2023 ACG ASA Feb 28th Lunch

Event Details

When:

February 28, 2023 11:30 AM - 1 PM CST

Where:

Location Name

Fleming's Prime Steakhouse at Quarry Market

Location Address

255 East Basse Road
San Antonio, TX 78209
United States

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Sorry, this event is now SOLD OUT and we no longer accept day-of registrations or walk-ins. Only individuals who received registration confirmation emails will have a seat at this lunch.

ACG ASA is partnering with TMA Central Texas to present this event. Our featured speaker will be Luis Torres, Senior Business Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. This lunch is being sponsored by Calvetti Ferguson.

Seating will be limited! Register early for discounted rates. Now until 12Noon on Wed. Feb. 22nd: ACG Member Rate @ $50./Non-Member Rate @ $85. Late Registration Rates begin @ 12:01PM on Wed. Feb. 22nd thru 5PM on Mon. Feb. 27th: ACG Member Rate @ $60./Non-Member Rate @ $95. We will no longer accept day-of registrations or walk-ins. Only individuals who register by the aforementioned deadlines (or until we sell out) will have a seat at this lunch.

Location: Fleming's Prime Steakhouse at Quarry Market, 255 E Basse, San Antonio, TX 78209.

Cancellation Policy – Cancellations received in writing to acgasa@acg.org by 5PM the day before the event will receive a full refund. There are no refunds for cancellations received after 5PM the day before the event. If you are an ACG Member unable to attend, you can transfer your registration to another person for this same event. If the person attending in your place is not an ACG Member, they will need to pay an additional fee to bring them up to the non-member rate to attend.  

ACG Austin/San Antonio reserves the right to fill open seats at the event venues once the networking period has passed and the official event programming has begun. In rare instances this could mean that registered attendees arriving late will not have a seat readily available upon their arrival. In these instances ACG Austin/San Antonio will work to accommodate the attendee, and if not able to do so to the attendee's satisfaction, ACG Austin/San Antonio will refund their registration fee.

Your registration for this event acts as an audio/video release and includes your permission for ACG Austin/San Antonio to use your image and comments captured on audio, video or photographic formats while attending the event for marketing and promotional purposes.

If you have questions or need last minute assistance, please email Sara Singer, ACG Austin/San Antonio Chapter Executive @ acgasa@acg.org or send a text to 512-970-0147.

Speakers

Luis Torres

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Senior Business Economist

Luis Torres joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in March 2022 as a senior business economist. Based out of the San Antonio Branch, Torres performs research and analysis on issues impacting Texas—specifically Central and South Texas—as well as Mexico and the border region. Torres received his bachelor’s degree in economics from the Monterrey Institute of Technology in Mexico. He received a master’s in economics from the University of Texas at El Paso, where his dissertation received honors. He later earned a scholarship to participate in the American Economic Association’s PhD Summer Minority Program. His PhD is from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he specialized in international economics and econometrics. During his doctoral studies, he worked at the El Paso Branch of the Dallas Fed. From 1995 to 2012, he was with Banco de México in the research and institutional liaison departments. Prior to joining the Fed, he served as a research economist at the Texas Real Estate Research Center at Texas A&M University, studying regional economies, developing economic indicators and researching real estate markets.

Torres has taught classes and seminars at U.S. and Mexican universities as well as in national and international forums. He has published articles in academic and nonacademic publications about regional economies, international economics, real estate, trade and applied econometrics.

Hosted by: ACG

Chapter

Austin/San Antonio