Destination

Oakland is a renaissance city with a sense of history and style. Its robust economy and fertile multicultural landscape makes it a prime destination. One of the country's top seaports and the commercial heart of the Bay Area, Oakland has it all: great weather, world-class arts and entertainment, top-flight restaurants and hotels.

Oakland is rich in cultural heritage. The area was once the home of the Ohlone Indians and later the heart of 44,000-acre Peralta rancho, established through a Spanish land grant. Oakland was the western terminus of the first transcontinental railroad and a refuge after the 1906 earthquake. During both world wars, the city was an important base for defense contractors; now it's a haven for high tech and the arts and the home to a growing movement of culinary pioneers. 

Tucked between the waters of San Francisco Bay and the verdant coastal hills, Oakland is the Bay Area's true temperate zone. Everyone loves the year-round vacation weather where temperatures hovers between 50 - 60 in the winter and spring and remain in the 70's throughout the summer and fall. Oakland's proximity to San Francisco makes it an ideal location for the AEI 2011 Conference.  

Join us March 30 - April 2, 2011.