Forecast Conference
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club
7000 NW Grand Blvd. OKC
| 11:00 - 12:15 | Registration, Networking, Lunch |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Introduction by Event Emcee Paul Stuke, Plains Commercial Real Estate |
| 12:30 - 12:50 | What's in the Future (WTF) Jeff Seymour, Greater OKC Chamber |
| 12:50 - 1:45 | Urban Sprawl Robert Bruegmann |
| 1:45 - 2:00 | Break |
| 2:00 - 3:00 | Chief Economist with Cushman & Wakefield James Bohnaker |
| 3:00 - 3:15 | Break |
| 3:15 - 4:30 |
Industry Update Panel |
| 4:30 - 6:00 | Happy Hour Networking |
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Robert Bruegmann is an historian and critic of the built environment. He received his PhD in art history from the University of Pennsylvania in 1976 and since 1979 has been on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago where he is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Art History, Architecture and Urban Planning. He has also taught at the Philadelphia College of Art, MIT, and Columbia University. Among his books are Holabird & Roche and Holabird & Root, An Illustrated Catalogue of Work, 1991; The Architects and the City: Holabird & Roche of Chicago 1880-1918, 1998; Sprawl: A Compact History, 2005; The Architecture of Harry Weese, 2010, Roman Ivory, A Novel, forthcoming 2024, and, as editor, Modernism at Mid-Century, The Architecture of the United States Airforce Academy, 1995; Art Deco Chicago: Designing Modern America, 2018; Roman Ivory: A Novel and Citizen Architects: Ben and Cynthia Weese, both forthcoming 2024. His main areas of research are in the history of architecture, urban planning, landscape and historic preservation.
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James Bohnaker, Cushman & Wakefield
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Jeff Seymour, Greater Oklahoma City Chamber
Jeff Seymour currently serves as the Executive Vice-President for Economic Development
for the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber. In this role he leads the Chamber’s effort to
expand the regional economy through new business recruitment, providing support to
existing businesses and entrepreneurs and meeting the talent and workforce needs of
current and future employers.
Prior to serving at the Chamber, Jeff served as Executive Director of the Franklin County
Development Council, a county-wide economic development organization in the greater Kansas City
region and the Executive Director of the Blackwell Chamber of Commerce and Blackwell Industrial
Authority in Blackwell, OK. Jeff also worked at the Ponca City Development Authority.
Jeff is graduate of Oklahoma State University and Northern Oklahoma College with degrees in
economic and international business. Jeff holds the status of a Certified Economic Developer (CEcD) through the
International Economic Development Council.
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Registration:
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Early Bird Registration until October 18th |
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