Why are you advocating for that . I always advocated for title vi i only advocated for title iii because it would prevent the people from puerto rico suffering freiggreat losses the title iii proceedings are going to a mediation type effort when rational people can discuss things, we can get to good outcomes reporter retailers across the world look for the holiday season, black friday, to get them into the black. When i think about puerto rico, i think about that same period of time, starting november, december, january, where the influx of tourism and cash comes through. If that doesnt happen, how do you prove out your thesis that a reorganization of the debt is even something that you can service . Well, heres the thing. Tourism is an important part of our economy. But we were really underutilizing tourism in general. It only represents 7 of our economy. When we look at, you know, pharmaceuticals and so forth, that represents about 46 of our economy. So that is really what were makin
Defenses. The first session for the evening is from pete and joyce giving Public Sector perspective on this topic. Pete was former cto for department of energy, currently a member of icit gala board and ceo of doths and bridges. Joyce Hunter Deputy cio policy and planning for u. S. Department of agriculture. So please help me welcome our first speakers. Great, thanks, parham. I appreciate the chance to be here. Two villanova grads, if youre wondering what the v stand for, pretty excited, it was a good year for us. Again, im only about nine, nine and a half, ten months removed from the federal government. Whats most exciting after 25 years and spending the last 7 1 2 or so at the department of energy was the opportunity to sort of take what i was doing in my role there. That was working inarguably the members us of the critical sectors, the 16 we know exist today but also on this panel or this conversation were going to talk a bit about how joyce at the usda and department of energy, co