The world we live in today is vastly different than it was just a few years ago. Why do we need to think differently about the future of learning now? How can we instigate change within ourselves and our companies? Darren Shimkus, President of Udemy for Business will discuss how we need to think about today's world, the skills landscape, our ever-evolving employees, and how new technology can help address our most critical skill and talent gaps.

Adapting to the rapidly changing workplace and staying competitive requires innovation and strong leadership. Transformational leadership is a leadership style which encourages, inspires and motivates employees to become the change agents that can help grow and shape the future success of your company. Leading at a human-level inspires people to embrace change.

In this session, you will learn about the programs, structure and processes it takes to create a culture of transformational leadership.

Digital Transformation is a hot topic, and rightly so. It touches every aspect of a business. It's the integration of new technology, it presents a cultural change that requires rethinking old operating models and being comfortable with failure. What does it mean for you and your organisation? The panel of leaders span a wide range of industries and company stages to speak to the different ways they are leading change and how they're shepherding their organisations through a digital transformation.

The digital age has created a massive increase in the speed and complexity of business, fundamentally disrupting the workplace. Workers at all levels need to re-skill faster and navigate more complex systems and processes. The corporate learning function is in a unique position to lead the transformation required in workplace learning, but first it must transform how it operates.

In this session, you will learn how and why the corporate learning organisation needs to reorient itself to the digital age and best practices on implementing new technologies like Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence to transform your learning function.

New ideas are an essential resource for success. As one of the original story creators at Pixar Animation Studios, Matthew Luhn helped build, lead and sustain the creative culture at Pixar from startup stage to becoming the most successful filmmaking group in the history of Hollywood.

Matthew’s presentation will be engaging and action-oriented. He will provide strategies on how to create a culture that encourages and nurtures new ideas, and embraces fear and failing as a necessary part of the creative process. Learn how to empower your own relationships and build trust through authentic, real communication.

From leadership to technology to culture, guiding your organisation through the digital transformation requires serious (and inevitable) change management. Change is the new normal. Yet, adapting to change and persevering through the good, the bad, and the ugly is easier said than done.

Shelley Osborne, Head of L&D at Udemy, will discuss the strategies you need to handle constant change in the modern workplace. She'll offer new techniques you can use to help generate innovative approaches to change by speaking to an effective change management program called "Change Agent," modeled after escape room-inspired puzzles, and how to proactively shepherd your employees to embrace change.

It's not a secret that machine learning, AI and data science will see a huge explosion over the next three years and according to Gartner, these technologies are being seen as an enabler to help make employees jobs better and easier.

As an organisational leader, it's important to be able to respond to the opportunities and threats affecting your businesses, take the lead in technology-enabled business innovations and help your organisation define an effective business strategy for the future. So what do you to be doing to prepare your organisation for it?

In this session, you will learn the impact of these rapidly changing technologies on your business and help you understand the foundations in order to help serve your teams better.

In the midst of South Africa's youth unemployment crisis, Naspers Labs was created to disrupt and innovate skill development and the future of work in South Africa.

Today, Naspers Labs is a social impact initiative designed to open the closed doors that stand between a young unemployed person and their first employment opportunity. Developed by Naspers, a global internet group and one of the largest technology investors in the world, and the social enterprise RLabs, the project is on a mission to tackle South Africa’s youth unemployment crisis and be a driving force behind increasing access to economic opportunity.

Join Naspers Lab's Social Impact Director, Belinda Bowling, as she discusses how they are reimagining education. Belinda will address their trailblazing path to address skills development, and how it can be replicated by businesses everywhere through key L&D principles like personalized learning, online learning, and peer-to-peer learning.