Leaders of Change: Dr. Mary Walshok
How San Diego is Reinventing Itself
Is your business ready for the future?
Technologies and industries come and go and it is important to understand the reality of the 21st century.
- What are the products and services of the future?
- Who are the customers of the future?
Dr. Walshok will speak on the following:
- The impact of large companies and industries leaving the region. Who will be left to spend at our local businesses.
- Technologies and industries come and go, how we keep investing in NEW products and industries so that our region stays sustainable.
- How San Diego reinvented itself to meet the demands of today's economy, lighting the way for others.
- How we work together to build a competitive economy for those that live here
About the Speaker
Mary Walshok, Ph.D. is an author, educator, researcher, and associate vice chancellor for public programs and dean of Extension at the University of California San Diego.
She is the author of more than 100 articles and reports on aligning workforce development with regional economic growth. She has authored and co-authored Blue Collar Women (1981), Knowledge Without Boundaries (1995), Closing America’s Job Gap (2011), Creating Competitiveness: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policies for Growth (2013) and Invention and Reinvention: The Evolution of San Diego’s Innovation Economy (2013) and the Oxford Handbook of Local Competitiveness (forthcoming 2014).
An industrial sociologist studying the dynamics of regional economic transformation, with a particular focus on how globalization and rapid changes in technology are affecting the social dynamics and economic challenges of regions across America, Walshok has researched various communities with support from the U.S. Department of Labor, NSF, and the Lilly Endowments. She is currently engaged in research on binational innovation dynamics.
She oversees a $45 million, 250-employee division that annually serves more than 65,000 enrollees through innovative local and online programs, as well as provides access to a vast array of intellectual resources through the award-winning UCSD-TV and nationwide through UCTV, which reaches over 22 million households and millions more around the globe on the Web. The Division also serves more than 3,000 foreign students annually.
A co-founder of the San Diego Dialogue in the 1990s, a program focused on opportunities in the San Diego-Tijuana region, she currently serves on the boards of San Diego CONNECT (which she helped found in 1985), the United States-Mexico Foundation for Science, the International Community Foundation, La Jolla Playhouse, Olivewood Gardens and the Girard Foundation.
Event Sponsors
Leaders of Change: Dr. Mary Walshok
Date and Time
Wednesday Aug 27, 2014
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM PDT
Wednesday, August 27
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
11:30 AM Registration and Lunch
12 NOON - Presentation
Location
San Diego Marriott La Jolla
4240 La Jolla Village Drive
La Jolla, California 92037
Fees/Admission
$49 Members
$89 Non-members
Contact Information
858-487-1767
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