Economic Outlook Conference

2013 Agenda

8:30 a.m. — Registration & Networking Breakfast

9:00 a.m. — Welcome

• Maravene Loeschke, Ph.D., President, Towson University
• Dyan Brasington, CEcD, FM, HLM, Vice President, Towson University, Division of Innovation & Applied Research

9:15 a.m. — Getting to Know the Regional Economic Studies Institute

• Raquel Frye, Associate Director, Regional Economic Studies Institute

9:30 a.m. — Maryland’s Economic Forecast

• Daraius Irani, PhD, Executive Director, Regional Economic Studies Institute and Associate Vice President, Towson University, Innovation & Applied Research
• Q & A facilitated by Jeff Salkin, MPT News Anchor for Your Money and Business, State Circle, and Direct Connection

10:30 a.m. — Impacts of the Film Production Employment Act of 2011

• Daraius Irani, PhD, Executive Director, Regional Economic Studies Institute and Associate Vice President, Towson University, Innovation & Applied Research

10:45 a.m. — Coffee Break

11:00 a.m. — Film Industry Panel

Film incentives are either championed or hotly contested. A panel of experts across all areas of the industry will provide their knowledge and experience concerning the impact of Maryland’s film industry and the film production tax credit.

• Jack Gerbes, Director, Maryland Film Office, Department of Business and Economic Development
• Debbie Dorsey, Director, Baltimore Film Office, Baltimore Office of the Promotion and the Arts
• Wade Tyree, Towson University Adjunct Professor, Electronic, Media & Film, and President of I.A.T.S.E. Local 487
• Thomas B. Riford, president and Chief Executive Officer of the Hagerstown-Washington County Convention and Visitors Bureau
• Moderated by Jeff Salkin, MPT News Anchor for Your Money and Business, State Circle, and Direct Connection

12:00 p.m. — Lunch

12:30 p.m. — Keynote Speaker (To be announced)

1:30 p.m. — Closing Remarks and Adjournment

Division of Innovation & Applied Research
Phone: 410-704-2678
E-mail: innovation@towson.edu