Workforce Development Summit 2026

The summit is at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The listed audience includes education and workforce association leaders, career-readiness and youth-employment nonprofit professionals, workforce and talent pipeline managers, HR and corporate training professionals, and workforce board members.

It is most useful for workforce development managers, association leaders, HR and corporate training leaders, and local workforce board members who want to build business-education partnerships, given the one-and-a-half-day format of discussion and real-world examples. Being held alongside ACTE's CareerTech VISION conference lets attendees extend into the wider CTE community, but classroom teachers looking for instructional sessions or vendors wanting a large exhibit hall would get less from this short, partnership-focused summit.

Attendees at education and workforce association meetings usually wear business casual, such as slacks, blouses or button-downs and a blazer, and New Orleans in early December is mild, so a light layer is enough.