2025 Badge Summit

Millions of learners are underserved by systems that fail to connect education with economic opportunity. In this session, Keith Look (Territorium) and Ian Davidson (SmartResume) will share how bold, competency-based approaches and learner-owned data can create equitable and empowering paths from campus to career.


The presenters will explore:
·  How institutions can go beyond traditional credentials to badge real-world skills, enabling employers to recognize talent based on capability rather than degrees.
·  A radical vision for learner-driven data portability, where students control their records of skills and achievements.
·  A demonstration of competency-based credentials empowering student resumes with verifiable and professional resume content
·  A look under the hood of how credentials power career matches in a talent marketplace


This session offers a transformative approach to connecting education and work through the collaboration between Territorium's learning and employment (LER) ecosystem and SmartResume's next-generation resume builder and skills-matching talent marketplace.


Attendees will leave with actionable strategies for advancing competency frameworks, supporting student agency in data portability, and creating partnerships that enable learners to take ownership of their career journeys.