Dr Bhimaraya Metri (Director IIMN) speaks at the ETHRWorld Future Skills Conference

Dr Bhimaraya Metri (Director IIMN) speaks at the ETHRWorld Future Skills Conference
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Dr Bhimaraya Metri (Director IIMN) speaks at the ETHRWorld Future Skills ConferenceJul 28, 2021

Dr Bhimaraya Metri (Director IIM Nagpur) participated in a panel discussion on Global, Scalable and Sustainable Charters for a Future Ready Workforce at the ETHRWorld Future Skills Virtual Conference 2021. Dr Metri highlighted the building blocks of a future-ready workforce, elaborating how it was crucial to prepare a workforce to helm unknown roles in unborn companies. He explained how a shift had occurred from knowledge acquisition to competency-building in educational institutions in response to changing working models in the industry.

The panel, moderated by Ms Ritu Rakhra (Regional HR Leader, India, Dell Technologies) and joined by Dr Akhil Shahani (MD, The Shahani Group), Dr Manikrao Salunkhe (VC, Bharati Vidyapeeth) and Mr Raghav Gupta (MD India and APAC, Coursera), discussed how industry and academia could rethink their systems to establish a more sustainable connection between the two in order to bridge existing skill gaps.