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Washington, D.C.
D.C.
Manufacturing Workforce 4.0: A Symposium on Skills for the New Economy
Tuesday, July 11, 2017, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., in Washington, D.C.
Join leading manufacturers and thought leaders for this national conversation on skills, training, education, and opportunity for our current and future workforce.
This one-day event for manufacturing executives, human resources managers, and community partners will feature:
• Provocative panels on technology, competitiveness, and the growing skill needs in modern manufacturing
• A framework to grow the emerging and incumbent manufacturing workforce
• Workshops on cost-effective and replicatible solutions companies and regions can put into action
Learn more at: http://www.themanufacturinginstitute.org/About/Events/Calendar-Events/2…
Contact: Brent Weil at bweil@nam.org, or Sybil Hayes, executive assistant to the Institute’s president, at shayes@nam.org
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