AI Lab: Designing an Effective Frontline Skills Management System: Lessons from the Field
23 Apr 2026
AI Lab
AI Labs
Managing frontline workforce skills is uniquely challenging - spreadsheets quickly become outdated, compliance risks increase, and leaders lack real-time visibility into who is qualified to do what on the shop floor. In this interactive frontline AI Lab, we explore a common frontline skills management challenge through a realistic, day-to-day operational scenario from the user’s point of view.
Through a live, step-by-step walkthrough, you’ll see how a modern frontline skills management system supports the creation and continuous maintenance of a live skills matrix, helps identify coverage gaps across shifts and teams, and enables audit readiness with minimal administrative effort. The session highlights where automation and emerging AI capabilities reduce manual work, improve skills visibility, and support better frontline workforce deployment decisions.
This is not a traditional demo. It’s a guided, real-world demonstration designed to spark discussion, reflection, and practical takeaways for frontline HR, operations, and safety leaders.
Through a live, step-by-step walkthrough, you’ll see how a modern frontline skills management system supports the creation and continuous maintenance of a live skills matrix, helps identify coverage gaps across shifts and teams, and enables audit readiness with minimal administrative effort. The session highlights where automation and emerging AI capabilities reduce manual work, improve skills visibility, and support better frontline workforce deployment decisions.
This is not a traditional demo. It’s a guided, real-world demonstration designed to spark discussion, reflection, and practical takeaways for frontline HR, operations, and safety leaders.
Speakers
Topic
People Analytics Skills & Workforce Planning
Learning Objective 1:
Identify and understand the key challenges of managing frontline workforce skills at scale.
Learning Objective 2:
Define practical steps to build and maintain a live frontline skills management system.
Learning Objective 3:
Recognize how real-time frontline skills insight supports audit readiness, safety, and productivity — and how automation and emerging AI capabilities strengthen these outcomes.
