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Central Valley Workforce Summit Slides
April 16, 2024
All sessions are listed in Pacific Time.
Registration and breakfast is served
8:00 a.m.
Welcome
8:30 a.m.
Brent Orrell, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Adam Peck, Executive Director, Workforce Investment Board of Tulare County
Panel 1 - Central Valley Workforce Vital Signs
8:40 a.m.
Brent Orrell, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Josh Wright, Executive Vice President, Education and Government, Lightcast
Greg Wright, Associate Professor, UC Merced
Panel 2 - Skills Training: What Works?
9:40 a.m.
Richard Hendra, Director, Center for Data Insights, MDRC
Kadeem Noray, Research Associate, Harvard University
Ben Wildavsky, Visiting Scholar, University of Virginia
Break
10:50 a.m.
Panel 3 - Building a Stronger, More Inclusive Workforce System
11:00 a.m.
Matthew Amidon, Contractor, American Enterprise Institute
Mason Bishop, Nonresident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Anne Kim, Senior Fellow, FutureEd
Ken Troske, Richard W. and Janis H. Furst Endowed Chair, Gatton College of Economics and Business
Lunch is served
12:15 p.m.
Lunch Discussion - Rural America: Challenges and Opportunities
12:30 p.m.
Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, James Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional Planning, University of Southern California
Tony Pipa, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Panel 4 - The Future of the Agriculture Workforce
1:30 p.m.
Vincent Smith, Nonresident Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Daniel Sumner, Frank H. Buck Jr. Distinguished Professor, UC Davis
Break
2:20 p.m.
Local Respondent Panel
2:30 p.m.
Adjournment
3:30 p.m.