2023 SUMMIT | Futurelou

Global and regional business leaders, change makers and educators gathered to discuss the future of work in Louisville.

Speakers

Human + Tech to Co-Host Event

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Did you know Chatbots can write speeches, poems, and more? Join us February 2, when our Masters of Ceremonies will be Ben Reno-Weber AND ChatGPT.

OpenAI trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction in a prompt and provide a detailed response.

The improvements and capabilities of ChatGPT are amazing. Ben will be prompting ChatGPT by typing in prompts such as, "Write me an introductory speech for an AI conference on placemaking". Then he will read what the bot tells him to say. Things should get interesting!

Speakers

Thaisha Amen

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Lead
Humana

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Thaisha Amen is a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion leader who has a passion for shaping organizational culture by aligning talent, culture, and innovation. Her expertise lies in designing workplace strategies that eliminate systemic barriers, increase associate engagement, and intentionally foster inclusion. Thaisha has over 10 years of experience in Human Resources and Talent Acquisition. She holds a Master’s Degree in Human Resources Management from Southern New Hampshire University, a Bachelor’s degree from Tufts University in Political Science, and holds certificates in Diversity and Inclusion in HR and Change Management from Cornell University.

Alan Berube

Interim Vice President and Director
The Brookings Institution, Washington D.C.

Jade Brown

AI Innovator
Louisville Future of Work Initiative

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Jade started her career in the accounting field. Within the last year, she earned two degrees in Accounting and Computer Information Systems. As she began to experience both the accounting and IT professions, she realized IT – more specifically, data analytics - was most intriguing. So, her current role as an AI Innovator at the Microsoft Louisville Future of Work Initiative is perfect! She has worked with PowerBI, SQL, Google Data Studios, and several other data analytics tools and skill sets. Since graduation, Jade has also immersed herself in the Louisville community by taking part in various panels, events, and initiatives whose aims are to increase diversity in the tech & entrepreneurial spaces.

In addition to these roles, Jade also has a passion for inspiring people to follow their dreams. It is important for her to not only inspire her fellow coworkers and professional peers, but also those that are on their way to fill our shoes. She has worked with the SummerWorks program, the Youth, Ethics and Skills Center, and TECH-nique (all non-profit organizations local to Louisville Metro) to do just that! She has a passion for creating curriculum and programs that show youth and adults that look just like her - you can do it, too!

William Maurice Brown

Vice President of Human Resources
American Printing House

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Maurice is a passionate, values-driven professional with over 20 years of experience in organizational people strategy. He is an expert in aligning individual capabilities with strategic priorities, while ensuring compliance with applicable local, state, and federal employment laws and regulations. Maurice has held numerous HR leadership roles in the public sector for state and local government, including both the executive and judiciary branches. He has had administrative oversight for business segments such as alcoholic beverage licensing, agriculture and parks and recreation.
Maurice is a graduate of Kentucky State University where he received his bachelor’s degree in liberal studies and a minor in Public Administration and a Master’s in Public Administration with an emphasis in Human Resources Management. Maurice is also a Senior Certified Professional with the Society for Human Resource Managers (SHRM).
Maurice is the Vice President for Human Resources for the American Printing House for the Blind in Louisville KY, where he resides with his wife and youngest son.

Eric Burnette

Director of Innovation
Louisville Metro Government

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Eric Burnette has served the city of Louisville for the past 11 years. He is currently Director of Innovation for Louisville Metro Government, a post he has held since the beginning of 2022. Before that, he was Senior Policy Advisor to Louisville Forward, the city’s economic and community development agency. In that capacity, he worked with Mary Ellen Wiederwohl and Grace Simrall to broker the three-year digital alliance partnership with Microsoft that led to the Future of Work Initiative. He was also one of the architects of the city’s guaranteed income pilot with Metro United Way and Mayor’s for Guaranteed Income, was the city lead on a $50 million Build Back Better regional challenge (one of 60 finalists out of 529 applications), and was responsible for securing a $25 million local matching fund for federal grants. Eric is a lawyer with a Juris Doctor and Master of Urban Planning from the University of Louisville.

