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

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Angelos Angelou
Principal Executive Officer and Chief Economist, AngelouEconomics

Jay H. Bryson, Ph. D.
Managing Director, Global Economist, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

MASTER OF CEREMONIES

Don Kendrick
Regional President, Central Texas Region, Wells Fargo

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 2011, and his projections for 2012 and 2013.  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 2011-12 Economic Forecast held in January 2011.

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 28 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 16-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.

Jay H. Bryson, Ph. D.

Jay Bryson is a managing director and global economist at Wells Fargo providing
analysis on financial markets and macroeconomic developments in the major
economies of the world. He is based in Charlotte, N.C.

Before joining the company in 1998, he was an economist in the Division of International
Finance at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. From 1989 to 1992, he
was an assistant professor of economics at the University of Alabama. He also has
lectured on international economics and macroeconomics at the School for Advanced
International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and at Georgetown University.

Jay has published in academic and popular economic journals and his comments have
regularly appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and USA Today. He also
makes frequent appearances on CNBC and Bloomberg TV. In 2010, Jay was elected to
the Board of Directors of the National Association for Business Economics.
Jay received his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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