The Midwest Builders Show® & Conference welcomes Glen Hiemstra to the 5th Anniversary Show!

The Midwest Builders Show® & Conference Committee is pleased to announce that the Wednesday March 21st Keynote has been secured. Glen Hiemstra will be discussing the future and how your company can succeed! Here is some information from Glen's bio posted on Futurist.com:

Glen Hiemstra is the founder and owner of Futurist.com. An internationally respected futurist, Glen has advised professional, business, and governmental organizations for two decades. In August 2006 John Wiley & Sons published Glen's new book Turning the Future into Revenue. Previously, he co-authored Strategic Leadership: Achieving Your Preferred Future.

Glen is a popular speaker who focuses on emerging trends in science, technology, economics, demographics, energy, the environment, and transportation. An expert in preferred future planning, Glen goes beyond simple trend analysis to discuss the opportunity that we have to shape the future.

Over the years he has worked with many leading companies including Microsoft, Boeing, Hewlett Packard, Ernst & Young, PaineWebber, ShareBuilder, and Novartis.

Mr. Hiemstra has also served as a technical advisor for futuristic television programs. He has worked with Steven Bochco Productions and is presently consulting on programs that are in development. He has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, US News & World Report, The Futurist, and the Los Angeles Times.

In a first career, Glen was an award-winning educator at Whitworth College and serves as a Visiting Scholar at the Human Interface Technology Lab at the University of Washington, which works on virtual and augmented reality technology.

The 5th Annual Midwest Builders Show will be held March 21 & 22, 2007 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont. For more information and a full conference schedule, please visit our website, www.midwestbuildersshow.com.

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