BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Anchorage X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Anchorage BEGIN:VEVENT UID:236@alaskaworldaffairs.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20170512T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20170512T133000 DTSTAMP:20231222T085515Z URL:https://alaskaworldaffairs.org/archived-events/arctic-innovation/ SUMMARY:How Cool is That?: Innovation in the Arctic DESCRIPTION:Online registration for this program has closed. Remaining seat s will be sold on a first-come first-serve basis at event check-in startin g at 11:30am on Friday\, May 12th.\n\nGLOBAL ARCTIC INNOVATION\n\nSpecial Remarks by Norwegian Ambassador to the U.S. - Kåre R. Aas\nAmbassador Kå re R. Aas presented his credentials to President Obama at the White House on Sept. 17\, 2013.\n\nAmbassador Kåre R. Aas’s distinguished career wi th the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs began in 1983. He left his po sition in Oslo as Political Director in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to become the Norwegian Ambassador to the United States. Prior to his assign ment as Political Director\, Amb. Aas served as the Norwegian Ambassador t o the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan from 2008 – 2010. From 2003 – 20 08\, Amb. Aas served as Director General\, Department for Security Policy and the High North. In that capacity he had the bilateral relationships be tween Norway and the U.S.\, the Russian Federation and the Central Asian R epublics in his portfolio\, and chaired and/or was a member of several int ernational groups working on nuclear disarmament and international peaceke eping operations. From 2005 – 2007 he also served as Norwegian Governor to the International Atomic Energy Agency (I.A.E.A.) Board of Governors. A mb. Aas was born on May 25\, 1955 in Oslo\, Norway. He has three daughters and one son.\n\n NORWAY - Morten Brugård\, Senior Advisor\, Innovation N orway\nMorten Brugård is a senior advisor with Innovation Norway based in Vadsø\, Norway. Innovation Norway is the Norwegian Government's most imp ortant instrument for innovation and development of Norwegian enterprises and industry. Mr. Brugård is responsible for Innovation Norway’s Arctic 2030 scheme on behalf of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Throu gh the scheme 17\,5 million USD have been made available to strengthen bus iness cooperation with Russia and other Arctic states\, Nordic neighbors\, other European countries and others with an interest in the Arctic.\n\nMr . Brugård holds a BSc in Economics and an MSc in Strategy and Management from the Norwegian School of Economics. He was an exchange student in Russ ia where he learnt Russian language and studied Innovation and Entrepreneu rship at the Grad School of Management in St. Petersburg\, Russia. Mr. Bru gård also studied Business opportunities in North-West Russia at Universi ty of Nordland\, Contemporary Issues of the Circumpolar World at the Unive rsity of Tromsø and Understanding Chinese Foreign Policy Making at Peking University summer school. Mr. Brugård has also taken part in The Interna tional Visitor Leadership Program which is the U.S. Department of State’ s premier professional exchange program.\n\nPrior to joining Innovation No rway Mr. Brugard was project manager for an EU-program aiming to facilitat e cross border entrepreneurship between Sweden\, Finland\, Russia and Norw ay. Mr. Brugård’s background is in banking and finance.\nALASKAN ARCTIC INNOVATION\nJack Hébert is Founder and CEO of the Cold Climate Housing R esearch Center an organization committed to promoting safe\, affordable\, durable\, and energy efficient housing for cold climate regions For the pa st 40 years\, Jack has been designing and building in Interior Alaska thro ugh his companies Taiga Woodcraft and Hébert Homes. His homes and planned communities have created many high-quality\, well-designed\, environmenta lly appropriate\, and energy-efficient buildings. He has received numerous honors\, including the U.S. Green Building Council Cascadia Fellowship in recognition of his contributions to sustainable building\, design and sci ence\; the State of Alaska Governor's Award for Excellence in Energy Effic ient Design\; and the Energy Rated Homes President’s Award. He has twice been honored as the Alaska State Home Builder of the Year. Jack has held numerous leadership roles in the home building industry in Alaska and nati onally. He has been a speaker and host at many conferences\, has twice add ressed the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Energy\, and moderated the Circumpo lar Forum on Sustainable Shelter. His most recent international presentati ons have included Greenland\, Canada\, Norway\, Sweden and Russia.\n\nJack believes that only through a holistic approach can we create healthy\, th riving\, sustainable communities. Working together Alaskans have the deep commitment to place and the creative talent to create a healthy future for generations\n\nEd Morris is the designer and inventor of the eFISHient. T he eFISHient is a Portable/Floating Compact Cleaning Table to use when pro cessing fish and game. It also includes an anchor system which uses a cara biner snap link for easy on/off attachment to the table. The original thou ght for the eFISHient happened in early 2015 when there was a local newsca st about the upcoming dip netting season on the Kenai and Kasilof Rivers. One of the primary concerns in the story was the cleanup effort of the fis h remains being left on the beaches. A similar story in January of this ye ar was broadcast and this is when Ed put pencil to paper and designed the eFISHient. The design was completed in February with the prototype being b uilt and finished in April. Using the eFISHient will hopefully encourage t he dip netter(s) to dispose of the fish remains in the water\, and by doin g so will help reduce cleanup efforts on the beaches. Also\, doing all the processing in the water will help minimize beach and river bank erosion i n high traffic areas. Ed is hoping the eFISHient will help any community f acing a similar problem and enhance the users experience while processing their fish and game.