2024 Annual Meeting Sponsors
Increase your visibility to WPPA members and help support our Events. Sponsor benefits include exposure on our website, signage at the event including printed and a slideshow, and verbal recognition throughout the event. please email mandy lill for sponsorship information.
Registration and Welcome Sponsor
Schwabe provides comprehensive legal services for Washington ports of all sizes. We assist ports in addressing environmental concerns, property acquisition, leasing and development, rail and maritime agreements, public meeting law compliance, general counsel services, and regional navigation issues. Drawing on Schwabe’s vast collective experience and contacts, we help our clients stay apprised of and prepared for industry developments and trends.
General Session Refreshments Sponsors
Anderson Hunter Law Firm serves as counsel for large, medium, and small port districts. In addition to serving the general municipal needs of ports, we offer the following specialties: real estate, employment, business, and litigation. Clients choose us for our variety of expertise and our common sense and economical approach to legal issues.
Serving Northwest public and private clients, including public ports. U.S. News and World Report and Best Lawyers list Pacifica as a Tier 1 law firm in the Seattle region for public finance law, appellate law, education law, municipal law, and real estate law. Many of our attorneys are recognized as “Best Lawyers in America” and as “Super Lawyers.” We also have deeply held professional and personal commitments to civic responsibility, community volunteerism and industry participation, reflected in our leadership and/or pro bono service to numerous organizations, associations, boards and committees.
Specializing in civil and structural engineering for marine and upland environments. Providing engineering planning, permitting, design, and construction administration services for public ports since 1979. Designing floats, docks, piers, dolphins, bulkheads, fendering systems and wave barriers at marinas, marine terminals, and cruise ship facilities. Upland facilities include boatyards, pedestrian esplanades, access roads and waterfront parks
Moffatt & Nichol, a family-owned firm for over seven decades, is a multidisciplinary professional services firm, providing a wide range of planning, preliminary through final design, above-water and underwater inspection and repair design for marine and bridge infrastructure, freight and economic studies, coastal resiliency, landscape architecture, land use/urban planning, environmental, construction support, and grant funding services to support your water-dependent maintenance, repair, and development project needs.
The General Session Refreshments sponsorship has unlimited spots! Contact Mandy for more information!
WEDNESDAY KeYNOTE Sponsor
Rail shipping
WEDNESDAY LUNCH SponsorS
Is an integrated consulting firm offering award-winning services in environmental and civil engineering, site planning and development, communications and outreach, environmental assessment and cleanup, strategic planning, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), health and safety services, and air quality. MFA has decades of experience assisting Washington ports with their unique commercial, environmental, statutory, and community priorities.
Associate Member Reception Eats & Drinks Sponsors
Enduris is a member-owned, local government risk-sharing pool that has provided affordable property and liability coverage since 1987. We provide coverage and loss control solutions to over 500 Washington State special purpose districts, including many of Washington’s port districts.
The AWC is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization based in Olympia that represents Washington cities before the legislature, executive branch, and regulatory agencies. Besides advocacy, AWC provides access to relevant training, high-quality events, valuable data, and member pooling programs such as the Employee Benefits Trust, Workers’ Comp Retro, and the Drug & Alcohol Consortium. All Port Districts are eligible to join AWC and its Member Pooling Programs.
Media & Technology Sponsor
At MacDonald-Miller, we make buildings work better. Since our inception in 1965, we’ve been working hard designing, building, and servicing commercial mechanical systems throughout the Pacific Northwest. As the 12th largest mechanical firm in the U.S., MacDonald-Miller employs more than 1,400 dedicated and highly skilled craftspeople throughout Washington and Oregon who provide exceptional mechanical services to customers in the construction, healthcare, biotech, commercial, marine, and technology industries. MacDonald-Miller is committed to a sustainable future and is a proud signatory of the Climate Pledge. To learn more, visit www.macmiller.com.
GUEST Participation SponsorS
Our multidisciplinary team offers comprehensive engineering, environmental, planning, and landscape architecture services. We are driven to provide our clients with functional, efficient, and creative solutions to meet their needs. We pride ourselves on quality work and unmatched client service.
