2016 AEDC Economic Forecast Luncheon

The AEDC Economic Forecast Luncheon has sold out for the past three years in a row with more than 1,500 attendees. You do not want to miss this luncheon with guest speaker Alexa Clay! Tickets will go on sale to AEDC Investors in December and the general public in January.

On January 27, 2016, AEDC President and CEO, Bill Popp, will present the 1-Year Economic Forecast for Anchorage and share the results of the Anchoage Business Confidence Index. He will give an update on AEDC’s Live. Work. Play. initiative and tell us how Anchorage ranks for living, working and playing when compared to the largest city in each state, plus the Distric of Columbia.

Keynote Speaker, Alexa Clay

Do you think McDonalds invented the franchise model? No, that was the mafia. Do you think live streaming came from TED Talks? No, that was the porn industry. For the past two years, Alexa Clay has been researching innovation from the fringe in an attempt to understand what we can learn from lesser-known subcultures like the black market, hacker collectives, protest movements, and gangsters.

Alexa Clay is passionate about finding innovation from unlikely places. She believes the underworld is filled with natural-born-innovators and they have more in common with Silicon Valley entrepreneurs than you might think.

Alexa is the co-author of The Misfit Economy, named the best business book to read in 2015 by The World Economic Forum, TechRepublic, The Telegraph and Huffington Post. In the book Alexa interviews Somali Pirates, LA drug dealers, hackers and NY con artists to unveil their remarkable ingenuity.

Alexa has written and appeared in Fast Company, Forbes, Wired, Dazed and Confused, VICE, Harvard Business Review, the New York Times and MTV. She is the Co-Founder & Director of The Human Agencyand a regular commentator on topics related to economic transition, misfit subculture, social entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship and technology angst. Click here for more information on The Misfit Economy and Alexa Clay.

Thank you to our 2016 Economic Forecast Keynote Speaker Co-Sponsors:

Tickets: AEDC Investor Individual Seat $65 // Table of Ten $550 – Investor tickets on sale in December
Non-Investor Individual Seat $75 // Table of Ten $650 – Tickets for the general public available in January

Event Timeline

10:30 a.m. Exhibit Hall: Join AEDC in the Dena’ina Lobby to view the I Love Anchorage Exhibit and learn more about the Live. Work. Play. initaitive!

11:00 a.m. Doors open for the Luncheon

11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Economic Forecast Luncheon