Shaping the Future of the World of Work

Session 1 – 10.30 – 11.15

Option 1

The Robots are Coming

AI: Not as scary as you might think.

The news often highlights the negative impacts that AI may have on our technology, our jobs, and our lives.  What’s truth and what’s fiction?  What are some examples of how AI is affecting our lives today?

Steve Steele, Director of Product Marketing, Machine Learning, Arm

Option 2

Employee Engagement Now and Future

Real examples of how different companies have already ensured employee engagement ready for the changing world of work. Do the millennials need something different? Really? What do the best employers in the eastern region actually do?

Gill Buchanan and Lynn Walters, Pure Resourcing  

Session 2 – 12.00 – 12.45

Option 1

AI for Learning

AI will not only change the very nature of work, it will also change why, what and how we learn.

Take a look across the learning journey from engagement, support and delivery to assessment and wellbeing with WildFire Learning: World’s first AI content creation service

in minutes not months.

Donald Clark, WildFire

Option 2

Oracle Academy

Oracle Academy work with educational institutions to help teachers develop core computing knowledge and skills aligned to industry demands using current technologies.

Industry and educational leaders want the same things, they just speak a different language.  Finding common ground might be the solution to bridging the gap between education and business?

Iris Lanny, Programme Leader, Oracle Academy

Option 3

Shaping Future Leaders

If the world of work is changing, what skills will future Managers need?Which behaviours will we need? How will future managers need to adapt! And, how do we manage millennials now? f

An interactive workshop with Judith Elliott, FCIPD, leadership development expert and executive coach. 

Judith Elliott, el consulting

Session 3 – 13.30 – 14.15

Option 1

The Zebra Project

The Taylor Vinters Zebra Project was launched in January 2018.  We have brought together a select group of business leaders, creative thinkers, academics and innovators to explore the opportunities arising from the future world of work and some apparent shifts in business philosophy, employment structures and technology. Now is the time to examine what we’ve learned, and develop clear action points for success.

Zebra looks at the business world through the lens of change. We are already seeing the reinvention of business and employment models enabled by significant technological advancement.  

Expert and peer-to-peer debate and workshops have been at the heart of the ongoing Zebra discussion.  These have sparked ideas and action points to help organisations to succeed in this reimagined world of work.    

Peter Finding, Partner, Taylor Vinters

The Zebra Project

Option 2

Education Question Time Panel

1. The curriculum for the 21^st century – what do we want and need students to know, show and understand

1. Getting to know each other better – what can schools/education and employers do more to promote even better/stronger partnerships

1. Doing more for less – how schools/education/employers can deliver better for less resource

1. ‘School should be for the least what home is for the most’ (Gervase Phinn) – what do schools need to do (in partnership with employers) to deliver better outcomes and secure better futures for the most disadvantaged.

The panel:

-        Sarah Roscoe, Executive Head for TBAP East

-        Stephen Munday, President of the Chartered College of Teaching

-        Robert Campbell, CEO, Morris Education Trust

-        Martin Rigby, MD, ET Capital

Option 3

Let’s Get Creative

Handled correctly, robots will take over the dull jobs, leaving humans to focus on more rewarding tasks that require the “creative and social intelligence” that androids cannot muster.

Creativity is going to be even more highly prized so come and take part in some fun warm up exercises used by a theatre company in the rehearsal process that kick-start creative thinking. 

New International Encounter (NIE) make award-winning theatre for and with young people that is playful and engaging. Find out more about how they make projects with creative tools. 

NIE Theatre

14. 30 - Keynote Speaker

Leave on a high with our dramatic closing speaker – Jem Hills

Set a goal so big that you can’t achieve it until you grow into the person who can.

From Northern Soul to the Royal Marines… listen to Jem Hills, ex-Elite Special Forces, Inspirational Speaker and Entrepreneur, talk about hard learnt lessons. Sometimes a story is all it takes for you to change perceptions and view the world differently.

www.jemhills.com

15.30 – 16.30 – Exhibition, Networking, Free entry to the Museum