The Industry SIG explores issues related to academic relationships with industry, shaped by a wide range of factors including, but not limited to:

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• Requirements and modes of delivery aligned with career lifecycle, individual and employer needs.
   

• Creating a talent pipeline or network of highways with on ramps and off ramps.  What are these ramps?
   

• Motivations for employer supported learning.
   

• Diverse and sometimes competing expectations of employers/ HR departments.  For example, preference for workforce-ready and experienced recruits versus reluctance to support placements and projects.
   

• Downside - Upside trade-offs.  Resource scarcity of time and money, that privilege shorter periods of training – as evidenced by developments in micro-modules and credentials  - versus flexible ways of working and learning at times of own choosing on topics bespoke to role.
   

• Diverse certifications in an international supply-chain set against the requirements to provide services in local communities with diverse characteristics – scalability
   

• Educating for jobs that do not yet exist or are nascent
   

• The mix between foundational elements of practice, and the requirements of specific sectors, threats and technological variables.
   

• Innovation in modes of delivery – service learning, tech in the classroom – see the innovation SIG.
   

• Education and training in tick-box compliance cultures.
   

• Preparing people to work in a contested cyberspace, where adversaries are often innovative and imaginative – ‘education is what’s left when your training doesn’t seem to work.’

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