Dennis Vicars
Executive Director, Professional Association for Childhood Education Alternative Payment Program
Dennis Vicars is CEO of Human Services Management Corp. and Executive Director of the Professional Association for Childhood Education Alternative Payment Program. In his career, Vicars has served as a childcare corporate executive, preschool company founder and advocate on both the public and private side of early childhood education. He has been a speaker and workshop host for various organizations and is a featured writer in Child Care Exchange magazine. He has assisted and been a consultant on numerous early care and education advisory boards including blue ribbon commissions in Maryland, Virginia, Oregon, Washington and Arizona. Vicars participated in California's Master Plan for early childhood education, and was recently chosen by Gov. Schwarzenegger to be his representative on the Early Learning Quality Improvement System Advisory Committee. He is also involved in Sacramento County's Superintendent Preschool Committee and is president of Child Development Policy Institute.
Global Conference 2013
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, philanthropist Bill Gates and Strive Masiyiwa of Econet Wireless discuss advancing prosperity in Africa.