After a four-year absence, the Baton Rouge Space Chamber is relaunching its “canvas journey” program, with a go to to Greenville, South Carolina.
Officers with BRAC, the mayor-president’s workplace and native enterprise leaders will make the journey Nov. 2-4. Registration is $2,500 per individual and consists of transportation, lodging and meals. To enroll, go to brac.org/canvas.
Adam Knapp, BRAC president and CEO, mentioned in an announcement the journey “permits contributors to immerse themselves in a peer group, discover finest practices first-hand, and have interaction in candid conversations with one another and the change brokers behind the vacation spot metropolis’s most transformative partnerships, packages and processes.”
This would be the eleventh Regional Canvas Benchmarking Workshop, however the first one since 2018, when BRAC and metropolis leaders visited Cincinnati. This system was began in 2003 and led to visits to Austin, Texas; Nashville; Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina; and Pittsburgh.
Lately, the journeys have been held each two or three years, however the COVID pandemic led to a pause. Chamber officers mentioned they felt extra assured to plan one other occasion for the autumn.
Greenville is the sixtieth largest metro space within the U.S., with a inhabitants of about 930,000. Baton Rouge ranks just a few spots behind at quantity 66. The area was previously a textile capital, but it surely tailored to draw main world manufacturers reminiscent of BMW, Michelin and 3M.
John Snow, a accomplice with Emergent Methodology, is a co-chairperson for the journey. Snow is a local of South Carolina who has seen the adjustments which have occurred in Greenville.
“Greenville is thought for its bustling downtown, amongst many different issues, and I see many alternatives for Baton Rouge to leverage comparable methods to reinforce our downtown core,” he mentioned in an announcement.
Subjects that might be lined through the journey embody: Partnerships in growth and high quality of place, inclusive entrepreneurship, enterprise and schooling partnerships, attracting and retaining expertise and diversifying industries inside an financial system.