Charting the Future: AI, Careers and Connections

Audience: MSOE students & faculty

Overview

This event brings together industry professionals, leaders, MSOE students, and faculty to explore how AI is reshaping careers, talent development, and hiring across sectors. The session begins with an industry leadership panel where professionals from engineering, business, and healthcare discuss AI skills and the future of jobs, addressing what new graduates need to know, the critical competencies they must develop, and how companies are adapting their talent strategies. Panelists will examine current and emerging roles in an AI-driven world, alongside essential graduate skills including data fluency, model understanding, social responsibility, and human-centered design.

Following the panel discussion, students will connect with potential employers and industry professionals during a networking reception. This is an opportunity to share how AI is integrated into their foundational MSOE education, discuss emerging career pathways, explore career opportunities, and learn what companies seek in new graduates. 

Why Attend? 

This exclusive networking event brings together industry professionals, leaders, MSOE students, and faculty to explore the future of work in an AI-driven world. Join us for meaningful conversations with students and faculty who are actively building AI skills your organization needs while maintaining the rigorous technical and professional foundation MSOE is known for. 

Industry Panel : Bridging Academia and Industry: Preparing Graduates for AI-Transformed Career 

Hear what the present and future look like for careers, talent, and jobs in engineering, business, and healthcare within an AI-driven world. Learn directly from industry leaders about the skills and competencies they are seeking in new hires. 

Dinner and Networking 

Connect directly with MSOE students to discuss career pathways, internships, and hiring needs while exploring how they are developing AI competencies alongside the rigorous technical and professional foundation MSOE is known for.  

 
Agenda and Speakers