Name: Bett Asia
Start: 2026-09-23T09:00:00+08:00
End: 2026-09-24T17:00:00+08:00
Location: Mandarin Oriental

Beyond retraining: Lifelong education in the age of superhuman labour

As AI increasingly performs parts of professional cognitive work, conventional one-off retraining becomes too narrow and too slow. This session examines why institutions should treat professional learning as a continuing relationship rather than a periodic response to technological shocks.

Designed for Higher Education, TVET, and workforce-development leaders, the talk distinguishes short-lived tool training from durable capabilities such as judgement, domain reasoning, model evaluation, and institutional decision-making. Participants will learn how to identify tasks most exposed to AI, determine which human capabilities retain value as technical competence becomes widely available, and design lifelong educational structures that help working adults adapt before skills gaps widen.

The central takeaway is practical: education providers should not wait for displacement to produce demand. They should build recurrent, modular pathways connecting technological change with professional judgement throughout a learner’s career.

Wednesday 23 September 15:00 - 15:30 Leadership Summit: HE & TVET

Add to calendar 09/23/2026 15:00 09/23/2026 15:30 Beyond retraining: Lifelong education in the age of superhuman labour As AI approaches professional-level cognition, Universities must build lifelong educational structures before labour-market disruption outpaces institutional adaptation. Leadership Summit: HE & TVET Asia/Shanghai