PANELISTS

David Friedman, Founder/CEO, Autonomy Works

Matteo Zallio, Professor, Cambridge University

Clyne Namuo, President, Joliet Junior College

Kenneth McKinney, Co-President, People with Disabilities + Allies Business Council, Motorola Solutions
Mark Fister, Former Chief Technologist, Auticon, CTO, Haystack
Tim White, CEO, NuVert

MODERATOR

Dr. Maureen Dunne, Founder DNS, Best-selling Author, The Neurodiversity Edge

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This session addresses one of the defining challenges of our time: the widening gap between how people are educated, how skills are recognized, and how work is actually evolving. As technological change accelerates, linear pathways from education to employment are breaking down—particularly for neurodivergent individuals whose talents often fall outside conventional credentials.

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Bringing together perspectives across generations and sectors, the panel explores new paradigms for learning, credentialing, and workforce development that value adaptability, strengths, and lived experience. The conversation highlights how empathic system design can better align education and work with the realities of an exponentially changing economy.

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In other words, when the world changes exponentially, systems must adapt faster than people are expected to.

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Rather than asking individuals to conform to outdated structures, the session invites leaders to imagine how institutions themselves must evolve to meet the future of work—intentionally and inclusively.