UBCO symposium looks at future of work
Two-part event next Friday will explore the technological revolution and its impact on the job market
A symposium at UBC Okanagan next week will look at how technology is changing the job market.
The economics, philosophy and political science departments in the Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences at UBCO are teaming to host the future of work symposium.
The goal is to explore what influence the continuing march of technology, automation and artificial intelligence will have on where we work and how we work, and where we fit in an automated world.
Funded by Roger W. Gale, the symposium invites UBC Okanagan students, faculty, staff and the local community to a two-part event.
The first event starts at 11:30 a.m. and includes luncheon and presentations at UBC Okanagan’s University Centre Ballroom, room UNC 200. Guest speakers include: — Paulina Cameron, author of bestselling Canada 150 Women
— Taylor Owen, professor of digital media and global affairs at UBC’s Vancouver campus
— Sunil Johal, policy director at the University of Toronto’s Mowat Centre
— Alexandra Matesscu, ethnographer and researcher at the Data and Society Research Institute
A panel discussion and reception will follow later that day at The Innovation Centre in downtown Kelowna, 460 Doyle Ave.
The two-part event is open to the public and free, but online pre-registration is required at eventbrite:
Part 1: eventbrite.com/e/ humans-machines-and-the-futureof-work-part-1-tickets
Part 2: eventbrite.com/e/ humans-machines-and-the-futureof-work-part-2-tickets