10:00 am WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

Stephanie Powers, Chief Executive Officer, National Association of Workforce Boards

10:10 am-11:00 am DEMOGRAPHIC, TECHNOLOGICAL AND PRODUCTIVITY CHANGES AND THE WORKPLACE OF TOMORROW

Moderator: Greg Junemann, President, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers; chair, Committee on the Evolution of Professional Careers for the Dept. of Professional Employees, AFL-CIO

Presenter: Lynn A. Karoly, Senior Economist, Rand Corporation; co-author (with Constantijn W. A. Panis) of The 21st Century at Work.

General Discussion

11:00 am-12:00 pm THE ROLE OF PARTNERSHIPS

Moderator: Eugenia Kemble, Executive Director, Albert Shanker Institute

Stephanie Powers, Chief Executive Officer, National Association of Workforce Board
How small businesses are responding to the changes.

Saul Rubinstein, Associate Professor, Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations
Lessons from the experience of partnerships in the U.S.; the British learning representative model.

Paul Almeida, President, Department of Professional Employees, AFL-CIO
What polling is telling us about what professionals want with respect to 1) professional and career development, 2) the expertise to do a good job, 3) training, partnership inclinations, etc.

12:00 pm GENERAL DISCUSSION AND BUFFET LUNCH

(note that all participants except Lynn Karoly are members of the NEIS/Shanker Institute Task Force on Workforce Development and participated in a trip to study these issues in the U.K.)