Next start date 20 Nov 2019
Delivered Brisbane
Duration
2 hours
Cost Free
Overview
Preparing for and seizing opportunities in the age of transformative technologies like Artificial Intelligence can seem daunting.
Success relies on mastering a few key factors:
- a deep, intuitive understanding of how the technologies work;
- how they are being developed;
- the pathways by which they will continue to improve or fail; and
- their interaction with key shaping influences including talent supply, economic, ethical and societal ones.
In this talk, Professor Michael Milford will illustrate how to achieve this mastery through a tour of three transformative technologies: robotics, artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles.
As an attendee, you will be equipped with the key critical tools needed to understand, anticipate and navigate the unpredictable future.
Your Real World Futures Leader Professor Michael Milford
Professor Milford conducts interdisciplinary research at the boundary between robotics, neuroscience and computer vision and is a multi-award winning educational entrepreneur. His research models the neural mechanisms in the brain underlying tasks like navigation and perception to develop new technologies in challenging application domains such as all-weather, anytime positioning for autonomous vehicles.
He is also one of Australia’s most in demand experts in technologies including self-driving cars, robotics and artificial intelligence, and is a passionate science communicator. He currently holds the position of Professor at the Queensland University of Technology, as well as Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow and Chief Investigator at the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision.
Core concepts
About Future Thinking
Thought and creativity will become the individual’s most important assets as technology shapes a future with new ways of working, playing and connecting. The big shift will be the simplification and automation of mundane processes – whether on the factory floor, the construction site or the office. The employee of the future will be judged more on their thinking skills and creativity than their technical ability. Understanding the potential power of the brain and how it can be refined, will enable leaders to attract the best people and achieve the top results. The enterprise of the future will be valued on quality ideas to conceive and execute what a connected consumer wants and needs.
About Future Working
Digital tools and machines will replace many process jobs over the next decade. They will create both efficiency and dislocation, requiring businesses and employees to think differently about their careers and the training and education that skills them. International research now being replicated in Australia shows close to half of all occupations are at risk from technological disruption. New technology will also unleash new creative forces and inspire new waves of entrepreneurialism, creating both challenges and opportunities while maintaining pressure on work-life balance. The winners will be the enterprises and individuals that can maximise their use of new technology while drawing on human strengths that can set them apart.
About Future Living
The connected society is already changing the way we work and relate to each other. The latest mobile devices put what we once would have called a supercomputer in every pocket or handbag. As these devices continue to evolve it will further change every aspect of how we consume and relate to each other. In tandem with other discoveries, innovation will offer greater insight into our physical and mental condition. We will live for longer but this will be accompanied by further challenges as society adapts to an aging population. It doesn’t end there; the power of networks will expand, for instance, into how energy is created, stored and used. Many other businesses will need to disrupt or struggle to stay alive. The deep social, economic and political consequences are already starting to be felt and will only increase.
Details
Where and when
QUT Executive Education Centre
B Block, QUT Gardens Point
2 George St
Brisbane QLD 4001
Wednesday, 20 November 2019
7:15am - 8:45am (arrival from 7:00am)
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