BHEF Spring Convening - April 1-2, 2025
Hosted by Jeff Armstrong, President, Cal-Poly on Cal Poly's campus
This is the room where solutions are built.
BHEF Spring Convening
April 1-2, 2025
Cal Poly
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Building America’s Workforce: How Business and Higher Education Can Advance Inclusive Growth through Partnerships
As labor dynamics shift rapidly—shaped by an aging workforce, changing enrollment dynamics, domestic labor shortages, unprecedented public investments in new education models, and surging demand for advanced skills in critical sectors such as AI, cybersecurity, energy—the need for innovative, scalable, place-based solutions has never been more urgent. Compounding these challenges is the approaching "enrollment cliff," marked by lower higher education enrollment and mounting workforce shortages.
Our Spring 2025 Convening connects an executive network of national and regional leaders across business, higher education, and philanthropy to co-design strategies that meet workforce needs through quality work-based learning experiences, high-performing place-based coalitions, effective solutions for social imperatives holding back economic growth, and global-leading skills development in key sectors critical for domestic growth.
Hosted by Jeff Armstrong, president of Cal Poly and vice chair of the BHEF Board of Directors, BHEF’s Spring 2025 Convening will explore how businesses and higher education leaders can proactively respond to rapid advances in tech fields like AI and quantum, the rapid on-shoring of high-quality jobs, and on-going economic disparities that require redesigning higher education models that create strong pathways to prosperity.
Special Thanks to Our Sponsors and Supporters
All sponsors receive at least one guaranteed invitation for a senior executive to join the convening. Interested in learning more? Contact Frank Avery, Managing Director, at frank.avery@bhef.com.
42 Years of World Class Speakers
For over four decades, BHEF has been the go-to network for pioneering leaders shaping the future of education and work starting with its convenings. Participants meet new partners from business, higher education, philanthropy, policy leaders, and practitioners and deepen their relationships in the field. The results are years of cutting-edge new programs and initiatives like:
- The City University of New York’s collaboration with Amazon Web Services
- BHEF's Connecticut Tech Talent Accelerator led by BHEF members Stanley Black & Decker, Accenture, IBM, Quinnipiac University, and Connecticut State Colleges & Universities
- National, transformative collaborations like the Business Roundtable-BHEF Workforce Partnership Initiative.