Community Connects: Navigating Digital Skills

Navigating Digital Skills in Life Sciences: Building Capability and Innovation Readiness

Join the BIA skills community for a webinar exploring one of the most pressing workforce challenges facing the life sciences sector today: building digital capability.

The recently published Life Sciences Jobs Plan identifies digital and AI skills as critical to the sector's future, with programmers and software development professionals representing the single largest area of projected job growth to 2035. Yet for many biotech companies, particularly SMEs, navigating what is available, what is funded, and how to build a digitally capable workforce can feel overwhelming.

This session will bring together experts and company representatives to share practical insights on how life sciences organisations can assess their digital skills needs and act on them.

Topics for discussion include:

• Understanding the digital and AI skills landscape for life sciences
• What training and funding routes are available
• Building digital capability in SMEs with limited time and resource
• Preparing your workforce for AI adoption in a regulated environment

Whether you are just beginning to think about digital upskilling or looking to refine your approach, this session will offer practical guidance and a chance to ask questions from those working at the intersection of life sciences and digital innovation.

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