Events/MEETINGS

GSI Annual Celebration Celebrate Connection

Category: Signature Events

March 7, 2022

3:30 PM -

7:00 PM

ONLINE REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED. ON SITE REGISTRATION WILL BE ACCEPTED.

It’s time to take a moment to reflect on the past year and look at what’s ahead. Join us for our 2022 Annual Celebration as we celebrate your business, our region and their accomplishments along the way.

This afternoon event will include drinks, appetizers, and desserts, and will highlight our community. GSI recognizes talented people, our thriving industries, the business climate, and sees they are all connected to create a vibrant economy.

*Register early and get entered into a drawing for two round-trip tickets to anywhere Southwest Airlines flies!*

Meet the Keynote:

Casey Steinbacher, Founder of Casey’s Company, is widely recognized as a national expert in urban innovation strategies. Her company identifies and creates NEXT opportunities for communities and organizations, with a unique emphasis on place-based talent recruitment. She is credited with authoring the strategy that targeted entrepreneurs and millennials as key components for the place-based renaissance of downtown Durham that CNN named the start-up capital of the south.

Prior to founding her own company, Casey served as President and CEO of the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce from 2007 until 2015. Under her direction, the Durham Chamber received national and international acclaim for its leadership in economic and entrepreneurial development, winning the award for the Best Innovative Economic Development Project at the World Chambers Congress in Doha, Qatar, in 2013. Durham experienced over $5 billion in announced new investment that created more than 20,000 jobs during her tenure, including the birth and rapid growth of an entrepreneurial eco-system that is now considered one of the most vibrant in the South.

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