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Manufacturing Day 2025: Building a Skilled, Resilient, Future-Ready Workforce

by | Oct 7, 2025

Summary

What builds a future ready workforce? Noel Nevshehir, Automation Alley Director of International Business Services and Global Strategic Partnerships, takes on this question with data-driven insight featured in Industry Week.

“The shifts we are seeing in technology and work are not temporary. They represent a new reality that requires coordination across business, education and public policy. The insights shared by employers, educators and workforce experts over the past year have helped create a clearer roadmap. The question now is whether we are willing to follow it. “

Read this article as it appears in Industry Week here.

Noel Nevshehir, Automation Alley

Noel Nevshehir is director of Automation Alley’s International Business Services and Global Strategic Partnerships. In this role, Nevshehir is responsible for leading Automation Alley’s trade mission program and foreign direct investment efforts. He is also responsible for seeking out global strategic partners that align with Automation Alley’s Industry 4.0 mission.

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