Breakout Session | Stage 3
Host: Microsoft
Rapid technological advances are transforming the world of work, bringing both opportunities and challenges. As “digital natives”, young people tend to be early adopters of new technologies. Strengthening their skills for the future of work and matching their creativity and innovation with technology-based solutions will pave the road to a pro-employment COVID-19 recovery. Solutions to turn the tide on youth employment in the times of COVID-19 must be comprehensive and sequenced while ensuring quality jobs for all youth, especially those more disadvantaged in the labour market. This session will draw out key approaches to equip young people with digital skills and life skills that are in high demand in COVID-19 labour markets; explore how to accelerate the adoption of new technologies in public employment services to improve delivery and outreach and promote efficiency so enable transition to decent jobs; and share insights into technology-based solutions that can help young people advance or continue their education enabling them to acquire financial, entrepreneurial and digital literacy skills.
Speakers
Rares is a gen Z digital native. As a young leader, he often tells the story of the youngest person in the room. At 23, he currently leads the Global Marketing strategy at AIESEC, the world's largest youth-led organization engaging and developing over 40k youth annually in 110+ countries and territories. At AIESEC, he wears many hats: from conceptualizing large-scale events, engaging thousands of young people in the dialogue around the future of work, digital skills and sustainability to working on reinventing AIESEC's leadership development programs and making sure that AIESEC's message speaks to a truly global audience. Rares works around the clock with youth from all corners of the world. In the past five years, he worked on the ground with youth in Romania, the UK, Morocco, Canada, India, and Russia and led virtual teams spanning across five continents. A first-generation university graduate and an immigrant to the UK from Romania, when talking about the future, Rares never fails to speak of diversity, inclusion and the role of youth in the global workforce. An advocate of representation, he believes that the future must be inclusive above anything else, leaving no one behind.
Lëmnec Tiller is one of the creators of the Wayuuda Foundation, which is focused on improving the quality of life in underestimated communities across Colombia. From building a school in Uribia to leveraging technologies and designing clean water systems user solar energy, Lëmnec is co-creating solutions with other changemakers to transform lives and futures, benefitting more than a hundred children every year.
Decent Jobs, People, Technology, Youth
| Host: Microsoft |, Lëmnec Tiller (CEO Fundación Wayuuda and Youth Activist), Naria Santa Lucia (Microsoft Philanthropies), Rares Man (AIESEC), Sukti Dasgupta (ILO), Victoria Alonsoperez (UN Young Leader for the Sustainable Development Goals)