FutureCurious Times 2017 Times | Page 25

Keynote 2 : What will humans do when machines do it all? What will humans do when machines do it all? People vs technology is the battle of tomorrow’s employment landscape with predictions of 500,000 jobs being transferred from humans to machines within the next decade in Australia. W e have already seen routine jobs like bank tellers, cashiers, assembly workers and others lose their jobs in favour of machines. Next to go are the routine white-collar jobs including those from within the real estate, legal and financial industries. In this new work-space the majority of us will be working when and where it’s appropriate rather than a mandated 9-5; the weekend and 4 weeks holidays will be antiquated notions and instead we will work and live fluid lives with no clear boundaries, each overlapping the other as and when “life” happens. an exploration of the how, why, where and when of tomorrow’s workplaces, people and machines. also available as a workshop. This one’s straight from the pages of the media and a topic that I got asked so often in 2015 to speak about on-air and in Board Rooms that this year it’s evolved to become its own keynote and workshop. In this timely relevant piece I expose the jobs and industries that are dying and the new ones rising to take their place; explore the future of our workforce; emerging non-traditional work models; show you how to tap into the vast contingent global talent pool, how to attract and keep talent in a digital age; what the role of a transhumanist HR person will be and why you’ll need one and how to effectively lead a future physical – digital workforce that operates across space, time, culture and norms. 25 BOOK NOW!