Digital professions of the future

The working world is undergoing a profound transformation. Digital technologies, the energy transformation and an ageing population represent significant challenges not only for those entering the world of work but also for those already in it.

For those involved in education and training, for those in business but also for those looking for tools to understand what is happening in the world of work, everything boils down to skills: what skills are most in demand today? How do you prepare someone for jobs that don’t exist yet? How do you enable newcomers to the world of work and seasoned professionals to acquire and continually upgrade their skills?

In this session we will try to address some of these issues and start a discussion on possible solutions.

Oscar Pasquali is CEO of Generation Italy, a non-profit foundation launched by McKinsey & Company. He focuses on issues like education, training, employment, innovation, social impact, policymaking and public-private partnerships. Today he works for Generation, which he helped to bring to and launch in Italy with the dual mission of helping young people acquire useful skills and expertise for entering the world of work and supporting companies in identifying staff with the qualifications and motivation that they are looking for.

He has also worked on these issues in two governments as Head of the Technical Secretariat of the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research, following the School Reform, the National Research Plan and the Industry 4.0 Plan, and as Co-Sherpa of the G20 Science & Technology track in China and Sherpa of the Future of Production Committee of the World Economic Forum.

In the past, he was also involved in business internationalisation, international and institutional relations and public-private partnerships at the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy, where he worked with the US Government on the US participation in Expo 2015.

Oscar started his career in strategy consulting, serving leading institutions, governments and companies. He has a History degree from the University of Trento and a Master’s in Public Management from SDA Bocconi.