Looking for some connection to your community? Looking for a place to gather and maybe share and receive some best practices? We have the perfect conference for you!
The Re-Employment Bridge Institute (RBI) will be holding its very first two-day conference titled Bridging Business and Workforce Development. The event will be held on Thursday June 2, 2011 and runs through Friday June 3, 2011, and will be held at the Embassy Suites Conference Center in Concord. The conference will bring together business leaders and workforce professionals to discuss their common objectives-improving our economic climate and getting America back to work!
This best practices conference will be unlike any other workforce conference. The key focus is on business and their interaction with the workforce development community. Keynote speakers for the conference are Ronnie Bryant, President & CEO Charlotte Regional Partnership, Steven F. Manz, Chairman of Advisors, Business Innovation & Growth Council (BIG), and David Hollars, Executive Director of the Centralina Workforce Development Board.
Planned sessions for the conference include:
- Developing integrated community approaches to serving the dislocated
- From dislocation to becoming an entrepreneurial business owner
- Rapid Response: An employer’s perspective
- Designing new training programs to meet 21st Century employer needs
- Projecting the impact of dislocated worker parents on the health and progress of children
- Evolving patterns of university involvement in workforce development
The Re-Employment Bridge Institute (RBI) is a teaching/learning institute based in Kannapolis, NC, adjacent to the new N.C. Research Campus. Funded by a two-year grant from the Centralina Workforce Development Board and the North Carolina Department of Commerce, RBI is committed to sharing best practices among workforce professionals. RBI seeks to share ideas and help local institutions and agencies become catalysts for economic recovery. RBI offers workshops and customized consultation for serving displaced workers.
Additionally, the Re-Employment Bridge Institute has revamped their website to include more updates and to help communities establish partnerships to share their best practices and experiences. Be sure to check out their site and find out more information!
Registration for the Bridging Business and Workforce Development conference will be open on Tuesday March 1, 2011 and available on the www.reemploymentbridge.com
website. For more information on the RBI or the conference, please contact Erin Ploplis at the RBI at (704) 216-7202 or by e-mail at erin.ploplis@rccc.edu.
