2025 Maritime Industry Economic Forecast Breakfast set to rock Lumen Field on November 21

For the past 13 years, business, labor, community organization and government leaders have attended the annual Maritime Industry Economic Forecast Breakfast at Pacific Marine Expo.

The Breakfast provides a tremendous opportunity to address the opportunities and challenges facing the region’s maritime and fishing industries. It also serves to showcase the important contribution of the King County maritime and fishing industries to the region’s economy and quality of life.

2024 was a record-setting year, with more than 300 industry leaders attending the Breakfast.

WHEN and WHERE

7:30-10 a.m., on Friday, November 21, during Pacific Marine Expo at the Lumen Field Events Center. Your breakfast includes free admission to the West Coast’s largest commercial marine and fishing trade show. Please register for the Expo to ensure you have a free name badge for the Expo.

7:30 – 8:00 a.m.      Registration. Networking and Coffee

8:00 – 9:30 a.m.      Program

9:30 – 10:00 a.m.    Registration. Networking and Coffee

2025 Agenda

Panel #1 The Future of North Pacific Fisheries

Moderator: Heather Haugland, Past President, Seattle Propeller Club, and Vice President, McKinley Research Group

Jamie Goen, Executive Director, Alaska Bering Sea Crabbers and North Pacific Management Council

Dr. Craig Morris, Chief Executive Officer, Genuine Alaska Pollock Producers

Jon Kurland, Regional Administrator, Alaska Regional Office, NOAA

Panel #2: The Forecast for Trade

Moderator: Port Commission President Ryan Calkins

Dr. Spencer Cohen, Founder and Principal, High Peak Strategy

Mike Jacob, President, Pacific Merchant Shipping Association

Lori Otto Punke, President, Washington Council on International Trade

Panel #3: The Outlook for Washington Shipyards

Joshua Berger, President/CEO, Washington Maritime Blue, “US shipyard capabilities for emerging technology”  

Dave Matsuda, Matsuda & Associates and America's Small Shipyard Grants Coalition

Lane Richards or Lacey Greene, Everett Ship Repair/Nichols Bros. Boat Builders

Anna Stebbins, Lake Union Drydock

Caitlin Hardy, Ness-Sea Consulting

Program Participants:

Heather Haugland, Past President, Seattle Propeller Club, and Vice President, McKinley Research Group

Lauren Streeter, Pacific Marine Expo Show Director

Eugene Wasserman, President, North Seattle Industrial Association and King County Maritime

Toshiko Grace Hasegawa, President, Port of Seattle Commission

Gold Sponsorship - $1,000

10 tickets for a table at the breakfast with preferred table location, recognition by the breakfast emcee and company logo on the event PowerPoint presentation. Logo will also be in mailings to promote breakfast attendance. In addition, company logo on a full-page ad in Pacific Marine Expo program; on a banner in the Pacific Marine Expo registration area; on the King County Maritime website; and, on the brochure distributed at the breakfast. (Additional tables are available for $900).

Silver Sponsorship - $500

5 tickets for the breakfast with preferred seating, recognition by the breakfast emcee and company name on the event PowerPoint presentation. Logo will also be in mailings to promote breakfast attendance. In addition, company name on the brochure distributed at the breakfast and your logo on the King County Maritime website.

Our goal is to identify breakfast sponsors by October 17. We do not need sponsor payments until November 13. We do not need the names of the guests at your table until November 13. General admission tickets go on sale on October 16. (General admission tickets are $95 each).