2024 Leadership Visit: Salt Lake City, Utah | June 5-7, 2024
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Commerce Lexington is pleased to announce that the 2024 Leadership Visit presented by Central Bank & Trust Co. will take us to Salt Lake City, Utah, June 5 - 7, 2024. Labeled as the Silicon Slopes, Salt Lake City is home to a buzzing tech scene - between that and the other booming businesses in the city, its downtown area has been brought to life like never before. From a top-shelf performing arts scene, to award-winning dining, craft beer, and distilling culture, this Old West town has become a forward-thinking, and burgeoning urban hub. There will be a lot for us to learn during this trip - from Salt Lake’s thriving tech industry to its exceptional quality of life and efforts in the talent attraction space. It is also home to the Huntsman Cancer Institute, a nationally-recognized cancer hospital and research center and benchmark institute for the UK Markey Cancer Center.
This state capital city has a growing number of IT, finance, outdoor products, and manufacturing companies capitalizing on the area’s strategic location as the “Crossroads of the West.” Companies like UPS, Goldman Sachs, Doppelmayr USA, POST Consumer Brands, and many other industry leading corporations are located in Salt Lake City. Ranked as one of the best environments for business, the Salt Lake area's concentration of biomedical, high tech, and software firms is among the highest in the nation.
Since 2019, the city has seen a hefty 12-percent increase in tech talent to nearly 67,500 tech jobs, outpacing the national average in tech job growth over that same period. Although there has been a rapid acceleration of the tech industry in recent years, software companies like Novell and WordPerfect got their start in Utah in the late 1970’s.
The city is home to University of Utah, the state’s flagship university with over 31,000 students, and one of the top 25 business and entrepreneurship schools according to the Princeton Review. The educated, multilingual, and ambitious workforce in Salt Lake City makes it an ideal location for top companies.
TO REGISTER: Registration is available now ON-LINE HERE for the 2024 Leadership Visit. Full registration includes charter air travel, meals as outlined in the agenda, and two nights’ accommodations at The Grand America Hotel (555 S. Main St., Salt Lake City, UT 84111).
This state capital city has a growing number of IT, finance, outdoor products, and manufacturing companies capitalizing on the area’s strategic location as the “Crossroads of the West.” Companies like UPS, Goldman Sachs, Doppelmayr USA, POST Consumer Brands, and many other industry leading corporations are located in Salt Lake City. Ranked as one of the best environments for business, the Salt Lake area's concentration of biomedical, high tech, and software firms is among the highest in the nation.
Since 2019, the city has seen a hefty 12-percent increase in tech talent to nearly 67,500 tech jobs, outpacing the national average in tech job growth over that same period. Although there has been a rapid acceleration of the tech industry in recent years, software companies like Novell and WordPerfect got their start in Utah in the late 1970’s.
The city is home to University of Utah, the state’s flagship university with over 31,000 students, and one of the top 25 business and entrepreneurship schools according to the Princeton Review. The educated, multilingual, and ambitious workforce in Salt Lake City makes it an ideal location for top companies.
TO REGISTER: Registration is available now ON-LINE HERE for the 2024 Leadership Visit. Full registration includes charter air travel, meals as outlined in the agenda, and two nights’ accommodations at The Grand America Hotel (555 S. Main St., Salt Lake City, UT 84111).
PLATINUM SPONSOR:
OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION SPONSOR:
GOLD SPONSORS:
SouthEast Printing & Mailing Service
WesBanco Bank
BANK DINNER SPONSORS:
Central Bank & Trust Co.
Community Trust Bank
Fifth Third Bank
PNC Bank
WealthSouth
SouthEast Printing & Mailing Service
WesBanco Bank
BANK DINNER SPONSORS:
Central Bank & Trust Co.
Community Trust Bank
Fifth Third Bank
PNC Bank
WealthSouth
Leadership Visit sponsorship opportunities available by contacting Lisa Mahan.
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. As one of the longest-running and largest intercity visits in the country, 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.