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.
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
