2024 Santa Barbara County Economic Summit on May 9, 2024 | UCSB Arts & Lectures

Program: 4:30 PM-6 PM
Reception: 6 PM-7:30 PM
Ticket includes digital access to the 2024 Economic Outlook Publication and a reception.

The annual Santa Barbara County Economic Summit features presentations by a panel of experts on the state of the economy and policy in Santa Barbara and California.

Featured Speakers

Rick Caruso, Founder and Executive Chairman | Caruso
A Conversation with Rick Caruso
Founder of one of the largest privately held real estate companies in the U.S., Rick will share his experience adopting a successful strategy for development: imaginative retail and mixed-use destinations.

Gene Deering, Principal | Radius Commercial Real Estate
State Street: Running of the Bulls
Gene is a principal at Radius Commercial Real Estate and a UCSB Economics alum. Gene will bring his nearly two decades of local commercial real estate and business experience to give us the latest on the state of State Street.

Peter Rupert, Director | UCSB Economic Forecast Project
Economic Update
Peter is the director of the Economic Forecast Project and a professor in the UCSB Department of Economics. He is also associate director of the UCSB Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance with Nobel Laureate, Finn Kydland.