Boardroom Dialogue Boardroom
Solving the Problem of Core Digital and Data Skills
Date Thursday, Dec 4 Time – Room: King
Digital skills are increasingly essential for meaningful participation in modern societies and workplaces, yet many adults worldwide lack foundational competencies. This boardroom dialogue explores research-informed, practice-based approaches to developing and assessing core digital and data skills, drawing on prototype learning platforms and real-world trials. Participants will learn effective strategies for skill development, assessment methods, and ways to support learners in building competencies that are relevant, measurable, and transferable across professional contexts.
Peter Gillis
Innovation Services Lead, Learnovate
Peter is an experienced team lead, skilled in the practices of: innovation (JTBD, Lean Startup, Design Thinking), digital strategy, and strategy and corporate company management. Peter is also a researcher with a demonstrated history of working in the EdTech research industry. He lectures on the psychology of learning on several masters programmes. Peter holds a first-class honours degree in Psychology, the focus of his research was cognitive theory of multimedia learning. In 2012, he completed an MSc in Technology Enhanced Learning at Trinity College Dublin. His research interest is the interaction between motivation and technology-enhanced learning. Peter developed his research on motivation and learning through the PhD programme at TCD. Peter has over two decades commercial experience in the digital design and communications industry. He was Managing Director of one of the first multimedia agencies in Ireland working with blue-chip clients in Ireland and the US.