Adam Seidel

Senior Associate Commissioner of High School and Beyond

Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

Aisha Francis, Ph.D.

President and CEO

Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology

Keynote Speaker

Brooke DeRenzis

Chief Executive Officer

National Skills Coalition

Chiderah Okoye

CEO

Transform Power Systems

Emmanuel Owusu

Founder and Executive Director

African Bridge Network

Hanna Adeyema

Director, Immersive Program Innovation

MIT Open Learning

Heather Boulger

Executive Director

MassHire Berkshire Workforce Board

Jerry Rubin

Senior Advisor and Foundation Fellow

Harvard Project On The Workforce and Eastern Bank Foundation

Josh Bruno

Director of Employer Engagement

Boston Private Industry Council

Lane A. Glenn, PhD

President

Northern Essex Community College (NECC)

Lauren Jones

Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development

State of Massachusetts

Lauren Robar

Senior Director of AI Transformation

Liberty Mutual

Mark Rembert, Ph.D.

Chief Economist

Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development

Matt Hartman

Assistant Secretary for Workforce Innovation

Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development

Molly Jacobson

President & CEO

Commonwealth Corporation

Pablo Suarez

Senior Researcher

Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation

Tim Sullivan

Project Director, Workforce Solutions Group

Managing Director, Liberty Square Group

Tricia Canavan

CEO

Tech Foundry