Film: Breakfast meeting on the skills shortage

Skills supply

Together with Stockholm IT Region, we held a breakfast seminar on Tuesday about the skills shortage in the IT and telecom sector and how we better utilize foreign-born skills. Here you can see the whole seminar afterwards!

The IT and telecom industry in Stockholm has a great need to recruit but limited opportunities to both find and hire the people with the right skills that actually exist, not least when it comes to foreign-born skills. Despite the skills shortage, foreign-born employment is expected to fall further from already low levels in 2016 - threatening both the skills supply of growing service companies and the integration of foreign-born people.

Sweden has Europe's highest employment gap between foreign and domestic-born people. This affects individuals, but also Stockholm as a city, by threatening the supply of skills to companies and thereby their opportunities to grow and develop in the city. Many new arrivals and other foreign-born people have skills that could be put to much better use. So how do we do it? What are the obstacles - and the opportunities?

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Agenda

Breakfast seminar - 8:00

Presentation:

Fredrik von Essen, industrial policy expert at IT&Telecomföretagen, presents the report "Acute and structural skills shortage in the IT and telecom sector":

Without strong action, a shortfall of 60,000 people in the sector is expected by 2020.
IT&Telecom companies' concrete proposals to attract and utilize foreign-born skills.

Panel discussion:

What is the industry's experience? What are the needs of IT companies, what obstacles do they see, what good examples are there to follow? What is the responsibility of policy makers? What are the opportunities and challenges for implementing the industry's proposals?

Carl-Johan Hamilton, Ants - Code at Heart and IT&Telecom Companies' IT Skills Council
Dinesh Nayar, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Fyndiq
Tina Ghasemi (M) Member of Parliament and former Chairman of the Board of STOKAB
Emilia Bjuggren (S), Minister for Employment and Sports, City of Stockholm

Moderator: Magnus Höij