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AI in Work, Innovation, Productivity and Skills

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AI in Work, Innovation, Productivity and Skills

 

Speakers include:

 
  • Michael Schäfer, State Secretary, Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Germany
  • Mathias Cormann, Secretary-General, OECD
  • Avi Goldfarb, Professor of Marketing, University of Toronto
  • Evelyn Astor, Director of Economic and Social Policy, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
  • Francesca Rossi, IBM Fellow and AI Ethics Global Leader
  • Olfa Kharrat, Product Director, Salesforce
  • Sara Rendtorff-Smith, Head of AI and Emerging Digital Technologies, OECD
  • Vincent Corruble, Associate Professor, Sorbonne University
  • Wan Sie Lee, Cluster Director for AI Governance and Safety, Infocomm Media Development Authority, Singapore
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About the conference 

 

How will artificial intelligence (AI) reshape productivity, transform skills, and redefine opportunities and risks for workers? Join us for the fifth OECD International Conference on AI in Work, Innovation, Productivity and Skills (AI-WIPS) to find out.

Across multiple live sessions, leading voices from policy, business, academia and civil society will explore the impact of AI on employment, skills, productivity and innovation, and how public policy can respond. From the rise of Agentic AI to the governance of algorithmic management, we will discuss AI’s impact on productivity, competition and innovation, as well as its potential to expand opportunity, including for neurodivergent learners, among many other topics.
 

Sessions include:

  • High-level opening remarks, keynote address and ministerial panel discussion 

  • The rise of Agentic AI (with live demonstration)

  • Is AI making firms and workers more productive? 

  • Governing algorithmic management tools: What are employers doing? 

  • Competition in the age of AI 

  • AI and the future of social protection 

  • Supporting neurodiverse talent in vocational education with AI

  • AI’s implications for work: What do we know from the OECD AI Capability Indicators? 

  • Rethinking innovation in the age of AI

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