Plenary C
Future Work and Future Workers
Date Friday, Dec 4 Time – RoomPotsdam III
Futurists and analysts are predicting a new world of work, as a result of rapid technological change. Are they right? What will it mean for businesses or organisations and their employees? How will they need to adapt to survive? What new skills will be needed? What are the implications for educational institutions and corporate learning and training?
What will tomorrow’s employee look like? How will he or she experience work? What sort of learning and development activities will there be at work in the future? Join our panel discussion and its accompanying social media conversation about the needs and expectations of companies, employers and employees in the labour markets of the future.
Cornelia Daheim
Founder and Director, Future Impacts, Germany
Cornelia Daheim is the founder and director of Future Impacts Consulting, a foresight research and consulting company. Ms Daheim has experience in foresight projects in Europe, the US and Asia, and has spoken on foresight and future trends around the world. In 2003, she founded the German Node of the Millennium Project, which is the world’s largest continuous foresight NGO working towards future global change, and has since served as its head.
Furthermore, she is a member of the scientific committee of the EU Commissions’ board for the “Futures-Oriented Technology Analysis Conference”, a member of the board of the academic journal “World Futures Review”, member of the jury of the “Janssen Zukunftspreis” and serves on the Association of Professional Futurists’ (APF) Professionalization Expert Task Force. Additionally, she is Vice President at the Foresight Europe Network, which aims to advance foresight in Europe. In the last decades, she has led projects on the future of work for public and private sector clients, e,.g. the study „Future of Jobs and Skills“ for the UK Commission of Employment and Skills - called „the most comprehensive study of its kind“ by Tobey Peyton Jones, head of Siemens HR.
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John Higgins
Director-General, DigitalEurope, Belgium
John Higgins was appointed Director General of DIGITALEUROPE, the association for the digital technology industry in Europe, in November 2011 following nine years leading its UK member association, Intellect.
After graduating from the University of East Anglia with an honours degree in Mathematics and then gaining a post graduate Diploma in Accounting and Finance, John began a career in IT. He trained as a systems analyst, held senior positions with Ernst & Young and worked in Chicago with leading software company SSA. In 1995 he was appointed CEO of the Rocket Networks, a California based dot.com that provided the world’s first online recording studios. He returned to the UK in 1998 and became Director General of the Computing Services and Software Association, one of Intellect’s predecessors.
John is a member of the governing body of the University of Warwick and recent chair of its audit committee. John is President of the European Commission’s Strategic Policy Forum on Digital Entrepreneurship and was recently elected to the Board of the European Internet Foundation. John’s other recent committee chair roles include the cross industry association council of the CBI, a government/industry space committee and the global policy action committee of the World IT Services Association, WITSA. He was board member of e-skills, the UK’s digital sector skills council and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He was presented with two personal awards for outstanding contributions; first to the association sector in 2004 and then to the IT industry in 2008. The Queen appointed him a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 2005 for his services to the UK IT industry.
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Ioannis Angelis
Global Marketing Director and Digital Learning Consultant, Fresenius Kabi, Germany
Yannis Angelis is working the last 20 years in the organizational environment in different roles, mainly Marketing Communication, Training & Learning Management and Organizational Strategy. He is a Digital Learning Consultant and founding member of INTAGIO, an association that supports Organizations in their Change Management processes.
Yannis's field of interest is the corporate training environment and the change that technology provokes in this area. He has designed a unique e-learning development method, which has its base on the “Flow Experience” coming from Positive Psychology. It combines principles and tools from the Gestalt Therapy, gamification, Theory U and story building and supports learners reaching optimum levels of engagement leading to improved workplace performance.
Yannis is a heavy MOOC-ker and enjoys inspiring other people to become lifelong learners. He believes that the key attitude during the development process of any successful learning project is to care for your learners.
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Moderator
Nik Gowing
Broadcast Journalist, Broadcast Journalist, UK
Nik Gowing was a main news presenter for the BBC’s international 24-hour news channel BBC World News 1996-2014. He presented The Hub with Nik Gowing, BBC World Debates, Dateline London, plus location coverage of major global stories.
For 18 years he worked at ITN where he was bureau chief in Rome and Warsaw, and Diplomatic Editor for Channel Four News (1988-1996). He has been a member of the councils of Chatham House (1998–2004), the Royal United Services Institute (2005–present), and the Overseas Development Institute (2007-2014), the board of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy including vice chair (1996-2005), and the advisory council at Wilton Park (1998-2012 ). In 1994 he was a fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Barone Center in the J. F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Nik has extensive reporting experience over three decades in diplomacy, defence and international security. He also has a much sought-after analytical expertise on the failures to manage information in the new transparent environments of conflicts, crises, emergencies and times of tension. His peer-reviewed study at Oxford University is “Skyful of Lies and Black Swans”. It predicts and identifies the new vulnerability, fragility and brittleness of institutional power in the new all-pervasive public information space. It can be downloaded free online after registration.
He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Exeter University in 2012 for both his ongoing cutting edge analysis and distinguished career in international journalism. From 2014 he is a Visiting Professor at Kings College, London in the School of Social Science and Public Policy.