Workforce disruption, education shifts, and evolving employer expectations are reshaping how talent is identified, developed,  and promoted. Credentialing organizations are uniquely positioned to play a central role in expanding the qualified talent pool—but doing so requires a shift from static credential models to dynamic, workforce-aligned systems. 

This webinar explores how credentialing bodies can actively support workforce development efforts to strengthen hiring pipelines, increase access to opportunity, and better align credentials with real-world demand, and promoting their values to employers and regulators.. 

Participants will examine emerging trends impacting the talent landscape, including changing demographics, alternative education pathways, and policy developments such as 529 expansion, student loan reform, and immigration-related education and workforce considerations. The session will also highlight practical strategies for embedding credentials into both degree and non-degree programs, aligning offerings with labor market demand, and strengthening employer engagement. 

Through real-world examples and expert perspectives, this session will provide ideas for transforming credentials into more effective workforce signals—supporting employers seeking qualified talent and individuals navigating evolving career pathways. 

Every few months, test security finds a new technology to worry about: generative AI, smart glasses, deepfakes. These are important questions — but they’re not the most important ones. Security strategies built around today’s technology will always be playing catch-up, because tactics change constantly while the attack vectors they exploit rarely do.

This session makes the case that future-ready assessment security is defined by architecture, not by our ability to predict the next threat. Drawing on operational experience securing high-stakes testing programs across test-center, remote, and hybrid modalities, we’ll reframe the security conversation around four questions every program should be asking: Are we securing against tactics or attack vectors? Are we creating friction for the right people? Are we building controls or architecture? And are we connecting the dots across our data?

Along the way, we’ll challenge some comfortable assumptions — that any single control can carry a security program, that integrity and candidate experience are a trade-off, and that more detection technology automatically means more security. Attendees will leave with a practical framework for evaluating their own program's resilience: one that treats AI not only as a threat to defend against, but as a security asset in its own right — one input into a layered architecture designed to adapt faster than any single threat evolves.

Whether you run a certification, licensure, or admissions program, this session will equip you to move your security conversations from “What do we do about AI?” to the questions that will still matter when the next technology arrives.

A Job Task Analysis (JTA) is foundational to defensible credentialing, but its strategic value extends far beyond exam development. This webinar will explore how credentialing organizations can intentionally leverage JTA data to design stackable, career‑aligned credentials that support learners from entry‑level roles through advanced professional certification.

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