BEA Regional Outreach: Building New Alliances Robert L. Brown AUBER Annual Conference Bellingham, WA October 12, 2008 BEAs Strategic Objective with Customers Make BEA more responsive to the needs of its customers and partners by: Sustaining and enhancing BEAs external communications Providing opportunities for user feedback Regional Program Outreach Efforts Provide innovations/future improvements Present research, products, and training at conferences Expand on partnerships with customers Provide Regional Innovations Accelerated release of estimates New products produced More data released Research results released Graphics and mapping provided Provide Future Improvements Accelerating release of county personal income Making GDP for metropolitan areas permanent Present Research, Products, Training at Conferences Presentations Current products Research projects Participation in Organizations Special sessions RIMS II training workshops Expand Partnerships With Customers All day workshops on BEA regional accounts C2ER (ACCRA) and Washington State U. organized BEA and guest speakers on the regional accounts More active participation with select organizations AUBER, NABE, PNREC, C2ER, Brookings Teleconference with NABE on GDP for metro areas Expand PartnershipsCont. BEAPNREAPUniversity economic research bureau workshops BEA provides overview of regional PNREAP provides free computer-derived analytics of BEA regional data University units discuss their value-added Tailored products for the local communities ForecastsOutlookImpact analyses Benefits of PNREAP/University BER/BEA Workshops All sponsors benefit Reaches new audience More interactive with audience Next Step BEA sponsored day-long workshop With Central Washington U./PNREAP and other university host