12Th Annual Kansas Workforce Summit
Kansas Workforce Summit 12th Annual Kansas Workforce Summit Taking Education, Economic Development and Employment to the Next Level: Kansas, Are We Ready? January 23-24, 2013 Capitol Plaza Hotel • Sunflower Room Topeka, KS Agenda DAY 1 (January 23) Pre-Conference Meetings (as organized by individual committees) 9:00 a.m. Registration Begins 11:00 a.m. Exhibits Open 12:00 p.m. Opening Plenary Luncheon Governor Sam Brownback and Secretary of Commerce Pat George 1:00 p.m. Break and Exhibit Visitation 1:15 p.m. Connecting the Workforce System, Economic Development & Education - Our Most Critical Task Sunny Ackerman, Vice President and General Manager, Manpower, will discuss what businesses are doing to hire and retain the right talent in a world where 49% of US employers are struggling to fill mission-critical positions. She’ll make connections to how the workforce system, economic development and education can support these evolving talent strategies, creating collaborative relationships and sustainable jobs. 2:15 p.m. Dropout Prevention & School-to-Career Transition Kenneth M. Smith, President and CEO of Jobs for America’s Graduates, Inc. (JAG), will discuss the nation’s largest, most consistently applied model of dropout prevention and school-to-career transition for at-risk and disadvantaged young people. 3:00 p.m. Break and Exhibit Visitation 3:15 p.m. SHRM, NAWB and Local Workforce Investments Boards - How Do We Improve Collaboration? Laurie Moran, Chairman, NAWB Board; Ron Painter, Chief Executive Officer, NAWB; Phillip M. Hayes, Vice President of Human Resource Services and Operations for The Arnold Group (TAG), and Director, Kansas Society for Human Resource Management; and Deb Scheibler, Executive Director, Kansas WorkforceONE will discuss how their members can work more closely together to find the right employees for open positions.
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