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Contact: Alan Fogg, afogg@fceda.org,
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Discover technological and social connections at the National Conference on the Creative Economy
Information technology leaders featured at the October 24-25 conference in Fairfax County, Virginia
Fairfax County, Virginia, USA, October 12, 2007-- Michael Murray, vice president and general manager for AOL’s New Ventures and Innovative Team, Stephen Oronte, senior director for netcentric solutions at Command Information, and Evan Burfield, founder and CEO of Synteractive, will speak at the 2007 National Conference on the Creative Economy, set for October 24-25, 2007, at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner.
Murray, Oronte and Burfield will be part of a panel entitled “Life in a Connected World.” The panel will explore the growing phenomenon of social networking and connections between technologies. Tom Patterson, CEO of Herndon, Virginia-based Command Information, will moderate the panel.
The panelists have contributed to technological connections in important ways:
- At AOL, Murray has been vice president of CRM solutions and marketing operations, and vice president of consumer loyalty and retention. He has also published a number of articles on Internet solutions and customer loyalty.
- Oronte directed the U.S.’s first "Internet Protocol Version 6" (Ipv6) or “next generation” Internet protocol training center and early IPv6 deployments.
- Burfield’s company developed the proprietary Intelligent Orchestration™ framework, allowing organizations to maximize return on their knowledge assets.
Sponsored in part by FORTUNE magazine, the 2007 National Conference on the Creative Economy will examine the role that a strong, creative workforce plays in the growth and success of businesses and communities in an information-based economy.
Conference participants will take home strategies and tactics on workplace topics such as:
- Attracting and retaining the creative class
- Creating a culture of creativity in the workplace to improve the bottom line
- Using diversity to promote creativity
- Harnessing the power of an aging workforce
- Boosting creativity in homeland security
- Improving communities and the economy through creative companies
The conference will feature compelling keynote speakers: Professor Richard Florida, author of “The Rise of the Creative Class;” Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas L. Friedman, author of “The World is Flat;” and futurist Alvin Toffler, author of “Future Shock.”
The conference fee is $395. Registration and details are at www.creativeeconomies.org.
Conference sponsors are the Fairfax County government, the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority, FORTUNE, The Push Group LLC, Siddall, ICMA, Americans for the Arts, SkillSource Group, Potomac Tech Wire, the Washington Business Journal and Tech Journal South.
Fairfax County is host of the conference and is an example of the creative economy: 57 percent of county residents work in “creative occupations” in information technology, professional services, education and other fields. Time magazine this year called Fairfax County “one of the great economic success stories of our time.” Visit www.FairfaxCountyEDA.org.
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