Kansas Workforce Summit 14th Annual Kansas Workforce Summit Energizing Education, Economic Development and Employment: Preparing Tomorrow’s Leaders in a Rapidly Changing Workplace January 21-22, 2015 Capitol Plaza Hotel • Sunflower BallRoom Topeka, KS AGENDA * SPEAKERS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE * DAY 1 (January 21) Pre-Conference Meetings (as organized by individual committes) 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 - Both Invited 12:45 p.m. Break and Exhibit Visitation 1:00 p.m. Meeting Demand, Challenging Demand Matthew Sigelman, CEO, Burning Glass Technologies,will discuss how real-time labor information and “big data” analytics give workforce agencies and educators unprecedented insight into the job market. With this information, these key players can understand the real gaps and inefficiencies in the market and answer the Workforce Investment & Opportunity Act’s (WIOA) call to align their programs to meet employer demand. But there’s also an opportunity to challenge demand as well. In many cases, the strategies employers use to hire workers are inefficient and even self-defeating. Workforce agencies and educators can leverage this more specific awareness of demand to flag opportunities to make the job market work better for employers and workers alike. 2:00 p.m. ITC - Who We Are, What We Do, and the Skills We Need Now and in the Future Kevin Burke, Vice President of Human Resources and Chief Human Resources Officer, ITC Holdings, Inc., will discuss how ITC fits into the electricity transmission grid, how the transmission business works, the importance of veteran placement services in their control room, and the skills and education required in the energy field now and in the future. 3:00 p.m. Break and Exhibit Visitation 3:15 p.m. WIOA – Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act: The New Federal Workforce Plan Danielle Waddell, Federal Project Officer, Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration; David Brennan, Executive Director, Heartland Works (LWIB II); Criss Mayfield, KANSASWORKS State Board; Greg Burden, Kansas Commission on Veterans’ Affairs; and Blake Flanders, Vice President, KBOR Workforce Development, will discuss the new WIOA legislation and how it will effect employment and training. 4:15 p.m. Break and Exhibit Visitation 4:30 p.m. The Hutchinson Project Dave Hansen, Kansas University; Matt Krehbiel, KSDE; Lance Patterson, Hutchinson Boys & Girls Club; Eric Brown, Salina Area Chamber of Commerce; and Dan Klucas, Kansas Department for Children and Families will present an overview of how business and industry are offering internships and job shadowing experiences for high school credit. 5:45 p.m. Reflections from Day 1 Eddie Estes 6:00 p.m. Reception, Cash Bar and Exhibit Visitation 6:30 p.m. Kansas Celebration Banquet sponsored by the Kansas Department of Commerce Michael Copeland Midwestern Higher Education Compact Presentation Larry Isaak, President Please submit comments and suggestions regarding the 2015 Kansas Workforce Summit to [email protected]. AGENDA * SPEAKERS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE * Day 2 (January 22) 7:15 a.m. Continental Breakfast and Exhibit Visitation 8:00 a.m. The 2015 Legislative Update Pat Roberts, U.S. Senate; Susan Wagle, Kansas Senate President; Garrett Love, Kansas Senate Majority WHIP; Laura Kelly, Kansas Senate; Bud Estes, Kansas House of Representatives; and Barbara Ballard, Kansas House of Representatives — All Invited 8:45 a.m. Applied STEM from the Cosmosphere – A New Universe Dr. Ed Berger, Chair, Kansas Cosmosphere Revitalization Initiatives, and Tracey Tomme, Director of Education, Kansas Cosmosphere, will discuss what the Cosmosphere is doing with applied STEM to address the shortage of engineers. 9:45 a.m. Break and Exhibit Visitation 10:00 a.m. Federal Policy Changes: Opportunities for People with Disabilities Michael Morris, Executive Director, National Disability Institute (NDI) in Washington, D.C. and LEAD Center’s Public Policy Team Co-Lead; Stephen Hall, PhD, Director of Employment Policy & Research, Griffin Hammis Associates and Subject Matter Expert, Office of Disability Employment Policy; and Lisa Mills, Subject Matter Expert, LEAD, will discuss WIOA, Section 503 and other Federal policies that have recently aligned to support employment for people with disabilities. 10:45 a.m. Projected Employment Needs for Kansas Tyler Tenbrink, Senior Labor Economist, Labor Market Information Services, Kansas Department of Labor 11:15 a.m. FireBack Jared Estes, will present a moving, inspirational testimony covering perseverance, attitude, teamwork, networking and refusing to take “no” for an answer. 