Lt. Governor Jacqueline Coleman

Commonwealth of Kentucky

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Lieutenant Governor Jacqueline Coleman is an educator, basketball coach, writer, founder of a nonprofit and the fifty-eighth lieutenant governor of Kentucky. She is wife to Chris, mom to Evelynne, adopted mom to Emma and a bonus mom to Will and Nate. Her family lives in Frankfort.

Public service is a way of life for Jacqueline and her family. She was raised on a farm in Burgin, where her family owned a small business. This experience taught her to offer a hand up to those in need and, as a result, she has devoted her personal and professional life to serving her community. She is a tireless advocate for public education and a strong proponent of young women stepping into leadership roles.

As a high school basketball coach, Jacqueline led her teams to five consecutive record-breaking seasons and one appearance in the KHSAA Sweet 16. She earned regional Coach of the Year honors in 2015.

Jacqueline's leadership doesn't end in the classroom or on the court. Her experience as an alumna of Emerge Kentucky drove her to found her own nonprofit, Lead Kentucky, in 2013. Lead Kentucky ensures Kentucky's college women are prepared, encouraged, and empowered to seek leadership positions on their campuses and later in their professional fields. Since its inception, Lead Kentucky has empowered 50 campus ambassadors with 29 different majors on more than a dozen college campuses.

Most recently, Jacqueline served as an assistant principal at Nelson County High School. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in Educational Leadership at the University of Kentucky.

As the commonwealth's highest elected woman, Jacqueline is focused on education, rural economic development, agritech, and student mental health, and she is determined to build a better Kentucky for everyone.

Condrad Daniels

President
HJI Supply Chain Solutions

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Condrad M. Daniels is the president of HJI Supply Chain Solutions, a single source provider of 3PL (3rd Party Logistics) and supply chain solutions. Founded in 1994, HJI serves companies in a variety of industries and whose reputation instills confidence with customers looking for a proven supply chain partner who consistently delivers peace of mind. HJI’s core focus is to enrich the lives of our people, our community and provide peace of mind to our customers. Our niche is providing 3PL solutions to your supply chain challenges.
With 21 years of experience in the logistics industry, Condrad has served a variety of roles within HJI from Quality Systems Engineer to Chief Operating Officer. In this span, Condrad has been an instrumental part of the growth of HJI in omni-channel order fulfillment, contract warehousing, kitting, assembly, distribution and manufacturing support services. He was named president of HJI Supply Chain Solutions in 2017 after a 4 year generational and succession planning period. With his leadership of the 2nd generation family business, the company has grown from a single industry facility into one of the largest woman and minority owned businesses in Kentucky providing 3PL solutions in the automotive, food and beverage, consumer goods and appliance industries. HJI has almost 1M sq. ft. in 6 locations across Kentucky and Tennessee.
HJI Supply Chain Solutions is committed to community and civic engagement, and Condrad certainly has embraced these company core values. He serves on the executive board of directors for Greater Louisville Inc. (GLI), Leadership Louisville Center and the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce. He is currently the Board Chair for the Kentucky Chamber Foundation and was former board chair of the Leadership Louisville Center as well as a former board member for the Louisville Urban League. He also sits on the Advisory Board of the University of Louisville School of Business and is on the Transportation Industry Council of the 8th District Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
Condrad was awarded the 2018 Brown-Forman Family Business Leadership Award, which recognizes an individual with the highest level of family business leadership and excellence in our community. In 2019 Condrad was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist for the Central-East region. He has a commitment to inclusion and belonging, ensuring customers that doing business with HJI is: (a) doing business with other minority/women/disadvantaged classes through tier 2 spend, (b) ensuring diverse talent is connected and feels a sense of place and (c) closing the racial wealth gap by making a concerted effort to scale a traded sector business that can provide goods and services to a national and global audience.
Condrad played college football and earned a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech. He later went on to earn his MBA from the University of Louisville. In his leisure time, Condrad enjoys spending time with his family, coaching his kids’ sports teams, playing golf, and any activity involving fitness!

