Kevin Long, director of policy and planning at Montgomery College, will walk through best practices for using Analyst to identify new program opportunities and research marketable skills.

with Kevin Long, Montgomery College

Explore how a leading workforce board uses data and research to understand its region's labor market needs and the performance of key industries to better serve employers and jobseekers.

with Milena Kornyl, Anne Arundel Workforce Development Corporation

TIP Strategies' Caroline Alexander will detail how she and her colleagues display labor market and economic trends with Tableau. This will be a hands-on tutorial for novice and intermediate Tableau users.

with Caroline Alexander, TIP Strategies

In this session, attendees will learn workflows and tips for using student outcomes data from Alumni Insight to analyze graduate outcomes, engage with employers, target key graduates, and more.

Emsi's CEO, Andrew Crapuchettes, will open up the conference by highlighting the central theme of bringing people, education, and employers to the table to discuss the future workforce. Hear about the exciting developments and projects underway at Emsi.

The keynote and panel discussion will consider the changing trends in talent initiatives for business and how communities and education respond to those needs.

University of Hawaii Community College System's new web-based sector-mapping tool provides an organized real-time look into the relationship between academic and economic alignment. Drawn from Emsi’s database but filtered through UHCC’s custom portal, this site looks at the major sectors of the economy and the details of every job inside those sectors. It provides crucial data on current and projected demand data, as well as on whether the academic units are over or under producing, plus more. With one click, you can see our heat-mapped economy with an overlay of where the system has programs and where opportunities exist that are as yet unaddressed.

with Peter Quigley and Paul Sakomoto, University of Hawaii Community Colleges

Learn how the San Diego Workforce Partnership (San Diego County’s Workforce Development Board) uses labor market research to develop programs with employers. By combining both research and business programs into one department, SDWP capitalizes on warm employer leads from their labor market research to develop sector-specific strategies with and for employers. SDWP conducts research with employers and develops business-led customized training programs, Hiring at Happy Hour events, and social enterprises. All SDWP business services are driven by labor market R&D.

with Tina Ngo Bartel and Sarah Burns, San Diego Workforce Partnership

Listen to Allstate's approach to finding and growing the next generation of talent development.

with Bruce Evans, Emsi, Lee Semmes, Emsi, Lesley Rood, Allstate, and Meta McKinney, Allstate

Pima College will demonstrate how they focused on the critical relationship between courses, job postings, and alumni data to support student outreach and program development in Arizona.

with Gordon Freedman, Nic Richmond, and Ian Roark, Pima Community College

Hector Acosta will discuss the unicorn IT candidates that employers are hunting for, and how he and his colleagues at Worksystems, Inc. use Emsi and other data sources to prove that those candidates don't exist. Take away recommendations on what you can do to help local employers alleviate their IT needs.

with Hector Acosta, Worksystems

Follow along as JLL describes the key role labor market research plays in corporate site-selection decisions. See the critical talent metrics and techniques that influence which regions will make the top of companies' lists.

with Dr. Wayne Gearey, Jones Lang LaSalle

Vince Giovannini will walk through the innovative ways that the Town of Gilbert uses Emsi data to understand which industries to target and then successfully market its region to prospective businesses in those industries.

with Vince Giovannini, Gilbert, Arizona

Learn how companies are leveraging Emsi workforce diversity data to set expectations, find the diverse talent they need, and benchmark performance against the broader market.

with Brendan O'Neill, CareerBuilder

Following up from a full day of discussing key workforce trends and issues, the second day's panel will focus on actionable items you can take home to your business, college, or community to put in place.

with Tieming Lin, University of Washington

David Snipes, manager of the Montgomery County (Ohio) Business Solutions Center, will discuss the creative ways that Dayton-area leaders have come together to engage businesses and address their talent needs as well as help dislocated workers in the process.

with David Snipes, Montgomery County

We will end the conference with a panel of Emsi's executives highlighting how you can apply the data and conference discussions to the various areas of employers, education, and economic and workforce development. Hear how each team at Emsi is addressing the core issue to provide a more wholistic approach to planning, training and hiring the future workforce.

with Andrew Crapuchettes CEO, John Pernsteiner VP of Economic and Workforce Development, and Bruce Evans VP of Talent Strategy