Delivering advanced digital skills for Europe's Digital Decade

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Delivering advanced digital skills for Europe's Digital Decade

Delivering advanced digital skills for Europe's Digital Decade

By Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition

Date and time

Tue, 26 Oct 2021 06:30 - 08:00 PDT

Location

Online

About this event

We invite you to join us for a set strategic discussions surrounding the ambitious advanced digital skills targets set out within the vision for Europe’s Digital Decade. The goal is that by 2030 there will be 20 million more ICT specialists with gender convergence in the industry which sets the challenges for business, governments and society.

Alongside this target is also the ambition that 80% of the European population will have at least basic digital skills and that 90% of SMEs will have a basic level of digital intensity with 75% of companies using Cloud/AI/Big Data.

During this event we will invite speakers from the Commission, national ministries and pledgers from the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition to discuss their visions for the future, initiatives and actions taken to support the acquisition of advanced digital skills and the mechanisms for the coming years. Join in and participate.

Agenda: Delivering advanced digital skills for Europe's Digital Decade

15:30 Welcome and opening of the event

Fabrizia Benini, Deputy to Director, Digital Transformation, DG-CNECT, European Commission

15:40 Digital experts for a Digital Decade

A vision for advanced digital skills by 2030

Silvia Merisio, Policy Officer, Digital Economy and Skills, DG-CNECT, European Commission

15:50 Digital Skills Pledges

Sharing experience of delivering digital skills to Europeans

Roxana Popa, UiPath

16:00 On the path towards advanced digital skills

National approaches to meet the future demand of digital experts

Wolfgang Ebner, Deputy Head of the Directorate of Digitisation and eGovernment; Chief Digital Officer, Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs, Austria; Deputy Head of Austrian National Coalition Steering Committee

Mª Jesús García San Martín, Area Coordinator, Digital talent and entrepreneurship, Ministry for Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, Spain.

Alan Power, Assistant Principal, Labour Market and Skills Unit of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Ireland.

Nasia Zanti, Head of Communications, Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Strategy, Cyprus.

16:40 Digital Skills Pledges

Sharing experience of delivering digital skills to Europeans

Carsten Johnson, Cisco

16:45 Connecting digital skills across Europe

Digital Skills and Jobs Platform

Jakub Katjman, Policy Officer, Digital Economy and Skills, DG-CNECT, European Commission

16:55 Closing remarks

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