2026 Winter Meeting Sponsors
Support the WPPA Winter Meeting – and Be Seen!
Sponsorships play a vital role in making our Winter 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
Providing a full range of legal services to Washington’s public ports, including public finance and tax, public records and open meetings, airport regulation and operations, employment and labor relations, real estate, land use and environmental, eminent domain, insurance coverage and litigation.
General Session Refreshments Sponsors
Marine Solutions is a woman-owned civil engineering and commercial diving firm specializing in underwater and topside inspection, imaging, design, repair, and construction of waterfront and bridge infrastructure. We blend the strengths of our commercial diving and marine construction experience with our engineering expertise to solve problems quickly and efficiently. We are a growing company with the capacity, the expertise, and the resources to be a dependable, responsive, innovative partner to our clients. Our offices are strategically located near heavily traveled inland rivers and coastal waterways in Kentucky, Idaho, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Utah, and Virginia.
Wednesday Keynote 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.
Wednesday Lunch Sponsors
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.
Media & Technology Sponsor
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Schwabe provides comprehensive legal services for Washington ports of all sizes. We assist ports in addressing environmental concerns, property acquisition, leasing and development, rail and maritime agreements, public meeting law compliance, general counsel services, and regional navigation issues. Drawing on Schwabe’s vast collective experience and contacts, we help our clients stay apprised of and prepared for industry developments and trends.
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!