Sponsors

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GIS Planning Inc.'s online solutions are the industry standard for economic development websites with over 200 implementations to date, currently serving the majority of the 50 largest cities in the USA and covering over 7,500 cities nationwide. The company's Internet geographic information systems (GIS) powered services, including ZoomProspector Enterprise and the nationwide site selection website ZoomProspector.com, give economic development organizations an extreme competitive advantage. ZoomProspector Enterprise gives EDOs the tools they need to prove they are the right location for business investment. ZoomProspector.com connects businesses looking for new locations with the communities and economic development organizations that are the right match. GIS Planning's technology has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, BusinessWeek, INC., Entrepreneur, and TechCrunch.

Since 1969, ESRI® has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The world leader in GIS, ESRI technology is used in more than 300,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, and more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies. ESRI's Business Analyst suite brings geography and business intelligence together, allowing economic developers to view data in revealing geographic patterns that enable better decision making. Learn more about site selection, business attraction/retention, and demographic analysis. Visit ESRI in the exhibit hall and at www.esri.com/econdev.

ExecutivePulse, Inc. is North America's leading business retention & expansion consulting firm. Our ExecutivePulse Business Intelligence System is the most widely used database platform for business retention & expansion in both the United States and Canada. Each ExecutivePulse system is customized to meet unique client needs and market realities. By adding "plug and play" modules, clients leverage the technology for all of their business recruitment, entrepreneurial development, workforce and buyer/supplier needs. ExecutivePulse provides real world, experience-based management and training solutions for outreach, team and management personnel involved in all facets of business retention & expansion. Over the past 15 years, ExecutivePulse has provided highly rated, best-practices training to thousands of community, economic and workforce development professionals throughout North America. All ExecutivePulse products are fully supported 24/7 by a large, customer-friendly technical service department.

Shopping centers are America's marketplace, representing economic growth, environmental responsibility, and community strength. Founded in 1957, the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) is the global trade association of the shopping center industry. Its 60,000 members in the U.S., Canada, and more than 80 other countries represent owners, developers, retailers, lenders, and other professionals as well as academics and public officials. For information about ICSC and the shopping center industry, please visit www.icsc.org.

Portfol™, PIDC's multi-user portfolio management system, is a fully integrated client and contact management software system - track a project from start to finish! Includes loan servicing, demographics, job tracking, financial statement and insurance monitoring, EDA, CDBG, NMTC and CDFI reporting data - everything you need to effectively manage your economic development operations all in one comprehensive system. Portfol™ - the only system created, used and maintained by an economic developer.

Media Partner

fDi Intelligence is a specialist division of the Financial Times Ltd, established to provide leading insight into globalisation. The world-class business tools provide insightful data, comment and analysis for economic development organisations, companies, services providers and academic institutions, on foreign direct investment and associated activities.

The fDi Intelligence products are essential whether you are promoting your own location, looking for a new business location, sourcing a prospect list or researching FDI trends. The new fDi Investor Signals module tracks early-warning signals that a company may be considering investment before it has decided where to invest.

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