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The Future Is Now

Closing the data analytics skills gap

WorkingNation and The Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative (WCAI) will hold a Town Hall to discuss talent needs in data analytics and innovative solutions.
With the proliferation of new technology, data analytics has become one of the fastest-growing job areas. Data science now now spans – and drives – nearly every aspect of business, government, and the nonprofit sectors. In this town hall, panelists discuss how employers and educators are responding to the growing talent needs in this evolving field.
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As technology continues to transform current jobs and create new jobs, there is one industry that is taking center stage in this new world of work – data science. For the past three years, data scientist has been named the Top Job In America by Glassdoor.

And while the three professions that make up the industry – machine learning, statistics, and analytics – are all considered “hot jobs,” it’s data analytics (or data-mining or business intelligence) that is growing by leaps and bounds across all industries and is revolutionizing the workplace.

In 2015, 2.35 million jobs demanded data science and analytic (DSA) skills. By 2020, the demand for DSA jobs is projected to grow 15%, according to research from Burning Glass Technologies, with the fastest-growing roles of data scientists and advanced analysts projected to see demand spike by 28%.

This boom has driven the demand for skilled professionals and the need for educators to incorporate data analytics in secondary and postsecondary curriculums. Right now, fewer than one-third of U.S. News & World Report‘s Top 100 Global Universities offer degrees in data science. And of the 29 that offer data science programs, only six make them available to undergraduates, according to the University of California, Riverside.

For WorkingNation’s sixth town hall event, The Future Is Now: Closing the Data Analytics Skills Gap, we partnered with The Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative (WCAI), the world’s preeminent academic research center focusing on the development and application of customer analytics methods, to highlight the power of data analytics in business.

WorkingNation Founder and CEO Art Bilger speaks on stage
WorkingNation founder and CEO Art Bilger

“Data analytics has been at the top of my list for a very long time,” said WorkingNation Founder & CEO Art Bilger, a Wharton School alumnus and one of the people instrumental in the launch of WCAI at the school.

“I really believe data and analytics might be the fastest-growing job area in this country over the next five to10 years because there won’t be an aspect of business, government, or the not-for-profit world that isn’t driven by data and analytics.”

Moderator Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, a CNBC contributor and former CNBC chief international correspondent and co-anchor of Power Lunch, led the discussion with leaders in business, academia, government, and the non-profit sectors on their talent needs in the area of data analytics as well as their innovative solutions.

In addition, we explored how education systems, both traditional and non-traditional pathways, are responding to this demand and educating students for the changing job landscape.

Our esteemed panelists included:
  • Allen Blue (Keynote Speaker), Co-founder, LinkedIn
  • Eric Bradlow, Professor of Marketing, The Wharton School
  • H. Patrick Clancy, President and CEO, Philadelphia Works
  • Tsvi Gal, CTO, Morgan Stanley
  • Guy Generals, President, Community College of Philadelphia
  • Melanie Harris, Chief Information Officer, School District of Philadelphia
  • Ravi Kandikonda, Senior Vice President of Marketing Strategy & Planning, Comcast
  • Steven Kern, Deputy Director, Quantitative Sciences, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Kevin Mahoney, Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, Penn Health
  • Jake Schwartz, Co-founder & CEO, General Assembly
  • Bhushan Sethi, Partner, Joint Global Leader, People & Organization, PwC
  • Matt Sigelman, CEO, Burning Glass Technologies
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Dana Beth Ardi

Executive Committee

Dana Beth Ardi, PhD, Executive Committee, is a thought leader and expert in the fields of executive search, talent management, organizational design, assessment, leadership and coaching. As an innovator in the human capital movement, Ardi creates enhanced value in companies by matching the most sought after talent with the best opportunities. Ardi coaches boards and investors on the art and science of building high caliber management teams. She provides them with the necessary skills to seek out and attract top-level management, to design the ideal organizational architectures and to deploy people against strategy. Ardi unearths the way a business works and the most effective way for people to work in them.

Ardi is an experienced business executive and senior consultant who leverages business organizational transformation through talent strategies. She uses her knowledge and experience to develop talent strategies to enhance revenue and profit contributions. She has a deep expertise in change management and organizational effectiveness and has designed and built high performance cultures. Ardi has significant experience in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, IPO’s and turnarounds.

Ardi is an expert on the multi-generational workforce. She understands the four intersecting generations of workers coming together in contemporary companies, each with their own mindsets, leadership and communications styles, values and motivations. Ardi is sought after to assist companies manage and thrive by bringing the generations together. Her book, Fall of the Alphas: How Beta Leaders Win Through Connection, Collaboration and Influence, will be published by St. Martin’s Press. The book reflects Ardi’s deep expertise in understanding organizations and our changing society. It focuses on building a winning culture, how companies must grow and evolve, and how talent influences and shapes communities of work. This is what she has coined “Corporate Anthropology.” It is a playbook on how modern companies must meet challenges – culturally, globally, digitally, across genders and generations.

Ardi is currently the Managing Director and Founder of Corporate Anthropology Advisors, LLC, a consulting company that provides human capital advisory and innovative solutions to companies building value through people. Corporate Anthropology works with organizations, their cultures, the way they grow and develop, and the people who are responsible for forming their communities of work.

Prior to her position at Corporate Anthropology Advisors, Ardi served as a Partner/Managing Director at the private equity firms CCMP Capital and JPMorgan Partners. She was a partner at Flatiron Partners, a venture capital firm working with early state companies where she pioneered the human capital role within an investment portfolio.

Ardi holds a BS from the State University of New York at Buffalo as well as a Masters degree and PhD from Boston College. She started her career as professor at the Graduate Center at Fordham University in New York.

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