2025 Conference

ESAC Conference 2026

Hosted at Wild Dunes Resort
Charleston, SC

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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