COMTO WA WDSE Symposium
Schedule
Wed Oct 22 2025 at 10:00 am to 02:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Union Station | Seattle, WA
About this Event
Join Us for The WDSE Symposium!
If you haven’t already, register to join us on October 22nd, 2025, at Sound Transit’s Union Station, 401 S. Jackson Street, Seattle, WA 98104, for the COMTO WA WDSE Symposium!
The COMTO WA Workforce Development Serves Everyone (WDSE - pronounced “woods”) Committee will host its first WDSE Symposium October 22nd, 2025, from 10am-2pm, at Sound Transit’s Union Station, providing COMTO WA members tools, information and leadership perspectives on how organizations and individuals can face challenges and stay competitive within our transportation industry workforce.
Along with registering, click here> Workforce Development Poll to provide your feedback on current workforce challenges to help us identify and address the needs of our growing transit and transportation workforce. Please take the poll by October 1st, 2025. The results will be reviewed at the WDSE Symposium.
See you in October!
Agenda
🕑: 10:00 AM - 02:00 PM
WDSE Symposium
🕑: 10:00 AM - 10:55 AM
Executive Transportation Leadership Panel - Ruth Fisher Boardroom
Info: Executive Transportation Leadership Panel - Ruth Fisher Boardroom -Reviewing Workforce Needs
-What workforce development issues agencies are facing & how.
🕑: 11:00 AM - 11:55 AM
Workforce Development Policy – Panel Discussion - Ruth Fisher Boardroom
Info: Workforce Development Policy – Panel Discussion
-Obstacles to meeting transportation workforce demands related to policy.
-Opportunities for leveraging workforce policy as a tool/successes.
🕑: 11:00 AM - 11:55 AM
Workforce Needs Full Lifecycle – Workshop/Discussion - Santa Fe Room
Info: Workforce Needs Full Lifecycle – Workshop/Discussion
Current workforce needs, demographics, job market demands at various career phases.
Highlighting mindsets, and applicable skills, experience that benefit transportation organizations and individuals.
🕑: 12:00 PM - 12:55 PM
Leverage Untapped Potential – Industry Speakers - Ruth Fisher Boardroom
Info:
Leverage Untapped Potential – Industry Speakers
-Learning about the value of specialized programs to activate untapped potential in the transportation workforce with those who have been formerly incarcerated and those who have gone into non-traditional educational paths like the trades.
🕑: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Food for Thought Mentoring Meal - Joni Earl Great Hall
Info: Food for Thought Mentoring Meal
Mentoring conversations held over a meal to introduce more experienced leaders to new and emerging talent, creating the opportunity to eat and connect.
Where is it happening?
Union Station, 401 South Jackson Street, Seattle, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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