Thank you Austin business-leaders for supporting this year's very successful forecast event.

Read below if you would like to purchase items from the event.

Please feel free to download the presentations from:

Angelos Angelou;			Zanny Minton Beddoes;
President, AngelouEconomics			U.S. Economics Editor, The Economist
Or play an audio recap of the event, brought to you by KUT, Austin's NPR affiliate:
			(clicking the KUT logo will open an mp3 media file that is 2.0MB in size)

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 provides an overview of the Austin economy in the past, and his projections for upcoming years. Every year Angelos’ forecast includes discription of the region's 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.”

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 one of the largest independent economic development consulting firms in the US. The firm’s areas of expertise include economic development strategic planning, feasibility studies for technology parks, entrepreneurial strategies, 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.

Mr. Angelou 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, Mr. Angelou 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.

Zanny Minton Beddoes

Zanny Minton Beddoes is The Economist's US economics editor. She is responsible for the magazine's coverage of the American economy and economic policy. Her interests include tax policy, trade and globalization, financial markets and America 's impact on the global economy. Before moving to Washington in 1996, Ms. Minton Beddoes was The Economist's emerging-markets correspondent in London.

Ms. Minton Beddoes joined The Economist in 1994 after spending two years as an economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). 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 the American economy and international financial policy. She has written several in-depth surveys for The Economist on the world economy and global financial trends. She has published in Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy, and has testified before Congress on the introduction of the Euro.

New for 2008, the entire set of materials for the event is available for purchase, including:

• A CD with the PowerPoint slides in PDF format
• An audio copy of the presentations (in Mp3 format)
• A copy of the 16-page color Forecast Publication

To purchase the bundle package for $35 call AngelouEconomics at 512.225.9322 or email us.
Purchase the Forecast Publication alone for $25.