Overcoming challenges: stories of perseverance and assistance in LAEDC 2020 Annual Report
LAEDC’s annual report tells the stories of many businesses and their employees who have faced unprecedented crisis in 2020 and managed to move ahead. Read…
Category: Workforce Development
LA’s ocean economy explored in two Altasea webinars
LAEDC’s Bill Allen was one of several panelists in a pair of recent webinars, discussing the potential for LA County to create more innovation busin…
CCW Report: Information & Communications Technology Industry & its Workforce
Through LAEDC’s partnership in Center for a Competitive Workforce, a new report has been released on the fast-growing occupations in the local ICT industry, which…
Recap: Future Forum – Future of Electric Mobility zoom event included workforce discussion
Speakers from Uber Air, LA-based XOS electric trucks, CA-based Ampaire electric planes, Formula-E racing, and LAEDC discussed the major advances under…
LAEDC offers recommendations to Community Colleges in report
Community Colleges at a Crossroads: Market assessment and a call to action, is a report developed by LAEDC in collaboration with the 19 community colleges…
Recap: Space commercialization was in focus at LAEDC Future Forum
A full house attended Future Forum on January 22nd to hear the key drivers in LA’s aerospace industry, with a focus on space commercialization. The…
Renewable energy creating opportunity for careers: Expert video
On our sister website, Center for a Competitive Workforce, a new video explores hot trends in careers and occupations related to the increasing adoption of…
LAEDC identifies 200K job openings in new labor market reports for CCW
As part of the ongoing effort to help colleges align programs with industry hiring trends, and in partnership with the 19 community colleges in the…
Join LAEDC in support for Fair Chance hiring initiative
Your organization can be part of the solution — hiring good people who have been involved with the justice system. LAEDC is directly supporting the…
LAEDC CEO Bill Allen provides $50 million endowment from Mitchell Trusts to support greater diversity and ethics in the entertainment industry
In memory of the late entertainment industry pioneer John H. Mitchell, who as the first President of Columbia Pictures Television built it into one of…
Recap: e4 Mobility Alliance Meeting on New Modes of Vehicle Usage
On May 9th, LAEDC’s e4 Mobility Alliance convened leaders from Canoo, HopSkipDrive, BlueLA, Spin, Borrow, and HyreCar for a dynamic conversation around new modes of…
Community college system, students and businesses benefiting from CCW partnership
LAEDC has published a playbook for industry-education partnerships, in the form of a Project Update about the work of Center for a Competitive Workforce (CCW). …
Big Takeaways From Recent Bioscience Workforce Development Council Meeting
(Los Angeles, CA) On March 22nd, 2019 the LAEDC and the Center for Competitive Workforce (CCW) co-hosted the Bioscience Workforce Council Meeting at the LARTA…
Recap: DME Council Meeting w/ Netflix
On March 27th, LAEDC’s Digital Media and Entertainment (DME) Council convened administrators and educators from regional community colleges and industry and government stakeholders for an…
LA-Area community college Cloud Computing Certificate profiled on KTTV-11
Several local community college students were interviewed about the new cloud computing certificate that has been co-created by the LA-Area community colleges and Amazon Web…
DME Lunch+Learn Webinar w/ Disney
On Thursday, March 14th, the Digital Media + Entertainment Council hosted an inaugural Lunch+Learn webinar with Lisa Solana and Michael Webster, two industry mavericks and…
Biggest Takeaways from R.E.D Talk: The Future of the Talent Ecosystem in LA County
On January 25th, LAEDC hosted our latest R.E.D Talk, at Cross Campus South Bay, where entrepreneurs and innovators discussed the challenges of cultivating a diverse and inclusive…
Recap: e4 Mobility Alliance Meeting with EV Charging Leaders
On January 24th, LAEDC’s e4 Mobility Alliance convened leaders from Southern California Edison (SCE), EVgo, EV Connect, Greenlots, ChargePoint, and Los Angeles Trade-Technical College (LATTC)…
Report: Professional Services Industry Forecast to be a Major Job-Driver in LA
Workforce intelligence report finds Business & Professional Services Sector will reach 400,000 jobs by 2021, according to Center for a Competitive Workforce …
Recap: DME Council Meeting with Viacom Executives and Community Colleges
On December 7th, LAEDC’s Digital Media and Entertainment (DME) Council convened administrators and educators from regional community colleges; industry and government stakeholders; and Viacom leaders…
Forbes covers “Future of Work” co-hosted by WorkingNation, the Milken Institute, and LAEDC
On November 16th, the LAEDC was excited to take part in “The Future of Work in California Townhall” featuring experts from the academic, industry and nonprofit…
Scaling up: LA’s community colleges continue rollout of Cloud Computing certificate
Executives from Amazon Web Services, the 19 participating community colleges in LA, many businesses and other workforce development partners gathered in Downtown Los Angeles for…
County’s Economic Development Scorecard is published
Office of LA County CEO has published the latest summary of economic development progress, detailing workforce development, business assistance, financial assistance, capital development and more. …
Media coverage: Amazon AWS cloud computing partnership with 19 LA community colleges
View articles and interviews highlighting the business-education workforce training collaboration which resulted in a cloud computing certificate at the 19 community colleges in LA’s regional…