Speakers

Yasmin King is Chief Executive Officer of SkillsIQ and Director and Co‑Founder of SkillsAware, a human‑centred AI platform that helps organisations recognise, trust, and mobilise workforce skills developed through real‑world experience. Her work focuses on making skills visible in advance, particularly those gained through volunteering, community service, lived experience, and prior roles that are often invisible in conventional workforce systems. Yasmin is passionate about helping organisations managing decentralised and volunteer‑enabled workforces to strengthen preparedness, deployment, and long‑term resilience and provide those individuals with digital certification of their skills. Through SkillsAware, she has led initiatives that enable individuals to describe and evidence what they can do once, align that evidence to recognised standards, and hold a portable digital record they control, supporting better planning, role matching, and retention without replacing existing HR or training systems. She is a member of CEDA’s NSW/ACT Advisory Committee and Inaugural Chair of Deakin University’s CREATE Industry Advisory Board. Yasmin has led work on skills standards across ASEAN and APEC, including in logistics, transport, and tourism globally. A former NSW Small Business Commissioner and Associate Commissioner at the ACCC, Yasmin is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Fellow of CPA Australia.