The Digital Transformation driven by BigData, mobile, AI and cloud is reshaping industries and professions. New skills will be required and the young and the middle aged have to learn new competencies to capture the many opportunities ahead. This presentation has been used for a conversation with students from Liceo Frisi and military academy Teulié.

1. The dawn of the Cognitive Era, future of jobs and new skills
Roberto Villa
Mgr of University Relations and Research Ecosystem,IBM Italy July 5th, 2017
Research & business

2. The dawn of the Cognitive Era
In just
two days
we now generate as much data as
was generated in total through 2003
80% of all data
is unstructured and growing 15 times
the rate of structured data
(10 21)

3. The dawn of the Cognitive Era

4. A single MRI scan can return up to
10,000 images With more than
75 Million
scans each year
Return the top 20
most important images
Images: Medical Sieve
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5. Retail / fashionHealthcare
Banking
… .. .
Industry applications

6. Cognitive dress
Cognitive music
Cognitive art
Cognitive immersive experience
Cognitive Trailer
Cognitive systems and creativity

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Automation, a global force transforming economies and workforce

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Speed is the challenge. However …

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The paradox of the young

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The paradox of the middle aged

11. Skills transfromation, driven by the 4° industrial revolution

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Deep dive on Italy

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Deep dive on Italy: healthcare
Source:Osservatorio InnovazioneDigitale in Sanità - Politecnico di Milano,2017

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The skills for the new professions, and the widening gap in EU

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… and Italy is facing the same challenge
85.000new ICT jobs will be created in 2016- 2018,
with an increase of occupation of 3.5% yearly from now up to
2018, to reach 624.000 units
Half of the 4362non ICT faculties
have no digital courses / education
+90%new ICT jobs specific for the digital
transformation

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The digital skills for the new professions / roles
Source: Development and implementation of a European framework for IT professionalism. January 2017, European Commission

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Source: Levy, F, & Murnane, R. J. (2004). The New Division of Labor: How Computers Are Creating the Next Job Market. Princeton University Press.
Expert Thinking
Complex Communication
Routine Manual
Non-routine Manual
Routine Cognitive
How technology shapes jobs

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Future-Ready T-Shapes

19. Next Generation:
Future-Ready T-Shaped Adaptive Innovators
Many disciplines
Many sectors
Many regions/cultures
(understanding & communications)
Deep in one sector
Deep in one region/culture
Deep in one discipline

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New professions require new skills and a different education paradigm
• Life-long learning
• Practitioning vs theory
• Learning by doing
• Customized programs
• Multi-discipline

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•Data Science/Analytics
• Cyber Security
• Mobile Computing
• Data curation
• Data visualization
• Social Media
• Digital Marketing
• Service Science
Professions for the future, from today
• Agile coach
• Cognitive Computing
• Cloud Computing

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Data Scientist

23. The gap to envision the future is widening
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24. The gap to envision the near future and new jobs is widening
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26. Grazie
Cognitive Era is in
front of us.
It is up to us making
the best of it.

27. Thank You
Roberto Villa
Fabrizio Renzi
Direttore
Tecnologia
e Innovazione
Pietro Leo
Data Scientist
Stefano Oggioni
Mgr of New
Technologies
Marco De Ieso
Advanced
Analytics
Francesca Rossi
Professor
And Chief Scientis
Yorktown Lab
Alessandro Faraotti
Research Architect
Silvia Peschiera
Cognitive
Research proj.
Mauro Gatti
Health
Federico Mattei
Business
Development & IT
Architect
Claudio Fadda
Senior Research
Architect
Roberto Villa
Mgr of University
Relations and
Research Ecosystem
Nicolò Lorenzoni
Future Data Center -
Austin Lab
Team: innovation catalysts
Marina Bastianelli
University Programs
Strategist and
Research
Ecosystem