2023 Summer Conference: ECONOMIC VITALITY IN ACTION – from Wheatfields to Main Street

Welcome to our 2023 Summer Conference online platform! We are thrilled to have you join fellow economic development, local government, port, business, tribal, education and community leaders from throughout Washington. We encourage you to use Swapcard to engage with our expert speakers and to network with fellow attendees --both in-person and virtually-- before, during and after the live event in Walla Walla. 

Conference Cancellation Policy

If you are unable to attend the conference in person, you may donate your registration fee to WEDA, use your conference registration fee towards WEDA's 2023 Winter Conference or receive a full refund prior one week out from the event and a 50% refund within one week of the event. We also accept replacement names but we need to receive those as soon as possible, please and no later than noon on August 6. For cancelations or replacements, please email info@wedaonline.org.

WEDA event attendees assume all risks and accept sole responsibility for any injury, illness, damage, loss, claim, liability or expense, of any kind, that attendee may experience or incur in connection with attending this conference. By registering for the conference, attendee hereby releases, covenants not to sue, discharges, and holds harmless WEDA, its employees, agents, and representatives, of and from any such claims, including all liabilities, claims, actions, damages, costs, or expenses of any kind arising out of or relating thereto. Attendees also consent to be recorded, photographed and videotaped related to the event, and hereby irrevocably and perpetually authorize WEDA to copyright, publish, reproduce, exhibit, transmit, broadcast, televise, digitize, display, otherwise use, attendee name, image, likeness and voice, and all photographs, recordings, videotapes, audiovisual materials, writings, statements and quotations of or by obtained during the event.