10 February 22 Launch Event : A Software Skills Strategy for Europe

How to educate for software roles? What specific training can we deploy or build on?
How to validate competences and skills?

On the 10th of february, join us to find answers to all these questions and get real-world good practice examples.

AGENDA

10:00-10:05 I Welcome and opening remarks

• Marie Montaldo & José Usero, ESSA coordinator, DIGITALEUROPE

10:05-10:15 I Opening Keynote: Educating for jobs

• Antonio Ranieri, Head of Department for VET and Skills, CEDEFOP

10:15-10:25 I Key soft and hard skills for software professionals today

• Ines Gergorić, Senior Adviser, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia

10:25-10:50 I Discussion: Software Skills Strategy launch: How to align market needs and educational offer?

• Moderated by: Jutta Breyer, Consultant, DIGITALEUROPE
• Wanda Saabeel, Consultant, Irish Computer Society

10:50-11:10 I Good practices’ case studies & knowledge sharing session (with Q&As)

• Revamping traditional ICT education with an agile SCRUM-based methodology
• Gert van Hardeveld, Coach and teamlead, University of Applied Sciences Utrecht and Co-founder, Ao-online
• Cultivating employees’ skills and attracting young ICT talents
• Davorin Kopič, Head of Data Science, Zemanta

11:10-11:25 I Announcement and closing remarks

• Marie Montaldo, Project Communications Manager, DIGITALEUROPE

This event is organised by the European Software Skills Alliance. This is an EU-funded project coordinated by DIGITALEUROPE with the mission to skill, upskill, and reskill individuals into high demand software roles. With the Software Skills Strategy, we hope to bring forward innovative pathways to address the software skills mismatches and will develop educational profiles for VET and higher VET curricula in 2022. Global Knowledge France and Global Knowledge Netherland are part of the Alliance.