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OVERVIEW
As America's businesses and communities enter the new millennium, they are being
increasingly linked to the global marketplace and world-wide competition. Collaboration
and cooperation at home and abroad are needed. The key to enhanced competitiveness is the
development of a “smart” infrastructure and enhanced educational and
technological capabilities. How we educate our children and retrain our workers, conduct
our public and private businesses, use advanced telecommunications, and incorporate
cutting-edge technology and processes, will greatly influence the ability of communities
to become viable and active participants in global commerce.Who Should Attend?
Economic development officials; business and trade associations; corporate management and
community development staffs; local, state, and federal government agency policymakers and
officials; community-based organizations and non-profit groups; professional service
organizations; educational administrators, staff, and faculty; consultants; and workforce
development officials.
Keynote Speakers, Workshops,
and Exhibits Offer Participants an Opportunity to:
- understand how to foster and sustain
technology-based economic development;
- network and build collaborative relationships
among public agencies, businesses, and community-based organizations;
- learn lessons from the successes and failures
of initiatives using science and technology to create jobs and generate wealth;
- identify entrepreneurial and innovative
regional approaches to technology-driven growth opportunities;
- engage in strategic planning to benefit
technologically-distressed communities and areas; and
- explore opportunities, ideas, and linkages
between technology-based economic development activities and the training and employment
of individuals from disadvantaged populations.
The Conference Intends to Cover
Topics Such As:
- marketing distressed communities;
- women and minority entrepreneurship;
- fostering regional collaboration across the
public and private sectors;
- special needs of rural communities;
- electronic commerce and electronic villages;
- wiring libraries, schools, and colleges for
the 21st century;
- developing action-oriented and practical
strategic technology plans;
- understanding emerging industries such as
telemedicine, telecommunications, and intelligent highways;
- the future of business incubators and research
parks;
- funding for technology company start-ups;
- science and technology councils;
- training the technology workforce for the new
millennium;
- grassroots entrepreneurship;
- trends and success stories from the East and
West coasts; and stargazing and future technologies
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