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Speaker
09:00-10:00
Registration, Coffee & Tea
10:00-10:15
Welcome address
Prof. Dr. Bruno Lanvin, Executive Director of Global Indices at INSEA
Hang Ho, Head of Europe, Middle East & Africa and Latin America, JPMorgan Chase Foundation
10:15-10:35
Fostering diversity in Europe
The European Commission policies and strategies on ICT skills and diversity
Fabrizia Benini, Head of Unit, Digital Economy and Skills, European Commission, DG CONNECT
10:35-11:00
Setting the scene for competitiveness
The value of diversity in the workforce
Lynsey Campbell, Executive Director, Global Technology Communities and Inclusion, J.P. Morgan
Derek Joyce, Managing Director, Technology Strategy, J.P. Morgan
11:00-11:30
COFFEE Break
11:30-11:50
Diversity - country results
ICT skills training for diverse groups: seven country comparison, country reports and good practice showcases
Werner B. Korte, Director, empirica GmbH & Daniel Schmidtmann, Research Consultant, empirica GmbH
12:20-13:30
Buffet LUNCH
13:30-14:30
Session 1: Methodologies of training and pathways
The panel will focus on strategies how best to reach those at risk of social inclusion in highest need for employable skills, the most promising pathways to ICT skills training and jobs, the role of vendor-based training programmes, the type of multi-stakeholder partnerships needed for successful training and placement, other relevant success factors including the importance and value of certification and quality labelling for (later) labour market integration and ways of integration into traditional formal education and training systems.
Session moderator:
Agnieszka Orzechowska, Analysis & Research Specialist, Education Research Institute (Poland)
14:30-15:30
Session 2: Scalability and sustainability
The panel will focus on the key issues related to scalability and sustainability. The experts will report about their experiences and what they see as the crucial factors and framework conditions for success, whether and how scaling-up of their programmes has contributed to and how they managed to achieve sustainability of their initiatives.
Session moderator:
Mary Cleary, Deputy CEO, ICS Irish Computer Society & ICS Foundation (Ireland)
15:30-16:00
COFFEE Break
16:00-17:00
Session 3: The way forward
The panel will address the way forward for inclusive ICT training with a focus on the need for a stronger engagement of specific stakeholders, policy actors and the special role of national industry, employers and different types of associations. It will give special attention to the different pathways and the topic of certification and their relevance for entering the labour market. Finally, issues around the relevance of connectivity of the different training programmes to the formal education and training systems and the ways how best to achieve this will be elaborated on.
Session moderator:
Debbie Forster, MBE, CEO, Tech Talent Charter (United Kingdom)
17:00-17:15
Concluding remarks
Prof. Dr. Bruno Lanvin, Executive Director of Global Indices at INSEAD and Executive Director of the Global Talent Competitiveness Index
17:15 - ...
Networking
Daniel Schmidtmann: daniel.schmidtmann@empirica(dot)com,
Werner B. Korte: werner.korte@empirica(dot)com,
Tel.: +49 228 98530-0