The Future of the UK Workforce | DWP, UK Govt. | Matthew Griffin | AI and Future of Work Keynote Speaker – Matthew Griffin

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By Matthew Griffin Keynote Presentations 2nd February 2023

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF

In this keynote session with the UK Government futurist Matthew Griffin discusses how technology is changing how companies hire, manage, and fire people, and how the workforce is changing for better and worse.

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Firstly, thank you to Lucy, the DWP strategy team, and Ministers at the HM Government Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) for asking me to be their honorary keynote where we discussed, among other topics, the future of the UK’s workforce and the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on jobs and knowledge economy workers.

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Entitled the Future Workforce we had about twenty minutes, followed with a lengthy Q&A session, so in the interests of time I felt it prudent to zero in on three primary topics, namely future business models, automation upsides, and work from anywhere – all with twists.

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During the first segment I discussed the rise of new business models that would have a direct impact on companies operations, got to market, and therefore hiring and employment strategies and these included the evolution of the gig economy, but also the emergence of distributed and autonomous organisation business models – the latter of which doesn’t need any employees to operate.

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Next up was automation, and I showed how despite all the downsides we associate with automation, namely mass redundancies, one of the greatest upsides is the use of these same automation tools to unlock huge amounts of human potential and democratise access to skills. I also showed ministers the book that my son and I wrote in under 12 hours using the AI tools ChatGPT and MidJourney, and discussed the impact these and other technologies will have on jobs, hiring, training, re-skilling, the economy, and tax revenues.

Then finally I showed them how even surgeons and construction workers can do their jobs from the comfort of their own homes as new technologies such as 5G and robotics thrusts tele-operations into the spotlight – just to show them that when we talk about work from anywhere that doesn’t just apply to salesmen and women with laptops and a cellular connection any longer.

Matthew Griffin / About Author

Described by NASA as a "Walking Encyclopaedia of the Future" and one of the world’s most in demand keynote speakers Matthew Griffin, Founder and Futurist in Chief of the 311 Institute, a global Futures and Deep Futures advisory firm, is a multi-award winning Futurist and strategic foresight expert, author, lecturer, mentor, podcast and YouTube host.

With a distinguished career running global business units at Atos, EMC, and IBM today Matthew helps leaders and titans of industry from all over the world explore the impact of the inter sections of technology, culture, and leadership, then helps them create high performance organisations that can continuously disrupt, outpace, and outthink their competition.

15 times author of the hit series the Codex of the Future series Matthew's ability to identify, track, and explain the impacts of hundreds of emerging technologies and trends on global business, culture, and society has earned him a powerful reputation and a roster of clients that include royal households, world leaders across the G7, G20, and G77, and many of the world's most recognised and exceptional organisations including ABB, Accenture, ABN Amro, Adidas, AON, ARM, BCG, Centrica, Citi Group, Coca Cola, Deloitte, Dentons, Disney, Dow, EY, Google, KPMG, Lego, Microsoft, Legal & General, LinkedIn, Nokia, Paramount, PepsiCo, PWC, Qualcomm, RWE, Samsung, T-Mobile, UBS, Visa, WIRED, WPP and hundreds of others.

Matthew is regularly featured in the global media including the AP, BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, Discovery, Forbes, Khaleej Times, Telegraph, TIME, ViacomCBS, WIRED, and the WSJ, and his mission is to help organisations create a fair and sustainable future whose benefits are shared by everyone irrespective of their ability, background, or circumstances.