Business-Higher Education Forum, P3·EDU Announce Strategic Partnership for Fall 2025 Convenings at Georgia Tech
ATLANTA, GA — June 25, 2025: The Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF) and P3·EDU have announced a strategic partnership to co-locate their Fall 2025 marquee convenings at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta during the week of Nov. 3 – 6.
(Foreground in green to background) Susan Winslow, CEO, Macmillan Learning (Speaking); Colin Newman, Director of US Policy, Amazon; Denise Galambos, Senior Vice President and Chief People and Equity Officer, Exelon Corporation; Greg Giangrande, Chief People & Communications Officer in Washington, DC for the Fall 2024 Convening (October 2024)
This strategic partnership will create expanded opportunities for cross-sector learning and collaboration among top U.S. executives committed to strengthening education through innovative public-private and business-higher education partnerships.
P3·EDU, which takes place Nov. 3 – 5, is an exclusive event for senior university and industry leaders to share best practices around innovation and public-private partnerships in higher education. Through curated discussions with university presidents, provosts, CFOs, policymakers, and corporate innovators, P3·EDU explores how strategic collaboration can unlock institutional transformation, drive student success, and enhance institutional sustainability.
BHEF, the nation’s leading network of corporate and college leaders dedicated to addressing U.S. workforce challenges through American higher education institutions, will host its Fall 2025 Convening November 5 and 6. The convening will offer a deeper dive into how business-higher education partnerships can fully activate long-term strategies for talent development, regional economic growth, and workforce innovation in the era of AI, quantum, and cybersecurity skills demands.
Held twice annually in the spring and fall, BHEF’s convening series brings together senior executives from member institutions and higher education executives to exchange insights and drive action on shared talent goals. BHEF member institution Georgia Tech, led by President Ángel Cabrera, will host BHEF’s Fall 2025 edition. Recent past member hosts include Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo and its President Jeff Armstrong, Accenture and its Global Health and Public Services Chair Ryan Oakes, and Miami Dade College and its President Madeline Pumariega.
Miami Dade College President Madeline Pumariega; Michael Fowler, Vice President of IT, Florida Power and Light Company; Ken Finneran, Vice President Human Resources, eMed Digital Healthcare at Miami Dade College for the Winter 2024 Convening (March 2024)
“Partnering with P3·EDU allows our members to engage with a broader community of higher education and industry leaders in demystifying and fully activating the power of high-performing, cross-sector partnerships,” said Kristen Fox, BHEF president and CEO. “Our convening then builds on that momentum by focusing on how high-impact business-higher education partnerships deliver measurable outcomes in talent and workforce, a critical component in today’s talent-driven economy.”
“P3·EDU is excited to partner with BHEF to deepen the dialogue between higher education and industry on talent and workforce planning,” said James Sparkman, co-founder and producer of P3·EDU. “By aligning our convenings, we’re giving attendees more opportunities to collaborate, learn, and lead, and we’re expanding their access to peer innovators in an often influential but highly challenging field: talent and workforce.”
Georgia Tech, as host institution for both events, plays a pivotal role in facilitating this collaboration. Under President Ángel Cabrera's leadership, Georgia Tech has emphasized the importance of partnerships in advancing technology and improving the human condition. Georgia Tech’s Rural Computer Science Initiative, for example, empowers rural teachers and students in Georgia, through co-taught computer science courses, to prepare them for tech careers; and the Georgia Manufacturing Extension Partnership pairs Georgia Tech faculty members with manufacturers to solve problems and introduce innovations in the state. The Institute's strategic plan, "Progress and Service for All," further underscores Georgia Tech’s commitment to amplifying impact through innovation and collaboration.
“At Georgia Tech we’re committed to innovating to expand access to more students and are proud to be the fastest-growing university in the nation," said President Ángel Cabrera. "We are honored to host both the Business-Higher Education Forum and P3·EDU for a joint convening that brings together two influential networks for a full week of dialogue on issues critical to talent development, innovation, and economic competitiveness. By uniting academic and industry leaders, we can foster solutions that not only meet workforce needs but also demonstrate how higher education can deliver real value — measured by opportunity, innovation, and outcomes that matter.”
Additional details on session access and how to activate cross-registration will be shared with attendees this summer at each organization’s respective registration site.
To learn more, visit bhef.com/convening and p3edu.com.
Media Contacts
Business-Higher Education Forum: Frank Avery, Managing Director, frank.avery@bhef.com
P3·EDU: Eimear Kelly, Director of Marketing, eimear@p3edu.com
Georgia Tech: Angela Barajas Prendiville, Director, Media Relations, aprendiville3@gatech.edu
About the Business-Higher Education Forum
The Business-Higher Education Forum is a national network connecting pioneering corporate and higher education leaders to identify emerging skills and co-develop inclusive pathways that address talent needs. We empower and catalyze collaborations that deliver accelerated, inclusive, and effective solutions across education and work and to meet the changing talent needs of learners, workers, and businesses.
About P3·EDU
Founded in 2017, P3·EDU is a highly curated forum for executive university leaders to network, share best practices, and explore innovation and emerging partnership opportunities. Now in its seventh year, the annual P3·EDU event draws top voices from academia, government, philanthropy, and industry to address a range of academic and administrative public-private partnerships in higher education.
About Georgia Tech
The Georgia Institute of Technology, or Georgia Tech, is one of the top public research universities in the U.S., developing leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition.
The Institute offers business, computing, design, engineering, liberal arts, and sciences degrees, as well as professional development and K-12 programs for fostering success at every stage of life. Its more than 53,000 undergraduate and graduate students represent 54 U.S. states and territories and more than 146 countries. They study at the main campus in Atlanta, at instructional sites around the world, and through distance and online learning.
As a leading technological university, Georgia Tech is an engine of economic development for Georgia, the Southeast, and the nation, conducting more than $1 billion in research annually for government, industry, and society.