49TH ANNUAL GEORGIA TECH BASIC ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COURSE AGENDA
 TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2016
Start
End
Location
Topic
7:30 am
9:00 am
9:00 am
9:30 am
Georgia Tech Break Area
Room 222
REGISTRATION
Opening Session/Welcome:
The Importance of Becoming
Involved in Your State ED
Association
9:30 am
10:30 am
Room 222
10:30 am
10:45 am
10:45 am
11:45 am
Georgia Tech Break Area
Room 222
Keynote Address: Disruptive
Technologies
BREAK
Panel Discussion: Community
Impacts of Innovation Districts
Moderator: Scott Henderson
11:45 am
12:00 pm
1:00 pm
12:00 pm
1:00 pm
2:00 pm
Atrium
2:00 pm
3:00 pm
Room 222
3:00 pm
3:15 pm
3:15 pm
5:15 pm
Georgia Tech Break Area
Room 222
6:00 pm
7:30 pm
Tech Square Labs
Room 222
BEDC Class Photo
LUNCH (on your own)
Managing Economic
Development Organizations
Managing Economic
Development Organizations:
Case Study
BREAK
Real Estate and Reuse: How to
Effectively Work with Site
Selectors
Tour of Tech Square Labs
(optional)
Speaker(s)
David Bridges- Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation
Institute
Leigh Hopkins- Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation
Institute
Kevin Shea- Georgia Economic Developers Association
Vicki Horton- Duff & Phelps and Myriad Partners
Kevin Johnson- Invest Atlanta
Chris Downing- Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation
Institute
Kevin Bacon- Perkins Will
Wayne Hodges- Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation
Institute
Eloisa Klementich- Invest Atlanta
Jones Hooks- Jekyll Island Development Authority
Vicki Horton- Duff & Phelps and Myriad Partners
 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2016
Start
End
Location
Topic
7:00 am
8:00 am
8:00 am
8:15 am
Georgia Tech Break Area
Room 222
Networking Breakfast
Group Read Out
8:15 am
10:15 am
Room 222
10:15 am
10:30 am
10:30 am
11:30 am
Georgia Tech Break Area
Room 222
11:30 am
12:30 am
Room 222
12:30 am
1:15 pm
1:15 pm
3:15 pm
Room 222
Case Study: Ethics in Economic
Development
BREAK
Innovations in Economic
Development Research
Economic Development
Finance: A Practitioner’s
Perspective
LUNCH (on your own)
Panel Discussion: Economic
Development Marketing &
Attraction
Moderator: Juli Golemi
3:15 pm
3:30 pm
3:30 pm
4:30 pm
Georgia Tech Break Area
Room 222
4:30 pm
5:30 pm
Room 222
5:30 pm
Various Locations
BREAK
Workforce Development:
Atlanta Workforce
Development Agency
Workforce Development:
Southwire/12 for Life
BEDC’s Open Table: Advance
Dining Reservations (optional)
Speaker(s)
Leigh Hopkins- Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation
Institute
Todd Greene- Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Tedra Cheatham- Clean Air Campaign
Jennifer Zeller- Georgia Power
Teela Spiller- Atlanta Micro Fund
Jim O’Bryan- Georgia EMC
Tamara Patridge- Clayton County Economic
Development
Ramay Winchester- TN Department of Economic &
Community Development
Doug Nicely- Eagle Rock Studios
John Metcalf- Workforce Systems Associates
Mike Wiggins- Southwire
49TH ANNUAL GEORGIA TECH BASIC ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COURSE AGENDA
 THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 2016
Start
End
Location
Topic
7:00 am
8:30 am
8:30 am
9:30 am
Georgia Tech Break Area
Room 222
9:30 am
10:30 am
Room 222
Networking Breakfast
Economic Development
Finance: Measuring the
Impact of Development
Panel Discussion: Business
Retention and Expansion:
Creating a Foundation for
Success
10:30 am
10:45 am
10:45 am
11:45 am
Georgia Tech Break Area
Room 222
11:45 am
1:00 pm
1:00 pm
2:00 pm
Room 222
2:00 pm
3:00 pm
Room 222
3:00 pm
3:15 pm
3:15 pm
5:15 pm
Georgia Tech Break Area
Room 222
Moderator: Brandy Nagel
BREAK
Entrepreneurship and
Small Business
Development
LUNCH (on your own)
Business Retention and
Expansion: How a
Community Can Support
the Small Business or
Start-Up Company
Entrepreneurship and
Small Business
Development: An
Entrepreneur's
Perspective
BREAK
Economic Development
Strategic Planning
Speaker(s)
Alfie Meek- Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation
Institute
Charles Wood- Chattanooga Area Chamber of
Commerce
Kent Spencer- Invest Atlanta
Vicki Horton- Duff & Phelps and Myriad Partners
Aaron Wynn- EHS Hospitality Group
Aaron Wynn- EHS Hospitality Group
Charles Wood- Chattanooga Area Chamber of
Commerce
Todd Miller- Zifty
Lisa Collins- Cook County Economic Development
Commission
 FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2016
Start
End
Location
Topic
5:45 am
6:45 am
Georgia Tech Hotel Lobby
7:00 am
8:30 am
8:30 am
10:30 am
Georgia Tech Break Area
Room 222
5k Fun Run “Pi” Mile
(optional)
Networking Breakfast
How to Handle the Media
10:30 am
11:30 am
Room 222
Ignite Session: Economic
Development “On the
Ground”
Moderator: Tim Martin
11:45 am
12:00 pm
Atrium
12:00 pm
1:00 pm
Atrium
1:00 pm
Wrap Up/Graduation
WORKING LUNCH: IEDC
and the CEcD Certification
Process
Closing Session: Disruptive
Technologies on Future
Economic Development
Speaker(s)
Tami Gerke- Troutman Sanders
Kristie Benson- AGL Resources
Tim Evans- Greater Hall Chamber of Commerce
Matt Forshee- Georgia Power
Mary Ellen McClanahan- Georgia Department of
Economic Development
Misti Martin- Cherokee County Office of Economic
Development
Steve Rushing- Health@EI2
Kenwin Hayes- City of Griffin Downtown Development
Authority
Greg King- Georgia Tech Strategic Partners Office
Keith McGreggor- VentureLab
Leigh Hopkins- Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation
Institute