This discussion this morning is may be morertant, important, just as important as the Health Care Discussion we just came from this morning. We are very lucky to have two amazing leaders with us. Judy marks from siemens and zoe foundation. He today, we will be talking about workforce training and apprenticeship. This is near and dear to the hearts of every governor here and every governor in the city wetes can mainly because governors have an incentive to get this right. The employers in our states are counting on us to figure out how to deliver them a trained workforce. That absolutely includes fouryour college, community college, career and technical andation, but it includes needs to increasingly include apprenticeship programs, which i know many of you have started and are expanding here in rhode island. We are big believers in the apprenticeship model. Very early on in my term, we received a grant from the federal government around apprenticeship. We have dozens of apprenticeship programs. They are working. Employers love them. And there are the nontrade apprenticeships. Asngs you may not think of apprenticeships. We have one in cyber, in i. T. , process technology. Nontrade, but importantly highgrowth areas. Looking to expand and deepen the work we are doing. It gives me great pleasure to introduce judy marks from siemens. Thank you for joining us this morning. Judy is the president and ceo of technology. Rnment before becoming ceo of siemens usa, she held several senior positions. I have had the opportunity to chat briefly this morning with her, i. With her. She is a real believer and leader in the apprentice ship model. Right now, they have thousands of a positions in the united she needs00 and spend to get them filled. 2000. Believer in she needs to get them filled. She is a believer in apprenticeship. Thank you for inviting me. [indiscernible] the privilege of chairing our foundation, which is focused on workforce and apprenticeships and everything around facilitating that. This is more than higherpaying jobs. It is. This is more than growing our economy. It is. But this is about creating talent. We need to be able to industrialize our nation in what we believe is truly an industrial renaissance. It is happening across the country, at the state level. It is not just a state issue, we believe governors [indiscernible] sorry. Thank you. We believe that governors not only have the most motivation, but the most tools and ability to make this a reality for us. Let me share a little bit of what we have done at siemens and at the siemens foundation, so that states can learn from each other. And that we as industry can learn more about what is needed and share more successfully overseas as well. With the center for best practices because we find that that is the best way to proliferate best practices. We have chosen six states we are already working with to be able to deal with skills and training. We are working with 12 states on apprentice registrations and how we can make that happen quicker and more efficiently. Most importantly, recently, we had a unique opportunity with nga and with the j. P. Morgan Chase Foundation to share what works in europe. We had the privilege of sponsoring and joining governor do guard, governor fallin, governor bevan, as you got an opportunity with your staff to see really what works in germany and switzerland firsthand. And more importantly, how can we tell her that when he comes back to the states . I dont want to forget governor hickenlooper. Colorado,prentices in its amazing. We want to take those lessons as well. Today, we are facing new challenges in the industrial economy. That, as do my colleagues. , we have been in the u. S. For 160 years. We have 60 manufacturing plants of our own. We are seeing the convergence of software and the Digital Economy. That is what is driving manufacturing today. The manufacturing of today is not the manufacturing of the past. It is about automation, but also having the human skills out of our high schools. About hear a lot arent robots taking over . I want to be really clear and factual. In germany, we use three times as much Robotic Technology as in the united states. As manythere are manufacturing technicians in germany as in the united states. There is a role for robots and technology. And there is a role for human thant but humans need more a high school education. They need a different skill and education program. That was the bedrock of how we built the last Industrial Revolution. Industrial new revolution today. Its all about manufacturing. We need workers to do that. Turned ind is we toner internally to our roots. We moved the facility from neededhere, and we workers who could hold large gas steames and steve turbines, etc. The students, after four years, and we got a debtfree education and as associates degree. At and i will share something with you at the end of this little introduction that i think you will find highly energizing. Beyond that, we think we also have a responsibility to employ a larger workforce. Its not just about the people. We have to create the curriculum. We have to create the environment. Theave to give the students tools to be successful. 