SXSW 2021

Philadelphia Faces the Future of Workers, Together

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Technology and Pandemic are rapidly reshaping life and work. Where and how we do (or don't) work is affected by A.I, Automation and Machine Learning. Remote work, gig work and lack of work are all realities forcing business and government to better prepare current and future talent. How will regions prepare workers so innovative economic engines run? How can we realistically connect displaced talent to work of the future? A new urgency is here. Consensus, commitment and vision lead to deeper, structured collaboration between industries and beyond political boundaries. The panel leapfrogs recovery and shows how the PHL region is leveraging a global crisis to re-imagine political, economic and talent solutions: they are created and executed in strategic, modern and newly collaborative ways.


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  1. How does a region break through resistant silos to connect government, philanthropy and businesses to function in a cohesive, productive manner?
  2. How do regional leaders both retrain existing workers AND bring historically disadvantaged people into the new economy? Can it be done and by whom?
  3. How can civic leaders be empowered to solve problems instead of allowing polarization to fill a void with reactionary, ideological, short-term fixes?

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Anne Gemmell, Founder, Future Works Strategy


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