National Skills Coalition Skills Summit 2020

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This year’s big advocacy event takes place at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. from February 3, 2020 at 1:00 PM to February 5th, 2020 at 4:00 PM.

Here’s what you can expect at the 2020 Skills Summit:

• Networking with workforce leaders: The Skills Summit draws some of the best leadership in post-secondary education, community-based programming, labor, workforce intermediaries, and state administrators from across the country.
• State delegation-building and advocacy: With technical assistance from NSC, you will work with colleagues from your state to curate your regional skills priorities, hone your messaging, and meet with your Congressional offices as a diverse but cohesive delegation to provide a full picture of the training and education landscape in your state.

• Up-to-the-minute federal policy updates: You will be brought up to speed with policy movement on the Hill, what to expect, and how to use that information to pack a punch in your meetings with Congressional offices.
• Develop a relationship with your representatives: A single meeting with your legislator’s office can put your organization in front of the folks that get things done, and begin a conversation with them that you can continue back home.
• Move the needle on federal skills policy: Last year, 500 participants attended over 160 meetings with Congressmembers. These meetings are the big push needed to get bills introduced and sponsored.

Agenda

Check out the working agenda for the Skills Summit:

Monday, February 3rd:

1:00 – 2:50 PM	Plenary	The 2020 Skills for Good Jobs Agenda
2:50 – 3:10 PM	Delegation Coordination	Optimizing the Skills Summit
3:20 – 4:50 PM	Breakout session	Work-based learning: Beyond apprenticeship
	Breakout session	The Higher Education Act: Bipartisan opportunities

Tuesday, February 4th:

9:00 – 10:30 AM	Plenary	Skilled America Live: Election 2020
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM	Interactive policy development session	Future of work: Digital literacy
	Interactive policy development session	Future of work: Business engagement
	Interactive policy development session	Future of work: Re-employment
12:15 – 2:00 PM	Lunch plenary	Skills Champions: Tastemakers, legislators, and the rest of us
2:15 – 3:45 PM	Breakout session	The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act: 5 years later
2:15 – 3:45 PM	Breakout session	Capitol Hill bootcamp for first timers
4:00 – 5:00 PM	Hill prep session	Meeting strategy: Asks and stories
4:45 – 6:30 PM	Reception	Awards reception

Wednesday. February 5:

TBD (8:00 AM – 10:00 AM)	Breakfast plenary	Advocacy for Skills Policy with a racial equity lens
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM	Capitol Hill	Hill and Agency meetings
TBD	Hill briefing	Digital skills and the American workforce: New data on gaps by industry, plus policy opportunities literacy
TBD	Hill briefing	The Community College Compact
4:00 – 5:30 PM	Reception	Closing reception

Thank you to Diamond sponsors Strada Education, Walmart, and JP Morgan Chase and Silver sponsor American Alliance for Manufacturing for helping to make the 2020 Summit possible!