Texas Workforce Commission's (TWC) Board Support Workforce Forum event is a place for sharing information and finding ways to improve workforce services.
Introducing the Workforce Forum: Elevating Your Team to Achieve Success!
Are you ready to enhance your workforce services? Look no further than the Workforce Forum – the place where great ideas come together! Whether you're a worker, educator, or part of a business, this is the perfect event for you.
At the Workforce Forum, we believe teamwork and sharing information are the keys to success. We bring people like workers, educators, businesses together to share their best ideas.
Who benefits from the Forum content?
Workforce Development Board, contractor, and Workforce Solutions office staff, as well as:
- Business Services Unit representatives
- Program Planners
- Labor Market Information and youth specialists
- Program staff
- Training liaisons
- Staff who work with customers with disabilities
- Integrated Service Area Managers
- Veterans Resource and Referral Specialists
- Public community and technical college staff
- Curriculum developers
- Education and business partners
Why should you attend the Forum?
There are plenty of advantages. Find out how to improve your customer service, help employers, and assist participants better. We'll show you ways to work together and make your team more resourceful and effective.
Here's what you can expect:
- Easy tips to improve your customer service and support for employers and participants.
- Exciting sessions to work together and make your team more efficient.
- Engaging information from experts to help your workforce services.
Meet us at the Workforce Forum and see your team succeed! Together, we can make a difference for our customers, employers, and participants in our Workforce Solutions offices.
Don't miss out on this chance to improve your workforce services. Join us at the Annual Workforce Forum and get ready for success!
2024 Workforce Forum
The 2024 Workforce Forum will be held on May 13-14, 2024, at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Austin, 6505 N. Interstate 35, Austin, Texas 78752.
- Registration for the 2024 Workforce Forum is closed. You may register on-site at the event. Walk-ins are welcome.
- 2024 TWC Forum Agenda FINAL
- Doubletree Hotel room block is FULL. TWC staff and related boards can book a room using the Hotel Engine portal at: Home | Hotel Engine.
- Once you register in Hotel Engine, choose a hotel at the GSA rate. All travel policies apply.
- Rooms booked via Hotel Engine are self-pay and travel reimbursement requested after the event.
Forum PowerPoint Presentations May 13-14, 2024
Phoenix Ballroom
1:30 p.m.
Keynote Session
Preparing For Tomorrow, Today: Lessons Learned from 2020
Josh Davies, Director of Workforce, Aztec Software
Phoenix Ballroom
3:15 p.m.
Super Session
Artificial Intelligence Integration in Workforce Development: Strategies and Security
Heather Hall, Director, Adam Leonard, Zen Van Loan and Courtney Arbour
8:30 a.m. Breakout Sessions
Phoenix North
Building Digital Skills for a Modern Workforce
Julio Medina, Ann Savino, Ashly Winkle
Phoenix South
Supporting the Child Care Workforce
Erin Dosher, Tracy Anne Jones, EdD, Rhonda Leslie, Bethany McKee, MPP
Phoenix Central
Maximizing Results with Student HireAbility Navigators within Local Workforce Development Boards
Jasmine Hernandez, Reba Nesmith, Amanda Rodriguez, Imelda Trevino, Sonia White
Austin Room
Solving Health Care Shortages: Partnership Model
Ashley King, Jake McClelland, Mark Sherry, Amber Warne
Dovers
What is Tech? Understanding Technology-Related Economic Growth
Mark Lavergne, and Mariana Vega
10:00 a.m. Breakout Sessions
Phoenix North
The Great Workforce Alliance: The Economic Development Corporation and Workforce Board Partnership
Ashleigh Fuererbacher, Jan Jungmann, Stefanie Wagoner, Angel Wygant, and Brandi H. Trotter M.M., CBEP
Phoenix South
Apprenticeship in Texas
Traci Nolen
Phoenix Central
Measuring What Matters: Performance Accountability and Storytelling in Texas
Adam Leonard
Austin Room
Texas Veterans Network in Partnership with Workforce Solution Offices
Mia Garcia, Bobby Gear, Jr., Casey Wade, Kimberly Wilkerson
Dovers
Improving Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment Performance: Communication, Training, Ownership, and Incentives
Suzette Robinson
12:45 p.m. Breakout Sessions
Phoenix North
Semiconductor Workforce: Building Skills for Industry Growth
Karen Campbell, and Marsha Lindsey
Phoenix South
Strategies for Effective Management of Texas Rising Star
Lindsay Hill, Manager, Katie McConnell, Linda Morgan-Dorsey, Jasmine Wiggins
Phoenix Central
Effective Strategies for Coenrollment and Service Coordination—True System Integration
Courtney Arbour, LeAnne Baird, Cheryl Fuller, Debbie Powell, Suzy Saenz, Harold Whitfield
Austin Room
Workforce Solutions Rural Capital Area’s Achievement with Federal Grants
Chris Myers, and Diane Tackett
Dovers
Expansion of Texas’ Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Employment and Training Third-Party Partnership Program
John Briscoe, Lisa Medina, Joel Mullins, Steph Smith
2:15 p.m. Breakout Sessions
Phoenix North
Using Labor Market Information for Workforce Planning and Alignment
William Lutz, and David Munoz
Phoenix South
Partnering Across the Lines
Kristie Caviness, and Seth Green
Phoenix Central
Moving Targets: Accountability in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Age
Adam Leonard
Austin Room
Strategies for Success: Best Practices in Rural Job Training Partnerships with Texas State Technical College
Camea Dukes, Mikayla Fasl, Cledia Hernandez, Flor Leal, Sally Perez, Karla De la Riva