David Middelbeck

For every digital transformation to succeed, skills and capabilities are fundamental to execution. This includes not just experts in topics like AI, Cloud, Data Analytics – but also a huge number of “Translator” roles: people who are able to build the bridges between different functions and innovative digital solutions. Yet, often you won’t find all these people on the hiring market, but need to build them internally.

In this panel discussion, we will discuss the pressing topics for teams and entire companies in the context of these upskilling projects, including (but not limited to):

• How to build an end-to-end digital skills strategy
• How to tailor the skill-building offerings to the different learning goals, different prior knowledge, and different learning styles of individual employees
• How to engage people with a combination of blended self-learning and collaborative learning journeys

As Managing Director of edyoucated, David Middelbeck is an expert in educational technology and helps companies of all sizes to succeed with their upskilling projects. Headquartered in Münster, edyoucated has built an AI-based learning platform that provides learning paths and guidance for individual employees – tailored their prior knowledge, interests and development goals.

Furthermore, he is the Co-Founder and CHRO of TechLabs. With >400 volunteers and >3.000 students across the world, today TechLabs is one of the leading European nonprofit organizations for teaching digital skills to individuals for free. Previously, David studied Information Systems, Data Science, Philosophy and Entrepreneurship at the WWU Münster, Harvard University, MIT and QUT Brisbane.