Colorado Technician Roundtable
Powering the Colorado Economic Engine
Convened by Innovate+Educate, Technician Economy, and American Institutes for Research
Hosted by Mile High United Way
Technician Roundtable: 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Conversational Cocktail Hour: 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
RSVP by September 1 please.
Colorado has one of the nation’s strongest innovation engines. Its economy is powered by federal research, national security and space missions, research universities, and advanced industries.
But innovation becomes economic capacity only when technicians build, install, test, maintain, secure, troubleshoot, and operate the systems that make it work.
Colorado’s innovation engine is strong. Its technician deployment capacity must catch up.
Colorado has an estimated 224,000 current core technician deployment workers and approximately 24,000 projected annual openings across these occupations. The state’s technician demand is especially concentrated across five interconnected sectors:
Aerospace and defense
Advanced manufacturing
Quantum and advanced technology
Energy and natural resources
Bioscience and life sciences
Across Colorado, employers are confronting the same question:
How do we build the technician capacity needed to deploy, operate, maintain, and scale modern systems?
The demand spans maintenance, mechatronics, electro mechanical systems, instrumentation, automation, controls, robotics, CNC, engineering and laboratory support, information technology systems, biomedical equipment, field service, energy systems, utilities, aviation, fleet, quality, and advanced production.
An Industry Led Working Session
The Colorado Technician Roundtable is not a traditional workforce meeting.
It is a focused working session for employers, technical leaders, and regional partners prepared to:
Make technician demand visible across industries
Identify the roles creating the greatest operational constraints
Reduce fragmentation across regional initiatives
Expand access to technician careers with advancement potential
Build the shared infrastructure needed to move people into technician jobs at scale
The goal is to begin shaping a coordinated Colorado Technician Economy™ strategy that helps our state convert innovation into operating capacity, business growth, and durable economic mobility.
We invite you to join a select group of Colorado leaders in building the technician capacity required to power the Colorado Economic Engine.