- Virtual Event
Preparing Students to be Workforce Ready in the Digital Economy
Wednesday, January, 27th, 202110:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. PST
Join the California Community Colleges Statewide Industry Directors hosting Microsoft in an overview of tools, content and training to assist students in being Workforce Ready for the Digital Economy.
The Milken Institute will facilitate the conversation including industry leaders, faculty, and students in discussing how the workplace is evolving and what skills are most crucial to short-term and long-term employability. College faculty will share their experience integrating Azure content in the classroom and provide insights for augmenting or building programs that expose students to technological skills across disciplines.
Agenda
- Welcome & Opening Remarks – 10:00 to 10:10
- Microsoft Azure – 10:10 to 10:50Anthony Salcito, Microsoft VP, Worldwide Education Working to empower educators and inspire students to achieve more through transformative learning, building skills for the modern, global workplace.
- FarmBeats – 10:50 to 11:10Hakim Weatherspoon, researcher at Cornell and Ag TechFind out how technology is changing the face of agriculture with the Microsoft Azure agri-tech project that advances farming knowledge and intuition with data and data-driven insights. Farmbeats provides actionable intelligence for farmers through the use of IoT sensors, data analysis and machine learning.
- Student Experience – 11:10 to 11:20Lauren Weber - Junior at University of Michigan DearbornMy name is Lauren Weber and I am an information system management major in my junior year at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. I have eleven total Microsoft Certifications that have impacted my life in more ways that I could ever imagine. The most important being the job opportunities available from the skills I obtained during the course of my certifications!
- Faculty Discussion – 11:25 to 11:40Dean Rick Hodge - Los Angeles Southwest CollegeFirsthand examples of how Microsoft content has been implemented in the classroom and augmented existing programs.
- Closing Remarks & Announcements - 11:40 to 11:45
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