7:30 am
Registration Check-In & Breakfast Buffet
Oneida Casino Hotel
8:00 am
Welcome Drum/Opening Blessing
8:10 am
Community Welcome
Tehassi Hill | Chairman | Oneida Nation
8:40 am
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Pete Upton | CEO | Native CDFI Network Fern Orie | Executive Director | WIHEDC
9:00 am
Community Tour
Bay Bank
Turtle Island Gifts
White Buffalo Trucking Company
11:30 am
Return to Oneida Hotel
11:45 am
Tour Highlights and Observations
12:00 pm
Lunch (Provided)
1:00 pm
Policy in Motion: NCN Policy Strategies in a Shifting Landscape
Pete Upton | CEO | Native CDFI Network
1:30 pm
Building Futures: A WIHEDC Update on Housing and Economic Progress
Fern Orie | Executive Director | WIHEDC
2:00 pm
3, 2, 1, Launch: Meet the Newest Native Housing Coalition!
Wisconsin Indigenous Housing & Economic Development Corporation
2:45 pm
Break
3:00 pm
Lightning Talks
5-minute presentations from NCDFI leaders (WIHEDC members + others) highlighting a specific loan product or innovative service they offer followed by Q & A
4:00 pm
Closing – Day 1
5:00 pm
Networking Reception
6:00 pm
Dinner
Keynote Speaker: Jeff Bowman | President & CEO | Bay Bank