The future of work, skills and technology – dystopian nightmare, or chance for positive change?
Day two of the upcoming Learning Technologies 2022 Conference, 4-5 May 2022, opens by looking into the future of learning at work, with Anita Lettink from Strategic Management Centre, Marco Dondi from Mckinsey & Company and the entrepreneur, author and consultant, Julia Hobsbawm.
Where will we work as we emerge from the pandemic into an even more technologically-enabled world? We will explore the likely changes to our working habits in the future – not just where we work, but how we go about it, and the secondary effects this will have on our lives, as individuals and employers.
Another key question demanding an answer: what skills will we need in the future? We will look at detailed, international research suggesting that some skills and attitudes are clearly aligned to greater employability and are likely to be much sought after in the future. That may be predictable, but you may be surprised by one thing: not all these skills are what one would expect.
Finally, we will explore how technology will help us support learning in the future – going well beyond the delivery of training materials to explore the implications for how we approach talent, and the compelling need for a language to describe skills, the currency of business today.
Learning Technologies Conference Chair, Donald H Taylor, said: “For our second plenary session we look at the future – where are we headed in the world of learning at work? The route may not be entirely clear, but our experts, Anita Lettink and Marco Dondi, are ready to help illuminate the way.”
The full programme is available on the event website: Learning Technologies 2022 Conference. Conference passes are on sale: Learning Technologies 2022 Conference Conference Passes.
Learning Technologies 2022
4-5 May 2022, London ExCeL
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Anita Lettink
Partner, Strategic Management Centre
Anita Lettink brings insights and perspectives about the future of work to companies, investors, startups, and institutions worldwide. She challenges her audience to imagine what’s next and helps them understand what they can do today to get ready for tomorrow. Anita is passionate about strategy and innovation. Her work offers a blend of reality-based thinking founded on data, combined with a visualization of the new world of work. She is a partner at Strategic Management Centre, the founder of hrtechradar.com and the force behind HR2025 research.
Marco Dondi
Associate Partner, Mckinsey & Company
Marco Dondi has established his career and expertise as a strategy consultant with over a decade of experience in advising CEOs and government officials on economics, education, adult training and people development more in general. Marco is the author of several McKinsey articles on the future of work and leads McKinsey's research on future skills. Marco is also the author of "Outgrowing Capitalism" a personal perspective on the opportunity for societies to evolve beyond capitalism. Marco holds an MBA (INSEAD, 2012) and a Master’s in Management, Economics and Engineering (Politecnico di Milano, 2009).
Julia Hobsbawm
Entrepreneur, author and consultant, VBQ Speakers
Julia Hobsbawm addresses the problems and solutions of humans in the machine age, specifically how to achieve simplicity in complex times and the ‘Nowhere Office’ of the post-pandemic workplace. She is the Chair of the Demos Workshift Commission and the author of the forthcoming book The Nowhere Office which has been acclaimed as "a tour de force" which "brilliantly captures the zeitgeist issue of our times".