About
‘Exploring the impacts of Information and Communication Technologies on the way we, and the next connected generation will work’
- How well does industry understand the impacts of today’s Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and social media on workplace culture?
- What will tomorrow’s workplace be like when digital natives enter the labour market in force?
Context
Who is the ‘Connected Generation’? ICT and social media developments have transformed interactions amongst many people in their social environment and ‘Big Data’ is reported to be revolutionising marketing and external communications in many companies. But how much of this technology has brought new working-practices and collaboration opportunities into the industrial workplace, and how do we believe it will influence the workplace of the future?
In the first conference of this series, participants identified examples of, and demands for, social-media-like applications enabling better collaborative working in globally distributed research teams in a plastics business, better bibliographical research helping reduce innovation time in a specialty chemicals business, better knowledge management in maintenance and production teams at an oil major, and also observations that an ageing population could remain more usefully active, for longer, by virtually visiting production / construction sites or being members of virtual teams.
In the first conference of this series, participants identified examples of, and demands for, social-media-like applications enabling better collaborative working in globally distributed research teams in a plastics business, better bibliographical research helping reduce innovation time in a specialty chemicals business, better knowledge management in maintenance and production teams at an oil major, and also observations that an ageing population could remain more usefully active, for longer, by virtually visiting production / construction sites or being members of virtual teams.
Mission
This Brussels conference will be the last of a series of conferences held around Europe to seek opinions from participants on the threats and opportunities posed by the social media phenomenon in today’s industrial workplace. It will also consider possible future industry workplace scenarios and their technology needs.
Key messages from the previous conference will be presented and this series of conferences will be concluded by proposing the changing requirements of leadership of this ‘Connected Generation’.
Key messages from the previous conference will be presented and this series of conferences will be concluded by proposing the changing requirements of leadership of this ‘Connected Generation’.
An Interactive Format
Based on the EIIL’s experience in organizing interactive research conferences, participants will be encouraged to develop and share their own views on this topic in moderated break-out discussions between each of four themed keynote inputs. A networking drink will take place at the end of the conference to further foster exchanges amongst participants. Conference output will form the basis of an annual survey amongst European industry leadership throughout 2013.
Participants
The conference will attract an attendance of approximately 70-100 senior leaders and junior ‘digital natives’, from industry, academia, industry associations and other technical professionals.
When
Monday 16th December, 2013
Brussels
09.30 – 18.00
Brussels
09.30 – 18.00
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PartnersThis event is in association with some of Europe’s most forward thinking industry and professional associations, and with the support of the Brussels Regional Government, Research in Brussels, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the European Confederation of Junior Enterprises.
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