DISCUSSIONS

Based on your input on your interests, we’ve curated small groups to discuss selected topics. Your personal agenda includes your pre-assigned small-group discussions, which will all happen on Wednesday. On Thursday, you'll be able to suggest and select your own discussion groups, to add, expand upon, or fill in blanks.

See your personal agenda to see your custom list of discussions.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2025

Discussion 1
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM

  • China

  • Families and work: the workplace paradox

  • Has AI destroyed the career ladder as we know it?

  • Immigration

  • Is the business of business business? Tech Edition

  • Making AI’s political economy work for workers

  • Modernizing apprenticeships

  • Prototyping the future of work: using sci-fi methods to creatively imagine

  • Realities of (re)industrialization

  • Reclaim democracy by giving more of it to workers

  • Redesigning organizations for 21st century work

  • [Union] evolution: worker organizations for how we work now

Discussion 2
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM

  • America’s largest employer: what lessons can we learn from the U.S. military?

  • Beyond DEI: reimagining workplace inclusion

  • Enabling effective entrepreneurship

  • Engaging with the affordability agenda

  • How is the economy actually doing for people who work?

  • How will AI change the structure of industries?

  • Is influencing work? Understanding Gen Z’s economic playbook

  • Lets’s really talk about abundance

  • Rearchitecting the state: federal workers, trade uncertainty, and more

  • Sports as work

  • What problems do we actually want our AI coworkers to solve?

  • When work feels rigged: what social contract do we need?

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2025

Discussion 3
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

  • Disabilities

  • Guaranteed income 2015 vs 2025

  • Healthcare

  • Help! How do I lead amidst so much disruption?

  • Is AI just normal technology?

  • Limousine populism: how to build a real bipartisan pro-worker coalition

  • Looms vs. cranes: redefining AI’s success around humans

  • The reverberating impacts from higher ed

  • Upskilling and reskilling in 2025

  • What should kids be learning?

  • Who gets to shape technology’s impact on work?

  • Worker rights in 2025 and beyond