A U.S. Chamber of Commerce representative on Monday briefed a gathering of Tulsa Regional Chamber volunteer leaders on what to expect from President-elect Donald Trump and the new Republican-controlled Congress in 2025 and beyond. Former Sapulpan Neil Bradley, executive vice president, chief policy officer and head of strategic advocacy for the U.S. more»

Close to 1,300 people, a record for a Tulsa Regional Chamber State of the City event, filled a Cox Business Convention Center ballroom on Thursday to pay tribute to Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum. In his eighth and final State of the City address, Bynum spent 36 minutes describing his community in innovative, challenging, proud -- and sometimes emotional -- more»

Drone technology in the Ukraine has grown exponentially since Russia invaded the country in February 2022, a Ukrainian official told the Tulsa Regional Chamber’s Aerospace Council last week. Before Russia’s attack, only about a dozen drone companies operated in Ukraine, said Vitalii Tarasiuk, Consul General of Ukraine in Houston. Now, that more»

The Tulsa Regional Chamber’s HR Forum hit the road for its third and final gathering of the year. About 20 attendees participated Thursday in a bus tour providing a firsthand look at a George Kaiser Family Foundation initiative called InvestNorth. InvestNorth is a collaborative effort to drive transformational opportunities in historically Black, more»

A thought-intensive process that started in August and mobilized seven task forces that met a total of 21 times culminated Thursday at the Tulsa Regional Chamber’s OneVoice Regional Legislative Summit. Before about 225 people at Venue 918, collaborators and partners representing the OneVoice advocacy initiative settled on 30 legislative priorities more»

Close to 30 employers participated Monday in the Tulsa Regional Chamber’s first Workforce and Talent Council meeting at the Chamber offices. The Workforce and Talent Council, which will meet twice a year and next on Nov. 19, joins three other Chamber economic development councils: Manufacturers’ (which started in 2012), Aerospace (2020) and more»

The fact that Oklahoma’s marketing budget, at roughly $5.75 million, is about one-fifth the size of Arkansas’s doesn’t sit well with Oklahoma Lt. Gov. Matt Pinnell. “I’m getting really sick and tired of our legislature not moving on that,” Pinnell said Tuesday at the Tulsa Regional Chamber’s Leadership Retreat at more»

Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum’s address on Tuesday to a roomful of local business representatives was largely a 30-minute love letter to the Tulsa Regional Chamber and the way the nonprofit does its job. “Pretty much all the major achievements of which I am most proud that our community has been able to accomplish in the eight years that I’ve more»