The Close It Summit – Critical Shift

Join us online. Streaming live on Youtube at CLOSEITsummt.

Online registration closed. Registration available at the door Monday, noon-5pm and starting again 7am, Tuesday.

Shift Happens:

15 - 16 OCTOBER 2019 / SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO

Critical Shift

The leading conference gathering thought leaders and practitioners from education, technology, policy, HR, and foundations will be held at the Santa Fe Convention Center

One of the "10 Conferences You Should Attend If You Are An Education Entrepreneur In 2018" - FORBES

Featured Speakers

Fadekemi Adetosoye
Strategy and Innovation Leader, WAVE Academy
Erin White
Senior Director, Product Development & Research | STEMconnector
Michael Ellison
Founder and CEO | CodePath.org
Gordon Freedman
President | the National Laboratory for Education Transformation
Kathleen deLaski
Founder + President | Education Design Lab
Elizabeth Garlow
Impact Investment Officer | Lumina Foundation
Elyse Rosenblum
Founder and Principal | Grads of Life
Jan van der Hoop
President | Fit First Technologies
Lois Johnson
Director of Workforce Strategies, Workforce Development Institute NY
Dawn Baron
President | Passion Profits Consulting
Brandon Busteed
President, Kaplan University Partners
Keith Wardrip
Community Development Research Manager | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Monty Hamilton
Chief Executive Officer | Rural Sourcing Inc.
Sarah Krasley
CEO | Shimmy Technologies
Stephanie Borowski
President & CEO, GPS Education Partners
Paula Sammons
Family Economic Security | W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Martha Ross
Fellow | Metropolitan Policy Program | Brookings
Andrew C. Jones
President (interim) | LA Trade Tech College | California
Darin Hartley
VP of Business Development & Solution Architecture | Frontier Signal
Parminder Jassal
Institute for the Future, Work + Learn Futures Group Director
Sarah Silverman
Senior Vice President, New Market Strategy | Whiteboard Advisors
Angela Jackson
Partner | New Profit
Dr. Ahrash Bissel
President | The NROC Project
Eric Bing
CEO | The College of Health Care Professions
Lorenzo Esters
Executive Director | Higher Education Partnerships | the Global Education Division | ETS
Valerie Wasielewksi
Senior Human Resources Manager | New York production facility | Chobani
Heather McGowan
Author + Speaker
Mark Atkinson
CEO | Mursion
Edward L. Abeyta, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Education and Community Outreach and Career Preparations Programs | UC San Diego Extension
Sean Sullivan
Chief Human Resources Officer | Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
Charles Ashley III
President & Founder | Cultivating Coders
Kevin Perkey
CEO | Workforce Southwest Washington
Pam Coleman
Director | State Personnel Office | New Mexico
Justin Wolske
Founder | Caseworx
Stephen Patrick
Vice President and Executive Director | the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions
Heather Buskirk
Instructional Methods Advisor for Career Readiness Education | K12
John Vavricka
Director, Center for Technology, Education and Workforce Development | RTI International
Maria Fieth
Partnership Development | California State University
Ashley Putnam
Director of the Economic Growth & Mobility Project (EGMP)| the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Joann Kozyrev
Vice President for Design & Development | Western Governor’s University
Ken Eisner
Director | Worldwide Education Programs, Amazon Web Services
Audrey Williams-Lee
SVP, Corporate Human Resources & Philanthropy | Hyatt Hotels Corporation
Douglas Lynch
Professor | The University of Southern California
Dr. Edward Leach
Executive Director | the National Institute of Staff and Organizational Development
Stephanie Couch
Executive Director | Lemelson-MIT Program
Emilie Rafal
Director of Programs | Credential Engine
Dr. Katie Nielson
Chief Education Officer | Voxy
Ramsey Alwin
Director, Financial Resilience, Thought Leadership | AARP
David Helene
Founder + CEO | Edquity
Katherine Bihr, Ed.D.
Vice President, Programs and Education for TGR Foundation
Casey Welch
Co-founder +CEO | Tallo
Nelson Rockefeller
Founder and CEO | Frontier Signal Inc.
Kelem Butts
Director of Charitable Operations, AT&T
Gerald R. Solomon
Executive Director, Samueli Foundation
Jennifer Dixson Hoff
Senior Vice President | Portfolio Strategy | Strategic Education, Inc. | Capella University
Erica Barreiro
Dean, School of Communication, Humanities & Social Sciences | Central New Mexico Community College (CNM)
Jamie Seger
Design Lead | The University Innovation Alliance
Jen Schramm
Senior Strategic Policy Advisor, AARP Public Policy Institute
David Doré
President | Pima Community College Northwest Campus + Downtown Campus
Shawn Jacqueline Bohen
Chief Transformative Impact Officer | Year Up, Inc. and Principal | Grads of Life
Notah Begay III
Professional Golfer and Founder | NB3 Foundation
Marie A. Cini
President | Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL)
David Troutman
Associate Vice Chancellor | Institutional Research + Advanced Analytics | Office of Institutional Research + Analysis | the University of Texas System
Julie Keane
Chief Learning Officer | Participate
Luther Jackson
Program Manager | NOVA
Vivek Sharma
Chief Executive Officer + Founder | InStride
Peter Bishop
Executive Director | Teach the Future
Todd Hand
Founder + Managing Partner | Knowledge Leaders
Ann Beheler
Executive Director, Emerging Technology Grants | Collin College
Mayor Alan Webber
Mayor | City of Santa Fe
Mary Jo Ferrare
Regional Director for Mohawk Valley | WDINY
Doug Lederman
Author & Editor | Inside Higher Ed
Doris Korda
Founder, Korda Institute for Teaching
Todd McCracken
President and CEO | National Small Business Association
Saundra Schrock
CEO | Levelhead
Christin Durham
Senior Policy Associate | Income and Benefits Policy Center | Urban Institute
Jarlath O’Carroll
CEO & Founder | Jobspeaker
Tracey Bryan
President/CEO | The Bridge of Southern New Mexico
Laylah Bulman
Regional Director | North America LEAD STEM Collaborator | Lego Education
Jason Palmer
General Partner | New Markets Venture Partners
Mike Marriner
Co-founder | Roadtrip Nation
Adam Morrison
Adam Morrison, M.Sc. | Vice President, Projects and Partneships | OTEC
Stephen Rice
President and CEO | Upskill Enterprise
Betsy Edasery
Program Director | The Workers Lab
Sarah Leibrandt, PhD
Senior Research Analyst, Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education
Tim Kubik
Co-Owner | Project ARC
Ellen Galinsky
Bezos Family Foundation
Rachel Harmon
Deputy Director | Talent & Workforce Development | City of Birmingham’s Office of Innovation and Economic Opportunity
Javarro Russell
Sr. Director for Business Development and Innovation | ETS
Jessica Rothenberg-Aalami
CEO and founder of Cell-Ed
Kristin Wolff
Aspiring Rainmaker | Social Policy Research
Sarah Boisvert
Author | The New Collar Workforce
Ramji Raghavan
Founder + CEO | Pragya Systems
Leilani Brown
Senior Vice President | K12
Rachel Korberg
Program Officer | Future of Work(ers) | Ford Foundation
Matthias Oschinski
Director of Innovation Economics | MaRS Data Catalyst
Andrea Backman
Chief Employability Officer | Strategic Education Inc. (SEI)
Co-Founder + CEO | The Workers Lab
Ron Painter
CEO | National Association of Workforce Boards
Lovely Dhillon
CEO | Jodevi