Ben Donlan

Chief Analytics & Operations Officer
Metro United Way

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Ben Donlon is the Chief Analytics and Operations Officer for Metro United Way in Louisville, KY. He is responsible for executive oversight of the organization’s data, analytics, technology, and operations departments. This includes providing expertise to develop, procure, and use data to make informed decisions on areas that impact overall business effectiveness. He is a champion for integrating meaningful data throughout the organization. Ben strives to help people see opportunities in their lives and to help people create the life they desire, regardless of their current circumstances.
Ben has a strong core financial background working for multiple organizations to implement strategic risk analysis into their financial structures. He has also been involved in various startups, from agriculture to soft fabrics. He has an actuarial mathematics degree with an additional focus in finance and computer engineering from the University of Louisville. He also returned to UofL to gain his Master’s in Business Administration.
Ben is lucky to be able to serve on the board for Louisville Alumni, Transcend Credit Union, UPIC Solutions, and Young Professionals of Louisville. He was fortunate to be named to the 2022 Forty Under 40 class.
Outside the daily grind, Ben loves to travel and has been to 33 countries over the last eight years…Before you ask, Thailand, Cuba, and Iceland are the top 3. He loves breakfast (follow him at @eatmorebreakfast on Instagram) and his pup, Zion. He is always down for a good bourbon and a startup brainstorm.

Lance Gilbert

Managing Partner
Net Results Group

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Lance is the Managing Partner of Net Results Group. He brings 35+ years of senior management, manufacturing operations, strategic operational planning, technology, and finance experience in the manufacturing, various services and consulting industries.
Prior to taking on the lead role at Net Results Group, Lance served in the capacity as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer in public and private companies, and Chief Strategist for a Fortune 100 Consumer Products company. Lance has helped to position companies to improve their organic growth in many facets of their operations, and compete as leaders in their industry, and has made tremendous transition from large corporations to entrepreneurial companies.
Lance holds an MBA in International and Domestic Finance from St. John’s University and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from NYU-Polytechnic University.

John Gootee

Data Process Optimization
Dean Dorton

Stacy Griggs

President and CEO
El Toro

Michael Gritton

Executive Director
Kentuckiana Works

Mark Hamner

Senior Manager, Application Engineering
Waystar

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Mark has over 20 years of IT experience across multiple technologies and organizational levels. He is currently a Senior Manager of Application Engineering at Waystar, a Louisville-based healthcare revenue cycle technology company, where he is responsible for IT apprenticeships, internships, and technical education. Mark is also responsible for Waystar’s community involvement in Louisville as the current head of their Waystar Cares Louisville team. In addition to his role at Waystar, Mark is an adjunct professor of Computer / Information Technology at Jefferson Community and Technical College (JCTC). Mark lives in Louisville with his wife, Kristen, and their 3 kids.

Dr. Sharon Kerrick

Asssociate Professor & Asst. VP Digital Transformation Center | Office of the President
University of Louisville
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Sharon Kerrick, PhD is an Associate Professor & Assistant Vice President Digital Transformation Center at the University of Louisville. (U of L 2002-present). She currently is the lead principal investigator on over $10M in grant funding. She teaches as well as publishes in the areas of innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology. She previously was Associate Director Entrepreneurship programs at U of L and Dean of Bellarmine University’s Rubel School of Business.

She was a founding member/co-owner of a technology firm that grew to employ over 300 full time staff in a 5-state region for over 20 years. In addition to software development and technical integration services the company’s technology group trained between 11,000-13,000 students each year.

A past 40 Under 40 Business First Leadership recipient she was also named to Business First’s Hall of Fame. She’s a recipient of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) Kentucky Hall of Fame award and in 2018 the NAWBO EPIC leadership award. Today’s Woman magazine named her “Most Admired Woman in Education” and in 2019 Business First named her one of five Enterprising Women “Mentor of the Year”. In 2020, she was named “Mentor of the Year” by the national Small Business Institute (SBI) for founding VetStart, a program she started to help military veterans start/expand businesses.

Dr. Kerrick is an accredited angel investor who has been quoted in Forbes and has rung the bell at NASDAQ stock exchange twice!

Brian Leurman

Director of Technology Programs
KentuckianaWorks

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Brian Luerman is a Louisville native, graduate of UofL's Computer Information System program and IU's MBA program. He has worked as a software developer for Quilogy Inc., a Project Manager for Intrepid Bioinformatics and Glowtouch Technologies, and an IT Recruiter for Robert Half. Now he serves as Director of Technology Programs for KentuckianaWorks where he manages a series of free-to-participate workforce programs designed to help career seekers break into the technology field.

