Ready or not? AI’s real impact on tomorrow’s workforce

This panel moves past speculation to examine what AI is actually doing to jobs, skills demand, and the people behind them. Drawing on direct industry experience, it takes an honest look at how AI is reshaping roles, displacing some functions, and creating new demands, while making the case that the most important variable in this transformation is not the technology itself, but the people and what they can contribute.
The panel recentres the conversation on human capital: acknowledging that AI is here and that its effects on employment and skills are real, but arguing that the response must be grounded in investing in people, recognising human potential, and designing workforce systems that put people, rather than automation, at the heart of innovation ecosystems.