Edalex and The Bean Centre are pleased to introduce an open forum for skills leaders and practitioners to meet, share ideas, address challenges and progress the Skills Ecosystem vision.
Participants will have the opportunity to work in small groups to address real-world skills challenges and key outcomes will be shared with State and National education and skills policymakers. Places are limited and by invitation only - Register Your Interest to be included.

Draft Agenda
9:00 - 9:05am
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Introduction and Welcome Overview of format for the day
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9:05 - 9:10am
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The Nexus of Skills Meet-Up Meetings How did we get here?
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9:10 - 9:20am
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Real World Skills Challenges Current skills challenge and queries to focus table discussions
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9:20 - 9:50am
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Breakout Roundtable Discussions - Session I Table facilitator and small groups of participants will discuss queries raised
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9:50 - 10:05am
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Individual and Collective Roundtable Outcomes Each roundtable will report on discussion and outcomes followed by group discussion on key takeaways
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10:05 - 10:20am
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Break Tea, coffee and biscuits provided
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10:20 - 10:40am
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Breakout Roundtable Discussions - Session II Table facilitator and small groups of participants will discuss queries raised
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10:40 - 10:55am
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Individual and Collective Roundtable Outcomes Each roundtable will report on discussion and outcomes followed by group discussion on key takeaways
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10:55 - 11:00am
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Summary and Outcomes Overview Overview of the outcomes from the day and invitation to propose future queries
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11:00 - 11:30am
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Open Networking Session Tea, coffee and light lunch provided
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About The Bean Centre
The Bean Centre was founded in 2021 by Emeritus Professor Martin Bean CBE with a single mission: To partner with visionary education experts, breakthrough technology companies and future thinking education providers to create a future that works.
Visit thebeancentre.com
About Edalex
Learning gets personal – Unleash the power of your skills data, digital assets and personal credentials
Edalex is an edTech company on a mission to surface learning outcomes, digital assets and the power of individual achievement. Founded in 2016, Edalex develops technology solutions that extract hidden value from educational data to make it accessible and more meaningful. Edalex brings together the team behind the CODiE award-winning openEQUELLA open source platform that centrally houses teaching and learning, research, media and library content.
In 2019, Edalex launched Credentialate, the world's first Credential Evidence Platform, that helps discover and share evidence of workplace skills. Credentialate provides a Skills Core that creates order from chaotic data, provides meaningful insight through framework alignment and equips learners with rich personal industry-aligned evidence of their skills and competencies.
openRSD was released by Edalex in 2022 to help create, store and share rich skill descriptors (RSDs) and RSD collections. openRSD uses Edalex’s open source technology stack to create locally- and globally-relevant libraries of RSDs that are open to all contributors and consumers. Tools in openRSD include localisation, approval workflow, version control and other important functionality.
Find out more at: edalex.com
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