Kweku Martin

Technology Manager
Adventurous Minds Produce Extraordinary Dreams (AMPED)
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Kweku serves as the technology manager at AMPED, where he manages the technology workforce training program that provides digital literacy and advanced technical skill training for people in the Louisville Community.

Merabeth Martin

Chief People Officer & President
Interapt Skills

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Merabeth Martin serves as Chief People Officer and President, Interapt Skills. She is responsible for leading Interapt's overall people and culture strategy - including talent acquisition, people and organizational development, employee and labor relations, total rewards, and diversity/equity/inclusion initiatives. Merabeth joined the company in April of 2020.

As a seasoned executive with more than two decades of leadership and talent development experience, Merabeth has committed to creating an environment where people feel they belong, that the work they do has meaning, and that – at the end of the day – there is a sense of satisfaction and purpose.

Merabeth graduated from Indiana University with a Bachelor's degree in Organizational Communications and earned a Master's degree in Business Management shortly thereafter. She is a Louisville native currently residing in Jacksonville, FL, with her husband, Ramiah, and three children: Ayden (16), Avery (12), Ainsley (6).

Ed McGillis

Data & AI Consulting Manager
Dean Dorton

Alisia McClain

Executive Director, Louisville Future of Work Initiative & Founder, TECH-Nique

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Alisia McClain became the Executive Director of the Louisville Future of Work Initiative in 2021. Prior to that, she served as the organization's Director of Community and Education Initiatives.

Alisia is also the founder and executive director of TECH-Nique. This non-profit's mission is to create a world where the voices and experiences of underrepresented minorities are welcomed and celebrated in the field of technology and where members of these groups feel empowered not just to be consumers of technology, but also creators and LEADERS in the technology field.

When not working one of her day jobs, Alisia can be found taking care of her children or working on her doctoral dissertation in Educational Leadership, Evaluation, and Organizational Development at the University of Louisville. Her dissertation research is centered in the socio-cultural factors that influence the participation of underrepresented groups in technology.

Raamel Mitchell

Global Director
Microsoft Black Partner Growth Initiative

Judy Nichols

Data & Collaboration Consulting Director
Dean Dorton

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Professional Experience
Judy started her career working in all aspects of physician practices for several years including
Cardiovascular Testing, Lab, Transcription, Coding, Billing, AR/AP, Physician Recruitment, and Practice
Management. She helped found the Toledo Medic Users Group in 1991, aided several practices in
starting the process toward electronic medical records, and worked as a consultant with a hospital
reimbursement specialty organization.
She joined Aspect Software (then Quilogy) in 2006 as a Managing Consultant and ended as a
Senior Director in their Professional Services Division leading their Services Healthcare Vertical and
Collaboration Practice. In this role she was responsible for delivering solutions that enabled Aspect’s
customers to more fully engage within the enterprise and to their consumer base. She was also a
leader in the Aspect Women in Technology group.
In September of 2016 Judy, along with her partners Greg Petrites and Jessica Gray, launched a new
company called Breakpoint Technology focused on data analytics and collaborative technology
solution custom-built for clients. Judy has led the creation of several custom platforms including client
portals, RVU workload manager for academic medical centers and complex physician practices, and
location identifier for nonprofits. In July 2021, Breakpoint Technology joined Dean Dorton.
Industry Expertise
Judy's main industry focuses are healthcare and higher education.
Professional Certifications
Nintex Promapp Certified Solutions Professional - O365
Community Involvement
Jefferson County 4-H, Executive Board Member
Kentucky Foundation for Women, Board Member
Watkins United Methodist Church, Mission Volunteer
Jefferson County Public Schools, previous volunteer
Eastern High School Soccer and Eastern High School Choir, previous volunteer
YMCA, previous sports program volunteer
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems, 2006, University of Louisville, Louisville,
Kentucky

Ben Reno-Weber

Deputy Director of the Health Equity Innovation Hub
University of Louisville
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A Louisville native, Ben started his career as a social entrepreneur with the World Bank’s global microfinance unit, focused on creating greater access to capital among marginalized communities, particularly in the Balkans and former Soviet Union. He earned an MBA and MPA from Harvard’s Business and Kennedy School and joined the Boston Consulting Group in 2009, where he focused on corporate culture and change management.