11:55 a.m. Key Strategies and Commitment Eddie Estes 12:00 p.m. Hit the Hill for Workforce Development PRESENTERS SAM BROWNBACK • Kansas Governor (Invited) Governor Sam Brownback has spent his life in the service of others. He was born in Garnett, Kansas, and raised on the Linn County family farm where his mother and father still live. At Prairie View High School, Brownback was elected state president of Future Farmers of America. His interest in public service continued as he attended Kansas State University. During his senior year at KSU, Sam served as student body president. After graduation, Brownback attended law school at the University of Kansas where he was his class president before completing his law degree in 1982. In 1986, Brownback became the state’s youngest Secretary of the Kansas Department of Agriculture. During his stint as Ag Secretary, he also served as a White House Fellow in the first Bush Administration. At the age of 38, he was elected to represent the 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1996, he was elected to complete the term of U.S. Senator Bob Dole, followed by two more terms of his own. As governor, he is focused on getting the state’s economy growing again through improved regulations, controlled spending, and lower tax rates. Governor Brownback is working with Kansas business and community leaders from across the state as well as current and former state legislators to craft policy solutions. PAT GEORGE • Secretary of Commerce (Invited) Pat George represented the 119th House District in the Kansas House of Representatives for eight years. A true Kansas entrepreneur, he has spent more than 25 years starting and building numerous successful ventures in Southwest Kansas. His business experiences range from his family’s automobile dealership to real estate developments to professional sports. George has a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Benedictine College in addition to attending General Motors School of Automotive Management. MATTHEW SIGELMAN • Burning Glass Technologies Matthew Sigelman is CEO of Burning Glass Technologies. For more than a decade, he has led Burning Glass in harnessing the power of data and analytics to deliver artificial intelligence technologies that have helped fill millions of jobs and provided the data needed to resolve the skills gap. Matt has helped establish Burning Glass as a leading labor market analytics firm that is playing a growing role in informing the global debate on education and the workforce. Burning Glass collects and mines millions of job postings and resumes each day and translates them into a common language in order to map career patterns, flag employer pain points, match people and jobs, and render detailed intelligence on the jobs in greatest demand and the skills required to get them. Burning Glass’s tools power several government workforce systems, are used by millions of job seekers and students each year, and have been shown to have substantive impact on reemployment outcomes and on job market literacy. Matt is consulted frequently by national media, including the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Forbes, NPR, Vox, CBS, Fox News, and the New England Journal of Higher Education; by higher education leaders; by researchers and policy makers; and by the White House. Formerly with Capital One, Mesa Air Group, and McKinsey and Company, Matt also serves on the Board of Directors of The Graduate! Network, a national alliance of regional partnerships achieving outstanding outcomes in adult college completion. He holds an AB from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. KEVIN BURKE • ITC Holdings, Inc. Kevin Burke, Vice President, Human Resources, and Chief Human Resources Officer, is responsible for all human resource functions for ITC. Most recently, Mr. Burke served as Vice President of Human Resources for Global Corporate Functions at Dow Corning Corporation, where he led Human Resources for all global functions including manufacturing, research and development, marketing and sales, and corporate functions. Mr. Burke also served as Vice President of Human Resources for Hemlock Semiconductor, a subsidiary of Dow Corning. He also served as Senior Director of Human Resources and Talent Management for Pulte Homes, Inc., where he provided HR leadership for departments across multiple locations while leading talent management initiatives for approximately 5,000 employees. Additionally, Mr. Burke held Human Resource positions with General Mills and Motorola, Inc., and served as a Labor Relations Representative with General Motors. Mr. Burke holds a Master of Business Administration, Executive MBA from the Kellogg School of