Edie Fraser Opening Remarks

Good morning. Are we ready to be revolutionaries? Yay. You know, this is about change leaders. And everyone in this room is dedicated to make sure as the global STEM Talent Summer Summit ensues, We want to say this is about initiative. The STEM Connector has in partnership with all of you. This is an historic day, even though we've been around for five years and now have 155 members and thousands of partners. I just want to reflect on a couple of people that made some comments to us last night. And I'll start with Deloitte's chairman. What he really said is this summit is a call to action. And as my boss, Heidi Kleinbach Satter PepsiCo keeps reminding me, we're gonna listen for action all day long. He also said, this is a messy conversation because we've got to get so serious with solutions. This is not about us telling you all the factoids that Burning Glass and Monster and Department of Labor give us. It is really building the talent, skilled solutions. So Mike Fucci also says we're on the demand side, not the supply side. We've got to get the supply side to meet the demand. And the public private partnership and the partnerships with higher education, he said, have got to be our theme song. He said, listen today and answer the questions is step up to this call of action and ask how you can partner and how you can be counted in this movement for great jobs. Now put up that sign, help wanted. We are the solutions because employers are stepping up with solutions. So Al Bunshap of Dassault Systems said, the opportunity for prosperity disparity is only possible with STEM jobs. And we know that it's 80% of all skills and that we have to be the voices of collaboration. So just imagine if we get the 200 people here today and all of us that are listening live stream and all of our partners united on solution. So, Al, you also said, spread the message and make sure that we're amplifying our vision. Now, our chair, Heidi Kleinbach seider is amazing when she says employers take the lead. But Rob Denson is our chair of our higher education task force. And many of you, in fact, if you're part of our higher education group, Keith Wu, I mean all of you, young Ken on the higher education, Beth Broome from Cal Davis Apollo Group, all of you just stand because you have to be our pathway. But Rob also said last night we've got to lean on higher education to meet employer demand and for employers to make it very clear what jobs they need trained for. And to our own Balaji Ganapathy from Tata Consulting. It is so important. He's telling us stemconnector is much more than a think tank, it is a do tank. And that clearly collaboration is the only way we know the tech jobs. And you're going to hear data all day of what all the big talent data jobs are. But it's saying that we've all got to collaborate and coordinate and make this a major talent movement. You're going to hear from our chair, PepsiCo next. But Heidi, it's not only to thank you for giving us our vision of building this of something critical. Who would think a senior vice president of R and D would step up and say we've got to get the talent right. You are our conscience and we are appreciative. But you've also said we have to build a significant collective horsepower. Does everybody agree with that? And to Tony Leatherberry from Deloitte as well just said we've got to instill this call to action and make sure we are disruptors. Everybody agree we've got to cause the disruption. And I think when we go Ruth Valoria from Apollo Education, when you said we've got to raise the alarm bell from higher education partnering with business because higher education can't do it alone. And again, data after data of 6 million cybersecurity jobs globally are going to be needed only by 2019. And we know on health care, as you'll hear from Johnson and Johnson, 7 to 12 million jobs around the world. So we know issue by issue where the jobs are from our data. But now we've got to do solutions. We do want to thank Gallup and you're going to hear from them this morning. Great. Jobs are better lives. STEM jobs are the pay equity issue, as we know for women. And just really quickly, you know, we say STEM jobs are 92 cents on a dollar. Tech jobs for women and girls are 96 cents on a dollar. So we have got to all of you working on diversity and on Million Women Mentors movement with us, we could shout out to everybody in this room, you are the doers that are going to make the difference. So we are live streaming today across the world and we also want you to look at your Twitter handle globalstem talentsummer, Twitter handle gsts2016. But we want you to know that the clearing is also going to be capturing everything we say about action. And we thank you for that. We thank everybody that are saying you're part of this movement with us. We're going to focus four areas, Great panels, two major keynotes today. But they are all stepping up with us to be our partners. Though we have done a lot of work in this area and just on our Higher Education Council with Rob and your entire group. I think many of you know that we did this book, got out 20,000 copies called Advancing a Jobs Driven Economy. 62 case studies of business and higher education working together. So whether Dr. Rhodes from Austin Community College up to Cal Davis up to Apollo, the partnerships with business and Rob with Accumuld and other, it's your partners. We've done another publication that was just released that's called Scaling STEM Success Again. Partnerships higher education and business that will never let us step down from this commitment. So as we look together to our Food and Ag Council, our innovation task force that stemmed this whole global STEM talent summit. But we want to stop and say this wouldn't have happened without 25 strategic partners and your brands for the 25 companies that are here today. Could you just rise for one minute because we want to say you are our partners, as Heidi and I will say that will join this movement and you'll hear from Heidi. We're going to hopefully keep you with us. We're going to add and grow to 40 next year and 75 the following year. Do most on best practices and drive this revolution that we've got.

