Building the Future of California Talent Symposium

Join us for a talent Symposium in San Francisco

Building the Future of California Talent Symposium

Monday, January 27, 2020at 8:00 AM-
Monday, January 27, 2020at 8:00 PM

San Francisco, CA

In Person

The Bay Area Council and Pearson are honored to host employers and
educators throughout the state of California for a Symposium, Building
the Future of California Talent. Together, we’ll explore innovative
approaches to prepare today and tomorrow's learners for jobs.

The Bay Area Council and Pearson are honored to host employers and educators throughout the state of California for a Symposium, Building the Future of California Talent. Together, we’ll explore innovative approaches to prepare today and tomorrow's learners for jobs.

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Overview

As you learn about the changes in job skills for your talent and ways of collaboration between employers and educators, at The Exploratorium on Pier 15, you will be the leaders to bridge the gap for hiring local talent.

Throughout the day, attendees will actively engage in conversations about:

skills — current and future — that students will need to succeed
innovations that are transforming jobs and industries
how automation and artificial intelligence are changing labor demographics

Who should attend?

This invitation-only event will bring together leaders from California’s K-12, higher education, non-profit, and corporate communities charged with developing talent for changing needs in the state’s workforce.

What will you learn?

The program will address key opportunities for targeted talent development in California’s innovation economy, including:

Displacement: Proactively identifying trends and changes in labor demographics as a result of automation and artificial intelligence.
Marketing and recruitment: Determining hiring best practices in a non-traditional, high-innovation economy.
Soft skills/power skills: Cultivating interpersonal and problem-solving skills that are learned through team building and cooperation.
Upskilling and re-skilling: Investing in the existing and future workforce at all points of a learner’s career by providing them with resources to meet changing workforce demands.
Alignment: Fostering a collaborative effort to provide solutions that leverage resources from all stakeholders in the learner ecosystem.

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Thank you to our sponsors

Agenda At-A-Glance*


8:30–9:15 a.m.	Welcome breakfast
9:15–10:30 a.m.	Opening remarks & general session
10:30–10:45 a.m.	Break
10:45 a.m.–12:00 p.m.	General session
12:00–1:00 p.m.	Lunch
1:00–2:15 p.m.	Breakout sessions (3)
2:15–2:30 p.m.	Break
2:30–3:00 p.m.	Next steps & adjourn

*Agenda subject to change

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Speakers

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Asha Choksi

Head of Global Research and Insights
Pearson

Asha Choksi joined Pearson in 2016 and currently heads up Global Research and Insights for Pearson. Before joining Pearson, she spent the last two decades in insights-based strategy and communications for clients ranging from Microsoft to MasterCard, with a strong focus in how technology is transforming consumer-led brands.

Lenny Mendonca

Lenny Mendonca is the Chief Economic and Business Advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom and Director of the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz). He is a Senior Partner Emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a Lecturer on Inequality at the Stanford Business School.

He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice. He also oversaw their knowledge development, Chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and the Firm's communications, including the McKinsey Quarterly. He served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (its Board of Directors). He retired in from McKinsey in 2014.

He was formerly the Chair of New America and Children Now, co-Chair of California Forward, and co-founder and Chair of Fusecorps. He was the Vice-Chair of Common Cause. He is the Chair Emeritus of the Bay Area Council and their Economic Institute, and was vice-chair of the Stanford GSB Advisory Council. He was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.

He served on the boards of Fidelity Charitable, Western Governors University, UC Merced, The Educational Results Partnership, The College Futures Foundation, California Competes, The Opportunity Institute, Commonwealth Club, National Association of NonPartisan Reformers, and The Guardian.org. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Board of Trustees for Junior Statesmen of America, and the Advisory Boards of Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, Third Sector Capital, The CA Community College Chancellor's Office, and the Public Policy Institute of California.

He received his MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford. He holds an AB, magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard.

He lives on the Half Moon Bay coast with his wife, Christine. They raised their two daughters, Allie and Rebecca, there and are the founders and owners of the Half Moon Bay Brewing Company, The Inn at Mavericks and the Pacific Standard Taproom. He is also Chair and primary owner of the Coastside News Group (Half Moon Bay Review).

Aneesh Raman

Aneesh Raman is senior advisor on strategy and external affairs at the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development. Raman has spent the last five years in the tech industry, most recently as head of economic and social impact at Facebook. From 2009-2013, he held multiple positions in the Obama Administration, including as a domestic policy speechwriter to President Barack Obama and as speechwriter to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner during a historic financial crisis. Raman started his career as a CNN correspondent, first in Southeast Asia and then in the Middle East, where he spent over a year as a war correspondent in Iraq. A graduate of Harvard, Raman is a former Fulbright scholar, term member at the Council on Foreign Relations and is a member of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library’s New Frontier Award Committee.

Hotel

With more than 300 hotels and lodging options in San Francisco, you are sure to find an amazing place to stay. Here are a few hotels near the Exploratorium to help you get started on your research.

Transportation

View the Exploratorium’s location and directions page for information about arriving by car, public transportation, or ferry.

Parking

The museum partners with SP+ to offer a discount using the code 1234000 at these lots: Exploratorium Pier 15 Parking Lot and Pier 19 ½ Parking Lot.

$15 flat rate

Please note: Lots are not owned or operated by the Exploratorium. All parking is subject to availability.

You can purchase discounted parking at both lots in one of two ways:

Give the discount code 1234000 to the parking attendant.
Pay at a ticket kiosk in the parking lot. Enter the discount code 1234000 at the kiosk.

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