Keynote Presentation

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 8:15 am - 9:15 am

Dan McNichol, Author

The University of Pennsylvania says Dan McNichol is a “top journalist creating a new framework for understanding... compelling new scholarship...on how interstate cooperation became essential.”

Abstract:

Dan McNichol, a best selling author and award winning journalist, believes backward looking people are often forward thinking individuals. “By default historians are futurists. As history repeats itself who better to tell us about possible, even predictable, reoccurring patterns than someone who has studied previous trends?”  More to the point, McNichol claims we have faced today’s challenges before.

When it comes to transportation and supply chain logistics, the Infrastructure in the United States is over used, under funded and tragically it’s deteriorating. Absent a visionary and a vision, leadership at the federal level is missing. Today there are funding shortfalls, labor shortages, increased material costs, heavier regulations and the most educated public ever.  Coupled with being a nation at war, the environment for building anew our supply chain is a hostile one.  To be sure, global warnings are sounding as more pressure is put upon our economy to compete with oversea markets.

The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate & Defensive Highways was built at a time this nation faced similar dilemmas.  Yet, the world’s largest engineering and construction projects took root. Today, it is a supply chain that the world envies.  It’s an example of boldness, big thinking - it is greatness we need to once again achieve.

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