Day two of the 2021 National Career Development Virtual Conference on May 12-13! THURSDAY MAY 13, 2021 1:00m to 1:15pm - Welcome, Recap and Overview of Day Jan Bray - CEO, CCD Center 1:15pm-2:00pm - Federal Policies and Actions Impacting Career Readiness Federal policies can drive state and local action to build career development and advisement systems. Key leaders from the education and workforce development system will share updates on ongoing activities and discuss how federal and state agencies are collaborating on policy and practice and what appears to be on the horizon regarding education and workforce policies. Panel: Moderator: Ron Painter, CEO, National Association of Workforce Boards Panelists: Lauren Fairley, DOL, Office of Workforce Investment Kimberly Green, Executive Director, AdvanceCTE Amanda Winters, Program Director, Post-secondary, National Governors Association 2:00pm to 3:00pm - Positive Impacts of Diversity and Equity Join us for this forward-thinking session about how education and industry can create a system that serves a community. We will explore strategies that will meet the needs of clients with diverse, and often under-served, backgrounds as well as employers who are seeking to diversify their workforce and provide career paths to increase diversity within their workforce. Panel: Moderator: Alexandra Oliver-Davila - Executive Director - Sociedad Latina Panelists: Orrin W. White - Director, College & Career Success - United Way Delaware Janay McClarin - Engagement Manager - National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity Sharon Givens - President - NCDA 3:15pm to 4:30pm - Scientific Innovations in Career Readiness Panelists will discuss best practices, ILP’s in states, innovative collaborations and all things career readiness ecosystems. Learn about the Scientific Committee’s work to build the “Condition of Career Readiness Report in the United States” to be released in 2022. - Scott Solberg - Professor, Counseling, Psychology and Applied Human Development, Boston University - Robin Kroyer-Kubicek - Director of Research Initiatives, CCD Center 4:30pm to 5:00pm - The Roadmap for putting the Coalition’s Vision into Reality Leo Reddy - Chair, CCD Center and CEO, MSSC Bryan Albrecht - Vice Chair, CCD Center and President Gateway Technical College Jan Bray - CEO, CCD Center