9:00 AM | Welcome Remarks

•  Kiersten Barnet, Executive Director, New York Jobs CEO Council

9:15 AM | A Shared Workforce Agenda for New York

New York’s workforce challenges cannot be solved by any one employer, institution, or sector and the Partnership for New York City and the New York Jobs CEO Council are mobilizing business leaders around a shared agenda.

• Kiersten Barnet, Executive Director, New York Jobs CEO Council
• Steve Fulop, President & CEO, The Partnership for New York City

9:35 AM | Reading the Labor Market

A data-driven look at hiring, unemployment, and workforce participation across industries and regions.

• Gad Levanon, Chief Economist, The Burning Glass Institute 

9:45 AM | Talent Strategy in a Time of Transformation

How HR leaders are partnering across the C-suite to lead workforce transformation as AI reshapes jobs.

• Erika Irish Brown, Head of Talent Management & Engagement, Citi
• Kyla McNally, Head of Talent, Corporate Functions, JPMorgan Chase
• Diane Kurtzman, EVP & CHRO, Travelers 

10:10 AM | COFFEE BREAK 

10:55 AM | Funding the Workforce of the Future

Corporate philanthropy is playing an increasingly important role in preparing the workforce of the future — whether or not those workers will ever appear on a company’s own payroll.

• Claire Chamberlain, Managing Director, Global Head of Social Impact, The BlackRock Foundation 
• Jennie Sparandara, Head of Americas Philanthropy, Google 
• Lydia Logan, VP for Education and Workforce Development, Corporate Responsibility, IBM 

11:15 AM | The Human Advantage

What technology cannot replace—trust, judgment, empathy, connection—and how leaders can build cultures where people and technology perform better together.

• Erica Dhawan, Author, Use Your Brain 

 11:25 AM | AI as an Equalizer: Expanding Opportunity and Fighting Poverty

AI can expand who participates and succeeds in the economy, and has the potential to democratize access to skills, learning, and benefits, and be intentionally deployed against poverty.

• Roger G. Arrieux, East Region Market Leader & New York Managing Partner, Deloitte
• Richard R. Buery, Jr., CEO, Robin Hood

11:40 AM | From Workforce Shortage to Workforce Transformation

Facing rising demand, workforce shortages, and rapid AI advances, health systems are redesigning jobs and training pathways to expand capacity and mobility, while preserving what remains essential to care.

• Brendan Carr, CEO, Mount Sinai 
• Selwyn M. Vickers, M.D., FACS, President & CEO, Memorial Sloan Ketting Cancer Center 
• Brian G. Donley, M.D., President & CEO, NewYork-Presbyterian 
• John D'Angelo, M.D., President & CEO, Northwell Health

12:15 PM | A New Model for Healthcare Education: The Northwell School of Health Sciences

The Northwell School of Health Sciences offers a new model for connecting education directly to employer needs—earlier exposure to healthcare careers, real-world preparation, and clearer pathways into a growing sector, with lessons for other industries developing talent.

• Jason Nadich, M.D., EVP & Chief Learning & Innovation Office, Northwell Health 

12:25 PM | NETWORKING LUNCH 

1:20 PM | From the CEO’s Chair: Leadership, Workforce, and Opportunity

As AI transforms how companies operate, Julie Sweet will share her perspective on leading through this transition and, as Chair of the New York Jobs CEO Council, how employers can work collectively with education and government to build an AI-ready workforce and expand opportunity at scale.

• Julie Sweet, Chair & CEO, Accenture 

1:40 PM | Career Coach Demo

•  Adam Blasioli, Chief of Staff, New York Jobs CEO Council

1:50 PM | Policy for the Workforce We’re Becoming

Are workforce policies keeping pace with how fast work is changing, from new pathways like Workforce Pell to legacy barriers, and what will it take for education, training, and worker-support systems to evolve as AI reshapes jobs?

• Rebecca Shi, Executive Director, American Business Immigration Coalition 
• Brent Parton, President & CEO, CareerWise
• Francesa Ioffreda, Chief Innovation Officer, State of Maryland 

2:10 PM | Building Pathways to AI Jobs: The AI Jobs Institute

Pursuit introduces the AI Jobs Institute—its approach to keeping training responsive to employer demand and turning disruption into accessible career opportunity.

• Nick Simmons, CEO, Pursuit 

2:20 PM | Building a Talent Economy: Chicago’s Public Private Playbook

Chicago offers a powerful example of building a stronger talent economy and demonstrated partnerships that allow for other regions to learn from. 

• Greg Case, President & CEO, Aon
• Penny Pritzker, Founder & Chairman, PSP Partners 

2:45 PM | The State of Early Talent From Both Sides

How students are searching for opportunity, what employers want from emerging talent, and where the two are struggling to connect.

• Julia Stiglitz, Chief Education & Workforce Officer, Handshake 

2:55 PM | The New Higher Education Agenda

Higher education systems are rethinking curricula, credentials, career preparation, and employer partnerships in response.

• Jennifer Mnookin, President, Columbia University 
• Julia Stiglitz, Chief Education & Workforce Officer, Handshake 
• Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, Chancellor, City University of New York 
• John B. King Jr., Chancellor, State University of New York 

3:20 PM | Fireside Chat 

3:35 PM | Built to Work

The building trades have long used apprenticeships to create pathways into well-paying careers while meeting employer demand for skilled talent, which raises the question of why the industry is working to recruit from a broader pool of workers and what white-collar employers experimenting with apprenticeships and new career pathways can learn from a model that has worked for generations.

• Gary LaBarbera, President, Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York; President, New York State Building and Construction Trades Council 
• Marina Zhavoronkova, Executive Director, Trades Futures