The Event

At Greater Sacramento’s ‘Extend Your Runway’ launch event, you will have an exclusive first look at several of the campaign’s creative video concepts, and will hear first-hand from leaders of companies that are featured in the campaign. The event is complimentary, and will include opportunities for networking and a selection of heavy hors d’oeuvres.

The Agenda

• Welcome Remarks: Barry Broome, President and CEO, Greater Sacramento
• Opening Remarks: Darrell Steinberg, Mayor, City of Sacramento
• Opening Remarks: Special Guest to Be Announced
• Operating as a Megaregion: Jim Wunderman, President and CEO, Bay Area Council
• Extend Your Runway Panel Sesssion - Moderated by: Hardeep Gulati, Chief Executive Officer, PowerSchool Group Panelists:500 Statups, TBA; Manan Mehta, Unshackled Ventures; Garrett Larsson, Rhombus Systems; Sheri Atwood, SupportPay; Lokesh Sikaria, Moneta Ventures
• One Cohesive Market: Barry Broome
• Networking

The Campaign

The Greater Sacramento Economic Council has launched "Extend Your Runway," a new marketing campaign in the San Francisco Bay Area to attract technology companies in the scale-up phase to the Greater Sacramento region. The campaign targets CEOs of growing technology companies to position the benefits of relocation or expansion to Greater Sacramento. Creative messaging features successful technology companies that are maximizing the region's key attributes of highly specialized talent, cost-effective growth, and access to capital and key resources from throughout the Northern California Megaregion. The campaign features several successful regional companies, including: Powerschool Group, Aperion Data Systems, Evolve Biosystems, Support Pay, and Origin Materials