2025 Annual Meeting Sponsors
Support the WPPA Annual Meeting – and Be Seen!
Sponsorships play a vital role in making our Annual Meeting possible. With rising event costs, we rely on the generous support of our sponsors to deliver a high-quality experience for our members. In return, sponsors enjoy increased visibility and meaningful engagement with our port community. Benefits include prominent placement on our website, recognition on event signage and slideshows, and verbal acknowledgments throughout the event.
Interested in sponsoring? Please contact Mandy Lill for more information.
Welcome & Registration Sponsor
An integrated consulting firm offering award-winning services in environmental and civil engineering, site planning and development, communications and outreach, environmental assessment and cleanup, strategic planning, Geographic Information Systems(GIS), health and safety services, and air quality. MFA has decades of experience assisting Washington ports with their unique commercial, environmental, statutory, and community priorities.
General Session Refreshments Sponsors
Civil, structural and marine engineering; landscape architecture, planning, natural resource delineations.
Wednesday Keynote Sponsor
Services include environmental, geotechnical, contaminated site management, seismic, natural resources, and hydrogeology for port and harbor planning, permitting, terminal design and waterfront development. Specialize in remediation of contaminated sediments/dredged material and development on sites with complex geological and environmental issues. Includes support for deep water projects, capped aquatic disposal sites, piers, wharfs, marinas, dry docks, upland facilities, and retaining structures. Also specialize in wetlands, freshwater and marine fish biology, endangered species, habitat restoration, and stormwater management.
Wednesday Lunch Sponsors
Rail shipping
Established in 1919, Kennedy/Jenks Consultants is an employee-owned, multidisciplinary environmental engineering consulting firm specializing in water, wastewater, stormwater, and ballast water management, civil engineering and utility design, construction management, upland environmental investigation and site remediation, brownfields redevelopment, environmental compliance, and litigation support for Northwest marine ports and airports.
The Washington State Microenterprise Association (WSMA) assists Washington’s smallest businesses with the essential business tools, resources and financing they need to innovate, grow and flourish within their communities. WSMA’s primary work, capacity building support for nonprofit Entrepreneur Support Organizations (ESOs), is done through grants, training, and technical assistance to ensure quality business tools and needed resources are accessible to every business in the state. These ESO partners specialize in providing business training, technical assistance and/or financing to companies with 5 or fewer employees in every industry sector. Many of the business owners include veterans, entrepreneurs with limited incomes, people with disabilities, rural businesses and those who have been historically marginalized. These ESO partners serve these communities so that they can earn more, build upon their work, expand their reach, and contribute to Washington State’s economy. WSMA also works closely with policy makers, Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs), public port districts, lenders, manufacturers, Associate Development Organization (ADOs), chambers of commerce, regional Tribes, experts in sustainability, workforce/economic development teams, and leaders around the country to grow the field of microenterprise development. WSMA seeks to build a path to prosperity for Washington’s smallest businesses that is integrated, community driven and meaningful in order to strengthen our local economies.
Associate Member Reception Eats & Drinks Sponsors
Enduris is a member-owned, local government risk-sharing pool that has provided affordable property and liability coverage since 1987. We provide coverage and loss control solutions to over 500 Washington State special purpose districts, including many of Washington’s port districts.
Moffatt & Nichol, a family-owned firm for over seven decades, is a multidisciplinary professional services firm, providing a wide range of planning, preliminary through final design, above-water and underwater inspection and repair design for marine and bridge infrastructure, freight and economic studies, coastal resiliency, landscape architecture, land use/urban planning, environmental, construction support, and grant funding services to support your water-dependent maintenance, repair, and development project needs.
Since 1996, ELS has provided environmental consulting and permitting services throughout the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. We specialize in land, water, and shoreline projects involving resources such as wetlands, streams, rivers, wildlife habitat, and sensitive, threatened, and endangered wildlife and plant species. Having worked with several Washington ports, we understand the environmental resources, impacts, and permitting processes that are essential for their economic development success. We have offices in Longview, Bremerton, Washougal, Sunnyside, and Bellingham.
Since 1980, GeoEngineers has been providing integrated earth science and engineering services to ports. Our environmental and geotechnical engineers, geologists, biologists and permitting specialists provide strategic approaches to environmental cleanup, redevelopment, restoration, and capital improvement projects. We support Washington port clients with a full range of environmental, geotechnical and natural resources services from our multiple office locations throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Civil, structural and marine engineering; landscape architecture, planning, natural resource delineations.
For 50 years, a diverse range of clients across the United States have trusted ECOnorthwest (ECO) to craft effective and feasible solutions to the complex issues that shape our communities. Our clients have one thing in common—they want insightful, rigorous analysis to strengthen policy and investment decisions. We work at the intersection of neighborhoods and highways, development and conservation, poverty and prosperity—because the choices we make at these intersections matter. To help guide decision-makers, we’ve built a team of experts in economics, urban planning, public policy, finance, demography, geography, and sociology. Our interdisciplinary expertise lights the way to a broader understanding of how policy choices affect peoples’ lives.
