Reblog: Economic Summit Explores Adapting and Thriving

Above: This year's cohort of "Emerging Leaders" - young professionals under the age of 40 - were also honored at the summit gathering, as in years past. Photo credit Matthew Cavanaugh

DOVER — More than 300 business and community leaders filled the Somerset Ballroom in the Grand Summit Resort at Mt. Snow on Tuesday, May 20, for the eighth annual Southern Vermont Economic Summit.

The theme of this year’s gathering, hosted and organized by the Brattleboro Development Credit Union and the Bennington County Regional Commission, was “Adapt and Thrive.” Coming changes in the labor market, workforce demographics and technology, especially those driven by artificial intelligence or “AI,” will create some challenges in the economic sector, said keynote address speaker Josh Wright, the executive vice-president at Lightcast, a consulting firm which specializes in labor market data and analysis.