3 billion of Industrial Software to Community Colleges throughout the nation so the students, whether they an getting an aa degree, associates degree, or a fouryear the great come out technology, and the analytics that they need to perform. Discussionrt this without talking about one of the obstacles that we face. It is somewhat of a societal obstacle. It is a stigma associated with technical education. It starts in the high schools. It starts in our communities. It starts with the parents. Our typical apprentice when they between 55,000 and 65,000 starting the day they finish their apprenticeship. They proudly wear their onrenticeship local logo their clothes. When youre 14 years old and selected to be an apprentice, that is looked on positively as selected to go to university. Here in the united states, we do not look at it that way. Foundation, we recently sponsored a survey and parents and children involved in Vocational Education and they are very pleased where it is going and they want to be part of what we call middle skills and industrial reskilling. We believe industry is ready. We believe the states are the absolute best place to get it done. We commend governor for making this real. As industry, we want to work with you to do that. Share something that was on nbc nightly news from our charlotte, North Carolina facility. Chad robinson who, ironically have the opportunity. She was accepted to a fouryear Mechanical Engineering school and he turned it down to become an apprentice at siemens. He did not want the college debt. Go one andes he can get a bachelors degree with tuition reimbursement. But you will find his energy and passion for what he does remarkable. Let me share that video with you. This is the sound of manufacturing in 2017 at siemens hub in charlotte, North Carolina. I do not see the big machines i associate with manufacturing. Todays manufacturing is very different. It is custom, quiet, and it uses computers. Marksmens ceo judith the biggest one of challenges. When we moved here we needed 800 employees. We were coming up short. Chest but she says only 16 of those she says only 16 of those who applied have the skills. So big, anap is estimated 2 million jobs may go unfilled in the next decade. Instead of going to a Fouryear College, Chad Robinson chose to be an apprentice. For my tuition. They pay for my books. And on top of it all, i take the same class. Forrter robinson works siemens. At the and that he will have a salary of at least 50,000 and skills crucial for the economy. If we do not have a labor force that can fill that work, technology, Foreign Companies outsourcing are going to replace the opportunity to earn your living in those occupations. Reporter taking a page from successful apprentice programs in europe, siemens has similar training at three more u. S. Factories. Ms. Marks it is an investment. Reporter benefiting the company and the economy. Nbc news, charlotte. Ms. Marks thank you. Thank you. E very impressive. Thank you for your commitment to this work. I would like to introduce zoe and under her leadership, reallyndation has focused considerably on this exact issue, and i know she has partnered with governor hickenlooper and other governors here in publicprivate partnerships to create privateul public partnerships. Before that she had a successful career as a lawyer and in governor. A lawyer and in government. She is a friend. I think she is the perfect person to partner with us governors to take a leadership role in apprenticeship. Ms. Baird thank you. Be here withul to you at your nga meeting, which i understand is a tremendous success. I hope that we will contribute ideas that are really actionable and youre on state spirit and thank you to the nga for having us here. I think its really important for all of us and i have spent a lot of my life in Public Service as well as the private sector and i think its really important for all of us who sit in a role where we are trying to address the pain that people are feeling in this and try to create the opportunity for them that we know exist to look at this question of the Digital Economy from their vantage point. A so, how do people feel . People are excited to read most people have smartphones. Netflix. Le use 11s a lot of exciting excitement about what the Digital Economy is bringing. But import the, most people feel they do not see their place in it from but importantly, most people feel they do not see their place in it from an economic point of view. They do not know what job to tell their kids to go after, what they themselves should be doing. We did a poll that shows that 87 of americans this is one month before the election when americans were so divided 87 of americans said that they needed to get training throughout the course of their lifetime to succeed in a career, but they look at the institutions that serve them and they see our schools ending at 18 or 22. They see our Financial Aid and they think it is for young people. They go to an Unemployment Office or Workforce Center and people are not trained in understanding what the Digital Economy jobs look like. They are talking about how to bring back jobs or how to get into a job that is highly are not ablebut we to fill 6 million jobs in this country and each of us and our states can talk about the hundred thousand construction jobs we cannot get today. We will not have the welders you know how to use precision welding. We will not have people who know how to use a robot to break down old construction to create the new. So, theres a great disjunction between what we have been telling people, which is go to college, get a fouryear degree and you will succeed, and what to succeed. Y need people thatelling if you have not received a Fouryear College degree youre a failure. That is how 70 of americans see the world. Almost 70 of americans do not have a Fouryear College degree. We need a much more diverse sense of possibilities for people. That is what we are talking about with apprenticeship. Me so manycuse other ways we can create opportunities for people. You know, 100 years ago when we move from the agricultural economy to the industrial age, we invested at the high school. We probably have not thought about where does the High School Come from . Why was it invented . People to get the training they needed to move from an agricultural economy to an industrial economy. What we believe is going to be necessary to scale all of these great efforts of apprenticeship