The Greater Omaha Chamber’s prestigious annual membership meeting is where the previous Chamber’s Board Chair recaps the accomplishments of the prior year, the Chamber’s President and CEO unveils the annual report and priorities and direction for the current calendar year, and the new Board Chair is installed.

The Chamber also honors award winners who have contributed to Omaha’s community betterment. The awards are presented during the meeting. The Omaha Chamber is honored to recognize:

• Chair’s Award of Excellence
• Dedicated Service Award
• Headliner of the Year
• Volunteer of the Year

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TICKETS

More Sponsorship Opportunities are available, contact Events@OmahaChamber.org for more information.

By Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, all attendees must be registered using their own primary email address.

Reservations are due by Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM. No refunds for cancellations will be granted after this date. 

4 – 5:30 PM     
Annual Meeting Program

5:30 PM    
Networking Reception

Bruce Katz
Co-Founder, New Localism Advisors

Bruce Katz is the Co-Founder (with Jeremy Nowak) of New Localism Advisors. Katz regularly advises global, national, state, regional and municipal leaders on public reforms and private innovations that advance the well-being of metropolitan areas and their countries.

Katz is the co-author of The New Localism: How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism (Brookings Institution Press, 2018) and The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy (Brookings Institution Press, 2013). Both books focus on the rise of cities and city networks as the world’s leading problem solvers.

Katz was the inaugural Centennial Scholar at the Brookings Institution from January 2016 to March 2018, where he focused on the challenges and opportunities of global urbanization. Prior to assuming this role, Bruce J. Katz was a vice president at the Brookings Institution and founding Director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program.

Before joining Brookings, Katz served as chief of staff to U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros and was the senior counsel and then staff director for the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs. After the 2008 presidential election, Bruce co-led the housing and urban transition team for the Obama administration and served as a senior advisor to new Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Secretary Shaun Donovan, for the first 100 days of the Administration.

Katz is a visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. He gives dozens of lectures and presentations annually before public, corporate, civic and university audiences across the world. In 2006, he received the prestigious Heinz Award in Public Policy for his contributions to understanding the “function and values of cities and metropolitan areas and profoundly influencing their economic vitality, livability and sustainability.” Katz is a graduate of Brown University and Yale Law School.