2025 Curriculum
Leadership Responsiveness and Risk Mitigation in the New World of Treasury Management
*Faculty and speakers are being announced daily. Sessions, faculty, and speakers are subject to change.
Public Finance and Debt Management Track
Day 1: Sunday, July 16, 2023
12:00–2:00 p.m.
Registration and Light Welcome Lunch
2:00–3:00 p.m.
Welcome and Opening Remarks
3:00–4:15 p.m.
Introduction to the Track (PFDM)
4:30–5:30 p.m.
NIPF Opening Keynote: Former Deputy Treasury Secretary Justin Muzinich (Core)
Faculty/Speakers:
6:00–8:00 p.m.
Welcome Dinner (TBD)
Day 2: Monday, July 17, 2023
8:00–9:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
9:00–10:15 a.m.
Keynote Panel Discussion: “From the Treasurers’ Perspective” (Core)
10:30–11:45 a.m.
Current Market Trends and Outlook (PFDM)
Provide an overview of current market dynamics and outlook while highlighting relevant financing structures observed in the market.
11:45 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Lunch
12:45–2:00 p.m.
Investor Roundtable (PFDM)
This is an opportunity to hear directly from institutional investors regarding their perspectives on the municipal sector and subsectors. They will explore market forces driving their investment strategies as well as new products which are driving demand for various structures.
Faculty/Speakers:
2:00–3:15 p.m.
Federal Funding Landscape: Changes, Challenges, Risks, and Opportunities (PFDM)
This session is an opportunity to hear insights from industry experts regarding the rapidly changing federal policy environment.
Faculty/Speakers:
3:15–4:30 p.m.
Regulator Roundtable (PFDM)
Representatives from the SEC and MSRB discuss current regulations and emerging initiatives.
Faculty/Speakers:
6:30–9:30 p.m.
Dinner and Reception at The Sunset Malibu
The Sunset Restaurant - Malibu
Day 3: Tuesday, July 18, 2023
8:00–9:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
9:00–10:15 a.m.
Fireside Chat with Wesley Bull (Core)
CEO Sentinel Resource Group
10:30–11:45 a.m.
Innovative Financing Strategies to Manage Social and Environmental Challenges: (PFDM)
States, Local governments and higher education institutions continue to seek policy and financing solutions to stabilize insurance markets and address the multitude of headwinds facing higher education. The objective of this session is to take a deep dive the higher education sector and insurance markets.
Faculty/Speakers:
11:45 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Lunch
1:00–2:15 p.m.
Managing Through Economic and Policy Uncertainty (PFDM)
This session will explore strategies to manage through federal policy and economic uncertainty.
Faculty/Speakers:
2:15–3:30 p.m.
Private Capital & Infrastructure (PFDM)
Discuss the applications of both the established Private Equity market and the fast-growing Private Credit market to transportation and social infrastructure. Topics span P3 models for various project types and the new landscape for privately sourced capital for projects.
Faculty/Speakers:
3:30–4:45 p.m.
Financing Resilient Infrastructure (PFDM)
Discussion focused on challenges, opportunities and financing tools within the transportation and utilities sectors.
Faculty/Speakers:
5:00–9:30 p.m.
Dinner and Reception at the Reagan Library
Reagan Presidential Library and Museum
Day 4: Wednesday, July 19, 2023
8:30–9:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
9:00–10:15 a.m.
Straus Institute Session with Thomas J. Stipanowich (Core)
Thomas J. Stipanowich is William H. Webster Chair in Dispute Resolution and Professor of Law at Pepperdine University, as well as Professor of Law at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution (ranked number one among academic dispute resolution programs in thirteen of the last fifteen years by U.S. News & World Report), where he teaches courses in negotiation theory and practice, mediation, arbitration practice and advocacy, international commercial arbitration and international dispute resolution.
Faculty/Speakers:
10:30–11:45 a.m.
Senior Investor Roundtable: Key Takeaways and the Road Ahead (PFDM)
TBD
10:30–11:45 a.m.
Senior Investor Roundtable: Takeaways and the Road Ahead (PFDM)
12:00 p.m.
Closing Remarks