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• EDCO 2019 Conference: Powershifting Economic Development

  • Start
    29 Jan 2019
  •  
    (EST)
  • End
    31 Jan 2019
  •  
    (EST)
  • Location
    Sheraton Centre, 123 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON
  • Spaces left
    378

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  Introducing EDCO's 62nd Annual Conference and Showcase
  Powershifting Economic Development: Gearing up for Change
  at the Sheraton Centre Toronto, January 29-31, 2019

  
  

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

  
  

  • Opening reception at the Acadian Loft
    
    

  Day 1
  

  • Opening keynote presentation:  Driving Change in a Fluid Environment by Eric Canada
  • Learning Labs - Choice of:

  1. Emerging Opportunities in Entrepreneurship: New Roads in Community Economic Development
  2. Navigating International Relations
  3. Re-tool you Decision Making: Using Pro Forma Analysis to Support Local Economic Development
  4. Municipal Property Assessment Corporation
  5. Beyond the Final Report - Calibrating the Success of BRE Programs
  6. Workforce 2019, JOBS WITHOUT PEOPLE!
  7. In the Rearview - Looking Back at Successful Foreign Direct Investment Attraction
  8. Putting Ontario's Small Businesses on the Digital Map
     

  • Plenary: Globally Standardized City Data to Drive Economic Development
    

  • Master Classes - Choice of:

  1. Navigating the Cannibas Sector to Harvest the Economic Opportunity
  2. Fueling your Community's Future Using Data-Driven Decision Making
  3. Broadband & Cell Gap - The Ignition to Success for Ontario
  4. Manufacturing Future Skills for Generation NExt
     

  • FeastOn Reception

  
  Day 2

  • Plenary Presentation - Speaker to be announced
  • Ontario Cafe
  • Learning Labs: Choice of:

  1. Community Elevator Pitch Exchange
     
  2. Learning Lab 2 - currently on the assembly line
     
  3. Learning Lab 3 - currently on the assembly line
  4. Learning Lab 4 - currently on the assembly line
     

  • Master Classes - Choice of:
    

  1. Cultivating Agri-Food Opportunities
  2. Master Class 2 - currently on the assembly line
     

  • Closing Plenary - Empathy is the #1 Job Skill: The Future of Work and Learning by Ilana Ben-Ari, Design Thinker and Founder of Twenty One Toys
    
  • President's Dinner and EDCO Awards Ceremony

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

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• Economic Development for Elected Officials

  • When
    29 Jan 2019
  •  
    12:30 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Toronto

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  This workshop is specially designed to provide an overview of what local economic development is about from a municipal perspective. 
  

  Who should attend?
  This workshop is a great training opportunity for new Councillors (or for citizens appointed to economic development committees or boards).  It also serves as a refresher for those returning to their previous Council positions.

  Topics covered in the workshop include:

  • Role of elected officials, committees and municipal staff
  • What is economic development?
  • Delivery options for economic development services
  • Importance of economic development strategy and performance measures
    

  Presenter:
  David Cash, BES, RPP, CEcD
  David is a Past President of EDCO and has over 35 years experience in the Ontario municipal sector in Ontario in various roles including Economic Development Officer, Planning Commissioner and CAO.

  He is the President of Cash & Associates, a management consulting company, which provides professional advice and consulting services in the fields of economic development, site location studies, urban planning policy and organizational/service delivery review.

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