The 2023 General Assembly business meeting was followed by a two-part conference: Prosperity and the Power of Place in the Bay Area. Featured speakers included: ABAG President Jesse Arreguin; Tracy Hadden Loh, a Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Transformative Placemaking; Bay Area Council President and CEO Jim Wunderman; Rico, President and CEO, Solano County Economic Development Council; Diane Burgis, Contra Costa Supervisor; Lily Mei, Fremont Mayor; and Todd Pray, Ph.D., Chief Strategic Partnerships Officer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The day concluded with a convivial celebration of ABAG’s diamond anniversary, with cake cut by President Arreguin.