Forecast Conference

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Thursday, November 7, 2024

Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club

7000 NW Grand Blvd.  OKC

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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 Happening in the OKC area?
Jeff Seymour, Greater OKC Chamber
Christy Gillenwater, Greater OKC Chamber
Moderated by Tammy Fate, Greater OKC Chamber

12:50 - 1:45 Sprawl Revisited
Robert Bruegmann, Historian and Professor Emeritus of Art History, Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Illinois
1:45 - 2:00 Break
2:00 - 3:00 Senior Economist with Cushman & Wakefield
James Bohnaker
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:30

Industry Update Panel
Moderated by Allan Meadors, Cushman & Wakefield | Commercial Oklahoma

4:30 - 6:00 Happy Hour Event

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Bruegmann Headshot.jpgRobert Bruegmann

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.jpgJames Bohnaker, Cushman & Wakefield

James Bohnaker is a Senior Economist within Cushman & Wakefield’s global think tank. James provides thought leadership, economic outlook presentations, and forecasting support to the firm’s leadership for a variety of property types and stakeholders.

James has an extensive background as a global macroeconomist and has provided strategic consulting for many of the world’s largest investment banks and corporations while in previous roles at Moody’s Analytics and S&P Global. James also previously worked at CBRE where he was a leading member of the firm’s economic and real estate forecasting platform.    

James’ expertise has been featured in leading news publications including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, and NPR’s Marketplace. He has a Masters degree in Economics from Old Dominion University and a Bachelors in Mathematical Economics from Hampden-Sydney College. James is a Certified Business Economist (CBE) and member of the National Association of Business Economists (NABE).

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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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Gillenwater_Christy.jpg Christy Gillenwater, Greater Oklahoma City Chamber

Christy became the President & Chief Executive Officer of the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber on January 5, 2023.

Christy previously served as President & CEO of the Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce, and prior to that, President & CEO of the Southwest Indiana Chamber and President & CEO of the Greater Bloomington Chamber of Commerce in Indiana.

Christy was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Affairs from Indiana University and a Master of Business Administration from Ball State University. In 2012, Christy was named a Certified Chamber Executive (CCE), the only national certification for chamber professionals.

Christy led two chambers – the Southwest Indiana Chamber and the Greater Bloomington Chamber – to win the National Chamber of the Year by the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives as well as the Indiana Chamber of the Year by the Indiana Chamber Executives Association. In 2017, the Indiana Chamber Executives Association recognized her as Executive of the Year.

Christy and her husband, Brad, have four children: Jordan, Blake, Thomas and Joshua.

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Registration:

Early Bird Registration until October 18th         
$110 CREC Members
$130 NON-CREC Members                  

 

 

Advance Registration
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$150 NON-CREC Members                   

 

Day of Event
$140 CREC Members
$165 NON-CREC Member

 

 

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