Youth-Led Solutions - The future of work summit - Day 1 -

Reflecting on what you missed yesterday.

We can be gloomy about the world of work, or we can see the opportunity, said World YMCA Secretary General Carlos Sanvee. The gloomy statistics abound: Christian Scharff of PwC estimated a quarter of a billion jobs worldwide destroyed by COVID. But the opportunities are there: he pointed to 150 million new tech-enabled jobs in the next 5 years. “ ‘L’avenir appartient à ceux qui se lèvent tôt’ – ‘the future belongs to those who get up early’ – that means ‘to those who prepare’ ”, Carlos said. “And we in the YMCA are preparing for the future and the opportunities it will bring.” 

 Looking back on the world since COVID, UN Youth Envoy Jayathma Wickramanayake observed that the most important of the challenges it has thrown up have been the challenges faced by young people, and the best of the solutions that it has thrown up have been either for young people or by young people, or both.

 We had a great Day 1 at the Future of Work Summit. Presenter Trang Truong-Hill navigated us brilliantly. Marco Tavanti of the University of San Francisco said how COVID has accelerated the future of work, and invited us to think high and aim high. Christian Scharff, Hana Sahatqia and Maria Rahamagi counterbalanced threat with opportunity and stressed the importance of constant upskilling, born of the mismatch between what education provides and what the world of work wants.

 Nathan Candaner of Jobzmall said, “There is no clear path to success; you have to make your own future. Go for your own solutions. Push the world for positivity for all of us – the future looks like whatever you make it.” And Kevin Frey of Generation Unlimited, ‘the world’s first public-private-youth-partnership’, said “The focus has to be on people, not jobs, and all our solutions lie in cooperation and collaboration.” 

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