Registration is open for the second annual Arkansas Delta Conference.
The Arkansas Delta: Why It Still Matters event will take place in the Pine Bluff Convention Center from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday.
The conference will focus on economic development, education, health care and agriculture in the Arkansas Delta.
Scheduled morning speakers include Randy Zook of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission; former U.S. Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater, who grew up in Lee County in east Arkansas; Laurence Alexander, chancellor of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff; Dr. Shane Speights of the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine, which has a branch on the Arkansas State University campus in Jonesboro; and Fitzgerald Hill of the Scott Ford Center for Entrepreneurship and Community Development.
After a luncheon presentation by Gov. Asa Hutchinson, the afternoon's lineup of speakers will include Chris Masingill of the Delta Regional Authority; Robert Moore Jr. of the Arkansas Highway Commission; Ruth Hawkins of Arkansas State University's Heritage Sites program; and Scott Simon of the Nature Conservancy.
Admission is free. Advanced reservation is required. Registration and other information can be found at simmonsbank.com/delta.
Metro on 05/13/2017