GrowND: Workforce Showcase

This GNDC event offers a fast-paced introduction to current workforce opportunities for North Dakota businesses.

Join us for an optional lunch before diving into two hours of concise, 10-minute presentations, each showcasing solutions to workforce challenges.

After these 10 mini-sessions, attendees can connect during a social hour. Speakers will host resource tables, offering opportunities for discussion, Q&A, and take-home materials to help implement solutions in the workplace.


AGENDA
[speaker bios available here]

12:30: Optional lunch - sponsored by HealthPartners

1:00: Registration opens

1:15: Amanda Remynse (GNDC) - Welcome, acknowledgements & housekeeping

1:20: Brent Sanford, Interim President (Bismarck State College) - sponsored by BSC

1:30: Amy Arenz, Workforce Center Manager (Job Service North Dakota)

1:40: Kristy Simmons, Admissions Representative (Lynnes Welding Training)

1:50: Nichole Wischnak, Director of Workforce Affairs & Sales (TrainND Southeast - NDSCS)

2:00: Robyn Schmalenberger, Reentry Program Manager (ND Dept of Corrections & Rehabilitation)

2:10: Kay Larson, Early Childhood Director (ND Dept of Health & Human Services)

2:20: Break

2:40: Holly Triska-Dally, ND State Refugee Coordinator (ND Dept of Health & Human Services)

2:50: Becca Cruger, Summer Internship Cohort Series - Director of Workforce Development (Grand Forks Region EDC)

3:00: Denae Johnson, AGC of ND Demo Days - Government Relations and Funding Strategist (KLJ)

3:10: Ann Pollert, Regional Workforce Impact Program / Devils Lake Chamber (AMP Consulting)

3:20: Matthew Chaussee, CEO (CareerViewXR, Be More Colorful)

3:30: Social and resource tables open - sponsored by CareerViewXR

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