TAB Annual Conference (and Board Events)

Date: 1/30/2013 TO 1/31/2013
Time: 1:00 PM TO 12:00 PM

AT&T Conference Center
1900 University Avenue
Austin, TX 78705

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Event Description:
Annual Conference
The Texas Association of Business has invited influential state policy makers, legislators, industry experts and thought leaders to share their business insights on the most critical issues of Texas.

Conference Schedule January 30:
1:00 Check-in
1:30 Conference begins
1:35 Lt. Governor David Dewhurst
2:00 Richard Froeschle, Demographer, The Changing Face of the Texas Labor Market
2:30 “ABC's and 123's” Keys to Texas Prosperity: A Panel Discussion of Education and Workforce Policy
3:45 Governor Rick Perry
4:10 What's Next in Healthcare? A Panel Discussion of Healthcare Policy and Business Impacts
4:50 Adjourn

5:30 p.m. Reception in Tejas Dining Room at AT&T Conference Center.  Reception for all conference attendees, legislators, staff.  This is to welcome the new freshman Texas legislators.  Hors d'oeuvres and drinks.

Conference Schedule January 31:
7:30 Continental breakfast
8:00 Conference begins
8:05 House Speaker Joe Straus
8:30 Sustaining Our Future: A Panel Discussion of Water and the State of Texas
9:15 Mobility = Opportunity: A Panel Discussion of Transportation in Texas
10:15 Texas Politics Media Panel with Ken Herman, Austin-American Statesman and Ross Ramsey, Texas Tribune and Texas Weekly and Wayne Slater, Dallas Morning News
11:00 Closing presentation

Guest Room Reservations
AT&T Conference Center is sold out.  A block of ten rooms has been reserved at the Hampton Inn & Suites Austin University Hampton Inn Link (512-499-8881).  Other possibilities are two DoubleTrees near the AT&T Conference Center Doubletree I-35 and DoubleTree 15th Street and Mansion at Judges' Hill

We look forward to a dynamic conference.

Schedule for TAB & TCCE Board Members:
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
6 p.m. New Board Member Welcome Dinner, Max's Wine Dive, 207 San Jacinto Blvd. Austin 78701

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 – Board Activities
9 a.m. New board member orientation, Amphitheater 204
10 a.m. TAB board meeting, Amphitheater 204
11:45 a.m. TCCE board lunch and board meeting, Classroom 202
11:45 a.m. TAB board lunch, Room 205

 


Directions:


Parking is beneath the AT&T Conference Center or on surface streets and parking lots surrounding it. 

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