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So I think appreciation and listening to you is our modus operandi. It's about collaboration and action. And we have been saluting leaders for many, many years. And we met with the Pepsicos when we produced 100 women leaders. And then Lorena Fembrais on our staff said, let's do 100 diverse leaders, 100 CIOs. But three years ago we produced a major publication called 100 CEO Leaders in STEM. And Lorena, you, Ted Wells, our entire team, Tamisha Richards, all of you here and now Michael Dubois that is helping on this conference. But this is listening to what our CEOs are saying. We've got to get talent right? And we're doing it with technology innovation skills to jobs. We're doing it with an emphasis on women and diversity. And we've got to get ready with action. So with that, I turn this over to our colleague Lorena Fimbres, because each of you will get the first copies of 100 CEO leaders. We urge you to quote, whether it's Monsanto's chair or every company in here. And we made special attention to pick up some women leaders. So it's not only the Marilyn Hewson zablockheed or Phoebe from General Dynamics Dynamics that are in here. But the Nina Vacas and the Savannah coaches and some of our other women leaders, we are so pleased. Some of our Hispanic leaders, we made a special ploy this year to embrace our values which are diversity and leadership propelling job changes. You we are the solution. Lorena Fembrais.

Thanks Edie. And something very special to all of us at STEM Connector is that with this late publication we basically celebrate our fifth anniversary doing this special recognition piece. And as Edie mentioned, we first published in 2012 the 100 Women Leaders in STEM. We published the next year the 100 CEO Leaders in STEM, just to be followed by the 100 Diverse Corporate Leaders in STEM. Last year we published the 100 CIO CTO Leaders in STEM. And today, our fifth anniversary, we published the second edition of the 100 CEO Leaders in STEM. And if we think about what we've been able to capture, we always say that there's really no other business publication that not Only brings together 100 CEOs, 100 corporate executives, but also their thoughts. Because if we think about it, it's really a collective vision put all together in one same place. And this should be really read by all of the business schools because these are visionaries. These are people telling us what's keeping them up at night. These are CEOs telling us what they see as the future of the global economy and how we're going to keep America number one. We feature so far about 400 executives across over 200 companies and this is really, really impressive. We want to thank the sponsors for this particular edition, Diversified Search, Tata Consultancy Services, Walmart, and all of them under Sodexo's great leadership. We also want to salute our partner for this year, the U.S. hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Along with our media partner Diversity Comms. We want to also acknowledge our hard working team. We couldn't do this without them. And as Edie would always say, you know, Latifah Cooper, Carly Louise, Jean Matthew, Erica Hanson and the whole STEM Connector team, but also all of your teams because you have no idea how much back and forth needs to happen for us to be able to publish this. Some people would say it's really hard enough to bring together 10 CEOs together. You can only imagine what we need to go through for 100 and it's really, really worth it. Again, as we said, this is a collective vision of 100 corporate executives and no other publication does this like we do. And this is thanks to all of you. We want to also announce that next year we're going to be publishing the 100 Corporate Women Leaders in STEM. So you can start thinking about who you want to nominate to make sure your company is included. And finally, as you flip and dive into each of the pages, don't forget to help us elevate the conversation and include social media under the hashtag 100StemLeaders. Thank you and enjoy it.

So everybody grab a copy and let us know if you want more. These are coffee table pieces, but we promote these for a year and in our STEM Daily. Does everybody read STEM Daily? Raise your hands. Right. All right. It is so important. So you'll see one CEO a day and what their message is. But you also know the amazing stories for STEM Daily and Ed Tech Weekly. So it is really a joy for you to have the first copies of 100 Women. And we thank TADA because TADA has gone through and looked at the trends of CEO. We're going to include many, many CEO quotes. But it's all about solutions to talent. So let us turn this over to Heidi Kleinbach Sauter, Senior vice president of PepsiCo, the first chair of our Innovation Task force and our leader for the next three years. That drives us, drives you, drives me to listen, to think, and to take action. Heidi, thank you for that leadership.