Breakout 15: Human potential, digitalisation and workforce transformation
October 29th, 2026 — 11:15 - 12:15
Description
Digitalisation and automation are changing the way work is organised across manufacturing and services. For innovation ecosystems, the challenge is not simply to improve efficiency, but to ensure that new technologies support people and create meaningful pathways for workforce transition.
The session presents four approaches which support workforce transformation treating human factors as a design requirement. JOIST Innovation Park in Greece has developed an Industry 5.0 blueprint that places worker participation and well-being within innovation management. Türkiye’s Ostim Teknopark uses human-in-the-loop AI to develop operator roles towards greater supervisory responsibility without displacement. In Brazil, Porto Digital’s Career Transition Programme, the SAP Academy, offers an accelerated reskilling model that has achieved 92% employability among underrepresented candidates. Orange Business is using a Digital Ontology Generator to organise fragmented enterprise documentation into taxonomies that give AI a stronger operational context in France.
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