Several times a year, we invite a coalition member (or members) to share their expert insight in improving the digital confidence and capability of the workforce.
We host Learn and solve events because, when it comes to closing the digital skills gap, working together is crucial and collaboration is the key. By learning from each other what works (and what doesn’t) we can find better solutions, faster. None of us can solve this problem alone.
Here you can view recordings of all our previous Learn and Solves as well as other collaborative events. You can find details of Future Learn and Solves on our Events page.
The Minimum Digital Living Standard: What business needs to know to close the workforce digital skills gap
What is the Minimum Digital Living Standard and how can understanding it help us close the workforce digital skills gap? Did you know that c.3.7 million households with children (c.45%) don't meet the Minimum Digital Living Standard (MDLS)? They're missing the...
Closing the workforce digital skills gap: Sprint 2 kick-off call
We are delighted to invite you to join a kick of call for the second sprint of activity for the 2024 delivery plan to close the workforce digital skills gap.
The 2024 Workforce Digital Skills Summit
On Thursday 25 April, we’re uniting more than 200 leaders from across industry and government in London for the inaugural Workforce Digital Skills Summit.
Learn and Solve with Travis Perkins
Andy Rayner, Director of Apprenticeships and Early Careers at Travis Perkins joined us to discuss how peer mentors and embedding digital skills into their apprenticeships programme is aiming to improve digital capability across their workforce, and beyond.
Learn and Solve with Marks and Spencer
Conor Rose, Principal Strategist at Marks and Spencer joins us to discuss implementing the Digital Essentials programme across their full workforce.
Learn and Solve with AND Digital
Stuart Munton, Chief of Delivery for leading digital agency AND Digital, joins us to discuss how ‘Communities of Practice’ foster a culture of learning and accelerate digital skills both in their organisation and with their clients.
Collective Action 2022
FutureDotNow and colleagues from across our coalition came together on November 17 for Collective Action 2022, our flagship Autumn event. It was time in which we, as a coalition could share our knowledge and progress, and our plans to build digital capability and...
Learn and Solve with PwC – follow-up Q&A
Sunil Patel, Partner and Cheif Data Officer at PwC UK joins us again to answer some of the buring questions that came out of our last Learn and Solve.
Learn and Solve with PwC: Digital accelerators
At our September Learn and Solve event∗, we were joined by Sunil Pater, Partner and Chief Data Officer at PwC. He discussed why and how they developed their Digital Accelerators programme to improve digital confidence and capability across their workforce - and the...
Recap: Learn and Solve with Barclays on the top 10 workplace digital gaps
At July’s Learn and Solve'event we were be joined by Anna Collins from Barclays Digital Eagles. She outlined their free to access learning content, and we unpicked how you can implement this in your workplace to cover the top 10 digital essential digital skills gaps....
Learn and Solve with DWP: Baselining the digital skills levels of your organisation – May 2022
Understanding your organisation's digital skills starting point is the first step in the upskilling journey. In this, the first of our Learn and Solve series of online events, we're joined by Virginia Goodhew, Digital Confidence and Capability Lead at DWP, to explain...
FutureDotNow Meet with Nationwide and iDEA – April 2022
Join us as we hear from Nationwide Building Society and iDEA Foundation and take a deep dive into their collaboration on digital upskilling for the Nationwide workforce. We hear directly from the teams on the challenges they’ve faced, the solutions they’ve surfaced...
FutureDotNow Meet with the Weir Group – March 2022
The Weir Group PLC’s Kirsteen Scott and Nathalie Brown joined us to discuss the firm’s digital skills journey, the challenges they’ve faced and their progress so far. A fascinating session that really gets stuck into the hurdles faced – and overcome – by an...
July Meet – A catch-22, essential digital skills for young people
With help from coalition members Catch 22 and Movement to Work, we heard first-hand from young people on the challenges they face gaining essential digital skills for work, and shared data unpacking the extent of the issue and what that means for business.
June Meet – Digital Future of Work
For this session, we were delighted to be joined by Lloyds Banking Group and FutureDotNow members for a working session to help you understand the relationship between business performance and essential digital skills. It included new data and insight and enabled...
March Meet – FutureDotNow Playbook working session
We’re all about co-creation! We mixed things up a little and ran a quickfire workshop on the FutureDotNow Playbook. There were some fantastic discussions in our breakout rooms around how we can make the Playbook even better.
February Meet – Putting people at the heart of digital
In this session we discussed the importance of having a human-centric approach to digital – especially when considering your own employees and their learning. We had brilliant speakers from both Barclays and Microsoft who will be discussed their experiences in this...
January Meet – FutureDotNow Playbook beta launch
FutureDotNow’s first coalition call of 2021 – we heard from NFCE, Skills Forward and saw FutureDotNow’s new Skills Playbook. We heard from our speakers, NCFE and Skills Forward about what they are doing to support newly-made qualifications for Essential Digital...
December Meet – Data and Insight on Essential Digital Skills
In the final session of 2020 we welcomed founding partner Lloyds Banking Group, BetheBusiness, Microsoft and Department for Education.
Essential Digital Skills
Take a look as we took a deep dive into the essential digital skills and how those skills can be delivered to your organisation.
