{"id":108173,"date":"2016-09-29T14:12:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T19:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=108173"},"modified":"2016-09-30T08:18:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T13:18:28","slug":"ova-attends-international-ec-dev-conf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=108173","title":{"rendered":"Ova attends IEDC annual conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Connie-Ova-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48346 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Connie-Ova-2014-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Connie Ova 2014\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Connie-Ova-2014-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Connie-Ova-2014-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Connie-Ova-2014.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>(CSi- JSDC)\u00a0 The International Economic Development Council (IEDC) held its Annual Conference from Sept. 25-28, 2016 at the Huntington Convention Center in Cleveland, Ohio. This conference was the largest ever in IEDC history with over 1600 attendees. Those in attendance from North Dakota included members from the Economic Development Association of ND board of directors: Connie Ova, President (CEO for JSDC, Jamestown\/Stutsman Development Corporation; Ellen Huber, Vice-President (Business Development Director City of Mandan) and Mark Vaux, member at large (Executive Vice-President Business Development, Greater Fargo-Moorhead EDC).<br \/>\nThe program theme, \u201cEconomic Development through Technology, Innovation and Productivity\u201d, highlighted the changes in the economic development industry, current rising trends and best practices. This year\u2019s conference coincided with IEDC\u2019s 90th anniversary, and included special events to celebrate the milestone.<br \/>\n<strong>Connie Ova said,<\/strong> \u201cThe conference featured a series of informational sessions on topics such as the sharing economy and international exchange; receptions for networking and celebrating the 90th anniversary; and workshops on topics such as ethics in the profession.<br \/>\n\u201cThis year\u2019s program reflected the current priorities that every economic developer is facing, and program content will help us all build upon our individual strategic objectives, plus to tackle the unique issues of our communities,\u201d said Ova. Ellen Huber facilitated a session for \u201cCommunities with Populations under 25,000\u201d. This town hall meeting was for developers to drill down to those issues most impacting their jurisdictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CSi- JSDC)\u00a0 The International Economic Development Council (IEDC) held its Annual Conference from Sept. 25-28, 2016 at the Huntington Convention Center in Cleveland, Ohio. This conference was the largest ever in IEDC history with over 1600 attendees. Those in attendance from North Dakota included members from the Economic Development Association [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108173"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108230,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108173\/revisions\/108230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}