Event Listings & Calendar

External Event: Hosted by Jobs for the Future (JFF). For support with registration or other event issues, please contact events@jff.org.

Join JFF for insights from a collaboration with six small businesses to address real-world talent management challenges through skills-based solutions. The webinar will explore an approach to designing and implementing these solutions, strategies for managing change, and the impacts businesses are seeing and anticipating from their new initiatives.

Kathryn Alder, VP of Human Resources, Chris-Craft

Crystal Hughley, CEO, Corporate Cleaning

Joe Musgrave, Human Resources Manager, Riddell

External Event: Hosted by Safal Partners. For all questions, issues, or requests, please contact colleen.beck@safalpartners.com.

State and local workforce leaders are navigating a rapidly shifting landscape: WIOA reauthorization debates, AI-driven labor market demands, and changing federal guidance. Strong fiscal governance ensures workforce leaders stay nimble and prepared for what’s next.

Melissa Aguilar-Southard, Senior Project Director and Subject Matter Expert, Safal Partners

Melissa Robbins, Chief Executive Officer, National Association of Workforce Development Professionals

Joshua Matlock, President / CEO, CareerSource Suncoast

External Event: Hosted by the National Association of Workforce Development Professionals (NAWDP). For event questions or issues: amanda@nawdp.org

NAWDP’s Foundations of Workforce Development Virtual Academy is designed to help new workforce professionals build the knowledge, confidence, and practical understanding needed to succeed in this fast-moving field.

Navigating real property can be complex, but DOL-ETA experts are here to help. This session will provide guidance on real property issues, including using grant funds for capital expenditures and other real property costs, depreciation, maintaining insurance, handling idle facilities and idle facility capacity, retaining records, disposing of real property acquired with ETA grant funds, renting real property, and using/disposing of State Workforce Agency (SWA) real property with Federal equity.

Lorraine Jamison, Division Chief of the Division of Financial Management & Administrative Services, Region 6

Steve Malliaras, Division Chief of the Division of Workforce Security, Region 6

Conrad Kohler-Tiedeman, Accountant, Region 1

External Event: Hosted by the National Association of Workforce Development Professionals (NAWDP). For event questions or issues: david@nawdp.org

The National Association of Workforce Development Professionals (NAWDP) Youth Symposium will be in San Antonio, TX, November 16-18, 2026. This year’s theme, Mission: Possible, is about what happens when the workforce development field comes together.