Development and Implementation"
• NEW JERSEY MEADOWLANDS COMMISSION "Implementing a Strategic Plan: Goals, Indicators, Tracking”

This looks like it will be a fantastic conference. Here's the registration information:

Registration:

Please send an email with the following information to: ppmrn@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Information to include in email:

Name of Attendee(s) / Title(s)
Organization
Mailing Address
Phone Number
Email Address

An Invoice will be emailed (please specify whether a hard copy is required by your organization)

Rates include a continental breakfast and lunch on both days of the conference, and a reception on Friday evening
Individual Rate $95.
Group Rate $75.(3 or more )
Student Rate $25.

*Conference registration requires a free Network membership. By registering for the conference you will be automatically registered for the Public Performance Measurement and Reporting Network (http://ppmrn.net/).