Honor community visionaries who have created a positive impact on our region through the Business Citizen of the Year, Legislator of the Year, Ambassador of the Year, and Military Affairs Award of Excellence awards. Celebrate the Chamber's impact on our great community.
Our Keynote speaker is Pike Powers of Austin, TX., who will be speaking about "Moving Forward Together." Pike has been instrumental in moving Austin forward to the power house it is today and he did it with all community partners pulling equally well in the process.
Cocktails are 6-7pm; Dinner and Program 7-9pm Broadmoor Hall.
Pre Payment is requested. Cost is $1450 for a corporate table of 10 (preferred seating); $125 for individual seating. To register please click "register now". Business Attire.
event registration will close 24 hours before the event. Walk ins are welcome but meals are not guaranteed.
More Pike Powers info below:
Leading architect in building Austin’s economy and the development of clean tech and renewable energy alternatives, Pike Powers vigorously presents his powerful and thoughtful message on how a region pulls together as a community to build and create a new collaborative economy at this year’s Greater Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner, November 20, 2009.
“Moving Forward…Together,” The Chamber will honor local community visionaries who have created a positive impact on our region through the Business Citizen of the Year, Elected Official of the Year, Ambassador of the Year, and Military Affairs Award of Excellence awards as well as presenting the S. Jerrard Smith Community Service Award.
Keynote Pike Powers, having attracted two of the nation’s most ambitious projects around global competitiveness in electronics and providing new enterprise and corporate models for attracting and retaining technology-based activities, with emphasis on the role of research and development, will present his visionary and experiential approach to what works for an invigorated local business economy.
Pike Powers, civic entrepreneur, is the Chair of the Texas Technology Initiatives. The National Law Journal named him one of the 100 most influential attorneys in the country on four successive listings over 12 years. During his tenure as Chief of Staff to Texas' Governor Mark White, Pike began the foundation for attracting two of the nation's most ambitious projects around global competitiveness in electronics which culminated in bringing Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp. and Sematech to Central Texas...while competing against the best of the best.
Pike Powers is on the board of the Texas Clean Energy Park. He chairs the Energy Initiatives Committee of Innovate Texas, a state-wide, non-profit working with all six Texas public university systems, on a bi-partisan basis, supporting the state's multi-million dollar Emerging Technology Fund (ETF) which Powers helped create and start in 2005-2008.
EVENT
SPONSOR(S)