On his return to Kentucky, he ran a series of organizations at the intersection of business and social impact, including non-profits, start-ups, and foundation-funded entities. As former Director of the Microsoft-funded Future of Work Initiative, he worked to build the local skill-base in the data-economy workforce, with a particular focus on connecting resources that support marginalized community members to obtain “future-proof” jobs in technology and AI-related fields.

As Deputy Director of the Health Equity Innovation Hub at the University of Louisville, he is leveraging an investment by the Humana Foundation to make the innovation ecosystem in healthcare more open, transparent, and equitable, while elevating the voices of those whose lived experiences give them unique insight into the most pressing issues in health. In the process he gets to hang out with innovators, faith leaders, community members, researchers, technologists, startup founders, industry thought leaders, investors, and health practitioners, which he thinks is pretty cool.

In 2023, his wife Theresa and three children finally acknowledged that his mastery of dad jokes has become apparent.

Rocki Rockingham

Chief Human Resources Officer
GE Appliances, a Haier company
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Rocki Rockingham is an accomplished C-suite human resources, communications, community relations, public affairs, and marketing communications professional with over 30 years of domestic and international business experience. She is versatile with an excellent record of achievement as a strategic partner supporting business objectives in many successful companies. Rocki has proven expertise in managing through corporate acquisitions and turnarounds while leading through transformational change. She is a proactive provocative leader, innovative problem solver and global creative thinker known for providing influence and mentorship with individuals that cross both corporate, community and entrepreneurial worlds:

Currently serving as Chief Human Resources Officer for GE Appliances, a Haier company headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. Prior to joining GE Appliances, Rocki was Senior Vice President of Human Resources for Newell Brands, Appliances and Cookware Division, in Boca Raton, Florida. Throughout her career, Rocki has focused on Human Resources, Corporate Communications and Public and Community Affairs. For more than a decade, she has been responsible for the highest level of strategic HR and Communications at several Fortune 500 companies including, General Motors and Chrysler Corporations.

Throughout her life, Rocki has served on numerous boards, volunteered at and sponsored charitable events, mentored youth, and consistently given her time to try to make a difference. She has worked extensively with community and civic groups to help improve and manage community, diversity and civic initiatives. Rocki has partnered closely with government, corporate and community organizations to manage issues on local, state and national levels. She has a Master of Arts degree in Organizational Communication from Western Michigan University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Relations and Journalism from McKendree University.

Chabela Sánchez

Chief Data & Compliance Officer
Louisville Urban League

Grace Simrall

Chief of Civic Innovation and Technology
Metro Louisville Government
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Grace Simrall was named Chief of Civic Innovation and Technology for Louisville Metro Government in August 2016. She is responsible for advising the Mayor and leading the city’s Smart City, Broadband, and Digital Inclusion initiatives, transforming the resident experience of digital government, and facilitating co-creation of breakthrough civic innovations. Under her leadership, the city has received national recognition for their innovation work including 2017 Center for Digital Government - Most Innovative City, 2018 Bloomberg Philanthropies Mayors Challenge Champion City, 2018 Smart Cities Council Readiness Challenge awardee, 2019 Microsoft Future of Work Initiative, 2020 What Works Cities Platinum certification status, and 2021 Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Mayors Challenge Champion City.

Most recently, the city was named a 2022 EDA Build Back Better Regional Challenge Finalist, one of 60 cities to do so out of 529 cities, based on the first-of-its-kind Brookings Institution plan commissioned by the city's Future of Work Initiative designed to benchmark the city's artificial intelligence (AI) positioning and preparedness titled "How Louisville can become a Stronger and more Equitable hub for AI and Data Economy Jobs."

Prior to this role, Simrall served as Executive Director of Innovation at Care Innovations, a joint venture between Intel and GE Healthcare, where she was responsible for the company’s innovation and analytics initiatives. In 2010, she founded iGlass Analytics, a startup focused on delivering data management and analytics solutions in the healthcare technology space.

Simrall earned a bachelor’s degree in the geophysical sciences from the University of Chicago and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Louisville’s Speed School of Engineering.

Agenda

8:30 a.m.

Check In
Coffee cake, tea and coffee will be available.

