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Keynote Presentation: Mayor Rick Blangiardi and DPP Director Dean Uchida

Abstract:

Join us in the Exhibit Hall Lobby for a Keynote Presentation by Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi and Duane Uchida, director of the Department of Planning, City and County of Honolulu.

A traditional Hawaiian blessing follows before we open the doors to the Exhibition Hall.

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Date: January 26, 2022

Time: 8:40am – 9:30am

Location: Exhibit Hall Lobby

AIA CEUs: N/A

Presented by: City and County of Honolulu

Track: N/A

Session #: N/A

Date: January 26, 2022

Time: 8:40am – 9:30am

Location: Exhibit Hall Lobby

AIA CEUs: N/A

Presented by: City and County

of Honolulu

Speakers:

Rick Blangiardi

Mayor Blangiardi took office January 2, 2021, leading nearly one million people in the City and County of Honolulu, the 11th largest municipality in the country. His top priorities include the COVID-19 pandemic and its health and economic impacts; affordable housing and homelessness; public safety; rail; elder care; and modernizing services to bring the City’s technology into the 21st century.

Prior to being elected, Mayor Blangiardi led a distinguished career as a media executive that spanned more than four decades. He began his broadcast career at KGMB in 1977 and went on to succeed in senior executive positions in many of the nation’s most competitive markets. Most recently he was the general manager of Hawaii News Now (2009-2020). He has an extensive resume of involvement in Hawaii’s leading nonprofits, educational institutions and youth development programs.

Rick Blangiardi
Mayor, City and County of Honolulu

Dean Uchida

Mr. Uchida was most recently a senior project manager in SSFM’s Strategic Services Group, providing real estate advisory and project management services to a wide cross section of private corporations and public agencies.

Prior to SSFM, he was at D.R. Horton-Schuler Division and responsible for the Hoopili Development in East Kapolei. He was also the executive director of the Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii (LURF), a private, non-profit research and trade organization whose members are major Hawaii landowners and developers. Prior to that, he was administrator of the Land Division with the State Department of Land and Natural Resources. Mr. Uchida has been involved, from both the private and public sectors, in real estate development, property management, land use law and land use planning in Hawaii since 1981.

Dean Uchida
Director, Department of Planning and Permitting, City and County of Honolulu
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