Closing the Skills Gap to Outperform Robots

Join us as guest speakers, Saleha Khumawala, Professor of Accounting and Founding Director, SURE Program and Charles Becker, SURE Program, Assistant Director at the University of Houston, shares their insights.

Students face an existential challenge in many of the industries they are entering: that of differentiating themselves properly in the face of automation and artificial intelligence. Many stakeholders of today’s institutions of higher learning lack access to resources and services that, tragically, those institutions themselves are leading experts at providing. There is a widening gap between the needs of the workforce and what students are being trained to do. Dr. Saleha Khumawala, of the University of Houston SURE™ Program discusses how using design thinking to bring these stakeholders together in the SURE Program provides a model toward solving each’s problems.