The Charles County business community and stakeholders will get an update on the county’s economic development direction next week. In lieu of its annual Economic Summit, the Department of Economic Development is hosting a ‘Fall Meeting’ on Tuesday, Nov. 3 at the Greater Waldorf Jaycees Community Center (3090 Crain Highway, Waldorf) from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
The meeting, titled, ‘Are We on the Same Page? Building Consensus,’ will focus on partnership and collaboration towards vibrant economic development in Charles County.
Discussion topics include partnership programs to support small business, an update on the state of Maryland’s restructuring of the Department of Business and Economic Development into the Department of Commerce, and local partnering initiatives.
A keynote address from one of the consultants engaged to create the county’s new strategic economic development plan will focus on the characteristics that make a community competitive and successful in creating a business ecosystem and attracting new jobs and new investment.
Meeting schedule:
8 a.m. Networking Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Program Begins
10:30 a.m. Keynote Address
The meeting will begin with several brief presentations from small business and business development partners as well as the county’s new Department of Economic Development Director, Darrell A. Brown, Esq. The keynote speaker is Jay Garner, president of Garner Economics, LLC and a 35-year, award-winning veteran of site location consulting and economic development.
His presentation will provide a framework for building consensus and a competitive economic development.