The LED Partnership Workshop is the annual gathering of the Census Bureau, state partners, and LED users. This year’s workshop will be jam packed with examples of innovative LED analysis from a wide variety of LED data users – state partners, state data centers, and private sector planners.  There will also be keynote presentations, the state partner business meeting, and a demonstration and “under the hood” look at the exciting new features of OnTheMap 5.

If you have any questions, please contact Melodee Mabbitt at mmabbitt@skilledwork.org for more information.

Preliminary Agenda (subject to change):

Wednesday, March 9

8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Registration open

9:00 - 9:30
Opening Remarks

Jeremy Wu, US Census Bureau
Tom Mesenbourg, Deputy Director, U.S. Census Bureau

9:30 - 10:00
Keynote presentation - Nancy Potok, Deputy Under Secretary for Economic Affairs

10:00 – 10:45
Break and Poster Session

10:45 – 12:30
Innovation in Data Presentation

Steve Jost, Associate Director for Communications, Census Bureau
Jürgen Schwärzler, Google Public Data Team
Sirinya Tritipeskul, Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority  -  Creative Uses of LED Data to Engage the Public in a Web 2.0 World

2011 LED Partnership Award for Innovation
to Jim Salomon, State of Washington, for LED Data Cube

Launching the LED Innovation Network

12:30 – 1:45
Lunch

Speaker: Andrew Reamer, Research Professor, George Washington University Institute of Public Policy - Putting America to Work: The Essential Role of Federal Labor Market Statistics

1:45 – 3:00
Breakout sessions, choice of two topics

Transportation
Jeff Matson, Transportation Equity: Using LED to Make the Case for Transit
Kyle Smith, Broadening Urban Investment to Leverage Transit (BUILT) in Ohio
Caroline R. Ferris, Use of LED Data in Estimating Jobs Accessed through the Federal JARC Program

Economic and Workforce Development
William Mass, Benchmarking Competitiveness: Using QWI to identify areas with high concentrations of high tech employment and to assess the competitiveness of a region.
Tré Rials, Philadelphia Employment Nodes: Where Residents Work

3:00 - 3:30   
Break

3:30 – 5:00   
Demo/Q&A: OnTheMap 5

5:00 – 5:15
Closing Remarks/Announcement

Thursday, March 10

8:00 am – 3:00 pm
Registration open

8:00 – 9:00
State Partner Business Meeting

9:00 – 9:30
Opening Remarks

Greg Weeks, State of Washington
Rod Little, Associate Director for Research and Methodology, U.S. Census Bureau

9:30 – 10:45
State Data Center Uses of LED

James R. Palma, Maryland Department of Planning
Carol O. Rogers, Indiana Business Research Center
Steve Barker, Oklahoma Department of Commerce

10:45 – 11:15
Break

11:15 – 12:30
Breakout sessions, choice of two

In Your Community
Jerry Lonergan, Kansas City, Missouri - Who Pays the Earning Tax?
Robert McHaney, Using LED to Locate Transit Demand for Park and Rides in Houston, Texas

Recession/Economy
Bruce Fallick, Nonemployment Duration and the Consequences of Job Separations
Yanyi K. Djamba, The demography of economic recession through labor force analysis

12:30 – 1:45
Lunch

Speaker: John Haltiwanger,  Professor of Economics, University of Maryland - Who Creates Jobs? Small vs. Large vs. Young

1:45 – 3:15
Panel: LED Operations and Enhancements