(Agenda subject to change)

1.30pm    Arrival & registration

2.00pm    Welcome & introduction from the sponsor, Nigel Snook, CEO, Education Development International (A Pearson company).

2.10pm    Work Global, Act Sectoral – overview presentation by Tom Bewick, Chairman, INSSO

2.30pm     Part 1: industry skills perspectives, ‘working with employers’

• Boosting workplace productivity in Australia, Bob Paton, CEO of Manufacturing Skills Australia and Jeanette Allen, CEO of Service Skills Australia, Industry Skills Councils Forum
• Why has the Netherlands delivered higher employment and skills levels despite the global recession?, Peter Cras, CEO of Kenniscentrum Handel, the sector skills organisation for the Dutch trade sector
• Supporting the global food and drink manufacturing sector: are skills academies the answer? Jack Matthews, CEO, Improve Ltd (Sector Skills Councils, UK)

Q & A (20 mins) - Facilitator: Andrew Cardozo, INSSO board member and Executive Director, Alliance of Sector Councils, Canada

3.30pm    TEA BREAK

3.45pm     Part 2: national skills perspectives, ‘working with sectors’

• Dilip Chenoy, CEO of National Skills Development Corporation of India
• Michael Davis, CEO of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills
• Robin Shreeve, CEO of Skills Australia
• Manuel Hubert, Officer responsible for pan-European SSCs, European Commission

Panel debate (45 mins) – Facilitator: Katie Epstein, INSSO associate director

4.30pm     Part 3: global perspectives, ‘working internationally’

• Christine Evans-Klock, Director of employment and skills, International Labour Organisation (ILO), Geneva
• Pierre Mairesse, Director, Lifelong learning policies and 2020 strategy in the European Commission (DG education and culture), Brussels

Panel debate (45 mins) Facilitator: Erica Cumming, CEO, HITO, New Zealand,

5.15pm    Concluding remarks by Simon Dancey, Nations and International Director, Creative & Cultural Skills (SSC) and INSSO board member.

5.30pm    CLOSE

GLOBAL SKILLS DEBATE

6pm – 9pm (including drinks reception)

Panel: 

Rod Bristow, UK President, Pearson plc

Dilip Chenoy, Chief Executive, National Skills Development Corporation of India

Christine Evans-Klock, Director of employment and skills, International Labour Organisation, Geneva

Professor Hugh Lauder, University of Bath, co-author of the Global Auction

Megan Lilly, Chair of Manufacturing Skills Australia

Chair: 

Tom Bewick, Chairman, International Network of Sector Skills Organisations

DRINKS RECEPTION - Co-Sponsored by the Industry Skills Council Forum, Australia and the Alliance of Sector Skills Councils, UK

Join an international circle of senior leaders of sector skills organisations, as well as VIP delegates and distinguished guests.

Short speeches by Rod Bristow, UK President, Pearson Plc,  John Vines OAM, Chair of Innovation and Business Skills Australia (IBSA),  and John Rogers, Chair of Alliance of Sector Skills Councils, UK

Special guest, David Hoey, CEO of WorldSkills International will also say a few words about the 41st WorldSkills Competition that formally commences between 5th and 9th October 2011.

For enquiries about this programme please contact conference@insso.org

Useful Links: Venue Location & Map | Book accomodation | WorldSkills Premiere Experience | Pearson

Supported By