Presentations

• Dr. Gus Koehler, CEO, Time Structures, "Factors Influencing California's Future Prosperity"
• Dr. Elizabeth Deakin, Professor of City & Regional Planning and Urban Design, University of California, Berkeley, "Workforce Development in California: Constraints and Opportunities in Public Higher Education"
• Dave Logan, Ph.D., Faculty Member, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California; Senior Partner, CultureSync, "Role of the Transportation Manager and Organizational Change"
• Tom Holsman, CEO, Association of General Contractors, "Ensuring the Growth of California's Transportation Workforce" 
• Jeffrey Barker, Deputy Executive Director, California High-Speed Rail Authority, "California High-Speed Train Project"
• Lorraine Giordano, Program Director, ATLAS, College of Alameda, "Taking on the Future: Workforce Development Issues for Industry and the Practitioner"
  
• Nader Imad Twal, Project Director, Smaller Learning Communities, Long Beach Unified School District, "Expanding Pathways: College and Career Success"
• Dr. Linda Tiggs-Taylor, Executive Director of Educational Partnerships for Pre-Collegiate Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, California State University, Long Beach, "Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA)"
• Chris Hatfield, Office Chief, Transportation Planning, Caltrans, "Partnerships for Transportation Workforce Development: Sowing the Seeds, Reaping the Benefits"
• Veronica Boe, Director, Sponsored Projects and Extended Learning, The California Maritime Academy, The California Maritime Academy Workforce Initiative"
• Dr. Karen Frick, Assistant Director, University of California Transportation Research Center (UCTC), "What do you want to be when you grow up? Collaborative, Communicative, Continuity Plus Coincidences"
• Dr. James Moore II, Chair, Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, "Going the Distance: The CSULB Center for International Trade and Transportation’s Global Logistics Specialist (GLS) Online Program, and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Distance Education Network (DEN)"
• Dr. Peter Haas, Education Director, Mineta Transportation Institute, "The Road to Success -- Graduate Transportation Management Programs"
• Gail Schwandner, Dean of Workforce Development, Economic and Resource Development, Long Beach City College, Liquefied Natural Gas Technician Training -- A Model ERD Grant"
• Don Ott, Executive Officer, Administration, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro), "Industry Experience: A Student's Key to Success"
• C. Stephen Bucknam Jr., President, Bucknam & Associates, "Linking Theoretical Knowledge with Professional Practice: UC Irvine’s Senior Design Practicum"
• Leticia Barajas, Dean, Academic Affairs and Workforce Development, Los Angeles Trade Technical College, "Community Colleges-Pathways to Successful Careers in Transportation"
• Dr. F. King Alexander, President, California State University, Long Beach; Eloy Oakley, Superintendent, President, Long Beach City College; Robert Tagorda, Assistant to the Superintendent of Schools, Long Beach Unified School District, "The Long Beach College Promise: Extending the promise of a college education to every student in the Long Beach Unified School District"
• Jonathan Hou, President, AXIOM Corporation, "Partnering for a Better Workforce"
• Ralph Merced, Transit Maintenance Manager, Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus; Board Member, Southern California Regional Transit Training Consortium, "Southern California Regional Transit Training Consortium: A True Success Story"
• Bryan Rogers, Executive Director, Pacific Gateway Workforce Investment Board, Greater Los Angeles Area, "Re-Skilling for Career Change and Organizational Change"
• Laura Melendy, Director, Technology Transfer Program, Institute of Transportation Program, University of California, Berkeley, "TECH TRANSFER, Re-Skilling the Workforce, Keeping Transportation Professionals Current"