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There will be no charge to attend. Light breakfast provided.
About the Forum:
The Horizon Industries Forum series asks: What will our economy look like in 5 to 10 years, and how can we prepare our workforce for the jobs of the future?
Los Angeles County remains the nation's largest manufacturing center, with an average job count of 462,300 workers in 2006. Clearly, the manufacturing sector will provide a huge variety of high-quality jobs in our region, but is our education and job training system ready to effectively prepare people to fill them? The October Forum will bring together senior executives of manufacturing companies and other visionaries to evaluate the future of this cutting-edge field and extrapolate how its workforce needs will evolve over the next decade. The audience will include interested business executives, education and workforce-development professionals, and civic leaders from around Southern California.
Agenda:
Keynote speaker: Ian Ziskin, Corporate Vice President, Chief Human Resources and Administrative Officer for Northrop Grumman Corporation, offers his perspective on the future of the advanced manufacturing sector.
Horizon Industries Panel: A panel of executives from advanced manufacturing companies in our region. These executives, responding to questions from a moderator and the audience, will discuss their personal experiences and needs in identifying and training skilled workers, the future of the advanced manufacturing sector, and how the education and workforce-development sector can best help workers and companies to prepare for that future.
Training the Next Workforce: Administrators and instructors from Los Angeles Valley College and California State University, Northridge (invited), describe their model innovative workforce development programs that have had success in preparing and training workers for advanced manufacturing jobs.
