2025 Conference
ESAC Conference 2026
Hosted at Wild Dunes Resort
May 19th – 23rd, 2025
2025 Conference Schedule
Featured Speakers
- Michael F. Sabitoni, General Secretary-Treasurer LiUNA
- Dane Sutherland, CLCS Vice President, Eberts & Harrison, Inc.
- Stacia Libby, Marketing Manager, Ullico Casualty Group
- Maimuna Jallow-Hancock, Director Market Development, Ullico Inc.
- James Cole, Principal, Groom Law Group
- Chris Sherlock, Training Director, Greater Boston IBEW-NECA JATC
- Mary Vogel, Consultant, Equity Works
- Lauren Cooke, Director of Apprenticeships, Neighborhood Villages
- Leslie Baker, Program Director, Family Services of Central MA
- Maureen Augesteen, Program Manager, YMCA of Greater Boston
- Jason Shedlock, New England Regional Organizer for the Laborers’ International Union of North America’s (LIUNA) Maine Homeless Pre-Apprenticeship
- Andrew Cortes, CEO of Building Futures
- Jamie Becker, Director of Health Promotion, LHSFNA
- Dennis X. Collins, Apprenticeship Lead MASS/DAS
- Tom Kriger, NABTU Education Director
- Joe Carparco, ESAC President
Presentations (Coming Soon)
- INSURING YOUR APPRENTICESHIP FUND
- Issues women face while working in the construction sector
- What changes to registered apprenticeship might we expect under the new administration?
- Apprenticeship Training Standards: Enhancing Occupational Training and Education in Registered Apprenticeship Programs
- IBEW JATC Local 103 Clean Energy Pre-apprenticeship Program
- “An Innovative Model of Collaboration around Early Childhood Apprenticeships in MA”
- Building Community Begins at Home
- Pathways to Public Service: The Power of Apprenticeships
- Registered and Pre-Apprenticeship Behind the Walls Building Futures Inside- Program
- Peer Support Through Work
- Strategies to advance quality pre-apprenticeship and increase youth’s participation in Registered Apprenticeship
- Massachusetts Division of Apprentice Standards
- The Economic Imperative of Child Care
- New England Laborers’ Apprenticeship Panel -The Road to Apprenticeship
- From ARPs to RA: Current Challenges to Registered Apprenticeship Pathway Programs
- ESAC Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
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ESAC
St. Augustine, FL
May 18 – May 21, 2026
About ESAC
The respective state sponsors in the form of an ESAC Planning Committee are ad hoc and exist to design the annual conference for that particular state in that particular year.
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Eastern Seaboard Apprenticeship Conference
