Why mastering skills data is Germany’s and Europe's decisive competitive lever for 2025-30.

Most organisations talk about becoming skills-based, yet few can picture the day-to-day reality. This keynote breaks the myth, mapping the maturity ladder, showing how pay, workforce planning and learning transform, and giving leaders instant benchmarking and quick wins.

Learn why skills programmes succeed or stall and stress-test your roadmap against five proven non-negotiables. Leave with a gap-analysis poll, quick-win playbook and a charter template to secure buy-in.

Rapid-fire Q&A, distil the discussion into 3 concrete actions that will feed the afternoon round-tables and, ultimately, the event’s shared 90-day skills roadmap.

 

Learn a repeatable method that converts corporate growth targets and macro labour intelligence into a 36‑month skill‑demand forecast your CFO will trust.

See how to convert skill‑demand numbers into three capacity scenarios that reveal cost, location and contingent‑mix trade‑offs before they hit the P&L.

Rapid-fire Q&A, distil the discussion into 3 concrete actions that will feed the afternoon round-tables and, ultimately, the event’s shared 90-day skills roadmap.

 

Collaborate in round-tables to generate three priority actions and one success metric for your chosen skills challenge—from gap quantification to talent marketplace scale—and feed the results directly into the summit’s 90-Day Skills Sprint Playbook.

Discover the sprint approach that collapses legacy job codes into a modern skills taxonomy aligned to strategy, validated by the business and ready for AI inference.

Learn how NLP, project metadata and micro‑endorsements infer employee skills at scale—while human checks and privacy controls keep the data trustworthy.

Rapid-fire Q&A, distil the discussion into 3 concrete actions that will feed the afternoon round-tables and, ultimately, the event’s shared 90-day skills roadmap.

 

See the design and rollout blueprint of an internal marketplace that fills priority roles in weeks, cuts vacancy cost and boosts retention.

Walk through a practical ROI calculator comparing reskilling pathways to external hires, and learn how to embed skill premiums in transparent pay architecture.

Rapid-fire Q&A, distil the discussion into 3 concrete actions that will feed the afternoon round-tables and, ultimately, the event’s shared 90-day skills roadmap.

Four rapporteurs distil the summit's findings into headline actions before delegates vote and pledge ownership, producing a prioritised 90‑day skills sprint and a peer support network.

Swap ideas with fellow HR, analytics and business leaders who are tackling the same skills challenges. Compare lessons learned, share contacts, and leave with new partners for your next project.