Since the dawn of humanity, technology has disrupted our world. We’re a highly adaptable species, which means that we’re used to change. What is new is the unprecedented speed of change and the race towards a fully autonomous society. New technologies are emerging that will transform business and public services, not only impacting how we work but how we live and experience our everyday lives.
Mark Woodman and Philip Greenwood lead this masterclass that will help you make sense of the new digital era. You will learn about its potential impacts at both a practical and societal level, and gain a deep foundational understanding of how these new emerging technologies work, along with the factors that led to their inception and accelerated growth.
You will grasp concepts such as Bitcoin and non-fungible tokens and what they mean for our relationships with valuable assets; will learn what automatic prediction means for the evolution of human decision making; and will even experience a live conversation with an AI system and one that can create art like the image above.
Course content
An introduction to the emerging technologies creating the digital era
The unprecedented speed of technological innovation
Lessons from the Industrial Revolution
Understanding blockchain (crypto) systems, Bitcoin and NFTs
Prediction and decision making with AI, and artificial general intelligence
Live demonstration with a conversational AI system
A digital-first approach to understanding the world today and reasoning about the future
Q&A
This course is for …
Anyone wishing to get to grips with these disrupting technologies and their accelerating impact on human agency
Tutor profiles
Mark Woodman is an award-winning educator and innovator who has published many articles, books, and reports on programming, software tools, knowledge systems development, business–IT alignment, and software quality management. He is a computer scientist with a PhD in software engineering, and is an emeritus Professor of IT with over four decades in academia and consulting. He has been involved in technology standards and led the development of the international standard for the programming language Modula-2. Mark has innovated with systems development research and practice to educate tens of thousands of students and headed a team to win a British Computer Society (BCS) IT award. He is currently responsible for the design of leadership development programmes for Tompkins Leadership in the USA.
Philip Greenwood is a technology strategist with extensive experience in the specification, implementation and management of IT projects. He is also an expert in AI, deep learning and blockchain systems. He is an engineer and manager in manufacturing and design, and has worked for major clients on complex problems in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the US. He has conceived and delivered strategic transformations for companies such as Accenture, De Beers, Dell, and EDF, primarily in supply chain management, operations, commercial and finance functions. Philip is currently the principal technologist for the large-scale deployment of Tompkins Leadership development programmes.
Details
Date: Wednesday 7 December 2022
Time: 6.30pm-9pm GMT
Price: £49 (plus £2.83 booking fee)
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6.30pm GMT | 7.30pm CET | 10.30am PDT | 1.30pm EDT
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