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The Memphis Chamber is the voice of business and the lead economic development agency for the region, and it’s the sponsor of a Workforce Leadership Academy in 2023.

A partnership between Pima Community College and the Center for the Future of Arizona is investing in leaders of the workforce development system.

Learn how the Ohio Workforce Coalition and the New York Association for Training and Development Professionals (NYATEP) are collaborating and shaping workforce services.

Sports both reflect and shape our society. Journalism unpacks those relationships, along the way making the games that we play more interesting and relevant. The New York Times, HBO Real Sports, and Los Angeles Times helped set the standard. Now, each outlet is changing how it covers sports – and Real Sports ended after 29 award-winning years.

What happened? And what does the future hold for enterprise and investigative journalism in sports? Could the public get less, or more, coverage of important topics as the media landscape evolves? What are the most promising business models to support this work? And what do we lose if longform sports journalism gets deprioritized in a streaming world?

Watch this event that charted a path of action for making our financial systems more inclusive.

How would America be different if everyone combined high-quality, tech-forward income streams along with wages?

Race-based preferences during college admissions are gone, jettisoned by the Supreme Court. Now universities are under pressure to drop favorable treatment for donors and children of alumni. But what about recruited athletes, whose admission advantage far outstrips any of the above categories of student? At Harvard, for instance, the chances of getting in move from less than 1% to 86% if coveted by a coach.

Can special admissions for recruited athletes be preserved? Should they? Our panels explore the societal implications of preferred treatment of athletes, from the contributions they make to campus life to the downstream reshaping of the youth sports industry, and considers: What treatment makes sense now?

At the Super Bowl, the NFL honored the 25 medical personnel who saved the life of Damar Hamlin. Many high school athletes are lucky to have even one athletic trainer on site during games and practices. What if Hamlin’s survival served as a catalyst to get every high school athlete access to an athletic trainer? And, where that’s not possible due to financial or personnel reasons, what other options exist to save lives and care for young athletes’ health?

Hear what the household financial safety net of the future needs to look like in an America that is facing an increasingly unpredictable set of challenges.

The future of sports is dimmer without soccer journalist Grant Wahl, who died last week at age 49 while covering the FIFA men’s World Cup. But there are lessons from his work and life that anyone can take forward to build a better world. On Thursday, Dec. 15 (12-1 pm ET), we distill them and take measure of the legacy of the trailblazing writer on soccer, sports journalism and countless lives he lifted along the way.