The publication identifies external and internal drivers of the university's continuous education transformation on the example of the Kemerovo Region-Kuzbass: challenges of Russia's technological sovereignty, diversification of the regional economy, and defines the main provisions of the continuous education concept of the Kuzbass State Technical University named after T.F. Gorbachev. The authors substantiated in detail the relevance and necessity of developing new solutions for the region's leading technical university, and presented the existing university's continuous education system, which includes programs for pre-university training of schoolchildren, additional professional education, and scientific and pedagogical personnel in postgraduate studies. Additional professional education acts as the core for achieving the university's technological leadership, as it is only possible to promptly address the challenge of training personnel for new "non-coal" professional competencies during the transition period through professional retraining and advanced training. The article formulates the conceptual foundations of the transformation of continuous education at a technical university in changing economic conditions. The proposed solutions are substantiated and aimed at reducing the risks of staff shortages in the regional labor market due to the shift away from the coal economy and the ongoing structural changes in the economy and labor market of the region.