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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Stephane Kasriel

**Chief Executive Officer, Upwork**

As CEO of Upwork (UPWK), the largest freelancing website, and co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the New Social Contract, Stephane is in a unique position to share perspective on trends ranging from the future of work and the evolution of skills to the way education should change. An expert in staffing innovation and remote work, before ascending to be CEO Stephane led a distributed team of engineers as Upwork's SVP of Engineering, helping to drive Upwork’s innovation. In 2018, Stephane took Upwork public, making it the first freelancing website listed publicly in the U.S. and helping cement the company’s role leading positive change in how we work, with the mission of creating more economic opportunity so people have better lives. His book Hire Fast & Build Things details how to use freelancers to power businesses. Stephane holds an MBA from INSEAD, Master’s from Stanford in Computer Science and a BS from Ecole Polytechnique in France. The WEF, Harvard Business Review and CNBC have featured him on topics including the future of work, education, entrepreneurship and leadership.

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).

Van-Ton Quinlivan

Van Ton-Quinlivan is a nationally recognized thought leader in workforce development with experience driving large organizational change. Her distinguished career spans the public, private, and non-profit sectors.

In 2013, Ton-Quinlivan was named White House Champion of Change in recognition of her contributions to education and industry. She received the California Steward Leader Award in 2017 for her dedication to collaboration and her work to align public, private, and civic sector leaders in support of economic and social mobility for state residents. Ton-Quinlivan was included in Sacramento Magazine’s 2018 “Powered by Women” list of leaders inspiring positive change. In 2019, she was named mediaX distinguished visiting scholar by Stanford University.

Ton-Quinlivan served as the executive vice chancellor of workforce and digital futures of the California Community Colleges -- the largest higher education system in the nation with 115 institutions. As an appointee of Governor Brown, she grew public investments from $100 million to more than $1 billion during her tenure by establishing workforce as a state policy priority, and provided stewardship over an unprecedented level of innovation, collaboration, and experimentation across the system's career education programs. Her leadership also emphasized the importance of data science and drove forward the successful adoption of new technologies aimed at supporting institutional accountability, data use, and ultimately, student workforce outcomes.

Ton-Quinlivan’s other professional roles also included serving as director of workforce development at Pacific Gas and Electric, executive-in-residence in Silicon Valley’s Institute for the Future (IFTF), and chief learning officer of SEIU United Healthcare Workers-West.

Ton-Quinlivan is a frequent speaker on workforce development, having spoken to the Education and Training Subcommittee of President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board; at the first Clinton Global Initiative America conference; in panels of the Brookings Institute, American Enterprise Institute, Stanford’s Hoover Institution, RAND Corporation, National Governor’s Association, National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, and numerous other forums. She testified before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee and a variety of legislative hearings in California. Ton-Quinlivan has been quoted in The New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Insider Higher Education, Stanford Social Innovation Review, U.S. News & World Report, and other publications.

Ton-Quinlivan earned her master’s degrees from the Stanford Graduate School of Education and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She received her bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University. She serves on the boards of the National Skills Coalition, Western Governors University, and California Forward, and advises education-focused venture funds Achieve Partners and New U. Ton-Quinlivan resides in northern California with her family.

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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