Speaker Spotlight: Errin Welty, Senior Downtown Development Director, Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation

Monday–Tuesday, March 30–31, 2026 | Havenwood Event Center | Sparta, WI

Errin Welty, CEcD, EDFP

Senior Downtown Development Director

Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation

Errin Welty is the Senior Director of Downtown Development at WEDC, working primarily with Main Street and Connect Communities which comprise more than 130 passionate places around the state. She loves working with businesses, property owners and community groups around the state to foster economic and socially vibrant districts.

Errin has an undergraduate degree in community development from St. Cloud State and a Masters in Planning and Real Estate from the University of Colorado in Denver.

Previous experience includes work in downtown organizations in St. Cloud, Wheat Ridge and Denver, as well as commercial real estate, market analysis and economic development consulting work.

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