Essential Skills Summit: Data Analytics, Data Storytelling, and AI

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​What Workforce Readiness Actually Looks Like

​Employers consistently identify communication, critical thinking, problem-solving, adaptability, collaboration, and other durable (or "soft") skills among the capabilities they value most. Educators work to develop these competencies throughout a student's learning experience. Yet an important challenge remains:

​What does proficiency actually look like in a modern workplace, and how can learners develop and demonstrate those skills before entering it?

​The Essential Skills Summit moves the conversation beyond simply naming the skills employers want. Through the lenses of data analytics, data storytelling, and artificial intelligence, we'll examine how durable skills show up in real workplace decisions, problems, conversations, and responsibilities. Employers, educators, and students will then work together to identify practical opportunities to strengthen how these skills are developed and demonstrated throughout the education-to-workforce continuum.

• ​Employers should attend to help define what durable-skill proficiency actually looks like in their professions and workplaces.

• ​Educators should attend to connect workplace examples with how students already develop, practice, and demonstrate these behaviors through learning.

• ​Students should attend to help us understand their experiences while gaining first-hand insight on the skills employers value.

​More details and tickets available at www.raisethebarhancock.org/summit.

​General Admission Adult: $25

​General Admission Student: $10

​Sponsorships and Exhibitor Spaces Available