VICA sets panels for 16th annual business forecast.The Valley Industry and Commerce Association will hold its 16th annual business forecast conference, "Cracking the Economic Code," on Friday, October 29 at the Warner Center Marriott. Sunne Wright McPeak, California Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, will be keynote speaker for the event. Three local experts--Daniel Blake, Director of CSUN's San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. Economic Research Center and Professor of Economics; Jack Kyser, chief economist The Chief Economist is a single position job class having primary responsibility for the development, coordination, and production of economic and financial analysis. It is distinguished from the other economist positions by the broader scope of responsibility encompassing the for the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Economic Development Corporation and Ted Tanner, senior vice president of real estate for the L.A. Arena Company, will discuss the business landscape over breakfast from 8 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. Blake and Kyser are familiar faces to the conference, but Tanner is a new element this year, said Bonnie Herman, VICA's executive director. "We're looking to have a third element that's new each year to focus on a new aspect of business that will impact the area," said Herman of Tanner's presentation this year. Between 10 a.m. and noon, there will be six panel discussions in three separate locations. The topics will be: "Deciphering the Presidential Race," "Prognosticating on the Globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation of Los Angeles," "Worker's Compensation Revealed," "Hospitals in Crisis," "The Future Workforce" and "Unraveling the Mystery of Energy Sources." Herman said she expect the presidential election panel discussion to be among the most well attended. "Because VICA VICA Vocational Industrial Clubs of America VICA Video Conferencing Alliance (UK) VICA Vocational Industrial Chapters of America VICA Vision Counsel of America is an advocacy organization, the presidential race panel will be very, very interesting for people to hear from the state party chairs," she said. Art Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party The California Democratic Party is the local branch of the Democratic Party in the state of California. It is presently chaired by former State Senator Arthur Torres. It is the majority party in both chambers of the state Legislature, i.e. the State Assembly and the Senate. and Duf Sundheim, Chairman of the California Republican Party The California Republican Party is the California affiliate of the national Republican Party. Its chairman is Ron Nehring and is based in Burbank, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. will both be on the panel. In keeping with the election discussion, attendees will be able to participate in a Bush versus Kerry straw poll and hear the results announced at the program luncheon. |
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