Crafting the Future - VOC-force for tomorrow

Karni Wolf, Pavel Bilenko, David Langdon In the last decades many
professions just died, merged with others, changed and nobody
really cared. Like in printing, steno typist, mechanics. In the
70ies workers ran against machines and the dooming automatisation,
but their rage was compensated by unstoppable technological
progress. Companies just moved away. The dark decade of mass
unemployment began. What happens now in the course of digitization?
Economist Keynes’s is quoted on his prediction of widespread
technological unemployment “due to our discovery of means of
economizing the use of labour outrunning the pace at which we can
find new uses for labour”. So the mass of people will be out of
work, at least in the USA as Carl Frey and Michael Osborne put it
in 2013. Not so in Germany as the Federal Institute of Vocational
Education (BIBB) proved. The demand of skill sets and the character
of the labour market will change. The results show that economy 4.0
will accelerate the structural change towards more services. In
this process labour force movements between branches, occupations
and job requirements are much larger than the change of the number
of employees in total. How is our working world changing? The world
economy prospering for the northern hemisphere. Another decade
begins - with the lack of skilled work force.  Everybody wants
to manage, heading towards university with a clean, white shirt,
but who is going to work and can work at all? As the skill set that
you have to offer, needs to be a really complex one: ICT, analysis
and error diagnostics, languages, programming, soft skills, problem
solving, team player. Digitisation can help. How about working with
3 D printing, augmented reality, safe guarding big data and finding
you robot buddy in the workshop that never sleeps? Let us have a
conversation on this. Join the panel discussion with our experts
from Germany, Israel, Russia and the USA.