2026 Badge Summit

With support from the Walmart Foundation, C-BEN is engaged in a project titled "Powering Trust in Skills" One pillar of this work involves convening conversations among those trying to build or contribute to ecosystems (skills practitioners, ontologists, and technologists) to tackle the open questions and points of tension involved in long-term sustainability of scalable systems. These conversations will produce guidance on topics like: What are the standards for the storage of skills evidence? How can skills inference and validation be accelerated by AI but verified by humans? What are the required capabilities and inputs for the technology powering skills-based ecosystems? This table talk can review how these conversations went, share the guidance, and present ready-to-go resources on skills validation, skills-ready technology evaluation, and ecosystem governance