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The National Association of State Workforce Agencies and the Alabama Department of Labor hosted the Workforce Summit & UI Directors' Conference | 82nd Annual Meeting in Birmingham, Alabama, September 19-21, 2018.
This year's conference format was super-charged as workforce development and UI topics, along with IT and Legal were integrated for the first time! The UI Directors' Conference and IT & Legal Issues Forum was combined with the Annual Meeting, bringing a more robust, diversified and well-rounded conversation to the conference. Committee meetings and a Board of Directors meeting took place prior to the conference.
Over 500 people attended the conference, which was the largest conference NASWA has ever held!
Most of the nation's governor-appointed workforce agency leaders were in attendance, along with their key staff.
Representatives from employers across the country participated, many workforce stakeholders were there and others with expertise in the workforce development arena.
Of those responding, 95% said they will return next year and 81% reported the conference content was above average to outstanding!
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Mark Your Calendars! Next year's Workforce Summit & UI Directors' Conference will be held September 10 - 12, 2019 at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts!
The daily schedule of the conference is below. View the full pdf agenda.
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Breakfast for Committees & Board of Directors September 19, 2018 A.M.
Technology Roundtable September 19, 2018 A.M.
Staggered Break for Committees September 19, 2018 A.M.
Conference Hosted Lunch September 19, 2018 A.M.
Sponsor-Exhibitor Showcase September 19, 2018 P.M.
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to innovation and operations. The same can be said for the labor market information (LMI) that helps drive workforce development. At this session, an engaging team of LMI directors will provide an overview of their work and examples of how their agencies use information not just for compliance, but to provide insights for the agency and its customers. Leave with a better understanding of your LMI colleagues down the hall or across the street -- and steps to build better partnerships that increase your agency’s value.
States will share new strategies in management to meet the needs of customers in times of limited budgets.
behind the National Labor Exchange (NLx), but there is much more to its engagement with employers and the workforce system. This NASWA partner is a fast-moving nonprofit made up of nearly 900 of the Fortune-2000 employers. Among its many employer resources, DE provides cost effective solutions to access a diverse pool of candidates including veterans, women, minorities, and individuals with disabilities. Join this session to learn how DE members utilize state workforce agency services to recruit, retain, and train their workforce.
An opportunity for agency attorneys and others who are interested in legal trends to hear about and discuss emerging national legal issues related to unemployment insurance.
Many states have a common vendor and/or UI IT system. As part of modernization, states continue to develop various additional components for their systems. In this session, states will share how they are working together in developing shared components with states that have similar vendors and/or systems.
States present new approaches to training, retaining and cross-training staff in times of low budgets. Join in the discussion as we work together to optimize staff.
Can we “nudge” towards better employment outcomes? Workforce development policies, like many other public policies, impact individual and group behavior. Applying lessons from behavioral economics, policymakers are developing simple, low-cost, and effective policy interventions to help citizens achieve their goals. Join this session to hear U.S. Department of Labor officials and a prominent researcher discuss the theory and evidence behind behavioral insights, and guideposts for helping people more efficiently find good jobs.
Increasing Career Awareness Among Youth: Their Futures Depend on It!
For U.S. Secretary of Labor Acosta and the Workforce Information Advisory Council (WIAC), addressing the U.S.’s “career awareness gap” is a top policy priority. Young Americans need excellent career information, delivered in an easy-to-use format, to help direct their educational and career choices. At this session, hear how several states are bringing together information with design and visualizations, developing partnerships with state educational entities, and training staff and counselors to ensure young people a greater chance at their rightest, brightest future.
How is your workforce agency or division using technology to drive better customer service? Join several states as they take you on a technology tour. We’ll go from the broad to the specific and cover a lot of ground--from direct service to learning technologies, from customer service data analytics to insight driven marketing. Join the discussion — and, if you have a practice to share, bring a one-page summary and we’ll share it with attendees.
teams and communications teams to collaborate. This session will focus on best state practices of these teams working together to get the message out and communicate value for their agencies and state.
with current jobseekers and future talent pipelines. How can the public workforce system build tools customers will actually want to use? Are building user-friendly platforms and meeting legislative requirements mutually exclusive goals? In this session, you will learn about customer-centered design and the value it can provide your organization. Discover how leaders in private industry and civic tech utilize customer centered design strategies that start with the people who will use the product and end with solutions that are tailor-made to suit their needs.
This Session will provide members of each state the opportunity to report on significant legal cases, legislation, policy battles and administrative triumphs and disasters of the last year that have occurred in their states. It is a time to share and learn from our colleagues and to gain understanding of how other states administer their programs. Please focus on one or two main items and be brief so that we can hear from everyone.
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