Enjoy a buffet breakfast and bring it with you to the morning’s welcome remarks and opening keynote. Please be seated by 8:30 AM.

Ryan Stowers, Senior Vice President, Stand Together

A conversation with Sarah Goggin, Senior Vice President of End-to-End People, Walmart U.S. and Marcus Felder, Managing Director & Head of Career Pathways, Blackstone.

Turn your biggest wins and challenges into fuel for collective problem-solving.

Choose from workshop sessions on AI readiness, new pathways into high-growth sectors, internal mobility and upskilling, and purpose-driven workplaces:

Access to Training ≠ Access to Advancement: How to Close the Gap
We often assume a direct correlation between employees' access to training and their upward advancement. In reality, this link is often not linear or clear-cut. Advancement, whether it's a lateral move or a step up, requires intentional planning. Hear talent leaders from Amazon and McDonald's highlight how they translate training into advancement, make the business case internally, and measure returns.

SPEAKERS:
Yuanxia Ding | Manager, Career Choice Global Pathways, Amazon
Haley Glover | Senior Director, UpSkill America, Aspen Institute
Lisa Schumacher | Director of Education Strategies and Workforce Policy, McDonald's Corporation
Britt Stich | Workforce Strategist, RAISE US

Building the Frontier: Helping Education and Training Keep Pace
AI’s next chapter will be built by people who make chips, power data centers, and bring new nuclear technologies online. Drawing on insights from Rachel Lipson’s new book, “The New American Frontier,” alongside a candid conversation with employers building this economy, you’ll hear where new technical jobs are emerging, what it takes to prepare people for them, and how businesses and education partners can keep pace with industries moving this fast.

SPEAKERS:
Mike Berman | Director, Economic and Workforce Development, Amazon Web Services
Rachel Lipson | Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Courtney Taylor | Executive Director, AccelerateMS
Emily Wood-Keel | Vice President, Nuclear HR, HTS Nuclear

Building an AI-Augmented Workforce: Inside Colorado's AI Fellows Program
The AI skills gap is real, but so is the one between talented early-career students—often first-generation and Pell-eligible—and the companies that could use their fresh perspective. Colorado Thrives' AI Fellows Program, built with Anthropic and CodePath, embeds early-career college students in companies to build AI tools. Hear from Ibotta’s Chief People Officer and AI Fellow, then test your organization’s readiness, and leave with a replicable model for building an AI-augmented workforce.

SPEAKERS:
Marisa Alexander-Daspit | Chief People Officer, Ibotta
Suzy Broz | Director of Talent Pathways and Operations, Colorado Thrives
Jason Jelincic | AI Fellow, Ibotta

Human + AI Job Redesign: A Logic for Defining the Human Edge in Work
Where should AI be integrated into work, and where does human judgment remain non-negotiable? Most organizations are guessing. This session from Burning Glass Institute (BGI) gives you an actionable framework. Experiment with BGI’s hands-on tool, mapping which tasks AI can support or drive and where human leadership, judgment, and accountability remain essential. Hear what a Skills-First Workforce Initiative company has learned from these key job redesign principles. Through a small group simulation, you’ll leave with a repeatable method for redesigning roles in your organization.

SPEAKERS:
Marissa Ellis | People Strategy Director for Education andOpportunity, Walmart
Erik Leiden | Managing Director of Workforce Strategy, Burning Glass Institute

A Human-Centered Approach to Creating Competitive Advantage
AI is the talk of the town, with the doomers suggesting the end is nigh, and the dreamers suggesting the best is yet to come. But what if there was a third way? One that optimizes businesses while keeping people at the center. In this dynamic conversation, Redefine Alliance and LiftUp Enterprises will explore “economic power:” the work, wealth, and well-being one needs to shape their own future. Through an interactive panel and table discussion, you’ll examine how to make that power within reach, particularly for those often on the sidelines of the economy.

SPEAKERS:
Maria Kim | CEO, Redefine Alliance
Julian Posada | Founder/CEO, LiftUp Enterprises

Enjoy a lunch buffet and connect with fellow attendees. Please be seated by 12:30PM.

A conversation with Kristin Oliver, EVP & Chief Human Resources Officer, Hyatt and Siân Rylander, Associate Vice President, Global Internal Communications, Hyatt

Dive deeper into workshop sessions on AI readiness, new pathways into high-growth sectors, internal mobility and upskilling, and purpose-driven workplaces.

Beyond Your Own Hiring: The Case for Sector-Based Talent Investment
Large employers often assume their influence over the talent pipeline is limited to their own direct hiring. This session challenges that assumption: how can large employers shape the broader talent landscape—including their supply chain and even their competitors' hiring pools—by investing collectively rather than competing in isolation? Drawing on examples in the homebuilding and energy sectors, you'll hear how employers stopped competing for talent and began developing it, together. You'll leave with a practical framework for identifying potential collaborators, even direct competitors, and what it takes to gain buy-in.

