Executive Conference
BUSINESS FACILITIES LIVEXCHANGE EXECUTIVE CONFERENCE
Business Facilities LiveXchange will present a comprehensive, practical and strategic conference program that helps corporate delegates better plan and manage their companies’ relocation or expansion projects. This unique experience will be supplemented by an all-star list of guest speakers, who will be making presentations and leading discussions on a number of hot-button issues.
Keynote Speaker: John Copenhaver, CEO, Contingency Management Group
Keynote Presentation: Self-Reliance: The Key to Disaster Recovery
Former regional FEMA Director John Copenhaver will focus on the need for locations big and small in vulnerable areas to make sure they have the resources in place to deal with the megastorms and other disasters to come. He also will explain why it’s critical to tailor today’s disaster recovery to produce a result that makes us safer when tomorrow’s natural catastrophes arrive.
During his more than 30-year career, Mr. Copenhaver has served in a number of senior executive roles, including as a Presidential appointee to FEMA and as President and CEO of the Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRI). As CEO of Contingency Management Group, Inc., he is responsible for provisioning of executive management services, as well as emergency management and business continuity consulting to clients including IBM, the governments of Peru and El Salvador, and the City of New York.
Tim Feemster, President, Foremost Quality Logistics
Workshop: Mastering Logistics
With over 35 years of industry and consulting experience, Mr. Feemster specializes in supply chain and distribution network strategy, operations management in manufacturing and distribution environment, supply chain cost improvement, distribution center master planning, and economic development business planning. Before joining FQL Logistics, Mr. Feemster was a senior manager in three manufacturing companies, a consultant, an executive in two third-party logistics providers and a practice group leader in two real estate companies.
Mark Lautman, Principal, Lautman Economic Architecture
Seminar: Demographics and Site Selection
Mark Lautman is a founding director of the Community Economics Lab, a private not-for-profit think tank that innovates new approaches to economic development to work in a labor and capital constrained economy. His consulting business, Lautman Economic Architecture, LLC, works with community leaders to transform community economies and elevate the professional practice of economic and workforce development.
Mark Williams, President, Strategic Development Group, Inc.
Seminar: Negotiating Incentives, Land Costs and Energy Costs
Mark Williams is a Certified Economic Developer with a unique and wide-ranging combination of private sector and government site location and economic development experience. During his extensive 15-year career, Mr. Williams has worked with hundreds of US-based and global corporation executives to find facility locations and negotiate location incentives for over $5 billion in U.S. investments.
Jason Hickey, President, Hickey & Associates
Think Tank: Site Selection Case History
Jason Hickey is the President of Hickey & Associates, a Global Site Selection and Public Incentive Support Firm specializing in location selection strategies, federal incentives, loan guarantees, grants and other public/private partnerships.
Ed Burghard, CEO & Manager, Burghard Group
Seminar: Enabling the American Dream
As CEO and Manager of The Burghard Group, Ed Burghard introduced the Strengthening Brand America Project, an initiative to help economic development professionals better understand how to leverage the power of place branding as a strategy to become more globally competitive for capital investment.
Anatalio Ubalde, Co-Founder & CEO, GIS Planning Inc., ZoomProspector.com and SizeUp
General Session: Innovation in Economic Development
Anatalio Ubalde works with organizations throughout the nation to foster enhanced economic development strategies using Internet technology. His company’s strategies are implemented in 39 states and serve the majority of the 50 largest cities in the United States. GIS Planning’s ZoomProspector Enterprise web-based GIS product is the industry standard for site selection websites in economic development.
Dean Barber, President/CEO, Barber Business Advisors, LLC
Closing Session: Decoding the DNA of a New Economic Paradigm
Whether it’s auto assembly, food processing or even fabrication of aircraft components, tech-driven mass production mean manufacturing and other lunch-pail industries will yield fewer and fewer jobs in the 21st century. The race is on to developed the workforce skills of a new generation and match them to targeted, location-specific growth sectors. In this insightful talk, Dean Barber maps the path to success in an unsettling future that arrived yesterday.
Dean Barber is President/CEO of Barber Business Advisors, which provides site selection analysis for corporations as well as economic development consulting services. Barber Business Advisors has worked with Fortune 500 and international companies with site selection analysis, incentive negotiations and startup transition.