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Please join us for a conversation between Scott Anderson, PhD, EVP, and Chief Economist of Bank of the West and Sean Randolph, PhD, Senior Director of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, that will help you make sense of this economic moment.  Micah Weinberg, President of the Economic Institute, will also present an in-depth look at the Institute’s recent Economic Profile, “Promise and Perils of an Accelerated Economy.”  A reception will follow.

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The Northern California Megaregion is a critical geography for coordinated economic and human capital development, and for planning and enabling connectivity through transportation networks. The Bay Area Council Economic Institute’s new report explores the many rail, road, labor, goods movement, and innovation connections that currently exist between the Bay Area, the Sacramento Area, the Monterey Bay Area, and the Northern San Joaquin Valley.

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(BACEI Board of Trustees Only)

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Accelerators and incubators play a vital role in California’s innovation ecosystem. An explosion in the accelerator marketplace in the last decade has created a broad menu of options for entrepreneurs building the next great startup.

Join the California Business Incubation Alliance, the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, and partners for the launch of the new report, California Tool Works: Incubation and Acceleration in the Cauldron of Innovation.

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Role of incubators and accelerators in the innovation ecosystem Emerging business models in incubation and acceleration The impact of accelerators on the California economy

Speakers will include:

• Lindy Fishburne, Breakout Labs
• Dennis Conaghan, San Francisco Center for Economic Development
• Stephen London, Signals Intelligence Group
• Chris Haskell, Bayer CoLab
• Balaji Gopinath, Angel, Mentor, and Former Head of Turner MediaCamp
• Matt Gardner, California Business Incubation Alliance
• Pascale Diaine, Orange Fab
• Sean Randolph, Bay Area Council Economic Institute