A look at the opportunities and challenges facing educators and business leaders as they navigate the future of work.

The future of work requires an educated workforce that is skilled in the areas that new technologies, ways of working, and shifts in buying behaviors demand. Return on Education will look at these challenges and several unique solutions to building, educating, and sustaining the future workforce.

We will be discussing and showcase work on educating the future workforce on critical hard skills like no-code/low-code, cybersecurity, as well as on soft skills such as working in a hybrid or virtual environment.

As a leading innovator in placemaking to promote business growth, Arlington Economic Development and The Agile World are leading the discussion within the Return on Creativity community to understand and improve the future of people, places, and work.

We will discuss:

• “Traditional” undergrad and graduate school education, and how that is evolving to suit the changing workplace

• Professional development and continuing education, and what will be needed to upskill and reskill the workforce for tomorrow’s jobs, including low-code/no-code approaches, cybersecurity, and how to work remotely and in hybrid teams

• Non-traditional education and how new and novel types of learning are becoming effective ways to develop and train the future workforce

Agenda

• 1:00 Introductions and Opening Keynote by Lou Pugliese

• 1:30-2:30 Case Studies

• 2:30 Closing Keynote by Mar Austin, George Mason University