Introduction and Agenda Review

John Callan

Managing Director, Ursa Major Associates

21st Century Postal Challenge Unprecedented and Existential

• Technology Driven – “Digital Disruptive Innovation”

• Unrelenting decline of core product • Insolvency – Cash crisis • No (current) taxpayer support • Unspecified “Universal Service Obligation” • Question of future needs • Is “Mission Accomplished”? • It’s OUR problem! • Little (current) support from Congress

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- The Initiative

• Conversation

• Envisioning

• Ecosystem

• Independent

• Collaborative

• Provocative

• Bold

• Innovative

• Transformation

• Responsible

• Constructive

• Reasonable

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Mission and Ethos

• PV 2020/1.0

– “What Would Google Do?”

• PV 2020/2.0

– “Platform Possibilities”

• PV2020/3.0

– “Positioning America

for the New Millennium”

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- Conferences

Disruptive Innovation is Nothing New Adaptation and Transition are Essentials

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Happy 449th Birthday, Will!

“Binding the Nation Together” Serving Out its Mission for 2.5 Centuries

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By Investing in People and Processes Keeping Pace with New Technology

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Through Collaboration and Teamwork Contracting, “Worksharing”, Partnering

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The USPS Has Been Trying to Adapt

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But with Little Support from Congress

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• Commercial and Consumer Customers

• USPS, 3rd Party Service Providers, Suppliers

• Policy Influencers; PRC, OIG, GAO, NAPA

• Labor Unions; NALC, APWU

• Consultants, Analysts, Scholars

• Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Opportunists

• Legislators

• Press – Story tellers

• Helpers

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Our Postal Service Needs Our Help PostalVision 2020 is Endeavoring to provide It

We’re all in this together We must help Congress make tough decisions

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Senator Tom Carper Chairman, Senate Homeland Security and

Governmental Affairs Committee

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Hon. David M. Walker

Founder and CEO of the Comeback America Initiative; Former U.S. Comptroller General

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Vinton G. Cerf VP, Chief Internet Evangelist, Google

Imagination

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7:30a – 8:00a Registration – Continental Breakfast

8:00a – 8:30a Introduction John Callan, Ursa Major Associates

8:30a – 9:00a Keynote: The World of the 21st Century Vinton Cerf, Google

9:00a – 10:00a Panel: The World of the 21st Century

Chair:

Larry Weber, W2 Group

Panelists:

Vint Cert, Google

Linda Abraham, comScore

Sascha Meinrath, New America

Foundation

10:00a – 10:15a Break

Exploration

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10:15a – 10:45a Giving America a Voice Matt Swain, InfoTrends

10:45a – 11:00a Innovation Feature #1: lettrs.com Drew Bartkiewicz, lettrs.com

11:00a – 11:45a Panel: Hearing from the Next Generation

Chair:

Drew Bartkiewicz. lettrs.com

Panelists:

Lauren Abraham, student, Model

Congress

Blake Bartkiewicz, student, lettrs.com

Nikita Shamdasani, student, UNC

11:45a – 12:00p Innovation Feature #2: SoPost Jonathan Grubin, SoPost

12:00p – 1:15p Lunch

Innovation

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1:15p – 1:30p Innovation Feature #3: Designing Innovation Farah Abdallah, Innovation Expert

1:30p – 2:30p Panel: Positioning American Commerce

Chair:

Amine Khechfe, Endicia

Panelists:

Albert Hernandez, SkyShop Logistics

Matt Kammerait, Quad/Graphics

John Mashia, IMS

2:30p – 2:45p Innovation Feature #4: International Small

Business eCommerce V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, MIT

2:45p – 3:00p Break

Collaboration

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3:00p – 3:45p USPS Digital Solutions Randy Miskanic, USPS

3:45p – 4:00p Innovation Feature #5: GovDelivery Scott Burns, GovDelivery

4:00p – 4:15p National Postal Museum Presentation Allen Kane, Smithsonian Institution

4:15p – 4:45p Day in Review: Interactive Discussion Matt Swain, InfoTrends

4:45p – 5:00p Day 1 Closing Remarks John Callan, Ursa Major Associates

Comprehension

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7:30a – 8:00a Continental Breakfast

8:00a – 8:15a Introduction John Callan, Ursa Major Associates

8:15a – 9:00a Transforming Government to Meet 21st

Century Challenges

Hon. David Walker, Comeback

America Initiative

9:00a – 9:45a Panel: The Role of Government in

Communications

Chair:

Robert Reisner, Transformation

Strategies

Panelists:

Farah Abdallah, innovation Expert

Richard John, Columbia University

Judith Resnik, Yale Law School

9:45a – 10:00a Innovation Feature #6 : Innovation in

Government Liam Church, Escher Group

10:00a – 10:15a Break

Discernment

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10:15a – 11:00a Panel: The Promise and the

Challenge

Chair:

Dennis Delehanty, Fmr. U.S. Dept of State

Panelists:

Monica Plum, Francotyp-Postalia

Craig Reed, Pitney Bowes

Robert Reisner, Transformation Strategies

Elmar Toime, Toime Consulting

11:00a – 12:00p Panel: The Road Ahead

Chair:

Hon. Robert Taub, Postal Regulatory

Commission

Panelists:

Hon. Lee Fritschler, George Mason University

Fred Rolando, Nat’l Assoc. of Letter Carriers

Nye Stevens, Fmr. Congressional Research

Svc

12:00p – 1:00p Lunch

Possibilities

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1:00p – 1:15p Introduction to “Positioning America” Hon. David Williams, USPS OIG

1:15p – 1:45p Hybrid Models

Paul Lawrence, Ernst & Young

1:45p – 2:15p Postal Service of the Future

Liam Church, Escher Group

2:15p – 2:45p Post Offices as the Hubs for 21st

Century Community Intranets

Sascha Meinrath, New American

Foundation

2:45p – 3:00p Break

Directions

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3:00p – 4:00p

Postal Reform - Senate Homeland Security

and Governmental Affairs Committee –

Remarks and Conversation

Chairman, Senator Tom Carper

(with John Callan)

4:00p – 4:45p

Panel: Action Needed to Position America

for the 21st Century

Chair:

Hon. Dan Blair, NAPA

Panelists:

Gene DelPolito, PostCom

Hon. Robert Taub, PRC

Elmar Toime, Toime Consulting

Hon. David Williams, USPS OIG

4:45p – 5:00p Closing Comments: PostalVision 2020

Directions

John Callan, Ursa Major Associates

Thank You Sponsors

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– Gold

– Silver

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Thank You Supporting Associations

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Thank You PostalVision 2020 Team

• Mike Comstock • Rod DeVar • Sean Sunkel • Anne Stuart • Caroline Miller • Renee Sheehy OIG • Phil Sunkel • Kenneth Hope ( Kennethhope.com or iTunes ) • L’Enfant Hotel Meetings Staff

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3.0 Conference Logistics

• Comprehensive agenda

• Strict Timing – sessions and breaks

• Limited but open discussion – Q & A

• Press is present

• Video recorded

• Archived at www.postalvision2020.com &

National Postal Museum

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Incidentally - Thank You, Vint!

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