2025 SC Education + Business Summit

2025 SC Education + Business Summit

You will be able to validate your attendance (Check-In to sessions) using your personal schedule.

Suzi C Raiford

SC Department of Education

Business and Industry Liaison

Columbia, SC/Charleston, SC

https://ed.sc.gov/instruction/career-and-technical-education/cte-administration/comprehensive-local-needs-assessment-cln

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Welcome to EBS! In my role as Business and Industry Liaison, Office of Career and Technical Education, SC Department of Education, I facilitate statewide collaborations and industry relationships. I provide technical assistance and resources for the Perkins V Comprehensive Local Needs Assessment (CLNA) 12 South Carolina Workforce Regional teams.
Presentation link: Perkins V Comprehensive Local Needs Assessment (CLNA)Evaluation of Labor Market Demand in South Carolina Workforce Regions

7:00am EDT

Continental Breakfast Ballroom Prefunction Area Registration opens

10:00am EDT

129 Strategic Visioning: Leveraging the Comprehensive Local Needs Assessments to Enhance CTE Room 102-ABeth Bottini • Lee C. Green

11:15am EDT

208 SME PRIME: Industry Informed Manufacturing Education Room 103Shelley K. Wooley

12:15pm EDT

Exhibit Hall opens Exhibit Hall Lunch with Exhibitors Exhibit Hall

1:15pm EDT

72 ENGAGE Youth in Government CTSO Room 103Dr. Randell E. Trammell 229 H is for Hiring: Building the Healthcare Workforce in SC Room 100 A/BEmily O'Sullivan • Schipp Ames

2:30pm EDT

124 South Carolina Association for Career and Technical Education Annual Business Meeting Room 202-CBrenda J Baldwin • Lonnie D McRavin

3:30pm EDT

Snack Break with Exhibitors SPONSORED BY VISIT GREENVILLE Exhibit Hall

4:15pm EDT

223 Building Future Media Leaders Through CTE Broadcast Media Room 202-BDarrell James

7:30am EDT

Breakfast with Exhibitors Exhibit Hall

8:30am EDT

Keynote - Leslie Rob and Plenary Session Ballroom

10:15am EDT

51 Learn About and Explore Careers in Energy Room 202-ATimothy Warrick • Kelvin Rogers • Trevis Hall • Evan Wheeler

11:30am EDT

227 Talk Like a Teacher, Listen Like An Administrator Room 101 ABryant K. Smith

12:30pm EDT

224 CTE Directors' Working Lunch Room 202-CMaria Swygert Lunch with Exhibitors Exhibit Hall

1:30pm EDT

123 Creating Career Connections: An Introduction to Your Regional Career Specialist Team Room 101 ALisa D. Call

3:45pm EDT

Snack Break with Exhibitors SPONSORED BY DOMINION ENERGY Exhibit Hall

7:30am EDT

Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors Exhibit Hall

8:30am EDT

27 A Foundation, Not a Checkmark: The Power of Stackable Certs in Student Success Room 203Ivey Harrison

9:45am EDT

195 Pet Care and the Future Room 100 A/BJermaine M Smith 9 AI in CTE: Preparing Students for an AI-Driven Workforce Room 102-BIvy Coburn • Bob Stokes 103 The Transportation/Supply Chain Industry Provides a Profitable Career for Students Room 103Alison B Vanstory

11:00am EDT

225 Lower Savannah Region CLNA Quarterly Meeting Room 202-CLeah Jones • Joni McDaniel 126 Perkins V Comprehensive Local Needs Assessment: Evaluation of Labor Market Demand in South Carolina Workforce Regions Room 202-ASuzi C Raiford

12:00pm EDT

Lunch with Exhibitors Exhibit Hall

3:30pm EDT

116 AI as Your Personal Study Buddy: Smarter Learning for Educators & Students Room 104-BSharon Easterling, MHA, RHIA, CCS, CDIP, CRC, FAHIMA

7:30am EDT

Continental Breakfast Ballroom Prefunction Area