Is the accounting profession as vulnerable to job loss and disruption through automation and changed business models as international and Australasian research would suggest? To answer this vital question this session will report findings from the extensive research into the future accountant and professional capability requirements conducted by Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ) and The Institute for Working Futures. Evidence-based insights will confirm how the fundamental role and activities of an accountant will be replaced, augmented or reconfigured by technology. Vulnerable accounting jobs will be isolated, and ‘jobs’ created by technology predicted. The session will confirm the capabilities required to be employable and sustain robot-proof careers in the emerging workforce. The research outlined in this paper will not only identify the skilling challenges, it will confirm an optimistic future constructed using novel people and professional development strategies that include flexible capability stacks, capability diagnostic tools, micro-credentials, and lifelong records held in the blockchain.