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Workshop 1 (WS1): Long-Term Impact of COVID-19 on Work, Learning, and Skills

Nov 10, 2021, 9 am-12 pm, PST/ 12-3 pm, EST
ISSIP-NSF Workshop Series: An Industry-Academia Dialogue on STEM Education for the Future

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Alex Kass, Accenture I Michele Guel, Cisco | Rick Rafey, InOrbit Nate Tymann, Red Hat I  Martha Russell, Stanford I Heather Yurko, MasterCard
 

The pandemic has turbocharged the adoption of what was already on the horizon for the future of work and learning for many organizations;  and a hybrid model of work and learning is here to stay. This has huge impact on future of jobs and skills.

In this workshop, we explored with industry experts and academic change leaders the long-term implications of hybrid work models on innovation, work, learning, skills requirements, and STEM undergraduate education. 

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Topics discussed:
  • Acceleration of the hybrid workplace and implications on skills demand – what skills are in more/less demand?
  • Distributed workforce, best practices in building a virtual culture & implications on skills requirements
  • Technology tool kits and skills preparedness.
  • Diversity, inclusion, equity in the future of workplace
  • Knowledge sharing, knowledge creation to strengthen organizational connectivity
  • New standards for the optimized digital workforce and implications to undergraduate STEM education.
  • How can undergraduate STEM programs better prepare students for a hybrid workplace which presents a whole set of new challenges/opportunities to diversity, inclusion and belonging?
  • And more…

Agenda 

Nov 10, 2021, 9 am – 12 pm, US/Canada PST; 12 pm – 3 pm EST

9:00 am – Opening, Welcome and Context

Yassi Moghaddam, ISSIP Executive Director (slides)

9:10 – National Science Foundation Context

Dr. Alexandra Medina Borja, Program Director, NSF(slides)

9:20 – Panel Discussion

Impact of Hybrid Workplace to Future of Jobs, and Skills

Speakers:

    • Alex Kass, Fellow and Principal Director, Accenture (slides)
    • Rick Rafey, VP of Product & Customer Success,InOrbit (slides)
    • Michele Guel, Distinguished Engineer & Data Security and Privacy Strategist, Cisco (slides)
    • Nate Tymann, Director, Strategic Workforce Planning, Early Talent, Red Hat (slides)
    • Heather Yurko, VP of Digital Talent, Mastercard (slides)

Moderator:

    • Martha Russell, Senior Research Scholar, (HSTAR) Human Sciences and Technology Advanced Research Institute, Graduate School of Education, and Executive Director, mediaX at Stanford University
10:50 – Break 

11:00 – Regroup and Partial Survey Results: The ISSIP Future Skills Survey

 Yassi Moghaddam 

11:20 –  Breakout session

 All Participants

11:40 – Regroup

 Session Speaker

11:55 – Closing Remarks

 Co-Chairs

12:00 – Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Co-Chairs and Programming Committee Members:
  • Yassi Moghaddam, ISSIP Executive Director, Workshop Contact
  • Haluk Demirkan, Professor, University of Washington Tacoma, ISSIP BOD Member
  • Lou Freund, Professor Emeritus, San Jose State University, ISSIP Fellow
  • Martha Russell, Senior Research Scholar, HSTAR & Executive Director, mediaX, Stanford University
  • Jo Yuen, ISSIP Discovery Cafe Series, Chair
  • Ulf Vinneras, Head of Service Product Management, Aruba (HPE); ISSIP President
  • Terri Griffith, Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
    Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University; ISSIP President-Elect
  • Ralph Badinelli, Professor, Virginia Tech, ISSIP BOD Member
  • Utpal Mangla, VP, IBM; ISSIP Strategy Council Chair
  • Ammar Rayes, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco; ISSIP BOD Member
  • Gonzalo Salgueiro, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco; ISSIP BOD Member
  • Jim Spohrer, ISSIP Co-Founder & BOD Member
  • Heather Yurko, VP, Mastercard; ISSIP Past President, Strategy Council Member
 

We thank our sponsor, the National Science Foundation, for their tremendous support!