Not Your Usual Networking Event
Exporting Intellectual Capital: Exchanging Ideas and Key Learnings to Advance Regional Leadership and Economic Development
September 30, 2009
Panelists:
- Nancy Hamilton, Policy and Economic Development Analyst, Office of Governor Kulongoski
- Steve Straus, President, Glumac Engineering and PDC Board Member
- Dan Carol, Co-Founder, Green Harvest Technologies
- Chandra Brown, Vice President, Oregon Ironworks
The Cascadia region’s sustainable development expertise is a standard-setting model of best practices - in demand by international audiences seeking to learn and replicate proven ideas.
Join MarketShift Strategies and a panel of entrepreneurs to discuss how to introduce local expertise into a global forum. Cities around the world increasingly look to the Northwest for valuable perspective on growing and evolving sustainable economies to meet 21st century economic and infrastructure priorities.Panelists will explore the Northwest region’s talent for convening policymakers, business leaders, academic institutions and local citizenry to demonstrate the interconnections between applied economic development strategies, building development best practices, and policy innovation.
The result is a new hallmark of business exchange yielding potential new markets for local businesses involved in redefining Oregon’s own sustainable economy. Guest panelists include local experts tapped by some of the most innovative global capitals to inform and evolve a new era of sustainable commerce and development.
MarketShift Strategies hosts a free private cocktail party for local business leaders engaged in the sustainable economy. Each Upside Hour offers superb networking in a private setting, serves great drinks and features thought leaders sharing insights on a given topic.
This is an opportunity for businesses to identify synergies and cultivate deeper levels of business collaboration. The Upside Hour is an invite-only event. If you are a business leader interested in attending, please request an invitation.
