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Economic Summit

The Eastern Idaho Economic Summit is a dynamic yearly event designed to bring together professionals and community leaders to explore key economic trends, challenges, and opportunities impacting the region. The summit features insights from prominent speakers, including economists and development managers, addressing topics such as Idaho's economic frontier This yearly event is one you will not want to miss!

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Workforce Symposium

The Eastern Idaho Workforce Symposium is a key yearly event focused on addressing workforce challenges and opportunities in Eastern Idaho. This symposium features discussions on labor trends, workforce retention, and innovative recruitment strategies. Attendees will gain valuable insights from experts, including labor reports from the Idaho Department of Labor and an overview of the East Idaho Talent Pipeline Management (TPM) Program. This event aims to bridge the gap between employers and employees, fostering collaboration and solutions for workforce development.

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Housing Sumposium

The Eastern Idaho Housing Symposium is a pivotal yearly event focusing on the region's housing market and future development. The symposium feature expert discussions on real estate trends, housing developments, and mortgage lending changes. Key speakers include realtors, developers, city planners, and financial specialists, offering valuable insights into the region's housing dynamics. This yearly event fosters collaboration and planning to address Eastern Idaho's growing housing needs.

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"What's Up in Eastern Idaho!"

Sixth Annual Conference - Power of Place

“What’s Up in Eastern Idaho!” is the first-of-its-kind yearly economic summit to be held in Eastern Idaho. The fifth annual summit will be held on Friday, October 24, 2025

“What’s Up in Eastern Idaho!” covers hot topics affecting Southeast and East Idaho as well as national economic, business, education, workforce, and entrepreneurial ecosystems. The summit features Regional, State, and National speakers.

As a leading regional economic development organization, REDI remains focused on the future. Eastern Idaho is growing its position as one of the country’s hottest innovation hubs in the areas of advanced manufacturing, agriculture, banking & finance, energy, healthcare, information technology (cybersecurity), and outdoor products.

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Economic Development Roundtable

REDI’s CEO, along with city, county, and regional economic development professionals meet together to work on regional strategies, business development, special projects, funding and incentive programs, training, and outreach support to stimulate and grow Eastern Idaho’s regional economy.

The Economic Development Roundtable Group meets monthly. For more information, please contact Teresa McKnight, CEO of REDI.

Cybersecurity Alliance

We envision Eastern Idaho as a global leader in cybersecurity solutions. Our mission is to foster growth and development of the cybersecurity industry here through partnership and shared resources based on the pillars of Education, Research, and Industry Engagement. Eastern Idaho has the strength of four campuses offering post-secondary degrees from Associate to PhD in cybersecurity-related fields, and is home to the lead federally funded research and development center for critical infrastructure resilience. While there has been and continues to be a rich community of cybersecurity experts and entrepreneurial developments over decades of time, we feel now is the best time to formalize partnerships and strengthen this community to reach a higher potential of output for all our members.

The Cybersecurity Alliance meets monthly. For more information, please contact Teresa McKnight, CEO of REDI.

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