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