A Collaborative Convening to Connect People, Practices, and Possibility
How do we best prepare employees for the future of work?
Despite growing investment in skills-first practices, the workforce ecosystem remains fragmented. Employers, workers, training providers, funders, and tech platforms often work in parallel—each advancing solutions, but rarely in sync. This siloed approach limits impact, creates inefficiencies, and leaves opportunity on the table for job seekers, employees and employers.
To build truly inclusive and responsive workforce systems, we must break down silos, center collaboration, and leverage the tools, insights, technology, and resources that already exist. This requires coordinated action across the full ecosystem—aligning employer practices, worker pathways, technology infrastructure, and community investments to create scalable, people-centered, tech-enabled solutions that unlock opportunity and mobility.
Register now to join other leaders in designing a more inclusive, human-centered, tech-enabled, and skills-based future.
RON 2025 Objectives
- Deepen Connection & Awareness: Strengthen relationships across the RON community and build a shared understanding of the insights, resources, and partners that members can leverage to advance their work.
- Recognize Leadership & Impact: Celebrate the contributions of RON members and elevate the innovations driving progress across the network.
- Address Critical Challenges: Examine the key barriers faced by RON members, business leaders, and ecosystem partners to co-develop practical tools that enhance the employee experience within a skills-first system.
- Advance Innovation through Collaboration: Explore how emerging tools, data, and AI can accelerate adoption of skills-first practices—from talent acquisition to advancement—by identifying opportunities to integrate and scale high-impact solutions.
- Align on Shared Vision: Establish clarity around common goals and systemic challenges, and identify concrete next steps, cross-sector partnerships, and pilot opportunities that close equity gaps and drive sustainable change.
High-Level Agenda
| Day 1 | Tuesday, September 23 | 8am – 6pm CT Framing the Challenge: From Silos to Opportunity |
Day 2 | Wednesday, September 24 | 8am – 1pm CT From Design to Action |
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Accommodations – Book Early & Save Your Spot!
We have secured a limited number of rooms at a special discounted rate just for our event participants, they will not last long! To take advantage of this lower rate, we strongly encourage you to reserve your room as soon as possible.
The deadline to book at the discounted rate is August 28, 2025, or until the block is full (whichever comes first).
- AC Hotel Bentonville – 1201 SE 8th Street Bentonville, Arkansas, 72712
- Hotel Avail Rogers, Tapestry Collection by Hilton – 4100 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Rogers, Arkansas 72758
- Motto By Hilton Bentonville Downtown – 229 South Main Street, Bentonville, Arkansas 72712
Questions or Trouble Accessing Links?
If you have any questions about the convening or encounter any issues with the links on this site, please do not hesitate to reach out to the event organizer at [email protected]. We are here to help!
We want to acknowledge that this year’s convening overlaps with Rosh Hashanah. We sincerely regret this oversight and understand it may impact some community members’ ability to attend. We are committed to doing better in the future by ensuring event dates do not conflict with major religious or cultural observances.
