2024 PNW Education & Workforce Summit
The 2024 PNW Education & Workforce Summit will bring together subject matter experts, industry leaders, business owners, and community members to provide insight into the status of the school-to-work pipeline in our region. Join us at this innovative summit to add your voice to the conversation.
7AM: Open Networking Breakfast
7:30AM: Program Begins
- Welcome Remarks
- Keynote by Chris Reykdal, Washington State Superintendent
- School-to-Work Pipeline: Assessing the State of our Schools
- Highline Public Schools
- Tukwila Public Schools
- Highline College
- Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
- Planting Seeds for Success: Cultivating the Next Generation of Talent through Mentorship
- Virginia Mason Franciscan Health
- BECU
- Raisbeck Aviation High School
- Foster High School
- Enhancing our Workforce: Current Initiatives
- Port Of Seattle Leslie Horton, Aviation Workforce Development Program Manager
- Alaska Airlines
- Comcast
- Career Connect Washington
- Closing Remarks by the Highline College Foundation
BUSINESS INVOLVEMENT OPPORTUNITIES:
Sponsorship opportunities are still available, for more information please download our Seattle Southside Chamber Event Sponsorship Form.
Our Land Acknowledgment:
As we gather, we respectfully acknowledge that our event is taking place on occupied Coast Salish land and that Seattle Southside Chamber is on the homelands of the Duwamish people. We pay respect to Coast Salish Elders past and present and extend that respect to their descendants and to all Indigenous people.
Why do we recognize the land?
To recognize the land is an expression of gratitude and appreciation to those whose territory you reside on and a way of honoring the Indigenous people who have been living and working on the land from time immemorial. It is important to understand the long-standing history that has brought you to reside on the land and to seek to understand your place within that history. Land acknowledgments do not exist in a past tense or historical context: colonialism is a current ongoing process, and we need to build the mindfulness of our present participation. It is also worth noting that acknowledging the land is Indigenous protocol.
http://www.lspirg.org/knowtheland
Members: $50
Non-Members: $75