Enjoy networking!

9:00 a.m.

Welcome

Ben Reno-Weber and ChatbotGPT

9:10 a.m.

Attracting a Diverse Workforce to Data Science

Alisia McClain, Executive Director, Louisville Future of Work Initiative

9:30 a.m.

Diversifying and Training Louisville's Workforce
Code Louisville: Providing quality training and support to help residents of Louisville enter software development careers at no charge since 2015.

Michael Gritton, Executive Director, Kentuckiana Works

9:35 a.m.

A Message from the State of Kentucky

Lt. Governor Jacqueline Coleman

9:45 a.m.

The Future of Work – The Future of Us

In her keynote speech, Rocki Rockingham, Chief Human Resources Officer for GE Appliances, will share about why inclusion and diversity is at the core of the Future of Work.

“It’s about giving people opportunities to learn, to grow, to fulfill their dreams… to change the economic trajectory of their families and build a different life – a better life. And for every life we change, we help change the fabric of this community. The future of work is more equitable for everyone - no matter who you are, where you were born and where you live. Isn’t that a future we all want to embrace? This is the Future of Work – this is the Future of Us.”

Rocki Rockingham, Chief Human Resources Officer, GE Appliances, a Haier company

10:15 a.m.

Advancing the Data Ecosystem Through Public/Private Partnerships
In 2019, Louisville Metro Government, Microsoft, and the Brookings Institute came together to form the Louisville Future of Work Initiative. Our panel of experts will share their knowledge and experiences in forming successful public/private partnerships in Louisville and across the country.

Panelists:

Alan Berube • Raamel Mitchell • Grace Simrall • Mary Ellen Wiederwohl

Moderator:

Eric Burnette

11:00 a.m.

Brunch

Menu includes:

Scrambled Eggs
Hashbrown Casserole
Banana Pudding French Toast
Fresh Fruit
Pot Roast Cupcakes
Mini Chicken & Funnel Cake Waffles
Shrimp & Grit Cocktails
Kale and Quinua Salad

Caterer:

The Catering Experience

12:00 p.m.

BREAKOUT SESSION 1 - CHOOSE ONE OPTION

OPTION A - LOCATION: VIEW POINTE HALL
Broadening Your Pool of Applicants
While the tech talent shortage continues, innovative businesses have learned, you need to adapt to grow. Our panel of experts are leading the way in hiring, training, and supporting new tech talent. Discuss forward-thinking ways to grow your workforce, such as partnering with local schools, creating targeted apprenticeships, changing job descriptions, and encouraging more people to participate in nontraditional training programs.

Panelists:
Stacy Griggs • Merabeth Martin • Mark Hamner

Moderator: Thaisha Amen

OPTION B - LOCATION: AUDITORIUM
Skills Learned in Nontraditional Programs
Traditionally, businesses have required college degrees for technology positions. However, more companies are coming to realize that in order to keep up with the fast-changing pace of tech, they need to consider new options. Our panel of experts are running successful nontraditional programs whose graduates are filling much needed tech roles. Learn what they are doing, how you/your business can benefit, and what is on the horizon for preparing the next generation of tech professionals.

Panelists:
Brian Leurman • Kweku Martin • Dr. Sharon Kerrick • Jade Brown

Moderator:
Alisia McClain

OPTION C - LOCATION: NEIMAN GALLERY
Get Started with AI in Microsoft Power BI
Join Dean Dorton for an introduction to Microsoft Power BI and the built-in AI capabilities that are available. We will start by reviewing the foundational basics of Power BI including accessing data sources, creating a data model, and visualizing data. We will then move onto dashboards examples that demonstrate the integrated AI features inside of Power BI including Key Influencers, Q&A, Quick Insights, and Clustering. If you would like to gain hands-on experience, we will be utilizing both Power BI Desktop (free download) if you would like to follow along on your device as well as publishing the example dashboards through the Power BI Service which can be reached through a web browser.

Instructors:
John Gootee • Ed McGillis

Light snacks and drinks provided.

12:45 a.m.

Break

Coffee, Tea, Water and Light Snacks.

12:55 p.m.

