The first Forum and the panel at Kinetica Art Fair have bought to the foreground some clear ongoing subjects and issues for the programme. The range of experts involved have filled out and focused these and the participants, audience and breakout groups at the events have helped prioritise the most important and topical concerns.

The programme moves forward now to help extend the understanding of young peoples needs for the future workplace by the professionals and experts in the field, enabling a better understanding by all of the skills and knowledge required and the best methodologies to deliver YP into the next decade of work environments

Working within the projects overall themes for young people of:

  • Collaborative futures
  • Multi-identity issues
  • Future workplace environments
  • Future career opportunities

and imagining a world that will involve a mix of robots, avatars, tele-presence and real time presence in the work place/team space, the aim is to involve experts onwards and deepen their outputs into the project.

Lunch Debates - Deepening the conversation around Robots and Avatars

Throughout the summer we are hosting a series of lunch debates exploring in detail Artificial Intelligence, Behaviour and Ethics, Health and Wellbeing and Future Workplace with expert provocateurs and top level thinkers. We will be sharing their outcomes on the site after each debate on this site.

Vodcasts

A series of 10 interviews with experts on their personal future visions for Robots and Avatars – keep an eye on the website for the first inputs on robotics by Professor Noel Sharkey and Fiddian Warman.

This series of Lunch Debates and Vodcasts will share the thoughts, opinions and future visions of a variety of experts and professionals on representational identities and the future of work and play environments.

The first Vodcasts will be from Noel Sharkey (Professor of AI and Robotics and Professor of Public Engagement at the University of Sheffield (Department of Computer Science)) and Fiddian Warman (Soda) will talk about their experiences of working in robotics and about their personal future visions.

Click here to view the vodcasts.