Futurist Keynote, UK: The Future of Education, Learning, and Work for Winchester College

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By Matthew Griffin 311 Leadership Sessions Keynote Presentations Uncategorised 2nd December 2023

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF

In this keynote session futurist Matthew Griffin explores the impact that powerful emerging technologies, such as AI, will have on lifelong education, learning, and work.

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Firstly, thank you to Thomas and John Cullerne at Winchester College in the UK for asking me to kick off the college’s new academic year with a keynote on the impact of AI on the Future of Education, Learning, and Work – a triple whammy that quite sensibly looks into the future of the students “whole life” learning journey and let me discuss the connections between them all in depth.

Established in 1382 and part of the Rugby Group of schools, which include Bradfield College, Eaton, Wellington and others, Winchester College is one of the most prestigious private schools in the world with alumni that include the current UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who, in his own way is now trying to forge the future of the UK.

Against this backdrop, and against all the history in the hall I was presenting in it was clear to see just how far humanity – and technology – has come in what, in the college’s terms at least, is a blink of an eye.

The Future of Education, Learning, and Work by Keynote Matthew Griffin

For centuries the world changed little and slowly as the college expanded and grew, and even in the latter half of the 20^th Century the changes that the college was preparing its students to face were manageable. But today, in a world dominated by AI’s that are now reaching near human levels of knowledge and performance this bastion of learning, like so many others, is struggling with the realities of a national curriculum that binds it to the past, and that now has increasingly little in common with the future as the gap between the two widens exponentially.

Historically it’s never an easy task to prepare students for careers that span fifty years, but today in a world that seems to change from month to month – with those changes being increasingly seismic –and as we sit on the cusp of creating the world’s first true Artificial General Intelligences (AGI) that task looks more and more daunting. And that’s why I was asked in – to show the whole faculty the future and the technologies, and their capabilities, that they and their students now have to be aware of, know how to out compete, and most importantly know how to use for their benefit in a world that increasingly has nothing in common with the past.

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Matthew Griffin / About Author

Matthew Griffin, described as a "Walking encyclopaedia of the future" by NASA and a futurist polymath, is one of the world's most renowned futurists and strategic foresight experts. A serial entrepreneur Matthew is the Founder and Futurist in Chief of the 311 Institute, a global Futures and Deep Futures advisory firm working across the next 50 years, XPotential University, the world's first free futures and foresight university, and the World Futures Forum which works with the United Nations to solve the worlds greatest challenges. 13 times author of the Codex of the Future series, Matthew is an in demand international keynote, acclaimed university lecturer, and host of the hit Fanatical Futurist podcast.

A rare talent in his past Matthew helped build and run several multi-billion dollar business units for Atos, Dell-EMC, and IBM, and his 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, G7, G20, and G77+ governments, and many of the world's most respected brands including ABB, Accenture, Adidas, AON, ARM, BCG, Centrica, Citi Group, Coca Cola, Dentons, Deloitte, Disney, EY, KPMG, Lego, Legal & General, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Pepsi Co, Qualcomm, RWE, Samsung, T-Mobile, UBS, VISA, and many others. He was also the only futurist invited to talk at the UN COP28 held in Dubai alongside world leaders.

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