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Fast Forward 50 - Sustainability; the reinvention of progress

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Event
  • Session
  • Thursday, 06 October 2016
  • 13:6 - 13:6
  • Duration: 37 mins
  • Publication date: 18 Oct 2016
  • Location: NA, Savoy Place, London, United Kingdom
  • Part of series Engfest and Part of event Engineering the Future Festival

About the session

How do we make sustainable development desirable?

What do we want our tomorrow to look like?

Fast Forward 50 will feature some of the world’s leading engineers and innovators who will discuss and explore how science and technology is predicted to develop over the next 50 years, how it will change our lives and the global challenges we face.

Join us on the 6 October to hear about the future of robotics and machine learning, future homes and cities, digital technology in the 21st Century, environmental sustainability, space, medicine, plus many more…

Keywords:
  • climate change
  • creativity
  • design
  • economy
  • education
  • energy
  • engineering
  • engineers
  • innovation
  • planet
  • progress
  • science
  • solar power
  • sustainability

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    Ed Gillespie

    Futerra, Futurist and co–founder

    Ed Gillespie is a writer, communications specialist, serial entrepreneur and futurist. He is the co-founder of Futerra, a change agency that specialises in business transformation and creative communications and campaigns, and the author of ‘Only Planet – a flight-free adventure around the world’ a book about his circumnavigation of the globe without getting on a plane, which the Independent said “Allows the world’s flaws and beauty to seep into your soul”. Gillespie’s core talent is to take the complex, interconnected, interdependent nature of the many challenges the world faces, from climate change to disruptive innovation, and make common sense of them for non-specialist audiences.
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