Digital skills are critical to your organization’s success, yet according to The Brandon Hall Group 2022 study, Transforming Learning and Development for the Future of Work, less than 40% of employers believe they are well-positioned to improve skills development. By 2025, more than 90% of worldwide organizations will experience negative impacts of the information technology (IT) skills crisis, costing $6.5 trillion in product delays, reduced customer satisfaction, loss of competitiveness and missed revenue goals.

Successful organizations realize training must be continuous and are hyper focused on aligning their upskilling programs with business priorities and roadmaps as well as the evolution of the technological roles and capabilities. Research shows that practical, hands-on learning is critical for improving technical skills in 82% of organizations. Experiential learning and outcome-based assessments can not only speed up skilling initiatives, but also validate that employees can perform the work that the business needs.

Join Frank Gartland, chief product and technology officer of Skillable, as he explores how to maximize the impact of technical training on such topics as data and analytics, coding, cybersecurity, machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), network/ systems/ database administration and more.

In this session, you’ll learn:

• Why experiential learning is emerging as a critical tool to have in your arsenal for keeping up with the evolving digital skill needs of your organization.
• How hands-on learning experiences can be integrated into your existing initiatives to accelerate and enhance digital skill building and measurement.
• How to maximize the impact of technical training.

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Speakers

Frank Gartland, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Skillable As chief product and technology officer for Skillable, Frank Gartland oversees the transformation of training to skilling through challenge-centric learning, hands-on skill development and performance-based validation. Frank challenges teams, partners and customers to create better methods to scale learning. He thrives on helping people reach their potential and loves building businesses that enable people to make a positive impact. Prior to joining Skillable, Frank was CEO of Veeya, a managed service provider focused on serving K-12 with technology as a service, where subscription revenues increased more than 300% during his tenure. Frank has been innovating with virtual classroom technologies and content since 1999 when his team first delivered fully online, instructor-led training for Cisco, Microsoft, EMC and others. As vice president of products with iLinc, Frank led the transformation of the virtual classroom system used by Global Knowledge, Salesforce.com and more than 2,700 others, and he led Microsoft Virtual Academy to become an international learning community. Frank lives in Arizona with the loves of his life: his wife, Rochelle, and four kids. Connect with Frank on LinkedIn.