Summit Documents

Presentation of Bruce Steuernagel
Presentation of Kyle Uphoff

Event Details

Date: June 12, 2008
Time: 8 a.m. – 3:15 p.m. (continental breakfast at 7:30 a.m.)
Place: UAW-Ford-MnSCU Training Center
           Ford Parkway, by the Mt. Curve Parkway Crossing
           Saint Paul, Minnesota 55116 (Click here for Map)
Cost: Your generous contribution of time and energy
          Costs underwritten by the Center for Srategic IT & Security
RSVP:
Participation in the summit is limited to 120 participants, with a minimum goal of 50% from employers of IT workers. Participation Registration

Summit Overview: Five Distinct Phases – Four Distinct Voices

This event will bring together representatives from the IT community and higher education to consider the reported and anticipated shortage of IT workers in Minnesota.

Phases

1. Review facts (labor force projections, survey findings, expert testimony)
2. Formulate a problem statement
3. Generate a wide range of possible solutions
4. Identify highest impact strategies/solutions that the Center
   could help implement.
5. POST SUMMIT continuing dialogue - online & interactive modes.
   This most important aspect of the Summit holds an ongoing promise for affecting Minnesota’s future.

Participants

1. IT industry
2. Higher education & K-12
3. Workforce agencies
4. Public officials
   
   Be a part of this important dialogue. Contact Bruce Lindberg or Sharon Boerbon Hanson for more information.

Why Is It Important?

The Minnesota economy is highly dependent on leading-edge IT infrastructure, business applications and talent. But even the most conservative projections of workforce capacity over the next three to six years foretell an increasing shortage of people with the knowledge and skills needed by hundreds of private and public employers in Minnesota. And, due to a dramatic increase in world-wide economic development, our current assumptions about the availability of talent beyond our borders are also questionable.

Although the approaching demographic wave is inevitable, working together with a common agenda, we have the opportunity to spawn a more robust future workforce than current trends suggest. This summit is being held as a catalyst to distill direction and form a network of influencers who are needed to sustain innovation and facilitate collaboration going forward. We hope YOU will join us!

Process

A day-long summit, followed by sustained online follow-up, will serve as the starting point to examine our assumption and strategies, generate and prioritize the most promising action steps, and establish the foundation for future collaboration and sustained effort.

Outcomes from the Summit

• An online resource with links to current efforts and organizations working toward the solution
• A report intended for all stakeholders including public policy makers
• An ongoing online ideation and collaboration workspace
• A network of individuals from dozens of stakeholders
• A prioritized agenda of next steps for planning and organizing
• The Summit will be the opening effort of a process that will continue to build on and respond to ongoing data and information

Agenda and Presenters

08:00

Welcome and Thank You
Bruce Lindberg, Executive Director, Center for Strategic IT & Security

08:10

Introduction
Dan McElroy, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED)

08:20

Overview and Background
Bruce Lindberg, Executive Director, Center for Strategic IT & Security

08:30

The Quest for Talent in a Digital Age: You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
Diane Morello, VP & Fellow, Gartner Group

09:35

The Minnesota Perspective: IT Workforce Supply and Demand
Bruce Steuernagel, Labor Market Analyst, MnSCU & Kyle Uphoff, Regional Analysis and Outreach Manager, Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED)

10:15

Break

10:30

11:45

Review and Refine the Proposed Problem Statement
Ellen Watters, Moderator, Civic Source

Noon

Lunch in Small Group Setting

12:30

Overview of Small Group Process and Outcomes
Small Group Facilitators

12:45

Strategy Discussions Centered Around Five Areas
Attendees

1. Increasing the number and readiness of high school graduates with interest in IT careers
2. Increasing # and quality of first-time college graduates
3. Re-purposing careers of displaced/underemployed workers
4. Enhancing capabilities of current IT employees
5. Improving labor market mechanisms (info, matching, etc.)
6. Other strategic goals (beyond those identified above)

Facilitators and recorders will use a web-based application to submit ideas and implementation recommendations to a single-source database

02:15

Break

02:30

Review and Intro to Dialogr

02:45

Planning for Sustainable Action on Top Rated Ideas
Bruce Lindberg, Executive Director, Center for Strategic IT & Security

03:00

Close