The conversation around economic development is not new. People have been working on this in Memphis for decades – but the national conversation got a lot louder when Amazon sent out an open call for cities to compete for their newest North American headquarters last fall.

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On Tuesday, June 23,  join the Greater Memphis Chamber Chairman Willie Gregory for the Chamber’s first virtual Mid-Year Chairman’s Forum.  Chairman Gregory will give a brief update on the activity the Chamber has engaged in during the first half of the year.  Following Chamber updates, we will have Benjamin Pring, co-founder of Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work, as the keynote speaker.

Ben will discuss “After the Virus.” His discussion will center around what is going to be changed?  What technologies we will use?  How we will go back to physical facilities to work? What about travel, security, health and safety?  Ben feels it is “unrealistic to think that we will go back to normal and we as leaders need to adjust.”  Ben has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the London Times, Forbes, Fortune, the MIT Review, the Daily Telegraph, Quartz, Inc., Axios, the Australian, and the Economic Times.  

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