Registration Now OPEN for Create WV Conference

A special, “early bird” discount price is available for the 2008 Create West Virginia (Create WV) Conference. The special price of $229.00 will only be in effect through August 31. This year’s conference, aimed at helping communities expand and improve their economies through cultivation of the creative and high-tech industries, is set for October 20-22 and will take place at Snowshoe Mountain Resort.

Registrations can be reserved at www.createwvevents.com.

Last November, the Creative Communities Team of Vision Shared hoped to attract 100 community and business leaders to the first annual Create WV Conference. By the end of the event, over 250 attended. This year, the Create WV Conference is expected to draw close to 300 registrants to Snowshoe Mountain Resort to learn more about new jobs and opportunities in today's wired, global and innovation-driven environment.

“The Create West Virginia Conference demonstrates - step by step - how communities can generate New Economy jobs in their region,” said Creative Communities Chair Jeff James. “These are the jobs that are driving growth around the world, and it’s already happening right here in West Virginia. This conference is about how to add fuel to that fire.”

The conference is an energizing, informative mix of hands-on workshops and inspiring keynote presentations, spanning topical areas such as talent, technology, education, diversity and place. Keynote speakers include such notables as Dale Dougherty, founding publisher of Make magazine; Robert Kitchins of Northern University of Ireland; and Vaughn Grisham, director of the McLean Institute for Community Development and professor of Sociology at The University of Mississippi.

Registration price for the conference returns to the normal rate of $349 after August 31. Snowshoe Mountain Resort has reserved special room rates, beginning at $84 and up. Those interested in attending should register now; the Create WV conference is expected to draw over 300 attendees. For more information about the Create WV initiative or to register for the Create WV conference, please visit www.createwv.com.

About Vision Shared

Vision Shared is a cultural movement of significant importance to the state of West Virginia, which encourages citizens to work together in new ways. Fundamentally, the effort seeks to bring about positive change and grow the state’s economy.

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[dorkey]

This West Virginia initiative is part of a larger global debate on the role of creative communities, or the creative class, and its relation to growth in the new economy.The concept of the creative class was popularized by the research and writings of Richard Florida, Ph.D., who as a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

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