Sawmill 202 Workshop
Date: January 28, 2025
Location: Sacramento
Continuing the Sawmill 101 workshop offered in 2023, the Sawmill 202 workshop will feature expert panels on Sustainable Finance, Secondary Wood Treatment, and Marketing. There will also be plenty of opportunities to interact with colleagues and ask questions to panelists.
The current agenda is as follows:
1. Intros, round-robin
2. Identified hurdles and ways to overcome
3. Keynote Speaker
· Speaker TBD
4. Sustainable Finance & Funding Panel
· Tyler Krutzfeldt, Montvista (investment firm), confirmed
· Tom Macejko, Investor, former CEO, confirmed
· Luke Carpenter, Blue Forest, confirmed
· Laurel Harkness, RVCC, confirmed
4. Break
5. Breakout discussions: how are you marketing your products? What has worked/what has not
6. Lunch
7. Secondary wood treatment panel (& wood products)
· Paul Mayencourt, CLT and Solar Kilning, UCB/UCCE, confirmed
· Ryan Pessah, Western Wood Preservers Institute, confirmed
· Mike Milota, OSU, confirmed
· Osha Levgin, Full Circle Mills, confirmed
8. Marketing Panel
Panel of wood product and general marketing expert.
· Jim Haas, Baileys, confirmed
· Scott Ehlert, Fabric, confirmed
· Ryan Temple, Sustainable Northwest Wood, confirmed