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Session 17 Education, Technology, and the Labor Force
What workforce skills and investments are needed in a knowledge-based economy to be competitive in a global economy? Is the solution for the federal government to get involved, as well as state and local governments? This session will feature the unique insight and uncommon vision of leading global figures in higher education and the high-tech industry.
Presentations
Scottie Ginn slideshow
Carl Hayden slideshow
Speakers
Jack Aernecke
Capitol Region Television
Jack Aernecke recently completed a 42 year broadcasting career in the Tech Valley, Capital Region area of upstate New York. His last 35 years was as anchor and business-technology reporter at WRGB-TV, a CBS affiliate.
In his reporting career Jack witnessed the start of the nations first college based business incubator at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and watched several entrepreneurs convert their research into businesses resulting in significant companies which settled in Tech Valley and are employing hundreds of area people in well paying jobs.
Since 2000 Jack has reported on the development of the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the University at Albany along with the investment of hundreds of millions of dollars by high tech companies. That led to the creation of a world class research facility that now employs over 2000 people and is the new home to International Sematech. Researchers work in a number of areas involved with designing the technology to make computer chips of the future faster, more complex and more efficient. He also reported on how those education-business partnerships led to the successful effort to attract Advanced Micro Devices to the Luther Forest Technology Park in nearby Saratoga County where their subsidiary plans to build one and perhaps several modern computer chip manufacturing facilities. Those successes are largely credited to the business education partnerships that first started in the region in the early 80s.
Since retirement Jack has maintained his interest in the local high tech community and is providing voice overs and narrations for clients.
Scottie Ginn
IBM Systems and Technology Group
Scottie Ginn is Vice President of Design Enablement and Packaging for the Technology Development organization at IBM. In this role, Scottie manages the development of tools to enable designers to use IBM’s semiconductor technologies and packaging development. Prior to this, she was in IBM Systems Group development for two years, and before that, she was Vice President of Standard Products in IBM Technology Group, where she was responsible for managing the business and P&L for PowerPC processors and other IBM designed standard products. Scottie managed the PowerPC business line between 1997 and 2003, expanding PowerPC from IT and networking applications to gaming and consumer segments.
Scottie began her career with IBM in 1982 as a DRAM circuit designer. In her 26 years
with IBM, she has managed DRAM and PowerPC microprocessor circuit design, technology development, test, packaging and the IBM mask house and several staff assignments such as secretary of the Corporate Technology Council and Manufacturing operations.
Scottie received her BSEE from the University of Virginia, her MSEE from MIT and an MBA from University of Vermont.
Carl Hayden
Chair, Board of Trustees, State University of New York
Carl T. Hayden was appointed Chairman of the SUNY Board of Trustees October 22, 2007.
Chancellor Emeritus Hayden was born April 1, 1941. He attended public schools in Marathon, Cortland County, New York, and was graduated from Marathon Central High School with honors in 1959 where he was president of the senior class. In 1963 he was graduated from Hamilton College where he was president of his fraternity. In 1970, he earned a Juris Doctor degree from the Cornell Law School where he was president of the Law Student Association.
Chancellor Emeritus Hayden served in the U.S. Navy from 1963-1967. He was a Gunnery Officer aboard USS Boston, a heavy cruiser, and a Legal Officer at the US Naval Station, Treasure Island, San Francisco, California.
Chancellor Emeritus Hayden and his wife, Cindy, reside in Elmira, where he practices law. They are parents of a daughter Ashley and two sons, Matthew and Timothy. Ashley is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Matthew graduated in 1996 from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, and the Maine School of Law. Timothy graduated from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont, and the Dickinson College of Law of Pennsylvania State University.
Chancellor Emeritus Hayden is a former president of the Elmira City School District Board of Education; He is a past chair or president of numerous community organizations. He was a founder and for six years president of the Mark Twain Arts Council, producer of the “Mark Twain-The Musical!,” a Broadway scale musical celebrating Mark Twain’s life and writings in Elmira. He is also a director of Panelogic, Inc., a private corporation.
Chancellor Emeritus Hayden was elected to the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York (USNY) in 1990. He was elected Chancellor by his colleagues on March 16, 1995, and re-elected to that office on March 9, 1998, and again on March 16, 2001. He stepped down on April 1, 2002, when, after twelve (12) years of service, his second term as Regent expired. He was thereupon voted Chancellor Emeritus by his colleagues.
Chancellor Emeritus Hayden was awarded honorary degrees by his alma mater, Hamilton College (1996), Elmira College (1999), the City University of New York (2002), and Excelsior College (2003). He is an honorary member of the Seneca Nation of the Iroquois.