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Table of 10: $1,500
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FEATURED SPEAKERS

Angelos Angelou
Principal Executive Officer and Chief Economist, AngelouEconomics

Greg Ip
U.S. Economics Editor, The Economist

MASTER OF CEREMONIES

Texas Senator Kirk Watson
Partner, Brown McCarroll

ABOUT THE FORECAST

The annual Economic Forecast event is the largest business event in Austin, Texas, attended by approximately 800 people each year. The audience includes public officials, educators, media, economic analysts, and business executives from Central Texas’ technology, legal, financial, 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 2010, and his projections for 2011 and 2012.  Angelos’ forecast will include job growth, population, retail sales, taxes, entrepreneurship, venture capital, technology growth, emerging technologies, and predictions on the real estate markets.

CLICK HERE to view the Forecast publication and PowerPoint presentations from
the 2010-11 Economic Forecast held in January 2010.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Angelos Angelou

Angelos Angelou is the Founder and Principal Executive Officer of AngelouEconomics, an economic development and site selection consultancy based in Austin, Texas, with an office in Dubai. A highly visible leader in the field of economic development for 27 years, Mr. Angelou is widely regarded as an expert on technology based economic development, public policy, investment attraction and marketing. National and international media alike regularly seek his comments and insights.

In its 15-year history, AngelouEconomics has become one of the leading independent economic development consulting firms in the United States.

The firm has developed economic development strategies for more than 250 regions in the United States and abroad. International clients include projects in Austria, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Puerto Rico, Brazil and Montreal, Canada. AngelouEconomics is currently developing the national economic development strategy for the Republic of Malta and is representing the Vietnamese government in the United States and United Arab Emirates.

In its site selection practice, AngelouEconomics has sited over $15 billion worth of capital investment projects from high tech corporate clients around the world. Major corporate clients include, ConocoPhillips, HP, SEMATECH, Q-Cells, Conergy, CITGO, Dell, Sun Microsystems, GE, YingliSolar, Oracle, Heliovolt, Texas Energy Center, RRE Austin Solar, The Cleveland Clinic, AMD and Intel. AngelouEconomics has particular expertise in working with corporate clients involved in renewable energy, data centers, IT, electronics, semiconductors and life sciences.

Prior to forming AngelouEconomics, Mr. Angelou was Vice President of Economic Development at the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce where he served for nearly 12 years. He is widely regarded as the chief architect in the establishment of Austin as another Silicon Valley.

Greg Ip

Greg Ip is U.S. Economics Editor for The Economist, based in Washington D.C. He covers the economy, financial markets, monetary, fiscal and regulatory policy. He contributes to The Economist’s blog, Free Exchange. He has commented frequently on radio and television, including CNBC, BBC, CNN, MSNBC, “The Newshour with Jim Lehrer,” “Washington Week with Gwen Ifill," and National Public Radio. He joined The Economist in July, 2008.

Prior to his current job, Mr. Ip was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, most recently as chief economics correspondent in Washington. He created Real Time Economics, the Wall Street Journal’s online blog of Fed and economic news. He joined the Journal in 1996 as a reporter covering financial markets in New York.

Mr. Ip began his journalism career as a reporter for the Vancouver (B.C.) Sun from May to December 1989. He joined the Financial Post in Toronto, Ontario, in January 1990 where he served as an economics and financial reporter in Canada and later transferred to Washington, D.C., as a correspondent for the paper. In September 1995, he became a business and economics reporter for the Globe and Mail in Toronto.

In 2008, Mr Ip with several colleagues won the William Brewster Styles Award in business and economics writing from the Scripps Howard Foundation for coverage of the mortgage and housing crisis. In March 2005, Mr. Ip won a Business Journalist of the Year award from the World Leadership Forum in the “Best Story on Economics” category for his two-part series on the legacy of Alan Greenspan. In 2002, The Wall Street Journal Staff was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in the breaking news reporting category for articles from the September 12, 2001 Journal. Mr. Ip and a Journal colleague wrote “Attacks Raise Fears of a Recession,” one of the articles included in the prize-winning package. The Journal staff also received the Jesse Laventhol Prize for deadline news reporting from the American Society of Newspaper Editors and won a second place in the National Headliner Awards. In 1998, Mr. Ip as part of a team of Journal reporters received the Overseas Press Club’s Malcolm Forbes Award for business reporting for their coverage of the Asian financial crisis. He was also a member of a team of reporters receiving the 1998 Society of American Business Editors and Writers Best in Business Award. The award in the spot news category was for coverage of the financial market drop of October 27, 1997.

A native of Canada, Mr. Ip received a Bachelor’s degree in economics and journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

Now available from Grep Ip: The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in The Real World

The Little Book of Economics walks you through the critical issues in economics today: the sources of long-term economic growth, how recessions become depressions, inflation vs. deflation, globalization, how budget deficits can save an economy or bring on disaster, and why we keep having financial crises. It’s compact (less than 250 short pages), and written in plain English with ample analogies and examples to illustrate the main points.

The Little Book of Economics is also an indispensable resource to students or anyone thinking of working in economics or finance. Each chapter explains key concepts and indicators. For example, it guides you through the Labor Department’s two different surveys of employment and shows why they sometimes conflict, describes the make up of the consumer price index and how it may overstate inflation, and why there are so many ways to measure the national debt.

The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in The Real World is now available online and in stores such as Barnes and Noble. You can order it on Amazon.com now.

Texas Senator Kirk Watson

Senator Kirk Watson is a member of the Texas Senate and a partner with the law firm Brown McCarroll, L.L.P. He served as Mayor of Austin from 1997 to 2001, and from 1991 to 1993 served as Chair of the Texas Air Control Board, the state agency that was charged with addressing air quality in Texas. Senator Watson has also served as Chair of both the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce and the Texas Advisory Board of Environmental Defense. In 2007, Texas Monthly named him "Legislative Rookie of the Year."

Senator Watson's law practice focuses on commercial litigation, and throughout his legal career, he has represented families, physicians, businesses, and several of Texas' major universities in a variety of disputes and transactions. He is a highly regarded speaker on a range of legal and economic development topics, having addressed business and political leaders at public policy forums across the United States and internationally.

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