or employee or educated management is going to be inventing a digital labor market and i want to show you a film i will tell you a little bit about skillful, but i will tell you what you can do in your own states. I will show you a short film that will give you a sense of what the Digital Economy labor market is all about. Run thed move video, that would be great. [video clip] goingird america is through the largest change in its economy since the Industrial Revolution and Many Americans do not understand their place in this new economy. Forhere are fewer jobs americans with a High School Diploma or less than there were in 1989. How do we move forward without leaving some people behind . For decades, we have been telling people, get a College Degree and you will be able to compete for the growth jobs with higher incomes. Today, its not necessary that the the singular path people take. Skills are not always measured by a diploma. They are measured by the skills you gain. We see in the trade sector there has been a huge increase in openings for employment, but there is not enough Skilled Labor to fill those roles. You have a gamut of different occupations. All the rest are technicians. The real opportunity is to look to the middle of the graph, to these socalled middle skilled jobs and if you equip more people to hold those jobs and create more of those jobs is skillbased labor market makes it possible for people to see career paths they did not realize were open to them before. We found people like a fedex truck driver in her early 40s and she does not know what the Digital Economy holds for her. And through online tools, she can see she has a lot of these skills for a higher tech job with very few additional hours of training. We have to be on the ground, do more skills focused hiring. 87 of americans believe that skills training throughout ones lifetime is necessary to succeed. We need to do more training and apprenticeships. People say, what if you train these people and they leave . What if you do not train them and they stay . Toolsneed to have the that will help people do more, educational institutions, governments, and most important all of us have an individual responsibility to do more in terms of learning more. I hope that gives you a little overview. I see a lot of your friends from colorado there. Enablesve this notion employers to go after the workforce they need, enables and educators to know what to train two. To train to. Know, and colorado, and i am sure this is true in your own states, too for entry level with an incomes nationally 62,000 dollars a year, in colorado, 75 of those postings require a bachelors degree and are a barrier to apply for those jobs, but only have athe i incumbents College Degree. Tools like we have on skillful. Com and we are bringing a mind the tools, there is an enormous value out there to bring to employers to see who they might go after and the market that has skills. But we also need to and this is a place where you can have a big impact. We too have trainers, Community Colleges, the boot camps, the Fouryear Colleges as well make transparent what skills people have developed when they go to those schools so they get something of value along the way to the diploma. So they can go to the labor market and really think about learning as lifelong. You can drive Community Colleges businessof their model. That is a revenue generator for state systems. We need to match with the market. We need to work on Workforce Centers. Because i bet you anything, if your Workforce Centers, they will find they get no training of what jobs look like and what employers are trainingor and if that exists, it is segmented into the business facing part of these operations rather than the job operation. E of the we need to create more transparency about the fact that these opportunities are there and governors can be great leaders on this whole issue of people seeing themselves in these jobs. Most people do what their neighbor does or their parents have done in the past. They dont even realize they could be in these jobs. The female fedex driver in our video is a real person in colorado. She could not lift the boxes anymore. She did not appreciate that she gets trained in a lot of Digital Economy skills and those are transferable to and i to track career. We would really encourage you we would be very happy to work about how youink create a new labor market ecosystem. Microsoft has just joined with us. Skillful expanding in colorado, going to other states in developing policy work. We need to make Financial Resources available. Things go through the you can do on the points i covered. If you focus on creating a new skillbased labor market that works for the people in your state, you will bring together your employers, your educators, your Workforce Centers and jobseekers will benefit. They will be the ultimate people. Ho will benefit thank you for having me. Thank you. That was terrific. I know we have a number of governors engaged in similar work. I would like to begin by asking kentuckycky the the governor, governor bev and to share your experiences. Sure. I have only been of her for a year and a half, so i will mention a few things and others can feel free there is nothing proprietary about any of these things. So much of what we have learned, i was one of the governors, as others that you will hear from in a moment who had a chance to in germany. The young men in this video, we met dozens of them in germany and their english was impeccable, frankly, interestingly. These were impressive young people on a track to a career they felt good about. I think the real key for us, as noted by both of you, is to destigmatize this idea of not going immediately to a fouryear degree and to realize that in fact, simply getting a or year degree is not in and of itsel