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CSG-WEST 62nd Annual Meeting

October 5-8, 2009

Santa Fe, New Mexico

WESTRENDS 2006 Highlights: Beginning in September 2005 in Portland, Oregon, the WESTRENDS Board began exploring the challenges facing the West as technology rapidly transforms our economies. WESTRENDS is focusing on the importance of establishing networks with people beyond the region’s political borders in recognition that changes are required in the way we conduct business in order to succeed in manufacturing, marketing and professional services in a global economy.

WESTRENDS 2005 Highlights: The WESTRENDS Board heard two presentations that were consistent with the Board’s interest in the demographic, economic and cultural trends shaping the West. Members were briefed and discussed a work in progress by a consortium of think tanks on how the West can best achieve a sustainable future. Consistent with the theme of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial, the Board was also challenged by the remarks of the author of a new book whose central argument is that in  the new century, America and the West’s focus will shift from Europe to the Pacific Rim.

WESTRENDS 2004 Highlights: The WESTRENDS forum discussed the impacts of globalization on the Western and national economies. Internationally syndicated business columnist for the Los Angeles Times, James Flanigan, led a conversation on the myths and realities of globalization, providing a better understanding of the phenomenon and strategies to respond to it in an ever increasingly interdependent world.