Future Louisiana: Ideas for Leadership

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3Sep 2025
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Hilton Capitol Center • Baton Rouge, LA
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Ideas summit for Louisianians to come together to discuss issues impacting the future of our state.

Leaders for a Better Louisiana is creating a new 2-day conference to bring leaders together to explore big ideas for our future. It will be held Tuesday September 2 and Wednesday September 3 at the Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center. Having merged CABL and C100, we are building on both of our organizations’ Annual Meetings to create this new, exciting event entitled

Future Louisiana: Ideas for Leadership, featuring great speakers from around the country.

Speakers

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Ted Abernathy

MANAGING PARTNER OF ECONOMIC LEADERSHIP, LLC

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Matt Candler

FOUNDER, 4.0 SCHOOLS; GP: BATTERIES INCLUDED FUND

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Arthur Soroken

CO-FOUNDER, GOOGLE LABS AI FUTURES FUND

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Nic Lalla

AUTHOR, REINVENTING THE HEARTLAND

Agenda

September 2, 2025

Louisiana’s Old State Capitol

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM – Conference Reception

September 3, 2025

Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center

7:30-8:30 Registration & Networking

8:30 Welcome Remarks

8:45 Ted Abernathy

9:30 Break

9:45 Matt Candler

10:45 Arthur Soroken

11:30 Break

12:00 Lunch with Keynote Nic Lalla

1:30 Closing remarks

Sponsors

Signature

The Adams and Reese logo features "ADAMS & REESE" in blue with a bold red ampersand—symbolizing leadership ideas for Future Louisiana.
B1BANK logo with a blue lowercase "b" containing an orange dot, a blue "1," and the word "BANK" in dark blue uppercase letters.
The Entergy logo features a stylized lowercase "e" in red and purple gradient, followed by the word "entergy" in black text.
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Presenting

First Horizon logo with a white star on a blue and red background, next to the words "First Horizon" in blue capital letters.
Logo for JD Bank with "Louisiana's Community Bank" written in green text below the main bank name.
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A red oval logo with white text reads "Family Owned Community Coffee Est. 1919.
CLECO logo featuring blue text and green rays above the letters, with the tagline “Energizing Your Tomorrow” below the company name.