Opening Keynote
Speaker
Scott Summerfield
Principal, SAE Communications
Scott Summerfield is an expert in strategic communications counsel with over three decades of award-winning public information/public participation experience, along with tenures at several organizations focused on community issues. Scott specializes in assisting our clients with their media training programs and strategic counsel.
Scott is the former Public Information Officer for the City of
Newark and also served as project manager for the largest grant
program in League of California Cities history, supervising a
team of nine communications consultants throughout the state who
worked with local communities to implement public education and
public participation projects.
Scott also served as Director of Communications for the Oakland
Chamber of Commerce. The Oakland native is a graduate of San
Diego State University in Telecommunications/Film. He is a past
president of the California Association of Public Information
Officials (CAPIO) and recipient of their lifetime achievement
award; grants chair of the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame; a former
executive board member of the City-County Communications and
Marketing Association (3CMA); a board member of the Bay Area
Cable Excellence Awards; a guest lecturer at the University of
Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication in Los
Angeles; and is a course manager and crisis communications
instructor at the California Specialized Training Institute.