This full-day launch event will feature panel discussions with Workforce Realigned authors, who will share their insights into innovative, outcomes-based programs and models of workforce training and development from around the country.

• 9:30am–5:00pm ET – Program
• 5:00pm–6:00pm ET – Networking Reception

A video recording will be made available after the event concludes.

Please contact institute@socialfinance.org with any questions regarding the event.

Location

Reagan Building & International Trade Center
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington D.C. 20004

Joining us from out of town?

Reserve your hotel room in our discounted block at the
Washington Marriott at Metro Center.

Press/Media inquiries

Please email communications@socialfinance.org

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8:30 a.m. Registration Opens

9:30 a.m. Welcome Remarks
Tracy Palandjian, Co-Founder and CEO, Social Finance
Karen Anderson, Managing Director, Social Finance Institute

9:45 a.m. Author Roundtable: Shifting Risk and Stretching Funding
Tara Colton, Chief Economic Security Officer, New Jersey Economic Development Authority
Hector Mujica, Head of Economic Opportunity, Google.org
Jeannie Virden, Chief People Officer, Central Health
Kirstin Hill, President and COO, Social Finance (moderator)

10:30 a.m. Author Roundtable: Different Approaches to Pay for Success
Michael Bettersworth, Senior Vice Chancellor and Chief Marketing Officer, Texas State Technical College
Xavier de Souza Briggs, Senior Fellow, Brookings Metro
Ashley Putnam, Director of the Economic Growth & Mobility Project, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Randall Stamper, Associate Vice Chancellor for Career Education and Workforce Programs, Virginia Community College System
Jake Edwards, Vice President of Impact Investments, Social Finance (moderator)

11:30 a.m. Break

12:00 p.m. Luncheon Discussion: Opportunities for Economic Mobility
Cecilia Elena Rouse, President, The Brookings Institution
Margaret Spellings, President and CEO, Bipartisan Policy Center
Eduardo Porter, Columnist and Editorial Board Member, The Washington Post (moderator)

12:45 p.m. Break

1:00 p.m. Talk: Using Evidence to Improve Workforce Training Outcomes
Lawrence F. Katz, Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics, Harvard University

1:30 p.m. Author Roundtable: Scaling “Earn and Learn” Models
Jeremy Bernard-Sasges, Analyst, Achieve Partners
John Colborn, Executive Director, Apprenticeships for America
Julianne Dunn, Senior Program Officer, Rural LISC
Amelia Nickerson, CEO, First Step Staffing
David Socolow, Head of Policy, Social Finance Institute (moderator)

2:30 p.m. Break

3:00 p.m. Author Roundtable: Trends and Opportunities in Workforce Development
Kate Bahn, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of Research, Institute for Women’s Policy Research
Kristen Broady, Director of the Economic Mobility Project, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Claire Casey, President, AARP Foundation
Sarah Miller, Principal Advisor on Community & Economic Development, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Karen Anderson, Managing Director, Social Finance Institute (moderator)

4:00 p.m. Closing Plenary: Tackling the Talent Gap: A Conversation on Community Colleges and the U.S. Workforce
Tom Barkin, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Tracy Palandjian, Co-founder and CEO, Social Finance (facilitator)

4:45 p.m. Wrap-up and Adjournment

5:00 p.m. Networking Reception