The 8th Annual Bay Area Economic Forecast was presented by the Bay Area Council’s Economic Institute at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on January 16, 2015. The event featured remarks by the Fed’s President, John Williams, by BAC VP Tracey Grose, Mary Hamilton of Accenture and Jerry Nickelsburg of UCLA Anderson Forecast.
IEE’s Executive Director Ed Church was part of a panel after the forecasts. With other panelists from the City of San Jose, Qualcomm and Microsoft, he addressed the question of smart cities and data from the lens of transitioning to the post-carbon society.