Monday, March 9, 2020
9:30 – 10:30 Presidents’ Hall
SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY
Personal Financial Best Practices for Women
Speaker: Ann Wengronowitz, Senior Financial Planner
and Founding Partner, Confidere Financial
Compared to men, women face some unique financial
challenges. We have longer life expectancies, generally
earn lower income, have fewer savings, and often invest
too conservatively. Today, more than ever, it is critical that
we know how to save, invest, and plan for our future. In
addition to talking about various types of savings and
investments, Wengronowitz will talk about Social Security,
traditional IRAs, ROTH IRAs, and 401Ks.
Ruth Andersen
10:45 – 11:45 ENVIRONMENT Presidents’ Hall
What Will it Take to Get to a Carbon Neutral
Minnesota?
Speaker: Ellen Anderson, Senior Energy Researcher and
former Executive Director, Energy Transition
Lab, University of Minnesota
Minnesota has aggressive greenhouse gas emission
reduction targets—but the state is not on track to meet
them. Last year’s legislative session saw 100% renewable
and 100% clean energy proposals passed by the Minnesota
House of Representatives. Anderson, who has 25 years of
experience crafting, researching, and teaching Minnesota energy policy, will help us to understand these proposals
and what it would take to achieve these goals.

11:45 – 12:15 BUSINESS MEETING
Election of new officers
12:15 – 1:15 LUNCHEON

Program Committee Association Room
Technology Committee Minneapolis Room

1:15 – 2:15 LITERARY PURSUITS Presidents’ Hall
Under Purple Skies, The Minneapolis Anthology
Speaker: Frank Bures, Writer (travel, culture, language,
science, outdoors, narrative, and belief) and
Editor of the Lester Literary Update
In recent years, Minneapolis has become a literary
powerhouse. Bures has edited a collection of work about
Minneapolis and the Twin Cities by local writers that have
won or been shortlisted for the Newberry Award, the Man
Booker Prize, the Pulitzer, the Caldecott Award, the
National Book Award, the Minnesota Book Award, plus
many others. To quote Lorna Landvik, “This is a first-class
tour of Minneapolis, brought to you by writers and poets
who will make anyone reading Under Purple Skies want to
live here!”