Frances Valintine - The Future of Work - Staff Workshop

Monday 8 August 2016

The Future of Work

As industry grapples with the need to recruit staff with new specialist skills, and as traditional capabilities become redundant in today’s hi tech work environment how do we plan for an unknown future?
Changing demographics, automation and worker displacement, and the impact of machine learning, big data and robotics across industries and in emerging new sectors are powerful drivers for change. We are all living in fast changing exponential times where the greatest risk is doing more of the same and expecting to be gainfully employed tomorrow. Frances’ work focuses largely on how personal investment in new knowledge, the development of new digital skills and an openness for technological progress will provide a competitive advantage in the future.

Workshops

The 12 year old students of today immersed in learning paradigms based upon convergence and problem solving and will be the first truly digital generation. They will be on our doorsteps in less than 1800 days. How will we adapt our higher education system to adapt to this new generation of 21C learners? Frances will lead both staff and student workshops to discuss these trends and strategies that we can use to help us maximize the on-campus learning experience for our future students and how technology is re-shaping the student educational experience.

General discussion

For anyone wishing to talk in more depth with Frances about the future work force we she will also be available at the CPC from 4-5 pm for informal discussions. Please contact Philip Poronnik ([email protected]) if you wish to join us then.

Frances Valintine: Biography

Frances is a change agent, disruptor and technology thought-leader who has spent her career analysing and researching the impact of technological advances, the future of work and the process of innovation. She is the founder of Tech Futures Lab and the Founder and Chair of The Mind Lab by Unitec which redefined education and grew to become the largest education facility in New Zealand in the first 2.5 years of operation. Frances works in New Zealand and internationally on cross-sector initiatives with individuals and organisations who are navigating rapid technological advances. She has a Master of Education Management from the University of Melbourne and an alumna from Singularity University in the Silicon Valley. In June 2016, Frances was recognised as one of the world’s Top 50 thought leaders in education technology by judges including those from IDEO, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, LinkedIn and Google. In the same month she was also named a New Zealand Peter Blake Leader. Frances’s vision and innovation has been recognised across her career including global recognition in the Talent International Awards 2014 where Sir Richard Branson and Steve Wozniak named her business the ‘Best Startup in Asia Pacific’. Other accolades include winning the Westpac Woman of Influence – Innovation, and the Next Magazine Woman of the Year – Education 2015. Frances was recognised as one of the Top 10 most influential women in NZ by Idealog Magazine in 2014 & 2015.

For further information please contact Professors Philip Poronnik, Adam Bridgeman or Pauline Ross.

This is being hosted by the Educational Innovation Team.

Event details

  • Monday 8 August 2016
    12.00pm - 2.00pm

  • Abercrombie Business School H70 Room 3090

  • Free


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