The NET Program hosted the Non-traditional Employment Training (NET) Conference on April 17, 2018 at University at Albany, SUNY, in conjunction with the 2017-2018 Vanguard Award Celebrations.
​Please see below for the video of the insightful and inspiring keynote speech by Randi Webber, and the dynamic panel discussion by the representatives from American Association for Men in Nursing, Society of Women Engineers, Women in Science and Health, and former Vanguard Award Winners on progress made towards advancing gender equity in professions that have traditionally been dominated by one gender and what we can do moving forward.
Click here to access the video recordings of the NET Conference: Part 1
Click here to access the video recordings of the NET Conference: Part 2
Click here to access the interviews with 2017-2018 Vanguard Awardees

NET CONFERENCE AGENDA April 17, 2018
Keynote Speaker

• Randi Webber, National Association of Women in Construction, Director of Project Management, Kleeberg Sheet Metal, Inc., Slocum-Webber Group, LLC.

Panelists

• Emily Frantz, New York State Capital District Society of Women Engineers & Nuclear Engineer at Newport News Shipbuilding, A Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries
• Kristin Gordon, 2014-2015 Vanguard Awardee & Sound Engineer
• Melinda Larson, Women in Science and Health (WISH) UAlbany & Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences 
• Mark Wahl, New York Capital Region (NYCR) Chapter of the American Association for Men in Nursing & Faculty and Program Director, School of Nursing at Excelsior College

2017-2018 VANGUARD AWARDS Ceremony
To watch the interviews with 2017-2018 Vanguard Awardees, please click here.