Аннотация:The paper aims to highlight the way how competencies are changing, following technological progress and new tasks for sustainable development. New social challenges demand a new generation of competencies to apply technologies to produce positive effects on the wellbeing of society. There are known approaches to describing the competencies based on the assumption that they are applicable to any industry, but they are not. We suggest considering the quantity and quality of competencies in the context of industry, identifying the special abilities for its improvement with help of digital technologies. The industrial transformation promotes sustainability if it is based on a deep understanding of technology and industry. The result of this research is the designed concept of competencies for digital transformation based on a variety of industries. This is a preliminary step for advancing the existing concepts of digital competencies to transform the industry to support sustainable development.