The Skills That Matter Next:
Preparing Your Workforce
& Leaders for the AI Era
With accelerating changes across every operational layer, the nature of hiring, leadership models, are shifting and shrinking. A skills-first mindset is what sets apart resilient teams of people and AI-powered agents.
For now, the most advanced companies are asking the same question:
What capitalism will never work without the 'power of people'
Find out why workforce genius CHROs, CLOs, and everyone workforce leader for a candid table-level discussion on what is coming next.
What We'll Explore
Key critical discussion points for this Roundtable
Skills Decay
Why skills are expiring faster than ever before
Manager Bandwidth
Leading effectively amidst AI agents
Jobless vs Jobful Future
How job descriptions and roles are shifting
Frontline Capability
Operational excellence vs systems fluency
Cross-domain Capabilities
Building curiosity and collaborative problem solving
Measuring Organization
Success with sheer output count
Featured Speakers
Rob Lauber
Former Chief Learning Officer
McDonald's / Yum! Brands
Rob Lauber is a global HR executive who excels in building best-in-class HR ground operations. With a progressively successful track record spanning three decades, including roles at McDonald's, Yum! Brands, and Cingular Wireless, he excels in leading learning and development teams to drive culture and outcomes. Currently, he consults with numerous organizations on HR and L&D specifically for the AI age.
Krishna Kumar
Founder & CEO
Simplilearn
Krishna Kumar is the Founder and CEO of Simplilearn. Actively driving the company's navigating workforce transformation directly for strategic clients. At the center of EdTech, he and his team interact with thousands of enterprises and millions of learners globally, focusing purely on skill growth and career. Through deep engagement with interactive sessions and education partners, he sees what moves the skill needle in building productive capability for the AI era, often with a unique lens on the 'people' aspect of change management.
Sanjoy Milne
VP, North America Enterprise Sales
Simplilearn
Sanjoy Milne is a seasoned business growth leader with over 25 years of experience helping customers highly target and strengthen core technology operations. An expert in memberships, CIOs throughout the decades with specialized needs in product guides, he leads key global initiatives. Based in Dallas, Texas, he serves as VP, North America Enterpise Sales for Simplilearn.
Additional Expert Perspectives
Invited experts have lined up to add specialized context to conversations around fluid diversity and how hiring highly skilled large organizations are tackling DEI with necessary nuance within AI.
Go behind the curtain with real examples and high-scale insights
You'll walk away with:
A clear view of the massive shifts in workforce capabilities required for the next 12-24 months.
Insight into how global market leaders are thinking about the ‘Build vs Buy’ decisions when hiring talent and upskilling internally.
Specific steps regarding governance, privacy, and tooling implementation.
Access to a candid discussion filled with ideas, debates, tears, and opportunities regarding the future of work.
Actionable insights you can bring straight into your next board meeting.
Event Agenda
Welcome & Opening
The Skills That Matter Next. Overview of why we are here and the state of skills in the economy.
Keynote
Why Enterprise Leaders Are Betting on the Hybrid. Discussion: Human + AI skills for Growth. Agility vs scale and how places of agents are reshaping every workforce with new layers of abstraction.
Lunch & General Conversation
Values / Q&A / Networking. Open table talk on talent retention and healthy direct capability building at scale.
Space
Limited
Reserve your seat for this exclusive roundtable today.