Opportunity Summit: Investing in American Jobs

Wednesday, April 24, 8:30 a.m. — 1 p.m. EST

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center

Washington, D.C.

Creating more opportunities for American workers to grow, advance and build successful careers is a priority for leading U.S. businesses, policymakers, nonprofits and academics. But it’ll take collaboration from all stakeholders. That’s why some of the nation’s most influential leaders from across sectors are coming together on April 24, 2024, in Washington, D.C., for the Opportunity Summit.

Before the summit, we’d highly recommend reading the “Blueprint for Action,” which frames the skills transformation through the lens of senior leaders from across sectors, including state government, higher education, the private sector and nonprofits. These perspectives frame the state of play and illustrate the path forward to deeper collaboration and action.

• Location: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center, 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C., 20001
• Room: Kenny Link Room (4th floor)
• Parking options: 
  • Colonial Parking, 601 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, D.C., 20004
  • SP+ Parking, 320 6th St NW, Washington, D.C., 20004
• Attire: Business casual
• Day-Of Instructions: 
  • Check-in begins at 7:30 a.m. on April 24, the day of the summit, at the registration desk in the lobby of the Bloomberg Center. You will gather your credentials at check-in.
  • After check-in, you will be escorted to the event space on the fourth floor.

For questions or more information, please reach out to Jimmy Carter.

Businesses are increasingly removing degree requirements and moving to skills-based HR systems. However, for this to be successful, we need:

• Better tools to identify talent based on skill, including assessments and credentials.
• Clarity for workers and employers about what skills matter for which occupations/jobs.
• Approaches to building skill on the job, to equip people to advance more quickly.

While large businesses can independently create these capabilities, a coordinated, system-level approach is needed to provide a transformative impact on business, the American economy and frontline workers everywhere.

This gathering is designed to convene leaders in this transformation. By working together, we believe we can accelerate impact.

To drive action and collaboration, leaders will spend time participating in lightning-round, interactive working sessions focused on three enabling shifts in workforce development systems.

These sessions are designed to galvanize best practices sharing, identify barriers to scale and ideate unlocks to key issues that must be solved to move to an at-scale skills-based system. Leaders will be challenged to consider how they evaluate and/or apply practices internally, while considering paths for external engagement.

Together, these three unlocks can create a reality where workers have more opportunity to advance because they get credit for the skills they have, can learn the skills they need and can clearly communicate their unique skills and experiences with potential employers.