AI and robotics are driving rapid and radical workplace transformation across all industries, for companies large and small. These and other emerging technologies, like advanced manufacturing and AR/VR, are changing jobs ranging from manufacturing to medicine to retail.
EmTech Next will examine the technology behind these global trends and their implications for the future of work. It will delve into their potential to empower the human workforce and open up new areas of economic growth, while also exploring their unintended consequences.
How can businesses better use artificial intelligence?
How will you prepare your workforce for the jobs of the future?
What skills will be valued in this new era?
How can you stay agile and steer your career through this time of unprecedented change?
Topics include:
» Artificial Intelligence and its impact on businesses » Robots as your coworkers » The digital factory and 3-D printing » VR/AR in the workplace » The skill gap myth—or rethinking retraining » Job displacement and labor disruption
EmTech Next: Prepare for the future of work
Who Should Attend
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EmTech is a must-attend for: - C-Level Executives - Policy Leaders - Innovators - Tech Media - Entrepreneurs - Venture Investors - IP Professionals
Speakers
The innovators at the heart of the next wave of the digital revolution are here.
whos talking tech 2018
by chris macrae
Apr 22, 2018
MIT Media Lab
Cambridge, MA
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AI and robotics are driving rapid and radical workplace transformation across all industries, for companies large and small. These and other emerging technologies, like advanced manufacturing and AR/VR, are changing jobs ranging from manufacturing to medicine to retail.
EmTech Next will examine the technology behind these global trends and their implications for the future of work. It will delve into their potential to empower the human workforce and open up new areas of economic growth, while also exploring their unintended consequences.
How can businesses better use artificial intelligence?
How will you prepare your workforce for the jobs of the future?
What skills will be valued in this new era?
How can you stay agile and steer your career through this time of unprecedented change?
Topics include:
» Artificial Intelligence and its impact on businesses
» Robots as your coworkers
» The digital factory and 3-D printing
» VR/AR in the workplace
» The skill gap myth—or rethinking retraining
» Job displacement and labor disruption
EmTech Next: Prepare for the future of work
MIT Technology Review events consistently attract senior-level business and technology decision makers who drive the global innovation economy.
EmTech is a must-attend for:
- C-Level Executives
- Policy Leaders
- Innovators
- Tech Media
- Entrepreneurs
- Venture Investors
- IP Professionals
Speakers
The innovators at the heart of the next wave of the digital revolution are here.
Daron
Acemoglu
Professor of Economics, MIT
AI's Economic Impact
Joseph
Aoun
President, Northeastern University
Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Regina
Barzilay
Delta Electronics Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
AI for Personalized Health Care
James
Bergstra
Cofounder and CTO, Kindred AI
Imagining the Jobs of the Future: Robot Pilots
Jessica
Brillhart
Director, Vrai Pictures
Engineering Creativity: Machines as Co-creators
Janet
Foutty
Chairman and CEO, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Executive Insights on the Future of Work, Presented by Deloitte
Jason
Furman
Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Automation and the Future of Work: Will This Time Be Different?
Tom
Galluzzo
CEO, IAM Robotics
Solving the Warehouse Labor Shortage
Jenn
Gustetic
Digital HKS Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Engaging People in Crafting the Future of Work
John
Hart
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, MIT; Cofounder, Desktop Metal
Reimagining the Factory Floor
Gideon
Lichfield
Editor in Chief, MIT Technology Review
Greg
Mark
Founder and CEO, Markforged
The Next Generation of 3-D Printing
David
Mindell
Chair, MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future
Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy
Iyad
Rahwan
Associate Professor, MIT
A Regional Reality Check: Where Are Tomorrow's Jobs?
Elisabeth B.
Reynolds
Executive Director, MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future
Public Space, Public Goods, and Governance
David
Rotman
Editor, MIT Technology Review
Sanjay
Sarma
Vice President for Open Learning, MIT
The Future of Education
Julie
Shah
Associate Professor, MIT
Robot See, Robot Do: Exploring Human-Machine Collaboration
Brad
Smith
President, Microsoft
The Future Computed
Stefanie
Tellex
Assistant Professor, Brown University
Beyond the Code: Next-Generation Human-Machine Interfaces
Manuela
Veloso
Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Next-Generation Robots Need Your Help
Melonee
Wise
CEO, Fetch Robotics
Affordable Robots for the Warehouse and Beyond
Elizabeth
Woyke
Senior Editor for Business, MIT Technology Review