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REGISTRATION
(all registrations and payments must be received by Monday, January 12th)

Table of 10: $1,500
Individual: $165

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FEATURED SPEAKERS

Angelos Angelou
Principal Executive Officer and Chief Economist, AngelouEconomics
Zanny Minton Beddoes
Economics Editor, The Economist

ABOUT THE FORECAST

The annual Economic Forecast event is the largest business event in Austin, Texas, attended by approximately 1,000 people each year. The audience includes public officials, educators, media, economic analysts, and business executives from Central Texas’ technology, legal, real estate, and services industries.

Angelos Angelou has authored the highly regarded Forecast event since 1984. At the event, Angelos will provide an overview of the Austin economy in 2008, and his projections for 2009 and 2010. Angelos’ forecast will include job growth, population, retail sales, taxes, entrepreneurship, venture capital, technology growth, emerging technologies, and an overhead with predictions on the real estate markets.

CLICK HERE to view the PowerPoint presentation from the 2008-2009 Economic & Technology Forecast, held in January 2008.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Angelos Angelou
Principal Executive Officer and Chief Economist, AngelouEconomics

Angelos Angelou is the Founder and CEO of AngelouEconomics, a renowned Economic Development and Site Selection Consultancy based in Austin, Texas. In its thirteen-year history, AngelouEconomics has become the largest independent economic development consulting firm in the US. The firm’s areas of expertise include economic development strategic planning, feasibility studies for technology parks, entrepreneurial strategies and technology assessments, economic impact studies, site selection and marketing.

AngelouEconomics has provided economic development consulting services to some of the most prominent regions of the world, including the States of Texas, New Mexico, New York, and North Carolina; Portugal; the Czech Republic; Austria; Brazil; Kehl/Strasbourg, Germany; and Puerto Rico. Corporate clients include high impact companies such as Dell, Oracle, Sulzer Medica, Citgo, M&W Zander, The Cleveland Clinic, AMD, ConocoPhillips, Sematech, Intel, and Heliovolt.

Angelos is the author of the highly regarded Economic & Technology Forecast for the greater Austin metropolitan area. He has authored the annual event since 1984, and today it attracts more than 1,000 Austin dignitaries each year.

Prior to forming AngelouEconomics, Angelos was Vice President of Economic Development at the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce. During his 11-year career with the chamber, he played a major role in bringing more than 400 corporations employing over 70,000 people to Austin. A highly visible leader in the field of economic development across the US, Angelos is widely regarded as the chief architect in the establishment of Austin as another Silicon Valley.

Zanny Minton Beddoes
Economics Editor, The Economist

Zanny Minton Beddoes is The Economist’s economics editor, based in Washington DC. She leads the paper’s global economic coverage, coordinating a team of writers around the world. Until November 2007, Ms. Minton Beddoes was US economics editor, focused on the American economy and its global impact.  Before moving to Washington in April 1996, Ms. Minton Beddoes was The Economist’s emerging-markets correspondent based in London. She travelled extensively in Latin America and Eastern Europe, writing editorials and country analyses. She has written surveys of the world economy, Latin American finance, global finance and Central Asia.

Ms. Minton Beddoes joined The Economist in 1994 after spending two years as an economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where she worked on macroeconomic adjustment programs in Africa and the transition economies of Eastern Europe. Before joining the IMF, she worked as an adviser to the Minister of Finance in Poland, as part of a small group headed by Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Harvard University.

Ms. Minton Beddoes has written extensively about international financial issues including enlargement of the European Union, the future of the International Monetary Fund and economic reform in emerging economies. She has published in Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy, contributed chapters to several conference volumes and, in 1997, edited “Emerging Asia”, a book on the future of emerging-markets in Asia, published by the Asian Development Bank. In May 1998, she testified before Congress on the introduction of the Euro.

Ms. Minton Beddoes is a regular television and radio commentator. She is a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a member of the Research Advisory Board of the Committee for Economic Development.

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