Despite the talent crisis in much of the Western world and across most of Europe, there is a surplus of supply in other geographies, for example, South Africa is suffering its highest adult unemployment at 35%. Egypt and Malaysia as well as LatAm also have available talent.

The Global Technology & Business Services Council’s goal is to develop a Global Heatmap highlighting areas of supply and demand for different skills. This event will take a look at the current talent situation across different geographies and propose solutions to the crisis not just by better balancing global supply and demand, but by accessing flexible resourcing, gig workers, open talent, impact sourcing, automation and other technologies and skills convergence programmes.

Speakers include:

• Jimit Arora, Partner, Enterprise Transformation at Everest Group
• Shyan Mukerjee, Partner at EY-Parthenon
• Ninoshka Linde, Member of Latin American Association of Service Exporters (ALES) and former chief of the board. Chief Director Officer, AGEXPORT
• Jacques Ludik, Smart Technology Entrepreneur and AI Expert
• Ash Noah, VP & Managing Director, Learning, Education and Development, Association of International Certified Professional Accountants
• Barry Matthews, CEO at Open Assembly
• Hanae Chino, Group ESG Strategy Director at Webhelp
• Debi Hamill, CEO at IAOP
• Kerry Hallard, CEO at GSA
• Amani Rabei, Vice President of Market Developments at ITIDA
• Pawel Panczyj, Strategy and Business Director at ABSL
• Traci Freeman, Investor Engagement, Marketing & Growth at BPESA