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CEO is proud of its two "signature" events - the annual Economic Forecast and a spring forum that changes based on the needs of the business community. 
   
  Spring Forum 
 

Modeled on the success of the Economic Forecast, CEO began hosting a spring forum. In it's first few years, the forum was a Technology Forum, designed to inform and educate business leaders on the dramatic and accelerating importance of technology on marketing and transacting business.

Since 2003, the Spring Forum has focused on health care issues.  We selected the topic of health care because it is important for the business community to better understand the factors behind the health care affordability crisis in order to work together to solve the issues.

   
  Economic Forecast 
 

The annual Economic Forecast has attracted such stellar names to the dais as Irving R. Levine, the event moderator for 16 years, Lloyd Bentsen, Michael Boskin, Abby Joseph Cohen, Lou Dobbs, Steve Forbes, Robert Goodman, Rich Karlgaard, Jack Kemp, Arthur Laffer, John Manley, and Brian Wesbury.

Presented as a debate in an informal and off-the-cuff fashion, the program delivers not only substantive information as each speaker presents his or her assessment of the economy and its prospects for the coming year but also genuine entertainment as the panelists enter into healthy debate with one another. The event attracts a sell-out crowd of 1,000 attendees each year.

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  Spring Forum

The 2007 Health Care Forum "Putting the Consumer Back Into Health Care" will be on May 17th at the America's Center.
Susan Dentzer will serve as moderator of the forum. Speakers are Elizabeth Olmstead Tiesberg, Associate Professor at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia and co-author with Michael Porter of the ground-breaking new book, Redefining Health Care: Creating Value Based Competition on Results Roberta Bixhorn, Vice President, Compensation and Benefits at Owens-Illinois, Inc., and Dr. Lee Sacks President, Advocate Health Partners.

Event & Project Sponsorships

 
Past Event Sponsorships
 
  • Saint Louis Art Fair Civic Entrepreneurs Spirit of St. Louis 5K Run/Walk
  • Civic Entrepreneurs Spirit of St. Louis 10K Run/Walk
  • AAU/USA Junior Olympics
  • First Night Saint Louis
  • Miss Universe Pageant
  • Puma Cup Invitational Soccer Tournament
  • St. Louis Blues Festival
  • St. Louis Sister City Soccer Tournament
  • "Soviet Space" at the St. Louis Science Center
  • Taste of St. Louis
  • World Short-Track Indoor Speed Skating Championships
  • Saint Louis International Film Festival
As a result of these events, past and present, St. Louis has received positive publicity and media attention throughout the nation and the world as well as generating tens of millions of dollars in economic impact.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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