The cost to attend is $40 for individuals, and organizations can sponsor a table for $500, which includes premium reserved seating for eight. All proceeds help to fund scholarships for IU Columbus business students. The event includes lunch and a distinguished speaker panel presenting the 2025 forecast and what it means for interest rates, inflation, jobs, unemployment, GDP, and community members.
Register at the Chamber website, business.columbusareachamber.com/events.
The Economic Outlook Panel will be moderated by Ryan Brewer, Ph.D., Division Head and Associate Professor of Finance at IU Columbus.
Panelists include:
U.S. and International forecast: Jennifer Lynn Rice, Ph.D., Associate Senior Lecturer in the Business Economics & Public Policy department at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University
Financial Markets forecast: Russell Rhoads, Ph.D., Clinical Associate Professor of Financial Management at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University
State of Indiana forecast: Phil Powell, Ph.D., Academic Director of the Indiana Business Research Center and the Daniel C. Smith Faculty Fellow at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business
Local outlook: Steven Mohler, DBA, Associate Professor of Management at IU Columbus
The IU Kelley School of Business has presented these forecasts since 1972, based on research from its Indiana Business Research Center. It will present 11 Futurecast 2024 economic outlook panels across the state, including the 2025 Economic Outlook Panel in Columbus.
To learn more about the IU Columbus event, visit go.iu.edu/columbus-ebop.