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Registration Opens |
| 7:30 |
Breakfast Buffet |
| 7:45 |
EDCO 2010 Annual General Meeting |
| 8:30 |
Conference Opening and Welcome |
| 9:00 |
Opening Keynote
Becoming the Next Generation Community - Reflecting, Responding and Redesigning for an Uncertain Future, Rebecca Ryan, Founder, Next Generation Consulting |
| 10:00 |
Coffee Break in Showcase |
| 10:30 |
Concurrent Workshop Sessions
i. Tourism – A Major Pillar of the New Economy
ii. Showcasing Your Community Capabilities to the World by Leveraging International Business Missions
iii. Human Capital Development in the New Economy… Connecting Supply to Demand |
| 11:45 |
Lunch |
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| 7:30 |
Registration Opens/Breakfast Buffet |
| 8:45 |
Conference Opening and Welcome |
| 9:00 |
Keynote Presentation
Thriving Through And After A Slowdown
Lou Schizas, Equities Analyst, Investor, Entrepreneur, Professor and Television and Radio Personality |
| 10:15 |
Coffee Break in Showcase |
| 10:45 |
Plenary: Be Connected – Social Media and Today’s Economic Developer |
| 11:45 |
Lunch |
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Concurrent Workshop Sessions
i. Ontario’s Green Economy: From Promise to Policy and Implementation
ii. Living Locally – Working Globally
iii. The Building Blocks of Globalization-Developing Regional Export Networks to Create Export Capacity |
| 2:30 |
Coffee Break in Showcase |
| 3:15 |
Closing Plenary
Reinventing the Community: Lessons from the Global Village |
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| 1:00 |
Concurrent Workshop Sessions – Positioning for Attraction and Retention in the New Economy
i. Community Leadership + Quality of Life = Economic Properity
ii. Understanding and Capitalizing on the Creative Economy
iii. Immigrant Attraction and Retention: Building Human Capital |
| 2:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 3:00 |
Closing Presentation
How EDOs can provide value and collaborate with other groups/stakeholders |
| 4:15 |
Program ends |
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