Building Tomorrow’s Talent Today
November 5-6, 2025 | Atlanta, Georgia
This is the room where solutions are built.
The 2025 Business-Higher Education fall convening will showcase and catalyze strong strategic collaborations between forward-looking businesses and higher education institutions.
To meet the challenges of our workforce today, we must reinvent and reimagine how we prepare talent for our AI-enabled economy, address changing entry-level pathways into the workforce, and ensure we reskill and upskill learners and workers. We will learn from both the successes that have propelled Atlanta's economic revitalization and inclusive growth and the strong national partnerships between education and employment that have built resilient approaches to prepare tomorrow’s talent.
Key topics include:
- How are knowledge-sector roles evolving and how must post-secondary preparation pathways evolve for tomorrow’s workforce?
- What strategies can mitigate the potential negative impacts of AI on early careers and ensure that today’s young professionals are launching successfully into the workforce?
- How can we accelerate progress to build the skills and work-integrated learning partnership infrastructure that enables education to move at a pace of business?
- How can new funding models enable innovative partnerships and ensure that business and education are risk sharing to more effectively respond to a changing economy?
- How can your organization lead––nationally, regionally, and in your community, to make the moves today to prepare tomorrow’s talent?
Agenda
Join us for the Fall 2025 Convening hosted by Georgia Tech President Angel Cabrera.
Request an Invitation for the Fall 2025 Convening
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Bringing Together Leaders
For over four decades, BHEF has been the go-to network for pioneering leaders shaping the future of education and work starting with its convenings. Participants meet new partners from business, higher education, philanthropy, policy leaders, and practitioners and deepen their relationships in the field. The results are years of cutting-edge new programs and initiatives like:
- The City University of New York’s collaboration with Amazon Web Services
- BHEF's Connecticut Tech Talent Accelerator led by BHEF members Stanley Black & Decker, Accenture, IBM, Quinnipiac University, and Connecticut State Colleges & Universities
- National, transformative collaborations like the Business Roundtable-BHEF Workforce Partnership Initiative.
Fall 2025: Sponsors
Architect Sponsors
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All sponsors receive at least one guaranteed invitation for a senior executive to join the convening. Interested in learning more? Contact Frank Avery, Managing Director, at frank.avery@bhef.com.
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Review BHEF's Sold-Out Spring 2025 Convening
BHEF’s sold-out Spring 2025 Convening, hosted April 1–2 at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo by BHEF Vice Chair and Cal Poly President Jeff Armstrong, brought together leaders shaping the future of talent and innovation.
Attendees:
- Explored applied AI in sectors like defense and cybersecurity
- Shared strategies for coalition-building between business and higher education in uncertain times, and
- Co-designed the foundation of BHEF’s forthcoming AI Skills Framework, a flagship offering coming out of the new AI & the Future of Talent Collaborative
For Over Four Decades...
BHEF has been the go-to network for pioneering leaders shaping the future of education and work starting with its convenings.
