EXHIBITORS

Our exhibitors play a vital role in advancing the economic development profession through innovation, collaboration, and partnership. By showcasing cutting-edge solutions, sharing expertise, and engaging directly with industry leaders, they help equip communities with the tools and resources needed to address today's challenges and seize tomorrow's opportunities. Thank you to our exhibitors for your continued support of the industry and your commitment to moving the profession forward.

ROI Research on Investment is an award-winning advisory focused on investment attraction for economic development organizations. Since 2002, ROI has worked with over 500 clients worldwide to attract capital intensive expansion projects. ROI's areas of expertise include lead generation, benchmarking/target industry & recruitment zone analysis, representation services, and training. ROI is proud of our track record that has resulted in an abundance of investment project wins for clients worldwide.

In 2024, ROI Digital Labs was launched, offering a suite of digital marketing services specifically designed for economic professionals. Our team has supported many regions across the globe and helped transform their digital strategies and achieve measurable success. Our latest innovation is the launch of saluki, an intelligent social media platform designed solely for economic developers.

(Sikich) Cloud Nine | Economic Development™ is built on Microsoft Dynamics 365, providing a trusted platform and core CRM functionality such as:

Projects, Incentives, Grants, Compliance, Locations, Investors, Case Management, BRE, Business Process Flows, Goals Tracking, Activities, Contacts, Leads, Campaigns, Mailing Lists, and more.

This solution is our answer to the issues that Economic Development teams tackle every day.

We’ve created a pre-built set of enhancements that accelerates new implementations of Dynamics CRM and solves the most common challenges economic developers face, right out of the box. The solution completely covers all requirements of many EDO’s, and further customizations and enhancements can be made to address more complex needs.

The Cloud Nine EDO solution allows economic development organizations to greatly reduce CRM implementation cost and time.

aLocal Solutions provides economic information that's faster, better, and costs less. We provide market and economic forecasts, business intelligence and net economic impact analytics. We use proven algorithms focused not only on macro-economic impacts but understands how multiple systems in the community and the surrounding areas help predict economic demand in your community. Instead of only reading descriptive summaries of the number of employees compared to state averages, aLocal actually analyzes these variables and helps predict demand levels. Our powerful analytics allow you to see, on maps and tables, where there is current economic demand (or not) as well as possible outcomes for future changes in our community. This includes increased multi-family housing, economic growth, possible zoning changes and employment.

Dealroom.co is your source of record on startups, tech, talent, venture capital and their ecosystems globally.

Findem: Attract, connect, and retain talent across your region with an AI job board, a searchable talent network, and people intelligence that turns workforce development from a manual effort into a measurable program.

GIS WebTech provides the most advanced technology solutions available for economic development and site selection. The company’s all-new Guru technology, launched in April, helps economic development organizations attract, retain, and expand businesses within their communities. GIS WebTech is the fastest-growing provider and the only certified Esri partner serving the economic development market. GIS WebTech’s solutions are built natively on the Esri ArcGIS platform, the world’s most powerful mapping software, and include the most accurate demographic and workforce data available. For more information, please see www.giswebtech.com.

Localintel gives economic development teams a ready-to-use library of publish-ready content built from trusted data about your location – reports, profiles, stories, charts, maps, and website tools, no data expertise or GIS skills required. Every figure traces back to its source, so nothing you publish is left undefended when a site selector, business, or colleague asks where a number came from. Use it for RFI responses, website content, grant applications, briefings, marketing materials, and more. Trusted by 250+ government teams across the US and Canada. Learn more at localintel.com.

Resimplifi is the only commercial real estate listing data provider and platform built specifically for economic development organizations, working as your real estate research team to go out and find all the available commercial real estate listings in your area, then verify those listings up to three times per week.

Resimplifi now offers View Pro, an upgraded property viewer for economic development organizations that adds a demographic dashboard, custom map layers like TIF and downtown districts, parcel data, and a commercial real estate analytics dashboard on top of the standard View experience. resimplifi's data powers economic development agencies and site selection specialists, feeding directly into the platforms they already use for market and property research.

Learn more at resimplifi.com/econ-dev.