"Highlights from the Apprenticeships & Training Conference 2026: Showcasing The Future Workforce Lab"

Our Stand: The Future Workforce Lab

Throughout the conference, we showcased The Future Workforce Lab - a four-stage experience designed to tackle one of the sector’s biggest challenges: Bridging the Gap Between Education and Employment. Because the workforce crisis doesn’t begin at recruitment, it begins with a student.

1. The Problem

A look at the widening skills gaps, shifting labour market expectations and the lack of clear, compelling pathways for young people entering the workforce.

2. The Student

Centred on the lived experiences and aspirations of young people, highlighting their need for stronger guidance, role models and exposure to the world of work.

3. The Pathway - Powered by Our Exclusive Partnership with Young Entrepreneurs Academy

A key feature of our stand was our collaboration with Young Entrepreneurs Academy- a leading UK charity that equips young people with essential enterprise, business and entrepreneurial skills through hands-on, real-world learning experiences. In collaboration with UCL and The King’s Trust, the Young Entrepreneurs Academy have created an interactive learning series designed to help young people build confidence, manage money, discover entrepreneurship and shape their own future.

Through our exclusive education partnership, our clients gain unique access to Young Entrepreneurs platform, unlocking new ways to strengthen learner pathways, embed enterprise education and help young people see future careers, including careers in education, as tangible, accessible and exciting.

4. The Future Workforce

The final stage imagined how providers and employers can work together to build more agile, opportunity-rich pathways that prepare young people not just for today’s workforce, but for the one rapidly emerging around them.

Proud Gala Dinner Sponsors

We were also proud Gala Dinner Sponsors for the Apprenticeship & Training Awards - supporting an evening that brought the sector together to celebrate excellence across apprenticeships, training and workforce development. A huge congratulations to all the nominees and winners!

Looking Ahead

Our time at ATC Liverpool 2026 reaffirmed something we believe strongly: Bridging the gap between education and employment isn’t optional, it’s essential. We must give young people clearer pathways, stronger preparation and more visible opportunities, including the opportunity to join the education workforce itself.

Let’s Continue the Conversation

If you’d like to explore The Future Workforce Lab, understand our work with Young Enterprise Academy, or access our full whitepaper, we’d love to hear from you.