Jake Hirsch-Allen

Partnerships & advocacy, The Dais

Public policyTorontoOn TechTO stages since 2020

Jake Hirsch-Allen co-founded the coding bootcamp Lighthouse Labs and spent roughly a decade building LinkedIn's workforce-development and higher-education partnerships across North America. A former international criminal lawyer, he now leads partnerships and advocacy at The Dais, the public-policy institute at Toronto Metropolitan University. He spoke at TechTO Talent in 2020 on online learning.

On the TechTO stage ×1

TECHTO TALENT13:41

Online learning & skills in demand | Jake Hirsch-Allen, Linkedin

Talent · July 2020

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In their words

what they really mean is foundational or human skills the skills you can only really learn or evaluate by interacting with

TechTO Talent, Jul 2020 · watch at 4:29 ↗

i had been uh for many years a hyper networker i love people i love ideas and connecting them is really what drives me

TechTO Talent, Jul 2020 · watch at 3:11 ↗

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Quick answers

Who is Jake Hirsch-Allen?

A Toronto public-policy and workforce-development leader who co-founded Lighthouse Labs, spent about a decade at LinkedIn, and now leads partnerships and advocacy at The Dais at Toronto Metropolitan University.

What did he speak about at TechTO?

Online learning and which skills are in demand, arguing that foundational, human skills learned by interacting with others remain the most valuable.

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