Wednesday, Dec. 5

8 a.m. – 5 p.m. 

CSG Registration/Information Desk Open

8 a.m. – 5 p.m. 

CSG Policy Academy: Promising Approaches for America’s Addiction Crisis
 (open to all registered national conference attendees)

8 a.m. – 5 p.m. 

CSG Policy Academy: States Place their Bets
 (open to all registered national conference attendees)

2 – 5 p.m. 

CSG 21st Century Foundation
 (invitation only)

 Thursday, Dec. 6

7 a.m. – 5 p.m.

CSG Registration/Information Desk Open

7 – 8 a.m.

Buffet Breakfast

8 a.m. – Noon

CSG Leadership Council
 (invitation only)

8 a.m. – Noon

Stay at Work/Return to Work State Toolkit

In partnership with the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Disability Employment Policy’s State Exchange on Employment and Disability

CSG Policy Academy: Using Science to Inform State Policymaking

(open to all registered national conference attendees)

8 a.m. – 5 p.m. 

CSG Policy Academy: The Intersection of Innovation & Infrastructure

(open to all registered national conference attendees)

Noon – 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

1:30 – 5 p.m.

U.S. – Canada Breakout

CSG Shared State Legislation: Part 1

Deadline for SSL docket submissions: September 27
Please contact Leslie Haymon at lhaymon@csg.org with any questions.

5 – 6 p.m.

Japan Local Government Center Reception

(open to all registered national conference attendees)

6 p.m.

An Evening at the Newport Aquarium

Special Guest: country music singer Carly Pearce

Friday, Dec. 7

7 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Buffet Breakfast

Wake Up with WIG!

Presented by Women in Government (WIG)

(open to all registered national conference attendees) 

8 – 9:30 a.m.

The Future of Electrification: Impact on Grid Infrastructure

Presented by the CSG Energy and Environmental Public Policy Committee

8 – 9:30 a.m.

Growing Green: Marijuana Policy Impacts on State Budgets

8 – 9:30 a.m.

CSG Finance Committee

8 – 9:30 a.m.

NCIC Summit of the States: A Tested Solution to Today’s Policy Issues

10 – 11:30 a.m.

Working Families and the Struggle to Find Early Care and Education
Presented by the CSG Education & Workforce Development Public Policy Committee

10 – 11:30 a.m.

CSG Fiscal & Economic Development Public Policy Committee

10 – 11:30 a.m.

CSG Associates Advisory Committee

10 – 11:30 a.m.

NCIC Summit of the States: How State Collaboration Can Strengthen the Workforce

10 a.m. – Noon

Book Sale: Hillbilly Elegy

Noon – 2 p.m.

Opening Luncheon

Keynote: J.D. Vance, investor, commentator and author of the #1 New York Times best seller Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

2 – 2:30 p.m.

Book Signing: J.D. Vance

2:30 – 3:30 p.m.

NCIC Summit of the States: The Nuts and Bolts – Administering Interstate Occupational Licensure Compacts

2:30 – 5 p.m.

Leading the Way in the Logistics Economy
Presented by the CSG Transportation & Infrastructure Public Policy Committee

2:30 – 5 p.m.

CSG Election Cybersecurity Communications Mapping Initiative

2:30 – 5 p.m.

Opioid Crisis: How States Have Financed Treatment

Presented by the CSG Health Public Policy Committee

2:30 – 5 p.m.

CSG Henry Toll Fellow Alumni Event

(invitation only)

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

3:30 – 4:30 p.m.

NCIC Summit of the States: Over Here – States Work Together to Increase Opportunities for Military Families and Members

4:30 – 5 p.m.

NCIC Summit of the States: Legal Roundtable – The Year in Interstate Compact Law

5 – 6 p.m.

SGAC Reception

(open to all registered national conference attendees)

5 – 6 p.m.

CSG Henry Toll Fellow Alumni Reception
(invitation only)

6 p.m.

Evening Event: MainStrasse Holiday Village

Saturday, Dec. 8

7 a.m. – 4 p.m.

7 – 8 a.m.

Buffet Breakfast

8 – 9:30 a.m.

CSG Campaign Against Hunger Service Project

10 - 11:30 a.m.

Federal Mid-Term Report: From POTUS to SCOTUS

Presented by the CSG Intergovernmental Affairs Committee

10 – 11:30 a.m.

CSG Interbranch Affairs Committee

10 a.m. - Noon

CSG Shared State Legislation: Part 2

Deadline for SSL docket submissions: September 27
Please contact Leslie Haymon at lhaymon@csg.org with any questions.

10 a.m. – Noon

CSG Midwestern Legislative Conference Executive Committee Meeting

Noon – 2 p.m.

CSG 2018 Toll Fellowship Graduation and Luncheon
Keynote: astronaut Story Musgrave

2:30 – 4 p.m.

CSG Executive Committee

4:30 p.m.

Evening Event: Cincinnati Boychoir

Aronoff Center

Reception to follow at the convention center

7 – 8 p.m.

CSG Executive Committee Reception

(invitation only)