1. Who Will Keep this Place Running? Attracting the Next Generation of Employees Moderator: Bruce Meaker

2. The Challenge Baby Boomers – 78 million (1946-1964) Became eligible for retirement in 2008 Average Retirement Rates = 8,500 per day FOR THE NEXT 25 YEARS 1 EVERY 10 SECONDS Peak retirement will occur in 2022 (1957)

3. The Challenge (cont.) Baby Boomers – 78 million (1946-1964) 28% of the population 68% of the current work force 40% of Electric and Natural Gas Utility employees are eligible to retire in 5 years.

4. The Challenge (cont.) Baby Boomers – 78 million (1946-1964) (50’s) Generation X – 40.6 million (1965-1981) (30’s) Generation Y – 80 million (1982-2001) (20’s)

5. Questions How to keep the place running while a generation of talent and experience leaves in droves? Is this a problem? What skill sets will this require from employers to attract and retain? –Cultural issues –Value differences What is the attitude of business leaders and regulators toward this phenomenon?

6. Our Panel Kim de Rubertis – Consulting Engineer Barbara Hins-Turner – Pacific Northwest Center for Excellence in Clean Energy Deborah Link – Hydro Research Foundation Katie Clarkson - FERC

7. Kim de Rubertis

8. Challenges No direct training in Hydropower engineering Must apprentice within the industry to learn the arts, crafts, and skills necessary

9. Barriers Attractiveness of the hydro industry –Mandatory Conditioning Authority –Cultural Stigma

11. “Dams, all dams, should go away. The faster the better.” Robert Redford, 2009