Morning Remarks & Plenary
Kick off Day 2 with a dynamic plenary featuring leaders from P33, Hitachi, Corporate Impact Lab, JUMP Project, Nike, Harvard and more. Explore economic mobility, AI trust, second-chance hiring, and preparing for the future of work.
9:00 AM - 10:30 AMTue
9th Floor - Main Stage
Speakers
Jarquetta Egeston
Managing Director
Xchange Chicago
Sarah Day Kalloch
Founder, Advisor on Workforce Strategy and Operational Excellence
Frontline Advantage
Nathalie Gazzaneo
Director
The Project on Workforce at Harvard
Brighton Kaoma
Founder
Amano So
Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman
Economist, Harvard PhD Student, and Author
Harvard University
Ahva Sadeghi
VP of Growth & Business Development
Yello
Kelley Frances Fenelon
Corporate Impact Lab (CIL)
Managing Director
Jonathan Marek
Chief Operations Officer
Guild
Michael Chiappetta
Director, US Financial Services Business Operations & US Apprentice Network Champion
Accenture
Al Crook
Chief Human Resource Officer
Zurich US
Ken Oliver
President
Jump- The Justice and Upward Mobility Project
Jimmy Oribiana
Hitachi Energy
Artificial Intelligence Lead - PGTR
Gary A. Bolles
Singularity University
Emeritus Chair for the Future of Work
Nuwan Samaraweera
COO and EVP of Talent Solutions
P33
Caitlyn Brazill
President
Per Scholas
"Building Local Tech Talent Pipelines: A Chicago Case Study" Caitlyn Brazill (Per Scholas), Jarquetta Egeston (Comer Science and Education Foundation), Omowale Cassell (SDI Presence) Moderator: Nuwan Samaraweera (P33) Beyond the Trades: Redefining Apprenticeships for Commercial Viability (15) Michael Chiapetta (Accenture), Patty Keenan (Miller Electric), Al Crook (Zurich), Ahnna Smith (Mod) "Scaling Second Chance Hiring" Ken Oliver (JUMP Project), Tuan Huynh (VietFive Coffee), Hoai Scott (NBC Universal) "Creating Blueprints for Building Trust on AI" Jonathan Marek (Guild), Kenneth Hales II (Warner Bros. Discovery), Sarah Kalloch (Frontline Advantage) Moderator: Kelley Frances Fenelon (Corporate Impact Lab) "Engineering a Win-Win: Scaling Human–AI Collaboration in Practice " Jimmy Oribiana (Hitachi) "Voices on the Frontier: The Signals Employers Are Missing" Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman (Harvard University), Brighton Kaoma (Amano So), Ahva Sadeghim (Yello) Moderator: Nathalie Gazzaneo (The Harvard Project on Workforce) "Global Signals, Human Futures: What’s Actually Working in a System Under Strain" Gary A. Bolles (Singularity University)