The next event in the Spring 2012 IMPACT Speaker Series features Steven Labovitz. Mr. Labovitz is a partner at the firm McKenna Long and Aldridge LLP and former Chief of Staff of the City of Atlanta. On Wednesday, he will join us to talk about "The Critical Role of Public-Private Partnerships in Atlanta's Past, Present, and Future."

Please join us for this event in LeCraw Auditorium, College of Management, or watch the live webcast provided by our partners at Learn it Live.

More about the speaker:

Steven Labovitz works at the intersection of business and government. He has extensive experience in formulating public/private partnerships for companies that have business issues with the government sector and governments that are interested in privatization or outsourcing governmental tasks.

In addition, Mr. Labovitz has worked in the area of land use and has been instrumental in working with governments and developers to create tax incentives for large development projects. He was the counsel and architect for the tax allocation district and the public financing utilized for the Atlantic Station project, the largest Brownfield development project in the country. He was also a principal negotiator for the City of San Diego in its construction of a new baseball park as part of its downtown redevelopment efforts.

Read more about Steven Labovitz here.

About the Impact Speaker Series

Since 2002, the IMPACT Speaker Series has brought highly successful business leaders from a variety of industries to campus to share their experiences and give advice to students and other entrepreneurs on topics ranging from "building a venture around intellectual capital" to "successful entrepreneurship in large organizations" and "socially responsible leadership".

The weekly series provides Georgia Tech students, alumni and the Atlanta business community an opportunity to network and learn from successful entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and notable business and non-profit leaders. Events for the series take place in the LeCraw Auditorium in the College of Management building at 4:30 pm on Wednesdays unless otherwise noted.

The series is free and open to the public, and reservations are not required.