2025 Session Priorities Event - MN Chamber

DESCRIPTION
Join us at Session Priorities, the Minnesota Chamber’s highest-profile event of the year to kick-off this year’s legislative session, bringing together business and legislative leaders from throughout Minnesota. Come to hear a preview of the legislative session from those who set the agenda, celebrate the successes of the business community and socialize with political leaders – and each other!

AGENDA

4:00 p.m.      Issue Briefing

5:00 p.m.      Reception 

6:35 p.m.      National Anthem
                      Vivace Violins, MacPhail Center for Music 

6:40 p.m.      Welcome 
                      The Honorable Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota (invited)

6:40 p.m.      Chamber priorities
                      Bill Keegan, President, Dem-Con Companies, 2024-25 Chair of the Board
                      Minnesota Chamber Board of Directors 

7:10 p.m.      Dinner

7:45 p.m.      Chamber vision
                      Doug Loon, President and CEO, Minnesota Chamber of Commerce

8:05 p.m.      Preview of 2024 session with legislative leaders
                     Moderator: Tom Hauser, Chief Political Reporter, KSTP-TV 5 Eyewitness News

   Senate Majority Leader: Senator Erin Murphy (DFL-Saint Paul)
   Senate Minority Leader: Senator Mark Johnson (R- East Grand Forks) 
   Speaker of the House: Speaker Melissa Hortman (DFL-Brooklyn Park) 
   House Speaker-designate: Representative Lisa Demuth (R-Cold Spring)