2025 Schedule

Heartland EDC covers the basics for economic developers: Getting your Organization Ready, Getting your "Product" Ready, and Strengthening and Growing your Business Base.

Faculty information coming next March!

Two dates prior to the course (must attend one) - will be scheduled after the new year

Strategic Planning for Economic Development - delivered online prior to the in-person course. 

April 13

Optional evening reception and course check-in at the Stoney Creek Hotel & Conference Center

April 14 - Day 1

7:00 a.m. Course registration

8 a.m. Course opening

Course Sections (subject to change):

• Managing an EDO
• Ethics in Economic Development
• Business Retention & Expansion
• BRE Manufacturing Tour

April 15 - Day 2

Course Sections (subject to change):

• Real Estate Development - Understanding the Land to Land the Project
• Workforce Development & Talent Retention/Attraction
• Marketing for Business Attraction

April 16 - Day 3

7 a.m. Professional Development Pathways (optional)

Course Sections (subject to change):

• Entrepreneurship & Small Business Development
• Financing for Economic Development
• Neighborhood/Community Development/Placemaking Bus Tour & Training

Class Dinner

April 17 - Day 4

Course Sections (subject to change):

• Understanding Site Selection & Responding to RFI's
• 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.