Ashley Boren (right), Ashley Swearengin, Paul Granillo, and Gavin Newsom on the Upward Mobility panel during the 2016 California Economc Summit (Photo Credit: Skip Jones)
More than 500 Californians gathered in Sacramento in December for the two-day 2016 California Economic Summit. You can watch the entire program from Day Two in the videos below, thanks to CalChannel.
Read the 2016 Summit Program to view the full agenda.
Morning panels included:
Restoring Upward Mobility
Gavin Newsom, Ashley Swearengin, Ashley Boren, Paul Granillo and Sunne Wright McPeak (discussion leader)
One Million More Skilled Workers
Janet Napolitano, Michael Kirst, Timothy White, Dinyar Mistry and Eloy Ortiz Oakley (discussion leader)
One Million More Homes
Toni Atkins, Ben Metcalf, John Gamboa, Shannon Peloquin, Howard Penn and Denise Pinkston (discussion leader)
One Million Acre-Feet of Water
James Gore, Martha Davis, Wade Crowfoot and Kerri Timmer (discussion leader)
The afternoon sessions kicked off with new research on upward mobility presented by Raj Chetty, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. The rest of the day was rounded out by the following panels:
Closing the Gap: The Role of Philanthropy
Don Howard, Abby Davisson, Joseph Sanberg and Lenny Mendonca (discussion leader)
Creating Pathways to Upward Mobility: The Role of Elected Leadership
Chad Mayes, Darrell Steinberg, Joaquin Arambula, Susan Talamantes-Eggman and Carl Guardino (discussion leader)
Read all of our coverage of the 2016 Summit on the CAeconomy Reporting blog.