UAEU Center for Public Policy and Leadership organized a seminar titled: “Future Employment in Time of Automation and Modern Technologies”. The seminar discussed the future of the UAE labor market in the light of automation and technological development and recommendations to the decision-makers about providing Emirati cadres with the necessary skills to participate in the future industry in the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution.

Dr. Ateeq Al Mansouri, UAEU Center for Public Policy and Leadership’s Director, pointed out that this seminar aims at highlighting the sectors of the UAE labor market that are expected to be affected by the wave of permanence and looking forward to the future of the UAE labor market in the light of these changes and scientific progress and the adoption of robots and industrial intelligence in various fields.

Dr. Ateeq Al Mansouri stressed on the importance of the decision in providing the labor market with human cadres and the necessary skills to adapt to these transformations and benefit from them.

Dr. Ahmed Al-Najjar, Chair of the Department of Psychology and Counseling, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, presented the vision of the UAE's wise leadership as the future of distance learning and, where future teachers are forced to deal with modern technologies to introduce lectures and lessons that began a few years ago. Known as "Smart Learning" and virtual learning. Der. Al-Najjar explained that fears have begun to manifest to the disappearance of some jobs from the labor market, which is necessarily in the adaptation of educational institutions to their scientific curricula, as well as the specializations and the emergence of common and serious educational concepts Known as "Scientific Hybridization" which combines several disciplines with the scientific and technical training and skills development according to the requirements of the future.

Dr. Naima Al Darmaki, from the College of Engineering, pointed out the importance of individual skills and learning in an innovative way that will enhance the ability of creative thinking, in addition to the role of strategic partnership with industrial companies and the exchange of knowledge and technology for developing the intelligent education.