Skills development and capacity building for a future-proofed workforce

A complimentary ITWeb webinar brought to you together with AWS

With the advent and proliferation of new technologies, comes the challenge of relevant skills. Therefore, industry has to invest in upskilling its workforce in order to future-proof its operations and remain competitive and profitable in this new digital era. Furthermore, the Covid 19 pandemic is accelerating the need for society to embrace 4IR digital transformation. These dynamics are also placing a need on educational institutions to offer remote teaching and learning and the scaled online provision of exams material. Additionally, there is an increasing demand from industry for students to be capacitated with in demand, industry relevant skills, which can enable graduates to increase time to value within the workplace.

The AWS Skills Development and Capacity Building Webinar will explore the importance of both the public and the private sectors embarking on skills development programmes in order to see their current and future workforce being adequately equipped with the relevant digital skills to meet the business demands of the 4IR. AWS is helping higher education institutions in South Africa and globally to effectively transition their learning platform to a full cloud-based online distance learning and virtual resource hub. Universities and colleges are advising that as they look to achieve either a blended or fully remote learning environment, the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) is more critical than ever in order to provide reliability, security and scale not previously experienced.

Join us at this webinar to learn more about which skills are crucial in the new digital era, how your workforce and students need to be upskilled and how to access the resources available for capacity building within your current workforce and the workforce of the future.