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What trends are defining Northern Virginia’s current and future workforce? Find out at our Northern Virginia Workforce Index launch event!

You’re invited to join us at the groundbreaking Northern Virginia Workforce Index’s launch on October 6th. After conducting an intensive 2021 study to determine the trends impacting our region’s workforce, we’ve compiled the study’s results plus key learnings and critical intelligence on the trends defining the region’s current and future workforce into a report we’ll reveal and share during this launch event.

The brainchild of the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce and the Northern Virginia Chamber Foundation in partnership with the Northern Virginia Community College, the Northern Virginia Workforce Index is a major workforce research project carefully created for the benefit of the region’s business community. Gathered through a survey combined with conventional and real-time labor market data, the resulting market critical information was used to produce the first annual Northern Virginia Workforce Index report.

This launch event will feature a keynote from Dr. Anne Kress, President of the Northern Virginia Community College followed by a moderated panel discussion of local business leaders discussing and reacting to this important research.

Keynote: Dr. Anne Kress, President, Northern Virginia Community College

Panelists:

Kathy Albarado, CEO, Helios HR

Deb Gandy, Managing Director, Chevy Chase Trust

Chris Gros, VP Talent, NT Concepts

Paul Misener, VP Global Innovation Policy and Communications, Amazon

Moderator: Steven Partridge, Vice President for Strategy, Research and Workforce Innovation, Northern Virginia Community College

Workforce Development is one of the Chamber’s top priorities and a key component of its newly adopted strategic plan. The Chamber’s role within Northern Virginia has it well-positioned at the nexus of business, nonprofits, and academia and is ideally suited to tackle such a project. Our work on the Index brings together the public and private sector to be a catalyzing force behind the creation of a new seamless model for identifying and developing skills, meeting industry workforce needs, and creating and joining the workforce of the future.

We hope that you join us for this incredible event!