The Second Annual Federal Hispanic Career Advancement Summit will be held September 17, 2009 in Arlington, VA.  This training program is targeted towards Federal employees.  The Summit aims to address the shortage of Hispanics in senior executive and management positions in the Federal Government.

This one day conference qualifies as training in compliance with 5 U.S.C. Chapter 41.  The Summit is open to all employees and will feature prominent keynote speakers, training sessions, and workshops on a broad range of topics, such as leadership development, achieving results, and executive coaching.  The conference is offered to Federal employees at no cost.

Federal employees and managers are encouraged to review additional conference and training information when deciding to participate, such as course descriptions and schedules, at the following website www.federalhispanicsummit.org/.

Agencies are reminded that a change to 5 C.F.R. 410 on the reporting of training has become effective as of December 31, 2006. A copy of this final regulation may be found at www.opm.gov/fedregis/2006/71-051006-28547-a.pdf to help you comply.

cc: Human Resources and Equal Employment Opportunity Directors