Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has a date with another Republican governor, it would seem. Just this week he talked healthcare in a joint proposal with Ohio Gov. John Kasich, now he’s talking jobs with South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard.

The Western Governors Association tells Colorado Politics Hickenlooper and Daugaard will deliver opening remarks at the organization’s Workforce Development Initiative Sept. 18-19 at the Art Hotel in Denver.

Daugaard is the WGA’s current chairman. Hickenlooper was chairman in 2013-14.

The workshop is the second in a series developed by Daugaard to “leverage the region’s best thinking to bridge the gap between prospective workers and employers in the West to create enhanced career opportunities for students, graduates and displaced workers.”

The first, focused on the gap between jobseekers and employers, was Aug. 3-4 in Sioux Falls, S.D. The details of that workshop are available here.

“When I was young, our fathers would choose a career and stay in that career their whole life,” Daugaard said in a statement. “Today the demands are changing so rapidly it’s hard for our workers to be ready to work when a job is available, and hard for them to keep pace with change at work. We have to adapt our education and training institutions to realign with today’s jobs.”

WGA is still taking requests from those who would like to participate in the workshop. Those who would like to take attend can e-mail WGA policy adviser Lauren DeNinno at ldeninno@westgov.org.

Those invited are most likely to be private and public sector experts on workforce development from city, state regional and national groups. All attendees are well-versed in the topic and can participate, whether they are on a panel or in the audience, the WGA tells us.

Others can watch a livestream on the web both days, or see it on the the WGA’s YouTube page after.

Of job creation in his state Daugaard wrote in an op-ed for CNBC in July:

We’re seeing success in South Dakota because we believe in allowing businesses to prosper. We have no corporate income tax, no personal income tax, no business inventory tax, no personal property tax and no inheritance tax. This puts more money in the pockets of our businesses and citizens, creating a more favorable environment for growth.

Likewise Hickenlooper has boasted often of Colorado’s job growth, one of the fastest recovering states in the nation after the recession.

Forbes magazine in 2014 called it “the Hickenlooper effect.”

The 2008 recession had pummeled Colorado. Knocked down, bruised, and reeling, Colorado lagged behind at 40th in the nation for job creation and a dismal 9.1 percent unemployment rate in 2010. In the years since, Colorado staged a remarkable turnaround and renewed its efforts to create jobs and spark economic innovation. Today, Colorado boasts a ranking of fourth highest in job creation, adding 200,000 new jobs to bring unemployment down to the lowest it has been since 2008 – just 4.7 percent.