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Former Pittsburgh Mayor Tom Murphy will be the keynote speaker for the Super Regional Leadership Conference, set for April 28-29 at the Tampa Convention Center.
The conference, presented jointly by the Tampa Bay Partnership and Central Florida Partnership, will bring together business and government leaders from both regions. Discussion topics will include regional planning, overcoming obstacles to develop potential, job creation for the new century and helping employers succeed in a post-recession economy. Murphy will discuss his report “Building on Innovation: The Significance of Anchor Institutions in a New Era of City Building,” released by the Urban Land Institute earlier this month. He maintains that in the current environment of extremely limited public funds, being competitive means being able to create new economic engines, marketplace synergies and corporate enterprise offshoots.
During his three terms as mayor of Pittsburgh from 1994 through 2005, Murphy initiated a public-private partnership strategy leveraging more than $4.5 billion in economic development. He also led efforts to secure and oversee $1 billion in funding for the development of two professional sports facilities and a new convention center.
Murphy, who now serves as a senior resident fellow for ULI, is expected to discuss how public officials must start “thinking and acting like entrepreneurs” to maximize the economic development potential of anchor institutions such as higher education and medical facilities, alternative energy-related industries, and biotechnology firms.
More details about the conference can be found online at http://www.thesuperregion.com.
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