The 2017 California Economic Summit Playbook is your policy guide for this year’s Summit in San Diego. The Playbook tracks progress to date and begins to define a fuller prosperity agenda aimed at improving California’s triple bottom line.

This year’s gathering will expand beyond the Summit’s One Million Challenges to include other critical components of a comprehensive strategy for economic growth—supporting people, profit, and the planet. The 2017 Summit’s major theme, Elevate CA, will frame vital conversations and will focus the gathering on addressing new imperatives: reducing income inequality, increasing economic security, bolstering wealth generation, and restoring upward mobility.

This effort includes three strategic elements, which will be the centerpiece of discussion:

• Human Development
• Affordable, Equitable, and Sustainable Communities
• Quality Job Creation Strategies

The 2017 California Economic Summit in San Diego offers a chance to identify priorities and utilize a statewide network that, over the last six years, has advanced more investments in workforce, innovations in infrastructure finance, and a policy framework big enough to take on the housing crisis.

The next step toward elevating CA is developing a unifying vision—and a more comprehensive strategy—to lift all communities into prosperity, be they in populous coastal metros, fast-growing inland regions, or one of the state’s distinctive rural areas.