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Setting the Vision: The Future of Work in Britain

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  • Tuesday, 21 May 2019
  • 09:21 - 09:21
  • Duration: 51 mins
  • Publication date: 13 Jan 2020
  • Location: Conference, Portcullis House, London, United Kingdom
  • Part of event The Future of Work: Setting the Vision

About the session

With the UK at a crossroads and the pace of technological change increasing, now is our chance
to review priorities and shape the future of work we want.
New statistics show that the Fourth Industrial Revolution (‘4IR’) is affecting communities, sectors and regions with huge variation. How can we ensure that the full potential of the 4IR is achieved to create better jobs, ease worker transition and spread benefits across the UK?

Building on the Government’s Good Work Plan, we’ll be exploring the connection between good work and healthy lives, communities and the economy with the UK’s foremost experts. Aligned with Sustainable Development Goals on poverty, good health, decent work and economic growth, we aim to identify the foundations needed to create the best and most sustainable future for good work in the UK.
The conference will use the IFOW’s Good Work Charter as a frame for discussion, as well as reference The Health Foundation’s Healthy Lives Strategy. Opinium will publish exclusive new polling at the event.
Setting out the UK’s vision for the future of work, the conference aims to take stock of where we are now, articulate a vision for the best future work possible in Britain and discuss practical steps to achieving this.

Keywords:
  • Community
  • Economy
  • Future of Work
  • Health
  • Job
  • Learning
  • Productivity
  • Skills
  • Technology
  • Work
  • Work experience

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Speakers

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    Naomi Climer

    Co-Chair, Institute for the Future of Work

    career has been spent in the Broadcast and Communications technology industry including technology leadership roles at the BBC, ITV and Sony bothin Europe and the US. Now Naomifocuses on the role that technologywill play in the future and advocatesfor technology as a force for positive change, highlighting the changes we need to make as a society to betterequip us for this future. Naomi isCo-Chair of the Institute for the Futureof Work, Past President of the Institution of Engineering and Technology,Non Executive Director at Focusrite Plc and Sony UK Technology Centre,Trustee at the Royal Academy of Engineering, and Chair of Council at the International Broadcasting Convention. Naomi was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours of 2018 for services to the engineering profession.
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    Jack Tadman

    Opinium, Senior Researcher

    Jack Tadman is a Senior Researcher at Opinium, a strategic insight agency. Jack is a key member of Opinium’s political research unit which services clients across the breadth of the political spectrum including political parties, APPGs, think tanks and public affairs agencies. Opinium was the only British Polling Council Member to accurately predict the EU referendum result and their polling is regularly published in the Guardian/Observer. Some of Jack’s recent work includes speaking at the Future of Work and Inequality Conference alongside the World Bank and IMF and working with the APPG on a Better Brexit for Young People
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    Helen Milner

    The Good Things Foundation, CEO

    Foundation. Helen is passionate about helping people to get the most out of the web and all of the opportunities it brings. Following a 30-year career working on the internet and with communities, in 2012 Milner was inducted into the British Interactive Media Association’s Digital Hall of Fame, and in 2013 Helen was asked by the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, to be a Commissioner on The Speaker’s Commission on Digital Democracy.The Commission published its report “Open Up” in January 2015. In 2014, Helen was listed as number 25 in Computer Weekly’s Most Influential Person in UK IT and has been in their Top 50 Most Influential Women in Tech every year since 2015. Helen speaks at numerous digital conferences and events, and is a judge for the tech4good awards as well as the tenant association TPAS Awards. Helen was awarded anOBE for services to digital inclusion inthe Queen’s Birthday Honours List in June 2015. In 2017 she won the coveted title of Digital Leader of the Year (UK). Helen was the Specialist Advisor on Digital Engagement to the House of Commons’ Public Accounts Committee. She is a Member of the Digital Skills Partnership Board chaired by the UK’s Digital Minister.
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    Floriane Fidegnon-Edoh

    Institute for the Future of Work, Youth Steering Group

    Floriane Fidegnon-Edoh is a member of the Institute for the Future of Work’s Youth Steering Group. She is theCo-Founder and President at Warwick Women’s Engineering Society and a public speaker on diversity in STEM. Previously Floriane has also previously worked as the vice president of Engineers Without Borders UK.
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    MP Liam Byrne

    Chair of the APPG on Inclusive Growth, Shadow Digital Minister and Chair of the Parliamentary Network of the World Bank and IMF.Liam Byrne MP is a former Cabinet minister a writer, reformer and campaigner. He is Chair of the IMF-World Bank global Parliamentary Network and the Shadow Digital Minister. As a Cabinet minister, Liam did some of the toughest jobs in Government in Downing Street, the Home Office and in HM Treasury where he served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Before entering politics, Liam was a Fulbright Scholar at the Harvard Business School and a technology entrepreneur. He has authored over twenty pamphlets, chapters and books including a pioneering economic history of Britain. He is one of Westminster’s leading authorities on China, a former member of the Council of Europe and guest lectures at Oxford University.
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