Virtual Panel – On-Demand

You can't hire your way ready: building Saudi Arabia's AI-capable workforce

New Pearson and AWS research puts Saudi Arabia ahead of every other market we studied on graduate readiness. Employers still cannot find enough AI-ready people. Waiting for the pipeline to catch up is not a workforce strategy, so the question has shifted from who to hire to how to build capability across the workforce you already have.

In this session

Tony Lteif chairs a panel with Oliver Latham of Pearson, Izabela Milewska of AWS and Rawan Alsaleh of HUMAIN. Around 60 minutes, covering:

  • What Saudi employers are actually seeing in the talent market right now
  • Where organisations lose capability between hiring someone and getting productive work from them
  • What building AI capability internally looks like when it works

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The panel

Tony Lteif

SVP Global Sales, English Language Learning, Pearson, and Saudi Country Ambassador. Chair.

Rawan Alsaleh

Head of Organisational Development, HUMAIN

Izabela Milewska

Certification Go To Market Leader, AWS

Oliver Latham

VP Enterprise EMEA, Pearson

Clips from the session

Four steps to build AI capability

The most practical stretch of our panel — Oli Latham's four moves for building AI capability that sticks:

Redesign the work, don't just hand people a shiny tool. Put learning in the flow of work, not in a one-off event. Build for adaptability. Empower your middle managers.

68% of workers say their most preferred way to learn is through their employer. The opportunity is there — this is how you use it.

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Turning training into applied skill

Training people is easy. Getting it to stick is the hard part.

Izabela Milewska from AWS on how the organisations getting AI capability right use hands-on, gamified team challenges straight after training — turning knowledge into applied skill people actually use.

A practical idea from our panel on building an AI-ready workforce

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You can't teach AI from a training course

"I cannot teach people how to use AI when they haven't experimented themselves."

Rawan Alsaleh, Head of Organisation Development at HUMAIN, on why traditional training alone doesn't build AI capability — and why giving people room to experiment is where the real understanding starts.

A short, honest moment from our panel on building Saudi Arabia's AI-capable workforce.

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