Conference Agenda
| Thursday, September 15 | |
| 1 – 2 p.m. | Registration, seating |
| 2 – 3:30 p.m | Preparing Southeast Michigan for the New Normal in Retirement Panelists discuss challenges for baby boomers in the current workforce while revealing ways that organizations are working to transform Southeast Michigan’s economy by helping older workers to navigate career change, discover entrepreneurship and engage in volunteer service. Moderated by Susan Tompor, personal finance columnist, Detroit Free Press. Panelists include Randal Charlton, executive director, TechTown; Peter Lichtenberg, director, Institute of Gerontology, Wayne State Unviersity; Marick Masters, director, Labor@Wayne; Jacqueline Morrison, state director, AARP Michigan; and Tim Wintermute, executive director, Luella Hannan Memorial Foundation. |
| 3:30 – 4:30 p.m | Experience Matters Allan Gilmour, President, Wayne State University President Allan Gilmour gives a personal account of memorable victories, unexpected challenges and valuable lessons learned along his unlikely journey from long-time executive at Ford Motor Company to his current successful encore career as Wayne State University's 11th president. |
| 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. | The Big Shift Marc Freedman, CEO, Civic Ventures A noted authority on the changing face of retirement, Mr. Freedman explores the economic and social impact of an aging workforce, including how experienced workers can provide solutions to challenges in education, the environment and health care. Freedman also offers a road map for baby-boomers who want to make their own big shift. |
| 5:30 - 6 p.m. | Book signing Marc Freedman signs copies of his latest book, The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife. Copies available for purchase on-site. |
| Friday, September 16 | |
| 9 - 10 a.m. | Registration, seating |
| 10 - 11 a.m. | The New Normal for Retirement Planning and Investment Roger Ferguson, President & CEO, TIAA-CREF and former Vice-Chair Federal Reserve Bank As the leading executive for one of the world’s largest retirement investment funds and as former vice chair of the Federal Reserve Bank, Dr. Ferguson gives his unique perspective on the new normal for retirement planning, while addressing such issues as defined benefit and contribution plans and assessments of retirement preparedness. |
| 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future Robert Reich, Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley, and former US Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, one of the nation’s foremost authorities on work and the global economy, leads a broad yet incisive discussion of how federal and state economic policies and fallout from the Great Recession affect the difficult choices to be made by workers approaching retirement, including Social Security, Medicare, default retirement age and other vital concerns. |
| 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. | Book signing Robert Reich signs copies of his latest book, Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future. |