Anticipating and Preparing for Emerging Skills and Jobs
This year’s theme, Anticipating and Preparing for Emerging Skills and Jobs, will take a holistic approach to different types of skills that employers are looking for and how the education and training systems are responding to rapidly changing requirements in light of the fourth industrial revolution. The forum will highlight the importance of different types of skills (cognitive, noncognitive, and occupational) as well as lifelong learning needs to improve life choices of increasingly mobile workforce that expects to have more careers in a world of longer working life and changing definition of jobs.