Have you heard about the accountant who became a software developer? Does and if so, how do upskilling and retraining work? Or is this just another urban myth? And is there a better time than now?

Join Talent Talks vol.3 if you feel the click with even one of the following descriptions and register today:

✨A (future) IT professional looking for a new type of role or a new field ↪ Your inner GPS advices you to make a sharp turn in your professional journey

💡 An HR specialist striving to gain a new perspective into career development

🌄You are just curious to peek what’s waiting for you beyond the obvious career horizon

🔮Fortune telling may not be your thing, but forecasts for sure are. You want to be the first to know the top of the top trends and be prepared for what’s coming.

About Talent Talks Vol.3: Upskill & Retrain

🔜 ‘Talent Talks’ is a series of events Trending Topics has started to demystify the myths around what the talents in the tech sector are actually after. We will be back on November 19th, streaming live from Launchee for our third edition - again in a hybrid form - with a limited in-person audience and added live streaming on Facebook and YouTube. But nonetheless, we’ll be exploring again what in reality motivates professionals in the local tech sector.

🙋 Business and technology are changing ever faster, the pandemic jolted many of us out of our comfort zones, many people are rethinking their careers. Career development and planning are now more important than ever, and that’s exactly the topic we are going to explore in-depth during Vol. 3 of Talent Talks.

❓Computer programming is being considered by many an increasingly crucial skill just like reading, writing, and arithmetics. At the same time, automation & AI are expected to eliminate hundreds of millions of jobs - blue-collar, white-collar, but also coding. So, how should professionals and employers of today prepare for the future of work? 💭

💡 To get answers to all these questions and more, we will be studying different perspectives and inviting IT professionals and engineers, business managers and HR specialists, trainers, and everyone building the future of employee learning to join the conversation at Launchee.

➡️ Panelists:

- Hristo Dimitrov, Legal advisor turned database migration engineer, part of the team at Documaster.

- Svetlin, Nakov, Co-founder, innovation and inspiration manager at SoftUni

- Alexander Sumin - Bankruptcy analyst turned entrepreneur and Chief Marketing Officer at ClaimCompass

⌚ Agenda:

- 18:30 open screens

- 19:00 panel discussion

- 20:00 Q&A

Note: Tickets are free but registration is required. You also have the option to support us with a small donation so we can organize even more cool events for the regional innovation ecosystem.