Events

Richard Florida speaks at the third-ever Creative Places + Spaces event in Toronto along with Mayor Miller and Sir Ken Robinson.

Richard Florida to meet Ottawa City Mayor Larry O’Brien’s office October 30, 2009.

The Business Executive interviews Richard Florida, Author, Who’s Your City and Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, will be the keynote speaker at HIEC’s 20th Anniversary event on Nov. 17, 2009.

Florida, who spoke Sept. 25 at the University of Texas at Arlington as the first of the school’s 2009 Maverick Speaker Series, is best known for his concepts of the creative class and the idea of urban regeneration and several books on the subject, including The Rise of the Creative Class, Cities and the Creative Class and his latest, Who’s Your City?

The rise of the creative class and its new type of economic development, and what that means for the Capital Region will be the focus of a presentation at The Palace in Albany, NY.

Richard Florida delivered the keynote address at IT World Canada’s Toronto-based Showcase Ontario event, Sept. 22. The academic and author discussed ideas put forward in his best-selling book The Rise of the Creative Class and his soon-to-be-released (and tentatively titled) The Great Reset.

On Sept. 24, 2009, the best-selling author and pop economist will be at the Palace Theatre in Albany to speak about the concepts in his latest book, “Who’s Your City? – How the Creative Economy is Making the Place Where You Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life.”

Richard Florida, speaking at the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce luncheon, says it will take growing the city’s “creative class” to grow the local economy.

Richard Florida speaks at the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce annual meeting, June 2009.