AI and automation are not a future consideration for South African employers anymore, they’re already reshaping which roles matter, which skills are scarce, and how quickly a workforce strategy can go out of date. Many organisations are still leaning on workforce development approaches built for a slower-moving world, and that gap is starting to show up in real competitiveness terms.

That’s the problem iFundi’s upcoming webinar, Building a Future-Ready Workforce, is designed to address. It’s a free, two-hour online session for business leaders who would rather get ahead of these shifts than respond to them once the damage is already done.

What You’ll Take Away From the Session

The webinar is structured around three practical sessions, each building toward a clearer answer to one question: is your organisation actually ready for how work is changing? Specifically, you’ll walk through:

Why the traditional approach to workforce development, annual training calendars, generic skills programmes, reactive upskilling, is no longer delivering the results organisations need in a market moving this fast.

What a genuinely future-ready workforce looks like in today’s business environment, beyond the buzzwords, and how to recognise the gap between where your organisation is now and where it needs to be.

Practical, immediately actionable steps you can take this quarter to start strengthening your workforce strategy, rather than a long-term plan that only pays off in three years’ time.

The session draws on 25 years of experience helping South African employers build workforce capability, so the insights are grounded in what has actually worked across local industries, not imported frameworks that don’t account for the realities of the South African labour market.

Who Should Be in the (Virtual) Room

This webinar is aimed squarely at the people who carry responsibility for workforce capability, including HR Directors, Learning and Development leaders, and Skills Development Facilitators (SDFs) managing WSP and ATR obligations. It’s equally relevant for CEOs, MDs and COOs who are thinking seriously about whether their organisation has the people to compete in two years’ time, as well as B-BBEE and Transformation Officers planning skills development priorities for the year ahead.

IT and digital leaders working out how to bring their teams along on AI adoption will also find the session useful, as will anyone in the organisation who is ultimately accountable for whether the business has the right people, with the right capabilities, when it matters most.

Event Details

Date: Thursday, 9 July 2026

Time: 10:00 AM

Format: Free online webinar, two hours

Where: Microsoft Teams

Why This Is Worth Two Hours of Your Time

Workforce strategy decisions made this year will show up in organisational performance for years to come. Getting ahead of the shift toward AI-augmented work, rather than scrambling to catch up once competitors have already moved, is exactly the kind of decision that benefits from an outside perspective and a clear framework, which is what this session is built to give you.

Seats for the live session are limited by the platform’s capacity, so if this is relevant to your role, it’s worth registering now rather than leaving it until the morning of the event.