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Sponsors
Chairman's Club
 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.
Platinum Sponsors
 Brooks City-Base is considered on the most innovative economic development projects in United States. Through a visionary partnership between the City of San Antonio, Texas and the United States Air Force, Brooks City-Base stands as one of San Antonio's premier centers for research and technology. As owner and developer, the Brooks Development Authority is responsible for land use, infrastructure and environmental planning, property management and maintenance and providing lease back and build-to suit development opportunities.
 Port San Antonio is the former Kelly AFB which has become the most sterling example of base re-development in the country. Ten years after the Air Force's departure Port San Antonio is an important regional aerospace complex and logistics hub with over 15,000 employees and an estimate $4.23 billion in economic impact each year. Fourteen aerospace and aerospace support companies have operations at Port San Antonio. The Boeing Company recently brought several of their new 787 Dreamliner aircraft to the Port for final completion. Lockheed Martin which operates a joint venture with Rolls Royce, tests and repairs large jet engines for the Defense Department. Gore Design Completions, Inc. is a San Antonio grown company that does custom interiors for heads of state and a wide variety of celebrities. These companies along with several other smaller ones, provide high paying skilled jobs for the San Antonio workforce.
Gold Sponsors
 A subsidiary of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (NYSE:BNI), BNSF Railway Company operates one of the largest North American rail networks, with about 32,000 route miles in 28 states and two Canadian provinces. BNSF is among the world's top transporters of intermodal traffic, moves more grain than any other American railroad, carries the components of many of the products we depend on daily, and hauls enough low-sulphur coal to generate about ten percent of the electricity produced in the United States. BNSF is an industry leader in Web-enabling a variety of customer transactions at www.bnsf.com. For more information: 800-795-2673.
 The San Antonio Economic Development Foundation (SAEDF) is a private, nonprofit organization that assists business and industry relocating or expanding into the San Antonio area. Since 1975, SAEDF has been directly responsible for bringing more than 340 companies to our city and creating more than 90,000 jobs for San Antonians.
 Texas is America's top state for business touting a favorable tax climate, tort reform, business-friendly attitude and low cost of doing business. From our competitive business incentives and highly skilled workforce to our rich cultural heritage and low cost of living, companies are choosing Texas.
 The Texas Economic Development Council (TEDC) is an Austin-based, state-wide, non-profit professional association dedicated to the development of economic and employment opportunities in Texas. The TEDC’s objective is to support the economic growth of Texas and develop strategies that promote a positive business climate in our state. The TEDC is dedicated to preparing the next generation of economic development leaders for success. The TEDC provides information, education and legislative services to over 800 members.
Silver Sponsors
 Business Facilities offers an integrated suite of print, online, and in-person marketing venues.
• Business Facilities magazine delivers a steady flow of editorial focused on readers’ strategic needs. News features; how-to articles; real estate updates; and state, local, and national reports prompt readers to contact advertisers for more information.
• Business Facilities LiveXchange is a unique event that connects economic development professionals with senior-level executives actively seeking new locations.
• Business Facilities Channels on BusinessFacilities.com are custom-made to highlight your location’s strengths and educate executives who are actively seeking information about your community.
 CPS Energy is the nation's largest municipally owned natural gas and electric utility providing service to approximately 717,000 electric customers and 325,000 natural gas customers in and around the City of San Antonio, Texas. The utility ranks among the nation's lowest-cost energy providers while ranking number 1 in wind-energy capacity among municipally owned utilities, and number 1 in Texas in the amount of solar-generated electricity under contract. For more information, visit cpsenergy.com.
 At Davidson & Troilo, our goal is to excel in carefully selected areas. Our most important goal is to serve our clients. We provide a wide variety of legal services for a broad spectrum of clients. We represent individuals, small businesses, public agencies, major corporations, financial institutions and other clients, large and small. Certified Small Business Enterprise by South Central Texas Regional Certification Agency.
 The NRP Group is a full-service developer, general contractor, and property manager. From start to finish, every NRP development is carefully contemplated and executed to maximize investment return, cost efficiency, productivity and satisfaction. With more than 275 years of collective executive team experience and 400+ employees nationwide the company has developed over 17,000 multifamily and senior units in 13 states, and manages 10,000+ units. The NRP Group is one of the top 10 multi-family developers in the nation and has been recognized as NAHB's 2009 Multifamily Development Firm of the Year and number one by Affordable Housing Finance Magazine. The NRP Group has established a presence in Texas, Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia.
 Established in 1965, Pape-Dawson Engineers, Inc., has grown to become one of the largest, most respected engineering firms in South and Central Texas. Pape-Dawson Engineers has an extensive resume of successful projects in the areas of land development, hydrology/hydraulics, water resources, transportation/traffic, surveying, environmental/geosciences, GIS and mining. Our experience includes single and multi-family, commercial and industrial developments; streets and drainage; geologic investigations; property surveys; water supply systems, wastewater treatment and collection systems; land and development planning; pollution abatement; and project management.
Bronze Sponsor
 310 Ltd. -- a market research and lead generation firm based in Richmond, Virginia --offers services for Economic Development Organizations and International Promotion Agencies. Our Market Analysts are on-location and each has extensive management experience across a broad scope of industries from manufacturing and service sectors, to scientific research and development. Since 1999, our team has conducted thousands of conversational interviews with senior corporate executives. In 2010 alone, we identified over 500 time sensitive plans for corporate changes and moves many of which resulted in siting. We constantly seek new ways to transform and improve the prospect identification process and expand your reach into new markets. Known for our work in North America, we now offer interntional outreach via Global Location Link: our service to augment your foreign direct investment tactics into the European Union. For more information about 310 Ltd. and Global Location Link, visit our web site: www.310Ltd.com or call 804.422.0310
 The County of Bexar is home to the City of San Antonio, one of the fastest-growing cities in the U.S., 26 incorporated cities, and like all 254 Texas counties, is a political subdivision of the State. The County’s deliberative and executive functions are vested in the Commissioners Court, which consists of the County Judge and four County Commissioners. The Commissioners Court has tasked the County’s Economic Development Department with attracting and maintaining high growth, value-added businesses, industries and investments to Bexar County through public/private initiatives and to promote the County as a world-class destination for living, working and doing business.
 PAX Financial Group, LLC was founded with the goal of assisting our clients in every aspect of their financial lives. We've provided the most personal service available, thus earning a reputation for excellence in our industry. For each of our clients we strive to help create financial stability to provide financial independence. We exist to bring generational change to Middle America through a process of independent financial advice and principled leadership.
 ProtrackPlus offers a decision support system and performance tracking to Economic Development Organizations (EDOs) by analyzing internal, structured data, and business processes. It manages workflow, ensures feedback, enables tracking of multiple projects by stakeholders and enhances team collaboration to achieve common business goals. SVAM is a global IT service provider offering solutions and consulting services to both public sector and corporate clients. We deliver value and competitive advantage to our customers with high quality, cost-effective software and related services that improve access to critical information, automate business processes, and help personnel collaborate.
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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We provide the intelligence. You make the decision.
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