Lunch Debates

About

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.

participants at Artificial Intelligence Lunch Debate

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.

Participants have included:

Artificial Intelligence Lunch Debate

Heath Bunting - Irational Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn - University of Hertfordshire Dick Davies - Ambient Performance Constance Fleuriot - Digital Cultures Research Centre / featherhouse Paul Granjon - Zprod Hazel Grian - Pervasive Media Studio Professor Gary Hall - Coventry University Paul Harter - Clever Plugs Dr. David Levy - Author of 'Love and Sex with Robots' Katy Lindermann - freelance communications strategist Jody Hudson-Powell - Hudson-Powell Professor Noel Sharkey- Professor of AI and Robotics / Professor of Public Engagement at University of Sheffield (Provocateur) Fiddian Warman - Soda Creative Rich Walker - Shadow Robot Company  

Behaviours and Ethics Lunch Debate

Steve Boxer - The Guardian, ShortList, Wired UK, MSN UK Tech & Gadget (Provocateur) Toby Coffey - National Theatre Professor Anna Craft - University of Exeter Ron Edwards - Ambient Performance (Provocateur) Oliver Gingrich- Musion Michael Takeo Magruder - King's College Visualisation Lab (Provocateur) Luke Hudson Powell - Hudson-Powell Ash Nehru- United Visual Artists Professor Mike Stubbs - FACT  

Health and Wellbeing Lunch Debate

Professor Raymond Tallis - Emeritus Professor of Geriatric Medicine, University of Manchester Paul Cheng - Senior Investment Manager at CAF Venturesome Dick Davies - Co-founder and Executive Producer, Ambient Performance Gavin Nettelton - Head of e-Learning, Social Care Institute for Excellence Joop Tanis - Head of Health Launchpad, Young Foundation Dave Taylor - Programme Lead for Virtual Worlds and Medical Media, Imperial College Dr. Jenny Tillotson - Senior Research Fellow, Central Saint Martins Professor Kevin Warwick - Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading  

Future World of Work Lunch Debate

Professor Anna Craft - Professor of Education at the University of Exeter and The Open University Charles Beckett -Relationship Manager, Digital and Creative Economy, Arts Council England Professor Mark Bishop - Professor of Cognitive Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London Jamie Brassett -  Course Director for MA Innovation Management at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design Toby Coffey  - Lead Digital Creative, Royal National Theatre Ron Edwards - Co-founder and CEO, Ambient Performance Michael Takeo Magruder - King’s Visualisation Lab, King’s College London Holly Margerison - The Science Council Dr Robin Mellors-Bourne is Research Director for CRAC Sarah Platt - Director, Kinura David Roscoe - Knowsley’s Future Schooling Programme Rohit Talwar  - CEO - Fast Future
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