Economic Development Council
2008 Calendar

January 30

Monthly Lunch - "Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Technology Commercialization at the UIC College of Business Administration" Stefanie Lenway, Dean, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago; Rod Shrader, Associate Professor of Managerial Studies at the UIC College of Business Administration; and Tim Brunke, the new director of the UIC Innovation Center - Tower Club, Noon

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February 21 Technology Commercialization Task Force Forum - "How Can a Manufacturer Access Technology" - Wright College Theater, 4300 North Narragansett, Chicago, 7:30 am - 12:00 pm

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February 27

Monthly Lunch - "Chicago Hosts World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology & Bioprocessing" Brent Erickson, Executive Vice President, BIO - Tower Club, Noon

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March 26

Monthly Lunch - "Good Ideas…the Foundation of Business Innovation" Larry Gess, COO, Chicago Manufacturing Center - Tower Club, Noon

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April 30

Monthly Lunch – “Environmental Efforts” Timothy G. Melloch, Director, Energy Efficiency Services, Commonwealth Edison- Tower Club, Noon

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May 28

Monthly Lunch – "WORLD BANK "DOING BUSINESS 2008" Simeon Djankov, Chief Economist Private Sector and Finance, World Bank - Tower Club, Noon

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June 25

Monthly Lunch – "Is The U. S. Losing its Manufacturing Base?" William A. Strauss, Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Tower Club, Noon

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July 30

Monthly Lunch - Lynn Osmond, President, Chicago Architecture Foundation - Tower Club, Noon

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August 27

Monthly Lunch - Corporate Growth & Renewable Energy A Panel Presentation - Tower Club, Noon

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September 9 Technology Commercialization Task Force Forum – “Chicago Conference on Clean Technologies: Midwest & International Perspectives” – Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago , 8:00 am – 1:15 p.m.
September 24

Monthly Lunch - Rita Athas, Executive Director, World Business Chicago - Tower Club, Noon

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October 29

Monthly Lunch - Miklos Martin-Kovacs, Hungarian Investment and Trade Development Agency - Tower Club, Noon

November 26

Monthly Lunch - Charles Carey, Vice Chairman, CME Group - Tower Club, Noon