SPEAKERS:
Jess Englert | Consultant, Boldly Go Philanthropy
Branka Minic | CEO, Building Talent Foundation

Build or Buy? Using Data to Determine When to Develop Talent vs. Hire It
our talent shortages? Getting the diagnosis wrong can lead to costly build strategies or unsustainable hiring. Hear how WorkForward and QTS Data Centers use data to make build-versus- buy decisions. Then, use their framework to identify the internal and regional data you can use to sharpen your own talent strategies.

SPEAKERS:
Marshall Behringer | Manager, Partnerships & Consulting Services, UW Health WorkForward
Dustan Bushman | Senior Manager, Learning & Development, QTS Data Centers
Dr. Eric Dunker | Chief Development and Strategy Officer, UW Health WorkForward
Todd Hayes | Vice President, Learning and Development, QTS Data Centers
Dr. Bridgett Willey | Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, UW Health WorkForward

Let's Break Recruitment: Are We Hiring for the Future of Work?
We invest heavily in preparing people for the future of work, yet employers keep hiring the same old way, with the cracks showing most at entry level. Drawing on the work of its Australian and US Innovation Clusters, Virgin Unite will share key takeaways from live experiments that are redesigning pathways for entry-level roles, with AI-augmented capability building, and skills-first recruitment at scale. You’ll also have the opportunity to identify a broken part of your own recruitment process and redesign it.

SPEAKERS:
Anna Gowdridge | Director of Programmes & 100% Human at Work Director, Virgin Unite

Frontline First: A Human-Centered Approach to AI Implementation
Generative AI is reshaping front-line work, and employers face a choice: will they deploy AI to reduce headcount and cut costs, or will they use it to elevate front-line worker capability, create value, and open career pathways? The Higher Ambition Leadership Alliance, Stand Together, and aligned companies are developing a “Frontline First” approach through which AI implementation is developed with employees to drive growth. Join facilitators for a hands-on exercise exploring what has worked, what hasn’t, and what might be possible in the future.

SPEAKERS:
Amar Chahal | SVP, Global Marketing, Strategy & Corporate Development, Cold Chain Technologies
Nathanial Foote | Board Chair, Higher Ambition Leadership Alliance
Alex Kazaks | Higher Ambition Leadership Alliance

Purpose in Practice: From Stated Values to Everyday Action
In this session, three employer leaders get personal about what purpose at work really means and how they've integrated it into their hiring processes, leadership and management practices, and employee experience. Grounded in Gallup research, the discussion explores how people find meaning in their work and what happens when they feel their contributions truly count. Learn where you can infuse more purpose into your talent strategy.

SPEAKERS:
Mary Kathryn Aviles | Account Leader, Global Analytics, Gallup
Sara Blair | Director of Human Resources, Country Maid, Inc.
Donna Bungard | Director of Accessibility, Indeed
Mollie Callahan | Head of People and Principal High-Tech Anthropologist, Menlo Innovations
Ed O'Boyle | Global Practice Leader, Gallup

Untapped Talent Pools: Turning Skills-First Intent into Skills-First Practice
Employers who have already dropped the degree requirement often get stuck on the next question: what actually counts as proof someone has mastered the job's skills? Skills-based hiring isn't a replacement for degrees; it's an additive lens that widens the pool of qualified candidates. Learn strategies utilized by those who have fully adopted skills-based hiring and the "proxy evidence" they rely on, and review a real job description to practice spotting common proxies. You’ll leave with one concrete change you can bring back to your own hiring process to better focus on skills.

SPEAKERS:
Isaac Agbeshie-Noye | Director, Foundation Programs, SHRM Foundation
Tammy Hong | Director of Learning and Advisory Services, Grads of Life
Julie Kreiss | Senior Director, Program Management, Britebound
Ebony Thomas | Managing Partner, Grads of Life

Enjoy coffee, tea, and light snacks.

Join your cohort to reflect on the ways AI is shifting your work, your organization, and the labor market.

A conversation with Heather Brace, Chief People Officer, Intermountain Health; Chris Ernst, SVP, Talent, & Chief Learning Officer, Workday; and Janet Foutty, President, Corporate Partnerships, RAISE US.

Scott Pulsipher, President, Western Governors University

Enjoy light bites and drinks while building connections with fellow attendees.

Take the evening to visit downtown Park City and enjoy dinner at your leisure. See FAQs for shuttle schedule and Explore for restaurant recommendations.