The Upskill Battle: Why Amazon and Other Big Companies are Struggling to Retrain Employees for Technology Jobs of the Future

We have a potential crisis in the making of epic proportions that corporate America has never experienced before. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is well underway and big companies like Amazon, PwC, Accenture and Walmart (to name a few) are leading the charge by investing billions of dollars to upskill, reskill, and cross-skill their workforce in emerging technologies that are disrupting products, services, customer engagement and back-office operations. And, as AI and automation technologies develop exponentially, and quickly take over tasks and jobs once done by humans, the problem of upskilling becomes even more challenging and pressing! With thought-leader guest speakers Lauren Weber (Reporter, The Wall Street Journal), John Pavley (Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, Viacom), and Leslie Short (President and CEO, The Cavu Group), we will explore this topic and its implications on companies (enterprise down to startups), employees, and society at large.