Leadership Visit
Commerce Lexington's annual Leadership Visit has helped expose Central Kentucky's leaders to the best ideas of model communities throughout the United States, yielding valuable lessons that have been applied to the improvement of the Bluegrass Region. This three-day trip has become the most valuable opportunity to bring community leaders, decision makers and ideas together in order to make positive changes in our community. It's a very unique program that includes the foremost business, education, government and community representatives of Central Kentucky.
Leadership Visit to Austin, Texas Moved to November 15-17, 2021
Commerce Lexington Inc. is pleased to announce that the 2021 Leadership Visit presented by Central Bank & Trust Co. will take Central Kentucky leaders to Austin, Texas, November 15-17, 2021. Known as the “Live Music Capital of the World,” Austin’s ability to ‘Keep it Weird’ has created a culture of innovation and creativity that is prevalent across the region.
Like Lexington, Austin boasts an educated workforce, a thriving economy and favorable business climate, excellent schools, scenic landscapes, a top-notch research university, and an overall excellent quality of life. While the equine industry, Bourbon, and an attractive food scene have given Lexington an international flavor all its own, Austin’s international presence continues to grow thanks to events like SXSW and Austin City Limits. The Austin region has developed a diverse entrepreneurial ecosystem that is home to entrepreneurs, startups, growing companies, and tech industry giants like Dell, Advanced Micro Devices, Intel, 3M, IBM, Samsung, NXP Semiconductors, and National Instruments. The city known for “weird” is wired as well, as Google Fiber and AT&T deploy Gigabit-speed internet throughout the area.
As an attractive place to live and work, Austin has been experiencing rapid population growth over the last decade and more recently has been adding about 100 people per day. That growth has created challenges with infrastructure, transportation and traffic congestion, rising housing costs, and a lack of land for development. While in Austin, we’ll take a closer look at the area’s innovation ecosystem, the effectiveness of its regional economic development plan through Opportunity Austin, talent retention and attraction, efforts to identify and engage more emerging leaders, and initiatives that are addressing the disparity and inequity wealth gap between communities.
Registration is available now for the 2021 Leadership Visit to Austin, Texas. For our accommodations, the group will be staying at the phenomenal Four Seasons Hotel Austin, which sits on the banks of Lady Bird Lake just steps from the city’s central business and entertainment districts.
Leadership Visit to Austin, Texas Moved to November 15-17, 2021
Commerce Lexington Inc. is pleased to announce that the 2021 Leadership Visit presented by Central Bank & Trust Co. will take Central Kentucky leaders to Austin, Texas, November 15-17, 2021. Known as the “Live Music Capital of the World,” Austin’s ability to ‘Keep it Weird’ has created a culture of innovation and creativity that is prevalent across the region.
Like Lexington, Austin boasts an educated workforce, a thriving economy and favorable business climate, excellent schools, scenic landscapes, a top-notch research university, and an overall excellent quality of life. While the equine industry, Bourbon, and an attractive food scene have given Lexington an international flavor all its own, Austin’s international presence continues to grow thanks to events like SXSW and Austin City Limits. The Austin region has developed a diverse entrepreneurial ecosystem that is home to entrepreneurs, startups, growing companies, and tech industry giants like Dell, Advanced Micro Devices, Intel, 3M, IBM, Samsung, NXP Semiconductors, and National Instruments. The city known for “weird” is wired as well, as Google Fiber and AT&T deploy Gigabit-speed internet throughout the area.
As an attractive place to live and work, Austin has been experiencing rapid population growth over the last decade and more recently has been adding about 100 people per day. That growth has created challenges with infrastructure, transportation and traffic congestion, rising housing costs, and a lack of land for development. While in Austin, we’ll take a closer look at the area’s innovation ecosystem, the effectiveness of its regional economic development plan through Opportunity Austin, talent retention and attraction, efforts to identify and engage more emerging leaders, and initiatives that are addressing the disparity and inequity wealth gap between communities.
Registration is available now for the 2021 Leadership Visit to Austin, Texas. For our accommodations, the group will be staying at the phenomenal Four Seasons Hotel Austin, which sits on the banks of Lady Bird Lake just steps from the city’s central business and entertainment districts.
