Fast Company will host the webinar, Talent for Innovation: The New Skills and Roles Transforming Manufacturing. It will feature a fireside chat with Barbara Humpton, President and CEO of Siemens USA and a panel discussion with T.L. Taylor, Professor of Comparative Media Studies & Director of MIT GameLab and Mike Molnar, Director of Advanced Manufacturing Office at National Institute of Standards and Technology.

With more than 800,000 open positions across U.S. manufacturing, new technologies like the industrial metaverse present an opportunity both to lower barriers of entry and inspire a new generation of workers to work in manufacturing. Fast Company and Siemens will bring together senior business leaders to highlight the efforts and opportunities to address talent recruitment needs to remain globally competitive and share how new design, gaming and user experience roles are transforming the perspective on industrial career paths.