2025 Small Ports Seminar Sponsors
Reception Food 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.
Reception Bar Sponsors
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.
Spouse Participation Sponsors
Aetta Architects is a trusted architectural and interior design firm and a long-standing member of the Pacific NW business community. Our brand driver is Bring Together and in today’s online world, it’s easy to forget that we all desire connection and purpose. We collaborate with our clients, the public, and our partners to design spaces and places that bring people together and support the community – from the local elementary school to the regional library to the community center to public safety facilities. That’s what we do.
General Reception Sponsors
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.
Jacobs is the industry’s largest provider of professional engineering and architecture services in the world and ranks as the #1 Program Management and Design Firm in Engineering News-Record’s (ENR) latest rankings. We lead the global professional services sector delivering solutions for a more connected, sustainable world. With approximately $11.5 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2024 and a workforce of over 45,000 across more than 400 offices in over 40 countries, Jacobs provides a full spectrum of services, including scientific, technical, professional and construction and program management for business, industrial, commercial, government and infrastructure sectors.
Our Global Ports & Maritime Group, comprising over 700 dedicated professionals, offers advisory, design, and program and construction management services across the container, bulk, general cargo, and energy sectors, as well as to port authorities, governments, and naval forces. We partner with port authorities, operators, and waterfront owners to provide comprehensive, and sustainable solutions, from initial planning to fully operational facilities.
In the Pacific Northwest, we have consistently been delivering services to our clients for over 30 years, including many on-call and longer-term program engagements. Jacobs’ portfolio of Port & Maritime services includes strategic planning and operations, equipment and technology, asset management, environmental permitting support, risk assessment, feasibility and optioneering, design, engineering, above and underwater inspection, scheduling, cost estimating, construction management, maintenance and rehabilitation planning, and program management.
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.
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.
Caffeine & Cookies Sponsors
Certified public accounting firm specializing in Washington ports since 1987. Financial and accounting services include assistance with State Auditor’s Annual Reports, BARS coding, cash conversions, cash flow analysis and grant compliance. Member of WPPA, Washington Finance Officers Association and Governmental Finance Officers Association.
The AWC is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization based in Olympia that represents Washington cities before the legislature, executive branch, and regulatory agencies. Besides advocacy, AWC provides access to relevant training, high-quality events, valuable data, and member pooling programs such as the Employee Benefits Trust, Workers’ Comp Retro, and the Drug & Alcohol Consortium. All Port Districts are eligible to join AWC and its Member Pooling Programs.
For over 75 years, clients have trusted Gibbs & Olson for their civil engineering and surveying needs. As you work to make your community a better place, we can partner with you to help plan, fund, design, and implement your site design, stormwater, wastewater, water, and road projects.
If you are interested in sponsoring the Small Ports Seminar, please reach out to Mandy Lill for more information.