Sponsors

Chairman's Club

EMSI is a one-stop provider of regional economic and labor market data, web-based analysis tools, and consulting services - integrated solutions that bring together industry, workforce, and education perspectives. Our thousands of customers represent workforce boards, economic development organizations, government agencies, community colleges, universities, and policy professionals across the nation. Customers use our data and tools daily to make crucial decisions about regional economic and workforce development issues. With EMSI, you'll have at your fingertips the tools you need to know your economy and drive your workforce

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. provides economic, community and workforce development organizations with database solutions and consultation services for their business retention and expansion (BR&E) programs. As experienced BR&E practitioners, principals Laith Wardi and Del Birch assist clients in North America and Europe in developing, implementing and sustaining systematic business retention programs. The company's ExecutivePulse™ Business Intelligence system is a feature-rich yet affordable CRM platform ideal for business retention activities as well as business attraction and start-up activities. As the leading database in North America for economic development, the ExecutivePulse system is backed by comprehensive web hosting, technical support and the expertise of a company with in-the-field experience in conducting and sustaining successful, results-oriented business retention programs.

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.

Platinum Sponsors

Duke Energy Indiana is the largest electric utility in Indiana. We provide electric service in portions of 69 of Indiana’s 92 counties for more than 780,000 customers. We also provide wholesale power to many rural cooperatives and municipalities. We work with our business customers and local and state economic development partners to develop tools and programs to support growth and job creation. Site Selection magazine has rated our economic development team as one of the top 10 utility economic development departments in the country for 12 consecutive years.

Indianapolis Power & Light Company (IPL) provides retail electric service to nearly 470,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in Indianapolis and other central Indiana communities. Since 1926, IPL's people have been committed to being the best in the industry, safely delivering low-cost electricity and great service. Its residential and commercial rates are well below industry averages and its customer service ratings among the best. As one of the Indianapolis area's leading employers, IPL sponsors major local events, leads the way on economic development initiatives, supports city beautification and environmental efforts, and continues the tradition of supporting not-for-profits, community organizations and civic initiatives. IPL is a part of The AES Corporation – a global power company with generation and distribution businesses with a diverse portfolio of thermal and renewable fuel sources. Visit www.IPLpower.com for more information.

As a generation and transmission cooperative, Wabash Valley Power meets the wholesale power supply needs of electric distribution cooperatives in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri and Ohio. A non-profit corporation, Wabash Valley operates under the cooperative business model as a democratic organization owned and controlled by its members, and motivated not by profit or stockholders, but by meeting the need for competitive and reliable power supply. Wabash Valley was founded in 1963, and has grown to include 28 member cooperatives that ultimately provide electricity to approximately 800,000 people at home and in the workplace.

The Economic Development Coalition of Southwest Indiana acts as the umbrella economic development organization for Gibson, Posey, Vanderburgh and Warrick Counties in Southwest Indiana. The Coalition facilitates and coordinates business retention, expansion and attraction activities; and, supports efforts to enhance community development and business climate through regional capacity building.

Gold Sponsors

Hoosier Energy is an electric generation and transmission (G&T) cooperative headquartered in Bloomington, Indiana. Hoosier Energy provides electricity and other services to 18 electric distribution cooperatives, which collectively meet the electricity need of more than 750,000 residents, businesses, industries and farms in central and southern Indiana and southeast Illinois.

The Hoosier Energy economic development team provides a wide array of services including site and building searches, incentive guidance, site analysis and, electric rate estimates. Hoosier Energy encourages companies and site consultants to visit www.HoosierSites.com to use incentive estimator tools and to see what great things are happening in Hoosier's territory.

Vectren Corporation is an energy holding company headquartered in Evansville, Ind. Vectren's wholly owned subsidiary, Vectren Utility Holdings, Inc., serves as the intermediate holding company for two operating utilities in Indiana and a third in Ohio. The two Indiana operating utilities are Vectren Energy Delivery of Indiana - North provides energy delivery services to 568,000 natural gas customers located in central and southern Indiana. Vectren Energy Delivery of Indiana - South provides energy delivery services to 141,000 electric customers and 111,000 gas customers located in southwestern Indiana. As part of a leading electric and natural gas utility, Vectren Economic Development has the resources your company needs to export or relocate to Indiana or Ohio.

Silver Sponsors

The Indiana Economic Development Association Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation created to support the economic development profession within the State of Indiana. The Foundation has been built on the pillars of education and research in support of the economic development excellence in Indiana.

In Pursuit of these goals, the Foundation is dedicated to:

• Supporting the growth of the economic development profession through education and research
• Providing scholarships to individuals pursuing a career in economic development
• Supporting and building the body of knowledge pertinent for economic development

Created by Governor Mitch Daniels in 2005 to replace the former Department of Commerce, the Indiana Economic Development Corporation is governed by a 12-member board chaired by Governor Daniels. Led by Secretary of Commerce E. Mitchell Roob, Jr., the IEDC is organized as a public/private partnership that leverages Indiana's central location, pro-business environment, low tax rate, and skilled workforce to recruit and support new business investment, attract new jobs, and keep Indiana competitive in the 21st Century economy. For more information about IEDC, visit www.iedc.in.gov.

Bronze Sponsor

Applied Marketing was founded on the principle that the Business Development Process for many of the world's businesses can be significantly enhanced through the creative application of science, logic, technology, information access and communications. We recognize that the strategic deployment of the technological resources will allow organizations to execute their business development programs in a more actionable and results oriented manner, leading to significant improvements in business development and profitability. Yet most organizations are searching for the proverbial needle in the haystack with process and methodology that is out-dated and inefficient. Applied Marketing harnesses information technology and couples it with insightful, experienced marketing consultants and research experts to locate and identify the best business development opportunities available to our clients. We provide our clients with spot-on research information about their best business prospects. And we deliver 'needles' – lots of them. Our success is ultimately measured by your success.

Media Partners

Clean Edge, the world's first research and advisory firm devoted to the clean-tech sector, delivers comprehensive clean-tech insights to corporations, investors, governments, entrepreneurs, and other key stakeholders. The company integrates timely clean-tech data from a variety of sources with expert analysis to provide critical insights to its clients and subscribers. The firm's offerings include subscription publications and related advisory services, industry-leading sponsored reports, the annual Clean-Tech Investor Summit conference and benchmark clean-tech stock indices with NASDAQ. Clean Edge's U.S. Clean Energy Leadership Index tracks and analyzes the clean-energy economies of all 50 states. The detailed information (data from more than 80 indicators) covers technology, policy, and capital infrastructures for the clean-energy ecosystem in the US. To keep abreast of the latest clean-tech trends or learn more about our services, visit www.cleanedge.com.

CNBC Business is read by over 670,000 affluent and influential opinion formers each month for its unique take on the innovators and leaders in the most dynamic business sectors. Affiliated to CNBC Television, the world's largest financial news channel, the magazine is read by CEOs, managing directors and other decision makers across the globe.

CNBC Business has a six-year track record as one of the most read international monthly business magazines. Far from rubber stamping business as usual, it has always encouraged the game changers, the entrepreneurs and the champions of global free trade. Partnered with leading global financial news broadcaster CNBC Television, the magazine prides itself on being both a leading business media property and a fine read.

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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