Dan Sloan brings 30 years’ experience forging strategic relationships between private industry, academia, technology and service providers for solving manufacturing's most challenging workforce development requirements. Currently serving as Director of Industry & Workforce Partnerships at Tooling U-SME, Sloan’s priorities for accelerating the adoption of cyber physical systems and advances in Smart Manufacturing principles lead him to build and deploy collaborative and scalable solutions for elevating our industry’s labor pipeline, underserved communities and incumbent workforce.