VCOG's Access 2013

Join us at Access 2013.

10:00 - 10:15

Welcome from VCOG’s president Craig Fifer and Williamsburg City Manager Jack Tuttle

10:15 - 11:30

PANEL 1: Lax: Are Virginia’s laws as bad as they say?

Sheila Krumholz, Center for Responsive Politics
Bob Lewis, longtime Virginia politics and government correspondent
Vivian Paige, Political observer
Gordon Witkin, Center for Public Integrity

11:30 - 1:15

Lunch, VCOG’s annual open-government awards and featured speaker

Aneesh Chopra, former U.S. Chief Technology Officer and Virginia Secretary of Technology

1:30 - 2:45

PANEL 2: The Virginia Way: Time for a new path?

Benson Dendy, Vectre Corporation
Waldo Jaquith, Open Virginia
Gordon Morse, Political observer
Ginger Stanley, Virginia Press Association

2:45 - 4:00

PANEL 3: Reform: What does the future hold?

Ernie Gates, Stars & Stripes
Quentin Kidd, Christopher Newport University
Brian Schoneman, Bearing Drift
Julian Walker, Virginian-Pilot