Purpose

This business conference event is designed to provide the following benefits to the greater Medford community: 

1. Provide an informative and entertaining program to the Southern Oregon business community, supporting local business efforts.
2. Focus attention and acknowledge the vitality and critical role the business community plays in Medford/Jackson County, as well as Grants Pass/Josephine County. 
3. With the assistance of local media, the conference intends to educate the general public about the issues impacting local business, and the economic challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for southern Oregon.
4. Leverage the event to assist the local economic development community promote our area to prospective relocating companies.
5. Bring together various components of the area’s manufacturing/retail/wholesale sectors, professions and financial services companies, providing an opportunity to network, build alliances and unite our local business community.

Provide salient, critical data and information (economic, demographic, instructional) as a resource and for future reference.