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• EDCO 2020 Conference: Get Your Game On

  • Start
    04 Feb 2020
  •  
    (EST)
  • End
    06 Feb 2020
  •  
    (EST)
  • Location
    Marriott Downtown at CF Toronto Eaton Centre
  • Spaces left
    318

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  Introducing EDCO's 63rd Annual Conference and Showcase
  Get Your Game On
  at the Marriott Downtown at CF Toronto Eaton Centre, February 4-6, 2020

  
  

  With your full conference registration*, you can look forward to the following:

  
  

  • Opening Reception: Hockey Hall of Fame, Brookfield Place, 30 Yonge Street (Presented by Research Consultants International)

    
    

  Day 1

  • Opening Keynote Presentation
  • Health Break and Coffee
  • Master Classes - Choice of:

  1. Cars Start your Engines! 
  2. Agri-Food 2.0: A Win-Win for Your Community 
  3. Evolving Community Improvement Plan Programs
  4. Don't Bonk Heads When You Bow - The Importance of Culture in FDI

  • Plenary: Bright Ideas Competition
    

  • Learning Labs - Choice of:

  1. A Game Plan for Emerging Professionals
  2. Digital Disruption in Commercial Real Estate
  3. Economic Planning and Growth
  4. A View from Lower 48: US Executives Perception of Canada's Business Climate

  • Plenary: Fatima and Amna Sultan, Canada's Youngest Entrepreneurs
  • Feast On Reception - Grand Ballroom Foyer; Trinity Ballroom
    

  
  Day 2

  • Plenary Presentations:

  1. What's the Game Plan? Honourable Vic Fedeli, Minister of Economic Develop, Job Creation and Trade
  2. Tourism

  • Master Classes - Choice of:

  1. Superclusters: Transforming Canada's Innovation Economy
  2. Immigrant Entrepreneurs and the Future of Local Communities 

  • Learning Labs - Choice of:
    

  1. Update on Digital Mainstreet
  2. Social Media for Economic Development
  3. Moment of Youth
  4. Supporting Ontario's Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs 

  • Lunch - Grand Ballroom
  • Master Classes - Choice of:

  1. Future Skills and Ensuring Sound Market Practices
  2. ACTION! Managing Film/TV Productions in Your Community

  • Learning Labs - Choice of:

  1. Stepping-Up to the Plate: Engaging Youth in Community Economic Development
  2. Out of Left Field - Re-imagining How Communities Use Existing Space to Foster Entrepreneurship 
  3. Look at Your Town from the Water
  4. Be the Best Business Advisor You Can Be: 7 Things That Make an Impact and Retain Business

  • Health Break and Coffee
  • Ignite Sessions - Grand Ballroom
  • Closing Plenary - Site Selection for $500
  • President's Reception - Grand Ballroom
  • President's Dinner and EDCO Awards of Excellence Ceremony

  Check out the full conference program at http://edcoconference.com/program-details/
  

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• Pre-Conference Seminar: Diversity in Economic Development

  • When
    04 Feb 2020
  •  
    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM (EST)
  • Location
    Ontario Investment and Trade Centre, Galleria, 250 Yonge Street, 35th Floor, Toronto, ON

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  Pre-Conference Seminar:
  Diversity in Economic Development
  

  Location: Ontario Investment and Trade Centre, Galleria, 250 Yonge Street, 35th Floor, Toronto, ON

  Date: February 4th, 2020

  Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  Cost: $50.00 (Lunch included)

  About: The economic development profession is becoming more diverse. This is a positive trend that will result in more creative and inclusive initiatives in our communities!

  EDCO is hosting this event to facilitate a dialogue about the experience of economic development professionals in under-represented groups. This will be an opportunity to deepen our collective understanding of the workplace challenges of these groups, and learn how to better support each other. 

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• Pre-Conference Seminar: One Dozen Coffees

  • When
    04 Feb 2020
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (EST)
  • Location
    Ontario Investment and Trade Centre, Galleria, 250 Yonge Street, 35th Floor, Toronto, ON

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  Emerging Professionals Pre-Conference Seminar:
  One Dozen Coffees
  Share career advice over coffee!

  Location: Ontario Investment and Trade Centre, Galleria, 250 Yonge Street, 35th Floor, Toronto, ON

  Date: February 4th, 2020

  Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

  Cost: Free

  About: Love coffee and conversation? Come join the first One Dozen Coffees meet-up of this new EDCO networking series! The event is taking place as a pre-conference seminar and the idea is to provide the opportunity for emerging professionals to network with experts in the EDCO community. Sign-up and have the chance to inspire collaboration and knowledge exchange within the economic development field! You do not want to miss out!

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