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Schedule Of Events

Conference Keynote Address
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Registration & Continental Breakfast Getting Through Ten Tough Public

Procurement Problems
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM “This program will analyze ten possible scenarios
Welcome & Conference Overview presenting procurement problems or difficulties
to Purchasing Departments, and will suggest so-
lutions or a path through each problem. We have
9:15 AM - 10:05 AM drawn these scenarios from the areas of source

General Session & Keynote Address selection, bid/response evaluations, vendor sub-
missions, and protest. Our aim is to relate these
scenarios to problems or difficulties you actually
Getting Through Ten Tough Public have or may encounter in administering your pur-
Procurement Problems chasing program, and to make our analyses and
suggestions realistic and useful.”

10:10 AM - 11:00 AM

Breakout Session I Conference Keynote Speaker

11:05 AM - 11:55 AM David J. Cantelme
Breakout Session II Cantelme & Brown P.L.C.
In 2006, Mr. Cantelme and Aaron Brown formed
CANTELME & BROWN, PLC, a Phoenix law firm.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Mr. Cantelme focuses his practice in the areas of ed-

Lunch ucation law, representation of government entities,
government contracts and procurement, construction
law, elections law, personal injury, zoning and land
1:00 PM - 1:50 PM use litigation, commercial litigation, and appellate

Breakout Session III practice. Before forming the firm with Mr. Brown,
Mr. Cantelme practiced for many years with Lewis
and Roca LLP, and Jennings, Strouss & Salmon,
1:50 PM - 2:05 PM P.L.C. Mr. Cantelme graduated from Harvard Col-
Break lege in 1976 and from Stanford Law School in 1979.
He served as a law clerk to the Hon. Walter E. Craig
from 1979-1981. For more than 30 years, he has writ-
2:10 PM - 3:00 PM ten and spoken on numerous occasions for the Ari-
Breakout Session IV zona State Bar and in other professional settings. Mr.
Cantelme has been honored with recognition in Best
Lawyers in America, Southwest SuperLawyers, and
3:00 PM Arizona’s Finest Lawyers. He is AV rated by Martin-
Adjournment dale-Hubbell, and is a fellow in Litigation Counsel of
America, a trial lawyer honorary society. He is fluent
in Spanish.