Plus UTS - rapidly upskilling teams to meet future needs

Please join us at this online session as we discuss ‘Averting the next corporate crisis – remediating Australia’s growing skills shortage’.

Workforce changes have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, magnifying existing challenges and trends. Increasingly, organisations are recognising the need to transform the skills of their employees which represents both a huge potential challenge but also a great opportunity to future-proof their workforce.

McKinsey research completed in 2019 indicates that a quarter to a half of Australia's current jobs might be automated by 2030. Jobs that are not fully automated will change; with people expected to spend about 60 per cent more time working with technology. The recent McCrindle Report also highlights that Generation Alpha (born between 2010 and 2025) will be seeking work opportunities in occupations that currently don’t exist. These insights present an opportune time to examine how industry and education can work together and respond to current and future workforce skills development.

As industry leaders and those tackling that change head-on, we'd love your outlook on what challenges you are facing and what we need to be doing both individually and collectively moving forward.

Join us in conversation with UTS subject matter experts Fiona Anson, Bob Woods, Natalia Nikolovia, Mary Coupland and Richard Xu.

Fiona Anson is the Enterprise Learning Lead for Plus UTS at the University of Technology Sydney and is UTS's Future Skills Expert. With an extensive background in the jobs and skills advisory space, and a recognised Future of Work thought leader. Fiona works with the university's corporate clients to help them assess their existing workforce capabilities, understand their future skills and role requirements and map and design upskilling and reskilling pathways for their people.

Associate Professor Natalia Nikolova is Co-Director of UTS EMBA and a lead academic with the UTS Futures Academy. She has a PhD in economic and political sciences (Dr. rer. pol.) from the University of Cologne, Germany. Natalia has extensive experience as an innovative educator and facilitator in the fields of business strategy, innovation, problem solving and leadership. She has received several educational rewards including the UTS Business School Achievement Award for Sustained Innovation, an Australian Government Learning & Teaching Citation and a UTS Learning & Teaching Award.

Distinguished Professor Robert Wood is a world‑renowned expert in organisational psychology and leadership. Over a lifetime of experience, he had designed, developed and delivered programs for senior leaders and managers and provided advice to many Australian and overseas government agencies and corporations, including to the Hong Kong Government during the transition back to Chinese rule, the Australian Defence Force, DFAT, Victorian and NSW Police, Victorian Department of Education, Westpac Institutional Bank, Santos, PwC, Westfield, Newmont Mining, BHP, Saudi Aramco, Dow Chemical, Telstra, and P&O Ports.

Richard Yi Da Xu is an Associate Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). He leads a team of 25 people, includes postdoc, PhD students, and data engineers; His primary research is in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Richard published at many top international conferences, including AAAI, IJCAI, ECAI, ECCV, AI-STATS and ICDM as well as many top IEEE Transactions: IEEE-(TNNLS, TIP, TSP, TKDE, MC and T-Cybernetics). Since 2009, he has created 2000+ slides of free machine learning online PhD training material as well as many online ML videos.

We look forward to hosting this interesting and thought-provoking conversation.

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Plus UTS - rapidly upskilling teams to meet future needsPlease join us at this online session as we discuss ‘Averting the next corporate crisis – remediating Australia’s growing skills shortage’.

Plus UTS - rapidly upskilling teams to meet future needs

Please join us at this online session as we discuss ‘Averting the next corporate crisis – remediating Australia’s growing skills shortage’.