Poznan University of Technology and the City of Poznan would like to invite you to a public lecture given by Devin Fidler, Research Director at the Institute for the Future in the Silicon Valley in California (U.S.A.). The lecture on the topic Five Forces Shaping the Future will take place on 16 November 2016 (Wednesday) at 11.30 in the Lecture and Conference Center (room CW11) on ulica Piotrowo 2.
Devin Fidler is the Research Director at the Institute for the Future in the Silicon Valley in California (U.S.A.), futurist, researcher of the disruptive technologies' impact on work and skills that will be required from employees in the future. He co-wrote the Future Work Skills report, indicating 10 key future skills in relation to 6 key changes on the job market. He carries out studies on work automation in more than 20 countries in the world. Devin Fidler's team's current research confirms that a robot is capable not only of assembling a car, but also of managing a company.
Devin Fidler is the Research Director at the Institute for the Future in the Silicon Valley in California (U.S.A.), futurist, researcher of the disruptive technologies' impact on work and skills that will be required from employees in the future. He co-wrote the Future Work Skills report, indicating 10 key future skills in relation to 6 key changes on the job market, namely:
increasing life-spans of people in the world,
rise of smart machines and systems,
devices' increasing processing power,
new media subsystems,
new forms of businesses' organizational structures,
increased global connectivity placing adaptability and diversity at the centre of operations.
He carries out studies on work automation in more than 20 countries in the world. Devin Fidler's team's current research confirms that a robot is capable not only of assembling a car, but also of managing a company.
Devin Fidler is responsible for numerous projects carried out by the Institute for the Future, related, among others, to the prospects of the Workable Futures Initiative project which served to build a cooperation network between universities and production companies based on research concerning work in the broadest sense. During his sabbatical leave, he worked as the Senior Director in the Markle Foundation, a program that focuses on building the next economy. He founded Rethinkery Labs http://rethinkerylabs.com/, a technology company dedicated to management automation and building new working tools.
He carries out many global projects (research abroad, for example in Singapore), working and living in many different countries in the world. He has experience and knowledge of "designing the future" and indicating directions of future changes in the field of new technologies and their use both in research or work, and in everyday life.