2024 CanAm Agenda

**FINAL VERSION**

May 22, 2024 (Registration opens at 10:00)
10:00- 12:30: Conference Registration Open
(all activities at Gull Lake Center unless otherwise noted)
11:00- 12:30: Lunch (provided) (Norway Center)
12:30: Business Meeting (All MSANI members encouraged to attend)
13:00 – 13:30 : TRAINING CONFERENCE OPENING CEREMONIES
– Presentation of Colors – MN National Guard Counter Drug
– Bagpipes- Jim Dougherty
– Pledge of Allegiance
– National Anthem – Brainerd High School Choir Small Group
– Moment of Silence
– Welcome – MSANI President Andy Johnson
13:30 – 14:00: MOCIC Updates – Kellan Hemmesch
14:00 – 18:00: KEYNOTE SPEAKER
– (Ret) Sgt John Mattingly – “12 Seconds in the Dark”
18:00: Introduction of vendors / Nominations for board positions
18:15 – TBD? : Intelligence Exchange
18:30: Dinner with music by Devyn Rae (Norway or outside- weather dependent)

May 23, 2024
08:00 – 09:45: BREAKOUT SESSION 1
09:45 – 10:00: Break
10:00 – 11:45: BREAKOUT SESSION 2
12:00 – 13:00: Lunch provided (Norway Lodge)
13:00 – 14:45: BREAKOUT SESSION 3
14:45 – 15:00: Break
15:00 – 16:45: BREAKOUT SESSION 4
17:00 – Intelligence Exchange
18:00 – Banquet, Board Nominations, First Raffle , Awards Ceremony (Ballroom)

BREAKOUT TOPICS:

  1. MN National Guard Counterdrug Task Force: Capabilities and Legal Considerations for Ion Swabs
  2. Privately Made Firearms and Machinegun Conversion Devices- ATF
  3. SW Border Update and Trends – Chief Deputy Matthew Thomas, Pinal County AZ Sheriff’s Office
  4. Tactical Medical Training – BCA and Burnsville FD
  5. The Path to Chepe: From Rural to Metro Case Study – BCA & CEE VI VCET (Methamphetamine)
  6. Mata and Herman: Multi-State Distribution Case Study– Grand Forks ND (Methamphetamine)
  7. United States Postal Inspector – Case Assistance Updates
  8. Candice Hirsch Death Investigation Case Study: Navigating the Challenges and Obstacles of a 3rd Degree Murder Overdose Case– BCA & Grant County (3rd Degree Murder – OD)

May 24, 2024
08:00: Board Elections
08:15 – AUSA Allen Slaughter – Dep Chief – Narcotics & Indian Country. US Attorney’s Office
08:45 – 12:00: ENDNOTE SPEAKER –
(Ret) Lt. Nate Hutchinson – “Under Fire”
12:00 – 12:30: Closing Remarks, Second Raffle and Final Raffle

**FINAL VERSION**