8:00am – Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 – Welcome and Opening Remarks
David Terry, Managing Director, NASEO
John F. Nunley, III, Chairman, NASEO
Denise Swink, Director, Office of Energy Assurance, U.S. Department of Energy

8:45 – Winter Weather Forecast
Michael Halpert, Head of Forecast Operations, Climate Prediction Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

9:00 – World Oil Market Outlook
Katherine Spector, Energy Strategist, Commodity Sales and Trading, Deutsche Bank

9:45 – The View from Washington: A Legislative and Regulatory Energy Forecast
Andrew Parmentier, Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group, Inc.

10:15 – Break

10:30 – EIA Heating Fuels Overview
Guy Caruso, Administrator, Energy Information Administration
(Includes Press Conference)

11:30 – Propane Supply and Demand Forecast
Ron Gist, Principal, Purvin & Gertz, Inc.

12:00 – Keynote Luncheon

1:30 – Natural Gas Supplies: The Near to Long-Term Outlook
Bruce Henning, Director, Regulatory and Market Analysis, Energy and Environmental Analysis, Inc

2:15 – The Future of LNG
Shirley Neff, Senior Advisor, Goldwyn International Strategies, LLC (Invited)

2:45 – Break

3:00 – Distillate Supply Issues
Cheryl Trench, President, Allegro Energy Consulting

3:30 – Communications and Response Plans: The Federal-State Energy Emergency Response
Pending

4:30 – Discussion and Wrap-up
John Nunley, III, Chairman, NASEO