| Conference Presentations |
| Tuesday, October 14, 2008 |
| 1:00 - 5:00 PM | New LMI Director Orientation |
| Note: Training at Indiana's Workforce Agency
Provided by LMI Institute (Sponsored by WIC) |
| Wednesday, October 15, 2008 |
| 7:00 - 8:30 AM | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00 - 8:30 AM | Registration |
| 8:30 - 10:45 AM | State-Only LMI Director's Discussion |
| Committee Leadership Transition
Ted Halley, Teresa Voors & Don Wehbey |
| WIC Priorities
Graham Slater, OR, WIC State Co-Chair |
| LMI Director's National Conference 2009
And Winter Policy Forum February 18-20, 2009
Don Wehbey - NASWA |
| NASWA Partnerships, Affiliates & Exhibitors
Don Wehbey & Hope Clark
|
| 10:45 - 11:30 AM | Facilitating the Labor Market: An Alliance of State Workforce Agencies and Fortune 500 Companies |
|
Jolene Jefferies, Direct Employers Association, Inc.
Facilitating the Labor Market:
An Alliance of State Workforce Agencies
and Fortune 500 Companies
|
| 11:30 - 1:00 PM | Lunch - On Your Own |
| General Session of Annual Conference Begins: |
| 1:00 - 1:30 PM | Welcoming Comments |
| Teresa L. Voors, Commissioner, Indiana Workforce Development and Hope J. Clark, Director, Research & Market Development |
| 1:30 - 2:30 PM | Perspectives on Labor and the Auto Industry |
| Thomas Klier, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Perspectives on Labor and the Auto Industry 
Thomas Klier's Biography  |
| 2:30 - 3:00 PM | Break |
| 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Green Jobs |
| Roger Therrien & Committee, Other States' Efforts
"Green" Issues and Initiatives |
| 4:00 - 5:00 PM | Local Employment Dynamics-On the National Map! |
| Jeremy Wu, Co-Chair of LED Steering Committee, US Census Bureau
National MOU: The Time Has Come  |
| 5:30 - 6:30 PM | Cash Bar and On Your Own Museum Tour |
| 6:30 - Open | Dinner - Banquet at State Museum |
| Thursday, October 16, 2008 |
| 7:00 - 8:30 AM | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 - 9:30 AM | UI Modernization - The States' Experience |
| Steve Hine, Moderator |
| 9:30 - 10:00 AM | Break |
| 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Employment & Training - Future of Core Products Grant |
| Jan Sten, Chief, Division of Workforce Development System Support, Employment & Training Administration
Future of Core Products Grant
|
| 11:00 - Noon | Bureau of Labor Statistics Update |
| Jack Galvin, Associate Commissioner for Employment & Unemployment Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau of Labor Statistics Update  |
| Noon - 1:30 PM | Awards Luncheon (Buffet) |
| 1:30 - 3:00 PM | Developments in Projections and NCS-OES Integration |
| Dixie Sommers, Assistant Commissioner for Occupational Statistics and
Employment Projections, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Developments in Projections and NCS-OES Integration
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| 3:00 - 3:30 PM | Break |
| 3:30 - 5:00 PM | Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages: Status and
Update on Major Plans |
| Rick Clayton, Chief, Division of Administrative Statistics and Labor
Turnover, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages  |
| 6:00 - Open | Dinner - On Your Own |
| Friday, October 17, 2007 |
| 7:00 - 8:30 AM | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 - 8:45 AM | Opening Comments by Ted Halley |
| 8:45 - 9:45 AM | Developments in the LAUS and MLS Programs |
| Sharon Brown, Chief, Division of Local Area Unemployment Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Developments in the LAUS and MLS Programs |
| 9:45 - 10:45 AM | Developments in the OES Program |
| George Stamas, Chief, Division of Occupational Statistics, Bureau of
Labor Statistics
Developments in the OES program  |
| 10:45 - 11:45 AM | Changes and Refinements in the CES Program |
| Kirk Mueller, Division of Current Employment Statistics, Bureau of Labor
Statistics
NASWA LMI Directors CES Program Update  |
| 11:45 - 12:00 PM | Leadership Transition, Closing Remarks & Adjournment |
| Ted Halley & Teresa Voors |