Make Global Connections at IEDC's Annual Conference

Renewable Communities: Leveraging Your Competitive Resources

In a May 2009 membership survey, you shared your preferences for international conference content, with an emphasis on attracting inward foreign direct investment (FDI), marketing your community abroad and international best practice examples for economic development programs. We've responded by integrating a slew of international topics and speakers into our programming for this year's Annual Conference, October 4-7 in Reno, Nevada.

FEATURED PANELS INCLUDE:
• Business Development in a Globalized World which covers internationalizing small business
• Culture, Collaboration, Competence, and Creativity Create $700 million
• Investment which examines a successful case of attracting Greenfield FDI in renewable energy components manufacturing
• Are there International Deals in the Current Economy? Which addresses trends and projections for cross-border investment
• Restructuring, Re-thinking and Re-creating Marketing Models for New Opportunities which covers best practices for international promotion & attraction

SELECT INTERNATIONAL SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

 Jacques Evrard, Director of International Relations, The Brussels Enterprise Agency, Belgium

 Alessandro Teixeira, Ph.D., President, Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil) and President, World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies

 Eddie Chen, Executive Director/Chief Representative for China, Invest in Sweden Agency, Shanghai, China

 Kjaer Lundoe Jakobsen, Vice President, Business Development, Vestas Blades A/S, Denmark

 Rose Catherin-Mortazavi, US Director, Enterprise Rhône-Alpes International, France

And many more!

You can access our detailed program online. Don't miss this one of a kind gathering of global economic development and investment practitioners recruited in direct response to member input!

View the conference program: http://www.iedconline.org/AnnualConference/Program.html

Expert speakers: http://www.iedconline.org/AnnualConference/Speakers.html

Register today: http://www.iedconline.org/AnnualConference/Registration.html