S3 | Episode 142: Educating the Future Workforce with Charlie Oliver, Tech 2025
Welcome to a special episode of the show brought to you in partnership with Arlington Economic Development, where we discuss issues related to the workforce, the role of place in the future of work, and the role of the creative sector in a larger business context. We call this Return on Creativity.
About the Episode
Today we’re going to talk about educating the workforce to adapt to and plan for the future of work. This includes upskilling and reskilling to outpace automation, introducing no code resources to the current workforce, and ensuring companies can adapt to the hybrid work environment.. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Charlie Oliver, Founder & CEO of Tech 2025 and Served Fresh Media.
About Charlie Oliver
Charlie’s years of experience in the trenches of old media include working in advertising in New York at such media goliaths as BBDO Worldwide and Condé Nast, to producing sitcoms and dramas at Sony Pictures Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers, Dreamworks and Oscar-award winning indie production companies, to event management at the Sundance Film Festival.
After spending several years in corporate law in document review at global firms (White & Case, Clifford Chance and Wachtel Lipton, to name a few), Charlie segued seamlessly into tech and new media as a web video producer where she co-created and co-produced experimental web video projects. Soon thereafter, Charlie launched Art of Talk TV (a web video platform that brought the world of talk shows online).
Served Fresh Media™ (a New York-based company that provides digital media strategy, product development, and branding across platforms including social media, mobile, and live-events) was a natural next step in her evolution. At Served Fresh Media, Charlie and her team provide digital strategy, senior management advisory, team building and training, strategic partnerships, and product development for companies. Clients Served Fresh Media has worked with include IBM, New York Press Club, Digital Media Wire, Digital Flash, and It’s About Time, among others.
In the Fall of 2016, Charlie launched Tech2025 to educate entrepreneurs and consumers on the next wave of disruptive, emerging technologies that are expected to drastically change our world in the next decade (AI, machine learning, driverless vehicles, IoT, blockchain, VR, etc.), through live-events and interactive workshops with industry experts. The mission of Tech2025 is to help entrepreneurs and the general public to understand and embrace emerging technologies.
Charlie’s philosophy: "Be fearless and unapologetic in the fierce pursuit of your goals and be just as passionate about helping people."
