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IFI DIVISION I MEETING | SEPTEMBER 11 | 7:00 A.M – 9:30 A.M.
FREE for IFI members!
$55 for IFI member guests/customers
Division I has planned a meeting for our membership and their customers in Las Vegas, in conjunction with the IFE show.
Where: Mandalay Bay Convention Hall, South Seas C Meeting Room
When: Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Breakfast: 7:00 a.m.
Division I Business Meeting: 7:45 a.m.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Christopher Thornberg starts at 8:15 a.m.
Adjournment: 9:30 a.m.
Dr. Christopher Thornberg has been called many things throughout his career, but his favorite thing to be called is correct. He founded Beacon Economics in 2006 and the firm quickly made a name for itself as the only major forecast on the West Coast to correctly predict the collapse of the sub-prime real estate bubble and the global recession that followed.
More correct calls followed, including predicting the rapid V shaped recovery from the pandemic and the subsequent surge in inflation. Under Dr. Thornberg’s leadership, Beacon Economics has become one of the most respected research organizations in California producing economic forecasts, impact analyses, policy studies, and regional economic analysis for private industry, public agencies, and nonprofits.
With a career rooted in academia, Dr. Thornberg holds a Ph.D. in Business Economics from the Anderson School at UCLA, where he later taught in the MBA program and served as a senior economist with the Anderson Forecast.
As a thought-leader and dynamic public speaker, Dr. Thornberg speaks in front of tens of thousands of people every year, urging audiences to ask the right economic questions before accepting pervasive social and political narratives.