Program Printing Sponsor
At J-U-B Engineers, we help each other create better communities. We are transportation, traffic and airport engineers, water and wastewater engineers, construction, land-development and structural engineers, surveyors, planners, funding consultants, landscape architects, and GIS and public-involvement specialists. We guide our clients through all phases of their projects: planning, funding, design, and construction. We offer the expertise of the national firms, but with the service and attention of a hometown firm. To learn more, visit jub.com
Thursday Ports Executive Breakfast SPONSOR
The lawyers in the firm’s Port Practice Group assist port districts – large and small - achieve successful outcomes for their communities by utilizing our specialized expertise and years of experience in the law unique to ports, including governance, leasing, land use permitting, labor and employment, environmental, litigation, construction and insurance defense. From Bellingham, with state-of-the-art video conferencing and computer technology, we provide very cost effective general counsel and special counsel representation to port districts all over Washington.
Thursday Luncheon SponsorS
Piper Sandler’s Public Finance team provides underwriting and financial advisory services to state and local governments, including ports, cities, counties and special districts. Contact Justin Monwai for inquires
Reid Middleton provides civil and structural engineering, planning, and survey services: engineering and planning for waterfront, airport, transportation, and port facilities; seismic design; and environmental permitting for port, harbor, waterfront, airport, site development, and transportation projects. Contact Shannon Kinsella for inquires.
Providing a full range of legal services for Washington’s public ports, including construction, public records and open meetings, employment and labor relations, environmental, land use, real estate, municipal government and public finance law, insurance coverage and litigation.
THURSDAY KEYNOTE SPEAKER SPONSOR
Law and policy firm specializing in energy, environment, land use, real estate, and government relations matters.
Thursday President’s Reception Sponsors
Landau Associates provide environmental engineering and site management, permitting and compliance services, and geotechnical engineering. For 36 years we have assisted ports and their tenants to meet regulatory compliance challenges and development goals at seaport, airport, industrial, and commercial properties; offices in Edmonds, Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, and Spokane, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. Contact Scott Woerman for inquires.
K & L Gates provides services that include attorneys, bond counsel, environmental counseling, permitting and litigation; complex facility siting, construction, and permitting; toxic tort exposure defense; insurance coverage counseling and litigation on behalf of policy holders; eminent domain; real estate; federal policy and Indian Law. Contact Cynthia Weed for inquires.
Environmental consultants specializing in sediment, soil and groundwater remediation, dredging, coastal and shoreline engineering, construction management, environmental monitoring and stormwater management.
The Washington State Microenterprise Association (WSMA)/Evergreen BizLink builds capacity in Entrepreneur Support Organizations (ESOs), also known as Microenterprise Development Organizations (MDOs), to ensure that Washington’s smallest businesses have access to the business tools, resources and financing they need to innovate, grow and flourish with a strong sense of place in their communities.
Thursday President’s Reception bar Sponsor
Is an integrated consulting firm offering award-winning services in environmental and civil engineering, site planning and development, communications and outreach, environmental assessment and cleanup, strategic planning, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), health and safety services, and air quality. MFA has decades of experience assisting Washington ports with their unique commercial, environmental, statutory, and community priorities.
As one of the world’s largest ports and maritime consultancies, Jacobs brings over 150 years of experience developing specialized solutions to meet business, stakeholder, and community goals, while advancing renewable energy, decarbonization and sustainability objectives. Jacobs provides advisory, feasibility, planning, asset and data management, above and underwater inspection, design, and program and construction management services to port, marine, and waterfront clients.
Friday Awards Breakfast Sponsors
The Washington State Microenterprise Association (WSMA)/Evergreen BizLink builds capacity in Entrepreneur Support Organizations (ESOs), also known as Microenterprise Development Organizations (MDOs), to ensure that Washington’s smallest businesses have access to the business tools, resources and financing they need to innovate, grow and flourish with a strong sense of place in their communities.
Email Mandy Lill if you want to inquire about sponsorship opportunities!