Welcome address - 10.45-11.00 UK time
Maddalaine Ansell, Director Education, British Council
The nowhere office: In conversation with Julia Hobsbawm - 11.00-12.00 UK time
Organisations across the globe are experiencing similar challenges around productivity, stress, managing employees working from home and demands for equality, inclusivity, more purposeful work and greater work/life balance. Drawing on her extensive experience, research and historical perspectives of the workplace, Julia will share her insights from her book 'The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace' on how employers, employees and managers can best negotiate the changing landscape of the office in ways that benefit everyone.
This innovative session will offer insight and knowledge to anyone who is interested in thinking about new ways of working.
Julia Hobsbawm OBE, writer, speaker, consultant, and Bloomberg commentator and columnist about the future of work
Chair: Maarya Rehman, Deputy Director Pakistan, British Council
The future of work: influences and predictions - 12.00-13.00 UK time
This expert panel session brings together speakers with research backgrounds in organisational psychology, employability, skills utilisation, employee wellbeing, technology, and problem solving through business conduct. How will artificial intelligence change career opportunities? How can businesses make better use of research and data to improve employee wellbeing? Together the panel will explore what influences are currently shaping working practices and business culture and predict what changes may come in the future.
Individuals interested in an analysis of the future of work and using that knowledge to help you prepare for success, should not miss this session.
Professor Rob Briner, Professor of Organisational Psychology, Queen Mary University
Dr Belgin Okay-Somerville, Senior Lecturer (Management), Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow
Dr Yildiz Tugba Kurtulus Kara, Founder and Managing Director, Society 5.0 Institute
Nadia Nathania, Co-Founder & Managing Director, PT Intune Musik Nusantara Raya
Chair: Maarya Rehman, Deputy Director Pakistan, British Council
The future of technology in the workplace - 14.00-15.00 UK time
Technology is all around us, it's changing the way we live our lives and how we work. Our panellists are all founders of tech-based companies in India and will share their experience of how to create and use technology for good, what successes and challenges we can learn from big tech and predictions on technological advancements we might see in the workplace in the next 10 to 20 years.
Don’t miss this future focussed session if you have an interest in technology and its infinite possibilities in the workplace and beyond.
Yeshwanth Raj Parasmal, Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer, 21k School
Purva Aggarwal, Founder and CEO, Good Good Piggy
Abhishek Rungta, Founder & CEO, Indus Net Technologies
Chair: Aatreyee GuhaThakurta, British Council