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

Head of Immersive Programs

MIT RAISE

Jerry Rubin

Senior Advisor and Foundation Fellow

Harvard Project On The Workforce and Eastern Bank Foundation

Lane A. Glenn, PhD

President

Northern Essex Community College (NECC)

Lauren Jones

Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development

State of Massachusetts

Pablo Suarez

Senior Researcher

Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation

Tim Sullivan

Project Director, Workforce Solutions Group

Managing Director, Liberty Square Group