2025 Schedule
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Heartland EDC follows three tracks: Getting your Organization Ready, Getting your "Product" Ready, and Strengthening and Growing your Business Base.
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April 15 or April 17 (must attend one)
Strategic Planning for Economic Development - delivered online prior to the in-person course.
April 28
Optional evening reception and course check-in at the Adams Pointe Conference Center
April 29 - Day One
7:00 a.m. Course registration
8 a.m. Course opening
Course Sections:
- Managing an EDO - Rising to the Challenge & Strategic Relationships
- Ethics in Economic Development
- Business Retention & Expansion - Systems, Interviews, Tactics & Tips
- BRE Manufacturing Tour - BRE in Practice
Post-Tour Networking Dinner - The Mill Room at East Forty Brewing
April 30 - Day 2
Course Sections:
- Real Estate Development - Understanding the Land to Land the Project
- Ethics in Action - People, Perspectives & Progress
- Workforce Development & Talent Retention/Attraction
May 1 - Day 3
7 a.m. Professional Development Pathways (optional)
Course Sections:
- Entrepreneurship - Ecosystem Evolution for New & Small Businesses
- Financing for Economic Development - In Practice from the Trenches
- Neighborhood/Community Development/Placemaking Bus Tour & Training (Lee's Summit)
Dinner in Downtown Lee's Summit
May 2 - Day 4
Course Sections:
- Understanding Site Selection & Responding to RFI's - Conversation with the Experts
- Wrap Up & Moving Forward
Adjourn by noon!
Upon satisfactory completion of the course and a course evaluation, participants receive a completion certificate and can continue their training with the International Economic Development Council's professional development series, or the University of Oklahoma’s Economic Development Institute.