WHEN: Thursday, January 26, 2006
PROGRAM: 7:00 – 9:30 am

7:00 - 7:30 - Registration and Networking

7:30 - Breakfast is Served

7:45 - 9:30 - Economic Forecast Presentations

WHERE: Austin Convention Center

REGISTRATION

(all registrations must be received by Monday, January 23rd)

Table of 10: $1,500 (includes 10 copies of the forecast publication)
Individual: $165 (includes 1 copy of the forecast publication)

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FEATURED SPEAKERS

Mr. Angelos Angelou
Principal and Chief Economist, AngelouEconomics

Mr. Vijay Vaitheeswaran
Global Environment & Energy Correspondent, The Economist Magazine

ABOUT THE FORECAST

The annual Economic & Technology 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 2005, and his projections for 2006 and 2007.  Angelos’ forecast will include job growth, population, retail sales, taxes, entrepreneurship and venture capital, technology growth, real estate absorption, emerging technologies, and Austin’s economic development “call to action.”

CLICK HERE to view the PowerPoint presentation from the 2005-2006 Economic & Technology Forecast, held in January 2005.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

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

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, Texas Energy Center, Sumitomo Sitex, The Cleveland Clinic, AMD, and Intel.

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 some 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.

Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Global Environment & Energy Correspondent

The Economist Magazine
Vijay Vaitheeswaran joined The Economist in 1992 as its London-based Latin America correspondent. In 1994 he opened the publication's first Latin America bureau in Mexico City, writing about political, financial and cultural developments in that part of the world. He remained there as bureau chief until 1997, when he returned to London. In 1998 he became the publication's energy and global environment correspondent, covering developments in politics, economics, business, and technology as they relate to energy issues. He is now based in New York. 

Vijay is a regular commentator on National Public Radio's "Marketplace" and a frequent guest on the BBC, CNN, PBS and other television networks.  He is also the author of a new book on the future of energy, “POWER TO THE PEOPLE: How the Coming Energy Revolution will Transform an Industry, Change our Lives, and Maybe Even Save the Planet” (www.vijaytothepeople.com). Vaitheeswaran holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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