Turning Today's Economic Challenges into Tomorrow's Successes
January 25-27, 2009
Tempe, AZ

The 2009 Leadership Summit in Tempe, AZ, offers senior managers and Certified Economic Developers (CEcD) three days of high-level networking, professional development, and insight from thought-provoking speakers on identifying opportunities within the current economic climate. Attendees will learn how to nurture existing and emerging resources into competitive economic assets for the future.

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Expert Speakers: http://www.iedconline.org/LeadershipSummit/Speakers.html
Register today: http://www.iedconline.org/LeadershipSummit/Registration.html

WORKSHOP: CLIMATE PROSPERITY PLANNING - DEVELOPING YOUR ECONOMY BY COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE ($)

Cities, states and regions across the country and the globe are engaging in innovative strategies to conserve resources and build up their clean technology assets. Savings obtained through resource conservation adds to public budgets, enhances business profit margins leading to job creation and serve as a wage increase to consumers. Investment in clean technologies creates new companies and new products that have growing local, national and international markets. Moreover, global companies are prioritizing greener communities in their location decisions.

This workshop will show you how to position your community to better harness the cost savings, business development and job creation opportunities offered by a rapidly greening economy. Additionally, it will also address how to build the case among local stakeholders to galvanize their support around these essential new strategies for sustainable economic development.