Panel 1 – Building and Sustaining a Collaborative Team – Service Integration

• Doug Potts, IDES — Northern Region Employment Services
  • Presentation – Building and Sustaining a Collaborative Team Service Integration
• Kelly Lapentino, EdD, DCEO, Northern Regional Workforce Manager
  • Presentation – Rapid Response Roundtable
• Susi Pihera, LWIA 6, Senior Programs Specialist, Du Page County Workforce Development
  • Presentation – DuPage County Workforce Development Division 

Panel 2 – Enhancing Workforce and Economic Development Synergies – Business Services 

• Lauren Gibson, DCEO, Regional Economic Development (RED) Team, North Central Regional Manager
  • Presentation – State of Illinois DCEO Team Red
• Todd Lowery, IDES, Statewide Business Services Manager
  • Presentation – WorkShare IL Program 
• Lori Warren, LWIA 13 – Program Manager, Rock Island Tri- County Consortium
  • No Presentation

Panel 3 – Navigating for Optimal Community, Employer and Worker Support – Systems and Tools

• Rita Podledneva, PhD, IDES, Economic Information and Analysis Division – Labor Market Economist
  • Presentation – Labor Market Information 
• Bryan Ellis, DCEO, Office of Employment & Training – Southern Regional Workforce Manager
  •  Presentation – Rapid Response Funding, Strategies, & Examples

• Levi Beerup, DCEO, Office of Employment & Training – Workforce Development Specialist & Dee Reinhart, SIUC  Center for Workforce Development  – Illinois workNet
  • Presentation – Illinois Employment Business System