Shape readiness earlier
Bring a current view of work, capability and changing roles into the conversation before young people reach the recruitment market.
Get InvolvedBusiness & Employers
Help shape the people who will shape what comes next.
The Forum puts business in direct conversation with the schools, universities, students and public leaders building tomorrow’s talent. Bring what you know. Discover what you do not see. Build the relationships that turn insight into action.
3–5 March 2027 · Bratislava, Slovakia
Future talent is not built by one sector.
School+University
Business+Public leaders
One room.Earlier relationships.
Better pathways.
Why business belongs in the room
The value begins before the first session.
Business does not attend simply to describe what education should do. It enters a working relationship with the people who can understand, test and act on that perspective.
Meet the whole system
Build relationships with schools, universities, students and public institutions in one room—not through separate conversations months apart.
Find practical partners
Discover where workplace insight, school practice, university expertise and public support can become a credible pilot or shared initiative.
Influence shared direction
Ensure the Bratislava Declaration reflects what people will need to contribute, adapt and keep learning throughout working life.
The same person, seen at different moments
Education develops potential.
Business lives with the outcome.
Schools see learners. Universities see students and emerging professionals. Employers see colleagues, capability and contribution. Public institutions see the systems around them.
The Forum brings those perspectives together early enough to improve the pathway—not merely analyse the gap after it appears.
Learning→Transition→Contribution→Reinvention
Beyond a list of future skills
Build the human capability behind every changing role.
Tools, jobs and technical requirements will keep changing. The deeper business question is whether people can continue to learn, think, reason and communicate as the work changes around them.
Learn
Enter unfamiliar situations, acquire new capability and improve beyond the limits of a current role.
Think
See patterns, frame better questions and imagine possibilities before reaching for a familiar answer.
Reason
Test claims, work with evidence, make sound judgements and explain why a decision deserves confidence.
Communicate
Listen, clarify, collaborate and move ideas across teams, disciplines, cultures and levels of responsibility.
Four relationships worth building
Do not wait for the talent pipeline to reach you.
Work directly with the people shaping it—and with the young people moving through it.
Business ↔ Schools
Make the world of work visible.
Help educators understand how roles are changing and give students meaningful encounters with real problems, people and possibilities.
Business ↔ Universities
Connect learning as deeply as research.
Build stronger relationships around talent, applied learning, career transitions and capability—not only research or graduate recruitment.
Business ↔ Students
Listen before you recruit.
Meet young people as thinkers. Hear how they understand work, purpose, technology and the futures they are preparing to enter.
Business ↔ Public Institutions
Turn pilots into pathways.
Connect credible ideas with the policy, funding and delivery structures that can help them reach beyond one company or one school.
Meet future talent differently
Before they become applicants, customers or employees, they are already thinkers.
The Future of Learning Assembly brings students together to deliberate, negotiate and propose. For employers, it is a rare chance to hear how young people understand the future of work—and what they expect from the institutions shaping it.
Join the Assembly as a listener, contribute a real-world question or help create a challenge that gives students something meaningful to solve.
Explore the AssemblyBuilt for more than logos and tables
Choose how your organisation will contribute.
Bring a live question
Put a genuine talent, learning or future-of-work question into a Working Forum where other sectors can challenge and strengthen it.
Contribute a real case
Share what your organisation is learning about capability, AI, changing roles, early talent or workforce development.
Engage the Assembly
Listen to student deliberation, contribute a challenge or question and meet future talent before the conversation becomes recruitment.
Build what follows
Leave with partners, a possible pilot and a place in the community carrying the Declaration into practical work after Bratislava.
The strongest business presence is useful.
Lead a Working Forum. Bring a live challenge. Support student participation. Help shape a pilot. Contribute expertise the room can use. The starting question is not “Where will our logo appear?” It is “What can we help make possible?”
Explore Forum partnershipsWhat you leave with
More than insight. A stronger position to act.
A clearer view
See how students, educators, universities and public leaders understand the same transitions your organisation is navigating.
Better relationships
Meet the people who can help turn workplace perspective into learning experiences, pathways and practical collaboration.
A shared direction
Help shape the Bratislava Declaration so it reflects the realities of contribution, changing work and lifelong learning.
A next move
Return with a live connection, possible pilot or clearly defined question worth carrying into the year ahead.
Who should be there?
People who think beyond the next vacancy.
You do not need to arrive with a finished programme. Bring the question your organisation needs other sectors to help answer.
- CEOs, founders and senior business leaders
- People, talent and organisational-development leaders
- Learning and workforce-development teams
- Innovation, transformation and future-of-work leaders
- Industry associations and chambers of commerce
- Early-career, graduate and apprenticeship leaders
- Corporate responsibility and social-impact teams
- Employers ready to build with schools and universities
Business & Employers · BFLF 2027
Your future workforce is already being shaped.
Be in the room while the questions, relationships and commitments around it are still open.
Start the conversation3–5 March 2027 · Bratislava, Slovakia