1. EASTERN ALBERTA TRADE CORRIDOR Update March, 2016

3. What is EATC trying to accomplish?  What is in it for BRAED, HUB and PEP to work together : Impact government policy and investor decisions Create resources for members By working together we can accomplish what we can’t do as individual REDAs or as communities.

4. Creating an Impact  What chance does an individual community have to be heard, when the community is a village or a town?  What chance does 8% of Alberta’s population have when competing with the millions in Alberta’s central region?  But when 80 municipalities speak together with one voice, then the voice of Eastern Alberta is heard.

5. Recent Successes  Access to high level Washington DC officials  EATC invited as a partner to work with GoA at Global Petroleum Show  EATC invited to provide input on Transportation initiatives  Investment attraction officers recommend EATC locations

6. Recent Successes  2015 EDA Award Business and Investment Attraction Award of Excellence  2014 EDA Award – Advertising (Print/Electronic) Award in the large community  2012 Minister’s Award of Excellence

7. Creating Resources  We work with and for the 80 member communities to create award winning resources for: Eastern Alberta Trade Corridor Member Communities Businesses in each of the REDAs  Recent successes are:

8.  Integrated mapping system – EATC >PEP, BRAED, HUB.  Up to date data on all member communities  Economies of scale produced a dynamic back end editing environment EATC Website

9.  No matter how big or small a community member is, you now have a 2 page investment profile for your community. In the past year we built investment profiles one for each REDA member Community Resources: Investment Profiles

10.  Each of our member communities also now have an on line community profile. Each of these profiles is a rich source of information about each community.. Community Resources: On-Line Community Profiles

11.  We have created business profiles for companies in each of the REDAs. This is to help prospective investors find partners and collaborators in the region. Business Resources: Company Profiles

12. What Are We Trying To Accomplish?  Our Mission is “To lead collaborative investment, marketing and diversification efforts for eastern Alberta”. Our approach is to do this on two fronts: 1.Impact government policy and investor decisions 2.Create resources for members

13. Why Work Together?  By working together we can accomplish more than individual communities can or even a single REDA can 1.COST 2.INVESTMENT ATTRACTION 3.RAISING REGIONAL PROFILE 4.GRANT ACQUISITION

14. …THANK YOU