**Outcome: Identify and commit to goals and actions to focus coordinated
mapping activities to advance national ocean and coastal mapping.**

**Objectives:**

-   Build common understandings of the current state including trends,
    conditions, challenges and opportunities

-   Develop a shared vision and describe the desired future state

-   Identify critical priorities and build consensus on strategic goals
    on which to focus coordinated mapping activities

-   Frame high-level action plans to support the strategic goals and
    priorities

-   Establish commitment to implement priorities and actions

-   Build a communications strategy focusing on messages and audience

-   Identify next steps and timeframe

**Tuesday, February 26, 2008**

**AM Session (Open to the Public)**

Purpose: Set the context for the workshop. Build common understandings
of the current state including trends, conditions, challenges and
opportunities.

8:30 am Coffee and Conversation

9:00 am Welcome and Introductions

9:30 am Keynote Address -- Dr. Larry Mayer (Center for Ocean and Coastal
Mapping)

10:15 am Networking Break

10:45 am Snapshot of Federal OCM Activities-IWG-OCM Co-Chairs: John
Haines (USGS), Jeff Lillycrop (USACE), Roger Parsons (NOAA) and Steve
Kopach (MMS)

12:00 pm Catered Lunch

**PM Session (Open to the Public)**

Purpose: Continue to build common understandings of the current state.
Transition from the present to the future. Create a snapshot of the
desired future state.

1:00 pm Start-up: Environmental Scan/Context Map

1:30 pm Summary of State OCM Activities -- Tony Wilbur (MA),

> Steve Wolfe (FL) and Sheila Semans (CA)

2:30 pm Networking Break

3:00 pm Big Waves Vision -- Small Group Sessions/Whole Group Debrief

-   Description of the Desired Future State

-   Core Purpose and Guiding Principles

-   Issues, Challenges and Opportunities

4:45 pm Public Comment Period

5:15 pm Wrap-up and Next Steps

5:30 pm Adjourn

Social Hour: Networking and Cocktails

6:30 pm Dinner (Optional)

**Wednesday, February 27, 2008**

**AM Session**

Purpose: Develop a shared vision and describe the desired future state.
Identify and build consensus on strategic goals on which to focus
coordinated mapping activities.

8:30 am Coffee and Conversation

9:00 am Start-up: Review of Day 1/Focus for Day 2

> Vision themes and impacts

9:45 am Big Waves Vision/Strategic Goals Identification

-   Whole Group Session

10:15 am Networking Break

10:45 am Consensus Building: Refine and agree on common goals and
priorities

-   Small Group Sessions

12:00 pm Catered Lunch

**Wednesday, February 27, 2008**

**PM Session**

Purpose: Frame high-level action plans to support the strategic goals

1:15 pm Agreement on 3 -- 5 strategic goals/priorities

2:00 pm Work session -- Game plan development

-   Small Group Sessions

-   Work collaboratively to develop high-level game plan (strategy) to
    accomplish the strategic goal

-   Focus on priorities, challenges, success factors, stages/tasks, and
    interdependencies

3:30 pm Break

4:00 pm Debrief and consensus building

5:00 pm Wrap-up and Next Steps

5:15 pm Adjourn -- Dinner on Your Own

**Thursday, February 28, 2008**

**AM Session (Open to the Public)**

Purpose: Build commitment around strategic goals. Identify focus of
communications -- messages and audiences. Evaluate accomplishments and
identify next steps

8:30 am Coffee and Conversation

9:00 am Start-up: Review of Day 2/Focus for Day 3

9:15 am Communications Plan - Stakeholder Map and Messages

10:45 am Break

11:15 am Actions and Next Steps

12:00 pm Public Comment Period

12:30 pm Closing

1:00 pm Adjourn -- Lunch on Your Own