Right skills, wrong place: Can tech unlock the promise of labor migration?
Labor mobility is one of the most powerful tools available today to address youth unemployment and forced displacement. Yet mobility to OECD countries has not scaled to match its potential - which measures in the millions of work visas. The costs are often prohibitive, and the path from aspiration to employment remains out of reach for most.
Can tech and AI change that equation?
Join us for an honest conversation about the role of technology to address cost and other barriers to labor mobility: what it can unlock, what it cannot solve, and why this may be one of the most under-leveraged opportunities for funders and innovators alike.
Speakers include:
Ed Shapiro, Shapiro Foundation, a funder betting on the intersection of refugee support and labor mobility
Rebekah Smith, Labor Mobility Partnerships, working to dramatically scale mobility globally
Christian Meyer, Tabiya, Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Development, working on AI-powered skills recognition and building digital public infrastructure for jobs
Jason Wendle, The Migration Opportunity, helping to stand up the migration-for-impact field
Expert discussants:
Sorcha O’Callaghan, Talent Beyond Boundaries, pioneer of labor mobility for displaced populations
Chad Sterbenz, Malengo, pioneer of finance for educational mobility
Sam Huckstep, Center for Global Development, research and policy expert working on the intersection of migration, displacement, and climate change
Who this is for:
Ambitious doers working in technology, AI, livelihoods, or migration
Funders who advise and support ambitious doers
What you will get out of it:
Understand the cost and other barriers preventing labor mobility from reaching its potential and the role tech can play in addressing them
Hear directly from funders and practitioners on where capital and innovation are most needed
Walk away with a sharper view of the risks of tech-driven solutions for labor mobility
Leave with a concrete sense of where the opportunities are and how to engage with this space