BREAKOUT SESSION 2 - CHOOSE ONE OPTION

OPTION A - LOCATION: VIEW POINTE HALL
Leveraging Data to Grow Your Business

Are you swimming in a sea of data? Most businesses have data stored across multiple platforms, in multiple formats, and have not reviewed the collection or content of their data in years if ever. Join our panel of experts for a discussion about the key elements to consider as you start to clean up and enrich your data in order to make better decisions and achieve higher returns on your investments.

Panelists:
Judy Nichols • Lance Gilbert • Condrad Daniels

Moderator:
Ben Reno-Weber

OPTION B - LOCATION: AUDITORIUM
Leveraging Data to Advance Social Progress
When we think of data science, we often think of businesses increasing their bottom line. But data science can also be ubiquitous with social justice, and it is a resource that can be leveraged by nonprofit organizations large and small. Join our panel of experts as they tackle the topic of how data can be leveraged both to advance social progress and increase diversity in the field.

Panelists:
Ben Donlan • Chabela Sánchez Langoria • Nikki Stephenson

Moderator:
Alisia McClain

OPTION C - LOCATION: NEIMAN GALLERY
Get Started with AI in Microsoft Power BI
Bring your laptop for this session.
Join Dean Dorton for an introduction to Microsoft Power BI and the built-in AI capabilities that are available. We will start by reviewing the foundational basics of Power BI including accessing data sources, creating a data model, and visualizing data. We will then move onto dashboards examples that demonstrate the integrated AI features inside of Power BI including Key Influencers, Q&A, Quick Insights, and Clustering. If you would like to gain hands-on experience, we will be utilizing both Power BI Desktop (free download) if you would like to follow along on your device as well as publishing the example dashboards through the Power BI Service which can be reached through a web browser.

Instructors:
John Gootee • Ed McGillis

Snacks and drinks provided.

1:40 p.m.

Break

Coffee, Tea, Water and Light Snacks

1:55 p.m

Beyond a Screen: How Blind and Visually Impaired Peoples Can Charge (or Change) an Industry

William Maurice Brown. VP of Human Resources, American Printing House

2:15 p.m.

A Fireside chat with the Global Director of Microsoft's Black Partner Growth Initiative
Raamel Mitchell serves as the Global Director of the Black Partner Growth Initiative at Microsoft, where he leads an effort to build a multibillion-dollar global technology ecosystem comprised of black technology companies. Throughout his 19 years at Microsoft, he has driven efforts to empower individuals, organizations, and communities across the globe to achieve more and reach their full potential.

Louisville Future of Work Executive Director Alisia McClain will sit down with Raamel to hear about his efforts to use technology and innovation to shape the world and transform lives.

Raamel Mitchel • Alisia McClain

2:55 p.m.

Where Do We Go From Here?

Ben Ren-Weber & ChatbotGPT

Location and Parking

MUHAMMAD ALI CENTER

144 N. Sixth Street
Louisville, KY 40202 USA

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PARKING

Parking is available in the parking garage conveniently located under the Muhammad Ali Center. Parking rates vary, so please visit www.louisvilleky.gov/PARC or contact the Parking Authority of River City (PARC) at 502.587.7275 for pricing information.

Speakers

Agenda

Location & Parking

Human + Tech to Co-Host Event

Speakers

Agenda

Check In Coffee cake, tea and coffee will be available.

Welcome

Attracting a Diverse Workforce to Data Science

Diversifying and Training Louisville's Workforce Code Louisville: Providing quality training and support to help residents of Louisville enter software development careers at no charge since 2015.

A Message from the State of Kentucky

The Future of Work – The Future of Us

Brunch

Menu includes:

Scrambled Eggs

Hashbrown Casserole

Banana Pudding French Toast

Fresh Fruit

Pot Roast Cupcakes

Mini Chicken & Funnel Cake Waffles

Shrimp & Grit Cocktails

Kale and Quinua Salad

Break

Break

Beyond a Screen: How Blind and Visually Impaired Peoples Can Charge (or Change) an Industry

Where Do We Go From Here?

Location and Parking

MUHAMMAD ALI CENTER

PARKING

Future of Work Initiative was fiscally sponsored by:

Check In
Coffee cake, tea and coffee will be available.

Diversifying and Training Louisville's Workforce
Code Louisville: Providing quality training and support to help residents of Louisville enter software development careers at no charge since 2015.