Schedule

Heartland EDC follows three tracks: Getting your Organization Ready, Getting your "Product" Ready, and Strengthening and Growing your Business Base.

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March 29 or April 5 (must attend one)

8:00 a.m. Strategic Planning for Economic Development

April 22

4-7 p.m. Optional evening reception and course check-in at the Adams Pointe Conference Center

April 23

7:00 a.m. Course registration

8 a.m. Course opening

• Managing an EDO
• Ethics in Economic Development (Part 1)
• Workforce Development & Talent Attraction
• Networking Dinner!

April 24

• Entrepreneurship
• Economic Development Financing
• Neighborhood/Community Development/Main Street (community tours)
• KC Dinner & Networking!

April 25

7 a.m. Professional Development Pathways (optional)

• Real Estate Development
• Ethics (part 2)
• Business Retention & Expansion (tour and mock BRE interview)
• Dinner on your own

April 26

• Understanding Site Selection
• Responding to an RFI

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.