FRONTIERS

Agenda

 

Thursday, October 09

8:00 AM–9:00 AM

Conference Check In & Networking

9:00 AM–9:25 AM

Welcome & Overview of the Grand Challenge

 
WELCOME

Paige Ouimet

Executive Director, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, and Professor of Finance, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
9:25 AM–10:15 AM

The Skills Gap: Addressing a Complex Challenge

 
SPEAKER

Elizabeth Faber

Global Chief People & Purpose Officer, Deloitte
 
MODERATOR

Sekou Bermiss

Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School; and 2025 Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow
10:15 AM–10:45 AM

Networking Break

10:45 AM–11:15 AM

Keynote with David Deming

 
SPEAKER

David Deming

Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School; and 2025 Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow
11:15 AM–12:00 PM

Technology Is Evolving: Can the Way We Work Follow?

 
SPEAKER

Ben Hoffman

Chief Strategy Officer & Head of Consumer Product, Fifth Third Bank
 
MODERATOR

Camelia Kuhnen

Director of Research, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise; and Boyd White Harris Jr. Distinguished Professor of Finance, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
12:00 PM–1:30 PM

Luncheon Keynote with Ronnie Chatterji

 
SPEAKER

Aaron “Ronnie” Chatterji

Chief Economist, OpenAI; and Mark Burgess & Lisa Benson-Burgess Distinguished Professor of Business and Public Policy, Duke University
1:30 PM–1:45 PM

Networking Break

1:45 PM–2:30 PM

Help Wanted: How Demographics Are Remaking the Labor Market

 
SPEAKERS

Timitra Hildebrand-Jones

Vice President, Culture, Albemarle Corporation

Ari Medoff

CEO, Arosa

Tara Watson

Professor of Economics, Williams College; and Director, Center for Economic Security and Opportunity, Brookings Institution
 
MODERATOR

Jeff Korzenik

Chief Economist, Fifth Third Commercial Bank
1:45 PM–2:30 PM

Harnessing the Power of Training and Apprenticeship

 
SPEAKERS

Chris Harrington

Director, ApprenticeshipNC

Telly Tucker

President, Institute for Advanced Learning and Research
 
MODERATOR

Annalies Goger

Fellow, The Brookings Institution; and 2025 Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow
1:45 PM–2:30 PM

Scaling Solutions in Skilled Trades Training

 
SPEAKER

Betsy Conway

Director, Lowe's Foundation
2:30 PM–2:45 PM

Networking Break

2:45 PM–3:30 PM

The Other Gap: Reconnecting College Classrooms with the Workplace

 
SPEAKERS

Jeff Cox

President, North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS)

Cecilia Holden

CEO & President, myFutureNC

Beth Mayer-Davis

Dean, The Graduate School at UNC-Chapel Hill
 
MODERATOR

Thomas Stith

CEO, The Michael Thomas Group Inc.; former president, North Carolina Community College System
2:45 PM–3:30 PM

Growing Your Own: Reskilling and Upskilling Within Companies

 
MODERATOR

Gerald Cohen

Chief Economist, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise
3:30 PM–3:45 PM

Networking Break

3:45 PM–4:15 PM

Keynote with Daniel Fitzpatrick

 
SPEAKER

Daniel Fitzpatrick

President Mid-Atlantic Region, Citizens 
4:15 PM–5:00 PM

Dean’s Speaker Series with Michelle Peluso, Revlon

 
SPEAKER

Michelle Peluso

Chief Executive Officer, Revlon
 
MODERATOR

Mary Margaret Frank

Dean, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
5:00 PM–6:00 PM

Reception

 
 

Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise

Leveraging the Private Sector for the Public Good

Established in 1985 by Frank Hawkins Kenan, the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise is a nonpartisan business policy think tank affiliated with the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. The nonprofit institute and its affiliated centers convene leaders from business, academia and government to better understand how the private sector can work for the public good. The institute leverages best-in-class research to develop market-based solutions to today’s most complex economic challenges. In doing so, the institute aims to support businesses and policies that better the lives of people in North Carolina, across the country and around the world.

www.kenaninstitute.unc.edu

A Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise Event