The Virtual Forum will showcase our beautiful and vibrant community’s commercial, retail and industrial properties while providing a forum for expanding networks and discovering new opportunities. Industry experts will address the current status of development in Thurston County and the South Sound region.
We’re pleased to welcome this year’s keynote speaker, Didi Caldwell, President and Founding Principal of Global Location Strategies. For most of the last 20 years, Didi has dedicated herself to assisting corporations with their location strategy – where and how to deploy their assets worldwide. She has worked on projects in many industries, but her expertise and passion are in large manufacturing and heavy industrial projects. Since 1998, she has personally conducted location advisory services in more than 30 countries for domestic capital investment and foreign direct investment projects.
Attendees can expect to learn:
- The changing commercial and industrial market impacts the Pacific NW and both South Puget Sound and Thurston County.
- What are the change factors that a region like Thurston County needs to be aware of and how to position itself to be attractive?
- What is the positioning of Thurston County in attraction to investment?
- What are the critical elements that the region needs to be aware of – in terms of “fixing” or augmenting, promoting, and strategizing to compete?
