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Apr 13 2026

OEA/CABE Webinar: How Is AI Reshaping the Skills Employers Want in Canada?

The Ottawa Economics Association (OEA) invite you to a timely discussion on an OECD report by Andrew Green, Artificial Intelligence and the Changing Demand for Skills in the Labour Market.

Green argues that most workers exposed to artificial intelligence will not need specialized AI skills such as machine learning or natural language processing. Even so, AI is reshaping the tasks these workers perform and the skills employers demand. His research provides first-of-their-kind estimates of how AI  is affecting skill demand in occupations that don’t require specialized AI expertise.

The most in-demand skills in AI-exposed occupations are management and business skills — spanning project management, finance, administration, and clerical tasks — though early evidence suggests this demand may be starting to fall as AI begins to substitute for some of the very skills it initially made more valuable.

Join us to explore what these trends mean for workers, employers, and policy in Canada, including what may lie ahead as AI continues to reshape the labour market. The event will feature a presentation by Andrew Green followed by an interactive Q&A session.


andrew green Andrew Green Economist, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Andrew Green is an economist and leads the productivity, firm growth and employment team at the OECD.  The team’s work focuses on productivity, firm performance, business dynamics and the resilience of production networks. The work is often based on the team’s innovative distributed microdata projects, MultiProd and DynEmp, which foster a granular understanding of productivity and business dynamics.  Andrew also leads the LIFT (Leveraging Inter-Firm Transactions) network, which coordinates an international network of national administrations, practitioners and researchers with access and interest in using firm-to-firm transaction data for policy analysis. He was previously an economist on the Future of Work team at the OECD, working on the effect of technology and automation on labour market outcomes, platform work, franchising, domestic outsourcing and monopsony, among other topics. Prior to the OECD, he held positions at the U.S. Census Bureau’s LEHD program, where his research focused on bargaining over hours of work, statistical record linkage, and the construction of public-use labour market statistics. He holds a PhD in economics from Cornell University.

Event Details

Virtual (Microsoft Teams)
Apr 13, 2026 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST

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Public Attendee List

  • Fanny Siauw-Soegiarto
  • Rolande Kpekou Tossou
  • Caroline Whitby
  • Tariq Shahriar
  • Jiangnan Ji
  • Anna Mao
  • Yunhan Liu
  • Michael Willcox
  • Stephen Tapp
  • Sebastien Labrecque
  • Davis Dolan
  • Joy Demoskoff
  • Claire Gabillard
  • Karen MacKintosh
  • Akshay Kotak
  • Alan Arcand
  • Mauri Hall
  • Luke Fulton
  • Angela Chen