Monday, November 6, 2017

9:30 – 10:30 HEALTH

Treating Type 1 Diabetes in Real Time

Speaker: Marcia Meier, BAN, RN, CDE, Program Manager, Patient Services, International Diabetes Center, Park Nicollet Health Services

There are no breaks or vacations from the constant, complex, daily management of Type 1 Diabetes. Demands and high expectations for compliance, often bordering on perfection, come from the medical world, families, the workplace, and from the patients themselves. Are these goals realistic? Attainable? How do you work with someone who flatly says NO? Meier will describe attainable and real treatment modalities for people with this chronic disease so that they can achieve their own, individual, best outcomes and live fulfilling lives.

10:45 – 11:45 WRITERS AND READERS

Locally Laid

Speaker: Lucie Amundsen, Freelance Writer, Author, and Chicken Farmer

Amundsen will take us through her travails of opening the first commercial-scale, pasture-raised egg company in the Upper Midwest. Both the company and her memoir are titled, Locally Laid. Using the unusual pairing of humor and academic research, Amundsen will talk to us about the bigger story of farming through her personal pratfall into mid-size agriculture.

11:45 – Noon ANNOUNCEMENTS
12:00 – 1:15 LUNCHEON

1:15 – 2:15 ENVIRONMENT

The Future City

Speaker: Thomas Fisher, Director, Minnesota Design Center, University of Minnesota

Our cities reflect our economies, and the emergence of a sharing, on-demand, and peer-to-peer economy will bring profound changes to how we live, how we work, and how we move around. Fisher will talk about the changes this will bring and why it will improve the affordability, equity, and sustainability of our cities.