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Home > NEWS > Press Room > PRESS RELEASES > Empire State Development President & CEO Ken Adams to Keynote Upstate Conference

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
July 27, 2011                                                                            

Empire State Development President & CEO Ken Adams to Keynote Upstate Conference

BUFFALO, NY – Ken Adams, President & CEO of Empire State Development Corporation, will be the opening keynote speaker at “Accelerate Upstate,” a two-day community conversation presented by the Buffalo Niagara Partnership in conjunction with title sponsor BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York involving stakeholders from across the state. Adams will be speaking at the conference’s opening session at the downtown Buffalo Convention Center at noon on Thursday, August 4, and will be addressing the recently-unveiled Regional Economic Development Councils outlined by Governor Andrew Cuomo in his “NY Works” program.

“We’re very excited that the Governor’s office has chosen Accelerate Upstate to be one of the first statewide presentations on the Regional Economic Development Council concept,” said Andrew J. Rudnick, President & CEO of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership. “There has been tremendous buzz for some time about how the Councils will operate and it is good to see the outreach beginning. In his roles at the Business Council and then with Empire State Development, Ken Adams has been a good friend to Upstate, and we look forward to his presentation on the future of Upstate economic development.”

Adams’ presentation will serve as a springboard for a two-day conversation among Upstate stakeholders that will ultimately yield an Accelerate Upstate action agenda to be delivered to Albany and Washington following the event. Throughout the conference’s presentations, panel sessions and Thursday evening reception, attendees will be invited to submit comments, observations and ideas through comment periods attached to each of the conference’s panel sessions, through written comments or via social media.

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