Presentation delivered by Steven Drost, CSO, CodeBase at the 'Developing the Digital Workforce' event, 15/05/17.
CodeBase is the UK’s largest startup incubator, home to more than 90 of the country’s best technology companies. They champion businesses tackling big challenges with technology, and work tirelessly to support the development of a more diverse and competitive European digital industry.
Who better then, to advise on what those companies will be looking for in their future employees. Steven shares his views on what schools, colleges and universities should be doing to prepare their students for workplace of the future.
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CodeBase - You're Hired
1.
2. 1 CodeBase Edinburgh by Numbers
2 Our Thesis About What Is Happening Now
3 Startups and Scaleups and Why
4 What Do You Teach When Everything Changes All
The Time?
5 Twas Ever Thus
6 How Does This Map To Corporate Employers
7 Industry Led Teaching
8 Life Long Learning, Peer Learning & Virtues
Contents
3. Key Numbers
Founded in 2014
Largest tech incubator in the UK
6 x Growth in 3 years
91 tenant companies
660 net new jobs created
More than $500m invested into tenant
companies
1 Unicorn
CodeBase Edinburgh In Numbers
4. The world is changing
dramatically
Thesis - Big Picture
7. •AirBnB is a hotel company that owns no hotels
•Uber is a taxi company that owns no taxis
•Skype has killed long distance calls
•Phones, Flickr, Aperture, Snap killed Kodak
•WhatsApp sends more messages than global
SMS
Big Picture
12. Why?
Share of enterprises, employment and turnover by size of enterprise, 2015 -
Gov.Scot
0%
25%
50%
75%
100%
Small (0-49 employees) Medium (50-249 employees) (250+ employees)
13. Why?
0%
25%
50%
75%
100%
Small (0-49 employees) Medium (50-249 employees) (250+ employees)
Entrerprises Employment Turnover
Share of enterprises, employment and turnover by size of enterprise, 2015 -
Gov.Scot
15. Cities Create New Jobs
1750 1900 2017
Population 11 mil 40 mil 66 mil
Cities 20% 80% 82%
Countryside 80% 20% 18%
London 10,000 4,5 mil 8,6 mil
Life
Expectancy
35 years 50 years 82 years
19. • We know disruption is
real
• We are going to take
action
• Equity investments
• M&A
• Intrapreneurship
• Skunkworks
• Accelerators
What Employers Say
Don’t be
too late
Avoid the
zombie
apocalypse
Don’t be
too early
• Our core business is still
profitable
• We can find new
customers
• We can find new
markets
• Partnerships & cross
marketing
• Corporate social
investment (CSI)
• Social good investments
• Stewardship
• Community outreach
• Charity partnerships
• Scholarships
20. 'More than half of human jobs will be taken by robots', expert says.
21.
22.
23. “Machines should only do what humans
cannot. Only in this way can we have the
opportunities to keep machines as
working partners with humans, rather
than as replacements.”
Jack Ma, Chairman and Founder of Ali Baba
View From China
24. Industry led teaching is good, but
institutions need to be aware that:
1. Industry can make mistakes
2. Industry is exposed to fast change
Industry Led Teaching