Sunil Sirohi, Vice President - NIIT Limited 

“New age technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), Data Science and robotic process automation (RPA) are changing the way work is going to happen. Coming to more hardcore technologies, there’s a strong move towards Self-Driving Network (SDN2). Similar to a self-driving car, SDN2 is the next frontier — an autonomous network that is predictive and adaptive to its environment. It simultaneously increases economies of scale and efficiencies, while decreasing operating costs and delivering an optimized and customized quality of experience inexpensively to the end-user.

While Digital Transformation is one of the important agendas of each enterprise, upskilling, cross skilling and reskilling of the workforce is the key focus area for Learning and Development (L&D) leaders. The workforce that is employed for today’s work, will need reskilling to take up new roles in an organization.

One of the big job / role shifts in history happened during the industrial revolution; today we are at the cusp of similar job/role shift due to the new age technologies. L&D Leaders have an interesting challenge to skill people for future work environment. The staff members have a key challenge of keeping themselves employable. Each person who wishes to be employed, must ‘learn what matters’ and align his/her skil-lset to what the future workplace demands.”