“Technologies and Competencies for Tomorrows’ Companies”

In this world of rapid technology disruption, enterprises can no longer rely on sending employees for off-the shelf training programmes to meet their immediate and longer-term manpower skilling needs. Such programmes often have limited transfer of learning and ROIs at the workplace. Festo, a leading world-wide supplier of automation technology and performance leader in industrial training and education programs has a dedicated arm, Festo Didactic, to spearhead basic and further skills development for manufacturing and process automation. This session will elaborate on Festo Didactic’s approach on Industry 4.0, how it shapes business models, and the requisite employee profile and portfolio of skills and dispositions for continued business success. Festo Didactic’s philosophy on training and development, anchored on active learning based on actual products and training factories, will be discussed.  New evolving ways of developing Industry 4.0 philosophies such as use of gamification, on-the-job coaching, and ongoing challenges encountered will also be shared.

Mr Volker Schmid
Head of Asia Pacific
Festo Didactic SE

“Preparing Our Workforce for Industry 4.0”

Industry 4.0 has caused individuals and companies to re-envision what are future skills and capabilities that will be required to remain relevant and employable. Workers will be required to master new skills ranging from using complex technology platforms to different ways of working and interreacting with colleagues. It is imperative for companies to understand the changing dimensions of the future of work and implement the right strategies in their workforce training approaches.

Dr Markus Waechter
Managing Director
Technical University of Munich (Asia)