Future Skills Exchange (https://futureskillsx.org/) is an online resource hub created by Innovate+Educate for WDI-NY providing industry, workforce professionals, economic developers, unions, educators, policymakers, and the workforce with a powerful and trusted source of competency-based training, credentials and assessments as well as hiring resources, strategies, program models, reports, case studies, and more. This curated platform provides powerful search tools to identify validated assessments, credentials and training aligned with specific competencies that support employer hiring and promotion, post-secondary education and training development, and the workforce development system.

This platform is the first of its kind and allows professionals to connect to one another, as well as find information about training, assessments, credentials, labor and demand information, and other resources supporting talent development, talent sourcing and promotion initiatives across New York State.