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| Monday,
October 9 |
| 4:00–6:00 pm |
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Registration |
| 5:00-6:00 pm |
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Opening
Reception |
| 6:00-8:30 pm |
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| Dinner and Kickoff Plenary: Setting the Stage |
Presentations:  Gunderson
- Welcome: Charleta Tavares, Columbus City
Council, and Board President, Community Research Partners
- Opening
Remarks: Chad P. Wick, President
& CEO, KnowledgeWorks Foundation
- Introduction:
Douglas
F. Kridler, President & CEO, The Columbus Foundation
- Keynote Speaker: Steve Gunderson, President, Council on
Foundations and author of The Jobs Revolution: Changing How
America Works
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| Tuesday,
October 10 |
| 7:45-8:30 am |
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Registration and
Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30-9:00 am |
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| Welcome |
- Senator Ray Miller, Ohio Senate
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| The Ohio Landscape |
Presentations:  Garber
- Roberta F. Garber, Executive Director,
Community Research Partners
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| 9:00-10:30 am |
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| Morning Plenary: Issues and Possibilities |
Presentations: Gallagher White
- Introduction:
Janet
Jackson , President, United Way of Central Ohio
- Moderator:
Brian
Gallagher, President, United Way of America
- Dr. Jesse L. White, Jr., Director,
Office of Economic and Business Development, University of North
Carolina
- Phyllis Eisen, Vice President, The
Manufacturing Institute & Executive Director, Center for Workforce
Success
- Representative
Shawn
N. Webster, Ohio House of Representatives
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| 10:30-10:45 am |
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Break |
| 10:45 am-12:00 pm |
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Solutions
Workshops: 8 concurrent sessions
Successful
economic and workforce development policies, programs, and practices
from across Ohio and the nation |
| 12:00-1:30 pm |
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| Lunch
and Ohio Gubernatorial Candidates Forum |
- Introduction:
Jacqueline
Williams , Executive Director, The Ohio Tuition Trust Authority
- Congressman
Ted
Strickland
- Secretary
of State Ken Blackwell
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| Participant
Straw Poll |
- Three
things the next governor should do to invest in Ohio’s workers
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| 1:30-1:45 pm |
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Break |
| 1:45-3:00 pm |
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Solutions
Workshops: 8 concurrent sessions |
| 3:00-4:15 pm |
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| Concluding Plenary: Where We Go From Here |
| Conference summary and commentary and next steps |
- Moderator:
Reginald
Wilkinson, Executive Director, Ohio Business Alliance for Higher
Education and the Economy
- Neal Peirce, Washington Post Writers
Group and The Citistates Group
- Mary Jo Waits, Director, Pew Center on
the States
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