Conference听Agenda
Program Overview
12:30 pm听听Check-In (registration and check-in required)
1:00 pm听听听听Colorado Economic Outlook for 2025
Opening remarks by听Tandean Rustandy Endowed Dean of the Leeds School of Business Vijay Khatri听and University of Colorado Boulder Chancellor Justin Schwartz
Richard L. Wobbekind, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder
Jessica Ostermick, Sr. Managing Director, CBRE, Colorado Region
2:20 pm听听听听Keynote Speaker
Donna Lynne,听Chief Executive Officer,听Denver Health
3:00听pm听听听听Industry听Discussion Breakout Sessions:
Session 1 - Real Estate
Moderator | Julie Gibson, Executive Director, Michael A. Klump Center for Real Estate
Panelists
Leon McBroom, Senior Managing Director, Denver Office Co-Head, JLL Capital Markets, Americas
David Zucker, Principal, Chief Executive Officer, Zocalo
Jon Weisiger, Senior Vice President, CBRE
Courtney Schneider, Director, Hines
Carl Koelbel, President and CEO, Koelbel & Company
Session 2听- The Economic Competitiveness of Colorado's听Key Industries
This session will examine Colorado鈥檚 key industries and the factors contributing to their economic competitiveness. We鈥檒l discuss how key industries are supported by state, regional and local initiatives and partnerships. And we鈥檒l feature up-to-date developments in multi-state and multi-industry ecosystems supporting quantum computing, climate resilience and other advanced industries.
Moderator |听, Principal, First Flatiron Consulting
Panelists:
Wendy Lea, Board Director, Elevate Quantum, and Co-Founder, TechHubNow!
Mike Freeman, CEO and Principal Investigator, NSF Colo-Wyo Climate Resilience Engine
Michelle Hadwiger, Director of Global Business Development, Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade
Hanna Scovill,听Economist and Sr. Manager of Economic Competitiveness, Metro Denver EDC
Session 3听- Evolution of the Energy Mix:听Net Zero鈥擭uclear
This panel investigates the emergence of nuclear fusion as such an event and speculates as to how fusion鈥檚 commercialization may occur and how the energy industry (including its professional societies) might transition to such a brave new world.
Moderator |听,听Energy Consultant
Panelists:
Adam Eckman, President and CEO, Colorado Mining Association
Mark Jensen, Professor, Chemistry; Jerry and Tina Grandey University Chair in Nuclear Science and Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
Terry Palisch, President, Society of Petroleum Engineers; Vice President, CARBO Ceramics
4:30听pm听听听听Networking Reception
