Clusters Crash Course Webinar Series

When: Tuesdays thru December 9 from 2:30-4:00 pm EST
Price: Each webinar in this series is $95 for members and $135 for Nonmembers
IEDC Members: Register for the remaining 5 webinars in the series for only $335
Nonmembers: Become a member of IEDC today and save $340!
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This fall, IEDC will be offering a special in-depth series of webinars on the most innovative industrial sectors that are creating millions of highly-skilled, high-paying new jobs.

To build a successful cluster, economic developers need to understand how companies in these industries analyze local workforce skills, supply chains, infrastructure, taxes, capital access, research, and quality of life when choosing where to invest. They must map their assets, fill in gaps, and conduct focused marketing. Join a cutting-edge conversation about how your community can respond to sophisticated site selection requirements, and build 21st century clusters through IEDC’s Crash Course webinar series starting this November. Each webinar brings together asite selector, aneconomic developer, and anindustry expertwho will give insight into the trends driving today’s corporate location choices- and how they will affect your cluster strategy.

Through this series, you’ll:

• Gain a deeper understanding of industry and firm-specific site location criteria for job-creating industries
• Learn what strategies, investments, and policies you need to enact to increase your attractiveness for investment

Remaining Webinars Include:

November 11: The Secrets to Life Sciences Clusters » Register for this webinar

Jobs in the health services are expected to increase by 20% by 2022, making it the fastest growing employment large sector in the United States. The life sciences industry is experiencing increased demand for medical devices, pharmaceuticals, healthcare management services, health software, and biomedicine. But where are these companies locating their key facilities, and why? Learn policy secrets from an economic developer who has extensively targeted life sciences investments, and find out how this sector's explosive growth is creating new opportunities for communities to build new clusters in life sciences.

November 18: Energize Your Cleantech and Energy Cluster » Register for this webinar

America's energy sector is booming! Conventional energy is creating opportunities in mining, extraction, construction, and equipment manufacturing. On the other hand, green energy investments will top $35 billion this year. Energy growth is helping communities, both rural and urban, across the country. If you want to energize this sector in your community, attend this webinar discover innovative means to orient your community to the energy boom and catch investors’ interest.

November 25: Advancing Your Manufacturing Cluster » Register for this webinar

It's dawn for a new kind of manufacturing, one that delivers innovative new products, designs and processes using high performance computing, robotics, and custom production technologies. Your community may have low-cost materials, reliable energy, and high-skilled labor, but how do you market these assets? What else are companies looking for? In this webinar, we'll hear from an economic developer who has successfully leveraged their assets to build an impressive new manufacturing cluster, a site selector who has been responsible for investments worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and an industry expert who will share where the next big investments may be going.

December 2: Flying High with Aerospace and Defense Clusters » Register for this webinar

Aerospace continues to have banner year after banner year: orders will increase 25% in the next 10 years, while sales growth is predicted to increase by 5% this year alone. Attend this webinar to learn what workforce, infrastructure, and supply chain assets your community needs to attract big-ticket aerospace investments and take advantage of focused opportunities in the defense sector.

December 9: Informing and Communicating Your ICT Cluster Strategy » Register for this webinar

From cloud computing, to big data and mobile payments, information and communications technology (ICT) is a growth engine, boosting incomes and generating jobs for programmers, analysts, and technologists. Attend this webinar to learn what you need to identify community strengths in ICT including labor force skills, infrastructure, and innovation ecosystems. Discover the next big thing in ICT, and where the investments will go.

IEDC Web Seminars Count: Certified Economic Developers (CEcDs) Earn Recertification Points

CEcDs participating in a minimum of three (3) web seminars during a three-year recertification cycle will earn two Level II points. If you have questions or would like more information about the CEcD program, please contact Rebecca Thomas at [email protected].