Building the Systems Workforce of the Future

Date: October 8 and 9, 2024
Location: TU Delft Aula Conference Center
 

Challenges and Needs

Today’s interdependent systems are being shaped by major transformations occurring, for example, in the energy, health, aerospace, and transportation industries, as well as advancements in robotics, AI, and cyber-physical domains. Engineering talent is needed to integrate diverging requirements, develop robust designs, and ensure project success. Well-educated system managers and engineers with broad overarching multi-disciplinary competencies are essential for tackling today’s complex systems’ technical, economic and societal challenges. This type of talent is scarce and in high demand by enterprises worldwide.

Objectives

This Summit will articulate the context, needs, and actions for growing the needed workforce. It will bring together industrial, academic, and professional organizations, as well as government agencies, to formulate a call for action that could mitigate the shortage of a well-educated and trained systems workforce in the medium term.

Stakeholders

The summit participants are all stakeholders concerned with the planning and execution of complex engineering programs involving environmental, social, economic, political, regulatory, and technological challenges. Cooperation between the diverse organizations participating in this Summit could significantly advance the needed “Workforce of the Future”.

Attendees: invited attendees and public

The invited summit attendees (key-note speakers or related to key-note speakers) are personally invited based on their ability to contribute to the event due to their executive responsibilities and influence and/or because they are well positioned to implement the recommendations and “Call for Action” of the Summit in their enterprises and professional environments.

This summit is also open to the public and is interesting for:

• Professionals from various industries: junior, senior or potential systems engineers/systems architects, less or more experienced;
• Scientists of knowledge institutes working in the discipline of systems engineering, management, technology or policy;
• Talents/students from engineering disciplines interested in systems engineering/system thinking. From universities and universities of applied sciences.

Location and program

This international Summit is convened by Delft University of Technology and is supported by a coalition of Dutch universities and enterprises. The one-and-a-half-day event, with approximately a hundred invited attendees, will be held on October 8 and 9, 2024, in the TU Delft Aula Conference Center. It will feature five themes with keynote presentations and panel discussions by recognized leaders in the fields. These will be brought together in a concluding panel, formulating a “Call for Action” for the global systems community.

You can take a look at the programs here.