Economic Development Council
2006 Calendar
01.25
 Monthly Lunch - Michael Bredahl, Principal, IA COMM, "Licensing and Development" Tower Club, Noon
02.21
 "Reinventing Illinois for the 21st Century" presented by The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Enterprise Forum of Chicago, in association with Chicago Micro/Nanotechnology Community, the Economic Development Council Technology Commercialization Task Force, Illinois Information Technology Association, and Licensing Executives Society - Gardner Carton & Douglas LLP, 191 N. Wacker Dr, Suite 3700, Chicago, IL, 5-8:00 pm
02.22       Monthly Lunch - Robert L. Riter, Chairman and Co-Founder, American Chartered Bank,
"Bankers and Entrepreneurs" Tower Club, Noon
03.29
 Monthly Lunch - Chicago Biomedical Consortium & Chicago Technology Park,
"Developments in the Commercialization of Life and Biosciences in Chicago" Tower Club, Noon
04.26
 Monthly Lunch - Ralph Weber, Vice President, Northwestern Memorial Hospital,
"Northwestern Memorial Hospital: A World Class Hospital and So Much More" Tower Club, Noon
05.15 Breakfast Seminar - Building a "CONNECT-like" Organization in Chicago
May 15, 2006: 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
05.31

Monthly Lunch - Dennis Smith, Managing Director, World Trade Center Chicago,
"Challenges and Opportunities for World Trade in Chicago" Tower Club, Noon
06.28

Monthly Lunch - Lisa Boulden Williams, Executive Director of Housing, YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago
"Housing in Chicago" Tower Club, Noon

07.26

Monthly Lunch - Randall S. Blankenhorn, Executive Director of the Regional Planning Board
"CMAP: Regional Planning for Metropolitan Chicago" Tower Club, Noon
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08.30

Monthly Lunch - Edmund B. Galvin, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, LLP
"Coping with Regulations- and Even Benefiting From Them" Tower Club, Noon
09.14 Breakfast Forum - Manufacturing Technology Commercialization Forum - UIC Student Center East Tower
University of Illinois at Chicago, East Tower Room 302, 710 S. Halsted, 7:30 am
09.27

Monthly Lunch - Richard Paullin, Illinois Global Partnership
"State of the World - Center of Opportunity" Tower Club, Noon

10.25
 Monthly Lunch - Kirk Raab, former President and CEO of Genetech, Inc.,
"The Principles Behind Creating a Great Biotech Company" Tower Club, Noon
10.30     Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Conference - "Can Higher Education Foster Economic Growth?" Chicago Fed, 230 S. LaSalle Street, Chicago, 8:00 am
11.14     Breakfast Forum - "Commercializing Technology to Drive New Business Formation - The Experience of Entrepreneurs" - Conference Center at USB Tower, One North Wacker Drive, 2nd Floor, Chicago
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11.29
 Monthly Lunch - Rick Matton, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago,
"Can Higher Education Foster Economic Growth?" Tower Club, Noon
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