The Blueprint Design Team — three local workforce boards, working alongside CWA and EDD — will steer this project on behalf of all 45 boards. Together we build the AI Workforce Blueprint with the field, not for it, so every board and its AJCC can put it to work.
AI is reshaping California's labor market — the jobs people do, how businesses operate, and the services local boards deliver. In June 2026, the Employment Development Department (EDD) selected and is funding the California Workforce Association (CWA) to lead the state's response: a statewide AI workforce strategy for California's 45 local workforce development boards.
The effort is anchored in the Governor's Executive Order N-6-26 and delivered as the California AI Workforce Blueprint — a practical, field-tested framework, built with local boards and the workers and businesses closest to AI's impact, that any of the 45 boards and their AJCCs can adopt.
AI is reshaping which jobs exist and how work gets done — faster than the workforce system was built to respond. The Blueprint Design Team is the design body at the heart of California's answer: a small, diverse set of boards co-designs the Blueprint alongside CWA while convening the workers and businesses closest to AI's impact, so real frontline experience informs and prioritizes the work — and what we publish, every board can adopt. Through monthly engagements, the Design Team creates opportunities for all 45 boards to add their voice and take part in the design work.
The project follows a human-centered design arc: we mobilize the team, frame the work together, discover what's really happening in communities, then define and design from what we hear. Here are the key dates ahead.
Announce board selections
Name the three Design Partner boards that will co-design the Blueprint.
First Design Team meeting
Kick off and align — ratify the charter and frame the work together.
Round 1 of local convenings
Design Partners host their first community convenings — gathering insight and painting the local AI landscape.
In-person design session at Meeting of the Minds
The whole Design Team comes together in person at Meeting of the Minds to make sense of what the convenings surfaced and design from it.
Have a question about the Blueprint Design Team, or interested in collaborating? Reach out to Tom Price at the California Workforce Association.