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September 10-13, 2024 CAJPA 2024 Annual Conference • South Lake Tahoe WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
7:30 am – 9:00 am Continental Breakfast
7:30 am – 9:00 am Continental Breakfast
9:00 am – 10:15 am Opening Keynote Eric Boles
9:00 am – 10:00 am Strategic Surveillance Planning Improving the Outcomes Brian Bergstrom, Keenan
11:00 am – 12:00 pm Managing Safely of the Mind: A Unique Approach to Workplace Mental Health Eric Preston, Keenan
2024 Case Law Update Mike Pott, PRISM Stephan Birgel, ASCIP
Design Immunity & Failure to Warn - Has Design Immunity Become Moot in Light of the CA Supreme Court’s Ruling in Tansavatdi? Maria Nozzolino, Esq. Partner at AGHW Law Amanda N. Griffith, Esq. Litigation Manager, Sedgwick Fundamentals of Pooling Speaker: TBD Returning to Onsite Work: Legal, Disability and Workers’ Compensation Considerations Sarah Centeno, Workers’ Compensation Program Manager, FIRMS/MSIA Stacey Sullivan, Litigation Manager, ERMA Susan DeNardo, Litigation Manager, PLANJPA WOW Session: TBD 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch On Your Own 1:30 pm – 2:15 pm Dessert in the Exhibit Hall 2:15 pm – 3:15 pm Where’s My Risk Manager? Who’s My Risk Manager? Is it the JPA? David Nunley CPCU, ARM, AIC
Risk Management & Member Services Speaker: TBD Empowering Your Security/Police Personnel for Their Effective Role in Workplace Violence Prevention Brian Erdelyi, Keenan WOW Session: TBD 11:00 am – 12:00 pm A Leader’s Guide to the Markets Lesley Murphy, PFM Asset Management Let’s Give AI a Good SWOT! Discovering the Risks and Opportunities that AI presents to Our Jobs and Our Risk Pools Robin Flint, ACWA JPIA Leonardo Costantino What’s Changed and Changing Marcus Beverly, Alliant Mike Harrington, Bickmore Actuarial The Power of Virtual Primary Care: Leveraging Technology to Increase Access to Care and Improve Health Outcomes Among Geographically Diverse Employee Populations Dr. Heather Towery, Vice President of Clinical Strategy and Enterprise Partnerships, Eden Health Nicole Henry, Director of Benefits, SISC
How To Go to Trial Before the Trial Jesse Bernal, Bernal and Robbins Panel TBD
WOW Session: TBD
Foundations of Effective Governance Speaker: TBD
1:45 pm – 2:30 pm Dessert & Grand Prize Drawing
Increased Enforcement of the Medicare Secondary Payer Act in 2024: How to Avoid Penalties and Comply Heather Sanderson, Sanderson Firm PLLC Marinda Griese, California Joint Powers Risk Management Authority (CJPRMA) WOW Session: TBD 3:15 pm – 4:00 pm Break in Exhibit Hall 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Don’t Hire the Perp: Avoiding Organization-Killing Pitfalls During the Recruitment Process Jill Ostrove, ePlace Solutions The Six Habits that Strong and Effective Public Agency Investment Programs All Share Christopher McCarry, Chandler Asset Management Pooling Finance and Fiscal Oversight Speaker: TBD Tackling the Complexities of Disability Management (FMLA, LOA, ADA and WC) David Setzkorn, Senior Vice President Workforce Absence & Disability Practice Leader, Sedgwick Nidra Kumaradas, Executive Director of Workers’ Compensation, ASCIP WOW Session: TBD 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Networking Reception, Tahoe Blue Event Center 8:30 pm – 11:00 pm Late Night Event, Harrah’s South Shore Room
12:15 pm – 1:45 pm Lunch in Exhibit Hall
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Wrangle Employment Practices Liability Risk and Saddle Up for Success Eric De Wames, Michael Sullivan & Associates Ransomware Simulation - Is Your Organization Ready? Dan Raynes, Rubrik Tom Pelster, PRISM The Language of the JPA, Part 2 Robert J. Kretzmer, Director, Property & Liability, SISC Premises Liability: Advances in Slip/Trip/Fall Analysis John Leffler, PE, YA Engineering Services WOW Session: TBD 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm Closing Reception, Tahoe Blue Events Center
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2024 7:30 am Full American Breakfast 8:00 am – 10:00 am Keynote and Legislative Speaker: Mike Madrid & Membership Meeting