\n\nAs keeping the beaches free of fish remains was th e primary focus for the eFISHient\; Ed realized there are many benefits fo r the User. The eFISHient will make the cleaning process for their fish an d game less tedious. What this means for the User: less bending over\, les s trips up and down the beach\, no carrying water\, fish and clean at the same time\, quicker process time\, and coming off the beach or river with clean equipment and a clean product. The eFISHient - A simple design for e asy use.\n\nMr. Morris is the Owner/Manager of Morris Consulting\, LLC and Morris Consulting dba MorCO. Prior to starting his consulting business\, he held executive and manager positions with Olgoonik Corporation\, Alyesk a Pipeline Service Company\, and Chugach Alaska Corporation.\n\nMr. Morris is attending Alaska Pacific University for his Executive Master of Busine ss Administration in Strategic Leadership (EMBA-SL) where he received his undergraduate degree in Business Administration in 1999.\n\nMr. Morris als o donates his time and purchases goods for Bean’s Café\, a local charit y for the homeless in the Anchorage area.\n\nHolly Nordlum of  Holly Nord lum Naniq Design's work reflects where she comes from but also who she is now\, an Urban woman\, a mother\, and a working Inuit woman. She was born and raised outside the Alaskan village of Kotzebue\, a small hub of eleven other native villages in the Northwest Coast of Alaska. She is a printmak er\, painter\, activist\, filmmaker and sculptor and uses those skills to express her ideas about life and social issues of native people in today's world.\n\nMost recently she has focused on researching traditional tattoo ing techniques and reintroduce traditional tattooing to Alaska. The traini ng program has partnered with the Anchorage Museum’s Polar Lab and is ha s trained a few Alaskan Native Artist. She has also gathered an all Alaska n team on the production of the film about this revitalization and with th e assistance of the TimeWarner Fellowship has begun filming the documentar y.\n\nIn 2004\, she received a Bachelor of Fine Art Degree in Graphic Desi gn and Photography from the University of Alaska\, Anchorage and studied a s many artistic avenues as she could. Since then she has worked with maste r artists and continues to learn.\n\n2016 Nordlum received an Art Matters grant and A Humanities Forum grant with her work documenting the Tupik Mi Project. In 2015 Nordlum was awarded an Alaska Native Visionary Award and in 2014 was also named to the Smithsonian’s Nation Museum of The America n Indian’s Artist Leadership Program and 2013 she also received the Rasm uson Individual Artist Award.\n\nDevany Plentovich has spent the last 7 ye ars as the Program Manager for Biomass and Combined Heat and Power for the Alaska Energy Authority\, focusing on project development in the 200+ rur al communities that are not tied to the Anchorage-Fairbanks power grid. Sh e has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Master’s Deg ree in Environmental Science and Policy. Devany’s previous experience in cludes 22 years with a consumer products corporation where she managed pro jects in biomass co-generation\, environmental sustainability\, and produc t development.\n\nCameron Willingham\, Founder\, Vertical Harvest Hydropon ics\nCameron was born and raised in Alaska and has spent the past 10 years working towards building a stronger\, healthier food system in the North. Before founding Vertical Harvest Hydroponics with Dan Perpich and Linda J anes\, Cameron was a Research Professional at the University of Alaska Fai rbanks working in Controlled Environment Agriculture. When not working wit h VHH\, he can be found building hydroponic systems for community non-prof its around the state\, backcountry skiing or DJ’ing.\n\nKristina Woolsto n is Vice President External Relations for Quintillion\, a private company headquartered in Anchorage\, Alaska that will build and operate the Quint illion Subsea Cable System. Quintillion’s fiber optic cable system will bring high speed internet to the Alaska communities of Nome\, Kotzebue\, P oint Hope\, Wainwright and Barrow\, and expanded services to Alaska’s oi l field\, Prudhoe Bay in 2017. The Quintillion system will offer increased hi-speed capacity\, lower latency\, and critically-needed diverse and red undant communication routes at speeds faster than existing transmission ra tes\, and operate at 50-90% less than existing satellite and microwave bac khaul options. Quintillion plans to extend the system internationally to A sia and Europe\, with additional spurs into Alaska and the Canadian Arctic . Once complete\, the Quintillion system will provide a diverse route out of North America and between Asia and Europe.\n\nKristina’s diverse care er includes a stint in the D.C. office of U.S. Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK)\ , Assistant Director at the World Trade Center Alaska\, Director of Commun ity Relations for NovaGold\, a mineral’s exploration company leading the world-class Donlin Creek Gold Project in Southwest Alaska and\, most rece ntly\, as Vice President Government Relations for over a decade with Alask a’s largest Alaska Native village corporation and the fourth largest Ala ska-based company\, Chenega Corporation. February 2016\, Kristina accepted the opportunity to be Vice President External Relations for Quintillion a s they build the Quintillion Subsea Cable System and bring a fiber optic n etwork for the first time to the North American Arctic.\n\n\n\nOnline regi stration for this program has closed. Remaining seats will be sold on a fi rst-come first-serve basis at event check-in starting at 11:30am on Friday \, May 12th.\n\n\n\nLove ARCTIC programming and want more? Check-out the N orth By North Festival coming to Anchorage May 12th through 14th.\n\nNorth By North activities are designed to celebrate the state’s Arctic\, shar e that Arctic with community members\, and attract visitors from other Arc tic states to learn\, exchange and build. Together\, these events form Nor th by North—an introduction to and reclaiming of Arctic innovation\, res ilience and sustainability. Each is driven by local and public participati on\, spanning the circumpolar North.\n\nLearn more on the North By North w ebsite and get engaged in the conversation on their Facebook page. 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