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20 FEDA News & Views MIKE ROWE Writer, Narrator, Producer One of the nation's most unique storytellers, Mike Rowe is a popular media personality and the host of the highly-rated TV series Discovery Channel's "Dirty Jobs" and annual Shark Week. His most recent TV project, CNN's "Somebody's Gotta Do It," introduces his fans and viewers to fascinating tradespeople, innovators and entrepreneurs through a show about passion, purpose and, occasionally, hobbies that get a little out of hand. With a strong desire to give back and advocate for the workers featured on his shows, Rowe has launched several campaigns and initiatives focused on reinvigorating the skilled trades, and encouraging technical recruitment. His mikeroweWORKS Foundation awards scholarships to students pursuing careers in the skilled trades and his website, mikeroweWORKS.org, focuses on all the issues related to the widening skills gap, aging workforce, high unemployment and millions of unfi lled jobs. It also provides comprehensive resources for anyone looking to explore those vocations. In this presentation, Rowe will offer a down-to-earth perspective on defi ning success and provides intriguing insights on the enormous but forgotten benefi ts of hard, honest work, the undervaluation of skilled trades, and the effects to our national identity, infrastructure and economy. POLLY LABARRE Founding Member of Fast Company, Editorial Director, MIX Polly LaBarre has used her talents to help make organizations more resilient, innovative and inspiring, and to embolden and equip leaders at every level to make a meaningful impact. Her work is driven by three core questions: How can organizations change the way they change in order to become endlessly adaptable and gain an advantage over time? How do you embed innovation as a DNA-level capability inside an organization? How do we unleash and organize human potential in ever more powerful ways? LaBarre is the editorial director of MIX (Management Innovation eXchange). Supported by McKinsey & Co., Red Hat, Gartner and other institutions, MIX is an open-innovation platform launched by the MLab. It's a discovery engine for the most progressive management practices and ideas; an active community of in-the-trenches management innovators and change agents around the world, and an experimental laboratory for developing and testing bold new ideas for equipping management practitioners with new principles, methods and models. THE FUTURE STARTS HERE E&S INDUSTRY SUMMIT MARCH 21-24, 2018 PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA Featured Speakers