By Mason Ailstock | By 2035, Rowen is set to create 18,500 jobs, potentially reaching 80,000 at full build-out, ultimately contributing $8-10 billion annually to the Georgia economy. This month, we’re reflecting on the Rowen Region’s position as a destination for global industry and the crucial next steps our innovation community must take to actualize this forecast.
The Rowen Foundation is partnering with Center for Global Health Innovation and Georgia Research Alliance to host the Convergence Summit: AgTech Innovation at the Intersections, which is devoted to collaboration among key industry sectors and the many interwoven priorities that bind them together—such as workforce, research and innovation—on Thursday, May 4 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Cisco Auditorium at Georgia Gwinnett College.
The Rowen Foundation will officially break ground on Rowen, the 2,000-acre knowledge community in eastern Gwinnett County, on Dec. 9, 2022 at 2 p.m. But instead of turning over more dirt, Governor Brian Kemp and Gwinnett Chairwoman Nicole Love Hendrickson and special guests will plant the first of what will eventually be thousands of new trees on site.
Georgia’s newest knowledge community is teaming up with the state’s historical leader in agricultural innovation to discuss the prospects of Georgia’s largest industry.
On March 31 at 11 a.m., leaders in agriculture, technology and innovation, will gather at the University of Georgia’s new Delta Innovation Hub for the “Future of Agriculture,” a one hour event kicking off the Rowen Foundation’s 2022 Thought Leadership Series.
Click here to read the latest edition. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Rowen Foundation taps 18 people for Community Advisory Task Force
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Extremes in local weather; Why your mail arrived later
ANOTHER VIEW: Reviewing China, the British Empire, opium and saving face
SPOTLIGHT: Gateway85 Gwinnett
FEEDBACK: Living near a time zone border can be very embarrassing
UPCOMING: PCOM Georgia readies students for vaccination effort
NOTABLE: Gateway85 CID adopts Freight Transit Study west of I-85
RECOMMENDED: Driving Mr. Albert by Michael Paterniti
GEORGIA TIDBIT: English native was designer of the Gwinnett County Courthouse
MYSTERY PHOTO: Here’s what we think is a “cream puff” Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: Pathquest coming to Braselton on March 13
“Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”
– The second president of the United States, John Adams (1735-1826).
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