If you’re responsible for employability outcomes, the question has shifted from “what skills matter?” to “how do we build them at scale, and prove them clearly?”.
At Global Skills Week 2026, we bring that evidence into the room with senior leaders from higher education, industry, and policy to focus on implementation: curriculum choices, skills signalling, and the partnerships that make it work.
Global Skills Week is designed for leaders working at the junction of education and labor markets:
Building AI-ready learning and assessment models
Making skills legible to employers through better signalling and verification
Creating partnerships that translate into pathways, not panels
One insight from last year’s discussions: with an increasingly crowded credential landscape (over one million credentials in the US cited in 2023), clarity and trust matter as much as new program design. Global Skills Week is a forum for senior leaders who are at the forefront of policy, curriculum design and workforce strategy.
Preparing Future Leaders: Embedding AI into Business Education Thu 26 March | 11:00–11:30 How business schools are building AI literacy and strategic judgement into core curricula, developing faculty capability, and aligning learning with what employers actually need. Moderator: Ryan Hess, Regional Director of Client Partnerships, US South East, QS Quacquarelli Symonds Panelists: Paul Pavlou, Dean, University of Miami Patti and Allan Herbert Business School David Marchick, Dean, Kogod School of Business, American University
Thinking Like a Founder: Why the Entrepreneurial Mindset is the New Core Competency Thu 26 March | 13:30–14:00 A practical conversation about cultivating innovation, agility, and resilience across disciplines and at scale, and what entrepreneurial thinking means for modern talent expectations. Moderator: Nunzio Quacquarelli, President & Chair of the Board, QS Quacquarelli Symonds Panelists: Sulin Ba, Dean, Driehaus College of Business and Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, DePaul University Elissa Sangster, CEO, Forté Foundation
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