The Baton Rouge Area Chamber today unveiled the full agenda for the fifth annual Statewide Economic Development Summit presented by Entergy.
The event will take place virtually Dec. 8 and Dec. 10 between 9 a.m. and noon, with additional on-demand content available for attendees.
The first day of the event will begin with a welcome address by Entergy and Gov. John Bel Edwards, followed by presentations: “The Not-So-Normal Real Estate Landscape,” “Industrial Today: Not Yesterday and Not Tomorrow,” and “Supply Chain Disruption and the Allure of Reshoring.”
Meanwhile, the Dec. 10 lineup features a 10 a.m. keynote speech delivered by Mark Zandi, chief economist and co-founder of Moody’s Economy.com, whose presentation will focus on leveraging data from Moody’s back-to-normal index to forecast economic stability for the state and country.
It will be preceded by a 9 a.m. presentation called “Outside the Box: Designing Creative Incentive Programs to Attract Remote Workers,” and the day will conclude with an 11 a.m. session: “Economic Inclusion by Fixing Information Poverty.”
Additionally, the following on-demand sessions will be available for participants to view throughout the event:
• “Growing as an Intentional Inclusionist: Understanding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as a Function of Leadership;”
• “Emerging Industries Post-Pandemic;”
• “Expanding Access to Broadband in Louisiana.”
Event registration and session descriptions are available at brac.org/edsummit. Registration for the two-day summit, which includes the keynote presentation, live sessions, and exclusive on-demand content, is $50 for an individual ticket.