ECO has a long history of supporting ports across Washington and the broader Pacific Northwest through deep analysis, strategy development, and advisory services. We have partnered with both major metro-area ports and smaller inland ports to conduct economic impact analyses, develop real estate feasibility and asset management strategies, assess market conditions, explore development concepts, and build partnerships. Our port-focused work helps to create new economic opportunities and advance community benefits.
Kale Info Solutions Inc. (KALE) is a leading Logistics SaaS provider with over 15 years of experience. KALE has successfully deployed innovative and transformative digital solutions across 46 countries and 150 ports/airports worldwide. Our advanced cloud-based platform empowers port authorities, terminal operators, and logistics stakeholders with real-time visibility, data-driven decision-making, and seamless to drive efficiency, transparency, and sustainability. KALE brings a suite of proven, data-driven solutions that streamline operations, optimize planning, and enhance collaboration among all port stakeholders.
Media & Technology Sponsor
MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions makes buildings work better. We are a full-service mechanical construction company serving the Pacific Northwest since 1965. As the largest Washington and Oregon approved ESCO by workforce in the region, we provide high-quality Performance Contracting services to public institutions, government agencies, and local jurisdictions throughout the region. Our services include HVAC & mechanical, plumbing, electrical, alternative energy solutions, new construction, Smart Building technologies, and Clean Buildings Act compliance. With the largest service fleet in Washington, we self-perform most work, offering significant quality, value, and on-time execution to our customers.
Spouse Participation Sponsors
Moffatt & Nichol, a family-owned firm for over seven decades, is a multidisciplinary professional services firm, providing a wide range of planning, preliminary through final design, above-water and underwater inspection and repair design for marine and bridge infrastructure, freight and economic studies, coastal resiliency, landscape architecture, land use/urban planning, environmental, construction support, and grant funding services to support your water-dependent maintenance, repair, and development project needs.
Program Printing Sponsor
At J-U-B Engineers, we help each other create better communities. We are transportation, traffic and airport engineers, water and wastewater engineers, construction, land-development and structural engineers, surveyors, planners, funding consultants, landscape architects, and GIS and public-involvement specialists. We guide our clients through all phases of their projects: planning, funding, design, and construction. We offer the expertise of the national firms, but with the service and attention of a hometown firm. To learn more, visit jub.com.
Thursday Ports Executive Breakfast Sponsor
The attorneys in the firm’s Port Practice Group assist port districts—large and small—to achieve successful outcomes for their communities by utilizing our specialized expertise and years of experience in the law unique to ports, including governance, leasing, land use permitting, labor and employment, environmental, litigation, construction, and insurance defense. CSD Attorneys at Law is proud to provide general counsel and special counsel representation to port districts all over Washington.
Thursday Luncheon Sponsors
Piper Sandler’s Public Finance team provides underwriting and financial advisory services to state and local governments, including ports, cities, counties and special districts. Supported by a broad national platform, our Northwest team leverages localized knowledge to facilitate the issuance of taxable and tax-exempt debt across a range of sectors. In addition, through approximately 400 traditional and non-traditional lending relationships, Piper Sandler partners with clients to secure a range of private placement loan opportunities. Our firm is proud to be ranked as both a top ten underwriting firm and top ten financial advisor on a national level.
Reid Middleton provides civil and structural engineering, planning and permitting, and surveying services to public and private sector clients. We work on projects as large as international airports and regional federal procurements and as small as a neighborhood park structure.
Waterfront civil and structural engineering specialists since 1979. We provide planning, permitting, design, and construction management for Washington State port facilities. Our projects include piers, docks, floats, dolphins, bulkheads, gangways, wave barriers, fendering systems, boatyards, access roads, esplanades, and waterfront parks.
Thursday Keynote Speaker Sponsor
Law and policy firm specializing in energy, environment, land use, real estate, and government relations matters.
Thursday President’s Reception Sponsors
Provides environmental consulting, including permitting and engineering design, compliance and site management, air quality, noise and vibration, and water resources services. For more than 40 years we have assisted ports and their tenants with meeting regulatory compliance challenges and development goals at seaport, airport, industrial, and commercial properties; offices in Seattle, Kingston, Tacoma, Olympia, Quincy and Spokane, Washington, Portland, Oregon, Boise, Idaho and Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Rail shipping
Thursday President’s Reception Bar Sponsor
An integrated consulting firm offering award-winning services in environmental and civil engineering, site planning and development, communications and outreach, environmental assessment and cleanup, strategic planning, Geographic Information Systems(GIS), health and safety services, and air quality. MFA has decades of experience assisting Washington ports with their unique commercial, environmental, statutory, and community priorities.
Rail shipping
Friday Awards Breakfast Sponsors
Serving Northwest public and private clients, including public ports. U.S. News and World Report and Best Lawyers list Pacifica as a Tier 1 law firm in the Seattle region for public finance law, appellate law, education law, municipal law, and real estate law. Many of our attorneys are recognized as “Best Lawyers in America” and as “Super Lawyers.” We also have deeply held professional and personal commitments to civic responsibility, community volunteerism and industry participation, reflected in our leadership and/or pro bono service to numerous organizations, associations, boards and committees.
Email Mandy Lill if you want to inquire about sponsorship opportunities!
Thank you to all our sponsors! Your participation is appreciated!