Bridging the Skills Gap
summary
Panelists describe concrete moves: Intact launches a Future of Work program with yearly action plans, monthly engagement tracking and new parallel technical specialist career paths; Rogers builds a tech hub and flips 25,000 employees to home work with rapid VPN, chair and call‑center enablement; Bank of Canada credits an academic research culture and scenario analysis for readiness; diversity work dates to 2006 and yields ~40% board gender representation while partnerships (Black professional tech network, BlackNorth) widen candidate pools.
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- 0:00Start
- 1:32Carrie Joel Vp Digital Experience from Rogers Communications
- 2:04Christian Menkins
- 10:57Future of Work
- 13:55Growing Skills
- 30:44Technical Enablement
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