DCU Futures ‘Empowering Employers’: Essential Skills for a Disrupted World

Thu Mar 05 2026 at 09:30 am to 01:30 pm UTC+00:00

Dublin City University | Dublin

DCU Futures
Publisher/HostDCU Futures
DCU Futures \u2018Empowering Employers\u2019: Essential Skills for a Disrupted World
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Explore the skills needed for personal and professional success, and learn how DCU is prioritising these to benefit students and employers.
About this Event

Event details

Rapid change, increasing complexity and technological innovations raise fundamental questions for employers about the specific skills that are most valuable when it comes to navigating and leveraging the potential opportunities of such disruption.

This employer-focused event will examine the growing importance of transversal skills for personal, professional and organisational success and demonstrate how DCU is leading the way nationally and internationally in terms of formally integrating and authentically assessing these skills within courses in a unique and rigorous manner.


Why attend?

  • Benefit from the insights of leading industry experts in the areas of Learning and Development, Artificial Intelligence, and Future Skills Needs.
  • Explore diverse possible futures of work and upskilling within the context of unprecedented technological, political, economic and social change.
  • Learn about DCU’s MySkills platform, a unique digital innovation that captures students’ level of competence in a variety of skills and enables them to generate a personalised skills report that can be shared with potential employers, facilitating more informed, effective and evidence-based recruitment decisions.
  • Network and share ideas with employers and Learning and Development specialists.

Please note places are limited and by ticket only.



Agenda

🕑: 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Registration
🕑: 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Welcome and official launch of MySkills
🕑: 10:15 AM - 10:50 AM
The What, Why and How of Transversal Skills
Host: Dr Ciaran Dunne
🕑: 10:50 AM - 11:30 AM
The Future of Work: Panel Discussion
Host: Sinead Heneghan
🕑: 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
The Future of Work: Exploring Possibilities
Host: Prof Vlad Glăveanu
🕑: 12:15 PM - 12:30 PM
Employers Survey
🕑: 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM
Closing remarks
Host: Laura Mahoney
🕑: 12:45 PM - 01:30 PM
Lunch
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Dublin City University, Albert College, Dublin, Ireland

Tickets

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