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The Future of Everything
Where:University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Campus Center
First Floor Campus Center Way
Amherst, MA
Directions and Campus Map
When: Tuesday, December 6, 2016
9:00 am - 3:30 pm
Note: Registration starts at 7:30am
Workshop Organizer: Bryan Alexander, Bryan Alexander Consulting, LLC.
Registration Fee:
NERCOMP Member: $145
Non Member: $290
Please note - The member rate for professional development workshops will now be $145, the first increase since 2010.
Event Overview
What is higher education becoming? This workshop explores several slices of the future, as experts taking the audience on deep dives into fields with enormous impact on higher education. Industry and thought leaders take us into the future of the book, what's coming next in digital security threats, and possible futures for the world of work. An opening presentation sets the stage by introducing futures methods, trends, and projects. The closing session brings this all back to institutions by connecting these futures to the present of teaching, research, support, and student life. Discussion is encouraged throughout the day, augmented by a social media backchannel.
Session Outcomes:
- How is the book changing?
- What new digital security threats are likely to arise, and which old ones persist?
- How will work change, both in terms of campus labor and the world our students will enter?
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7:30am - 9:00am: Registration and Coffee
9:00am - 9:30am: Introductions
Speaker: Bryan Alexander, Bryan Alexander Consulting, LLC
We quickly introduce the day and the audience, getting a sense of participants' interests. Then we outline this approach to the future of education, touching on methods and some leading topics.
9:30am - 10:30am The Future of the Book
Speaker: Bob Stein, Author, The Future of Everything
What is the book becoming? Reading has already been changing under the impact of new hardware (e-readers, smartphones, tablets) and software (e-books). What will happen to the historical promise of the book, to readily bring readers information and delight?
This session looks into social or networked reading, whereby readers share their reading and reflections with others. It also considers the networked or distributed book, new possibilities for design, new forms for annotation and multimedia inclusion, the continuing evolution of reading on mobile devices, and changes to literacy.
10:30am - 11:30am: The Future of Higher Education Economics
Speaker: Bryan Alexander, Bryan Alexander Consulting, LLC
How are higher education economics changing? In this session we dive into that complex issue, looking into college and university budgets and how they have transformed. We explore state funding, endowments, tuition discount rates, and student loans, then conclude with several models for the medium-term future.
11:30am - 12:00pm: The Future of Food
Speaker: Christopher Wolf, Strategic Capabilities & Foresight, Tyson Chicken
12:00pm - 1:00pm: Lunch
1:00pm - 2:00 pm The Future of Work: How Soon Will You Lose Your Job to a Robot?
Speaker: Joyce Gioia, CEO, The Herman Group
In this fun, interactive dive into your future at work, we will. . .
- Explore the importance of “experience” and how that will inform your role as a leader in the future
- Discover how the Corporation of the Future will evolve through the years
- Examine the changing roles of HR and Leadership and how Artificial Intelligence will have an impact on your job in the near-term, mid-term, and long-term; and of course---
- Address the critical question: How soon will your job be replaced by a robot?
2:00pm - 3:00pm Discussion-Taking It All Back Home
Bryan Alexander
Bryan Alexander is a futurist, researcher, writer, speaker,consultant, and teacher, working in the field of how technology transforms education. He completed his English language and literature PhD at the University of Michigan in 1997, with a dissertation on doppelgangers in Romantic-era fiction and poetry. Then Bryan taught literature, writing, multimedia, and information technology studies at Centenary College of Louisiana. There he also pioneered multi-campus interdisciplinary classes, while organizing an information literacy initiative.
From 2002 to 2014 Bryan worked with the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE), a non-profit working to help small colleges and universities best integrate digital technologies. With NITLE he held several roles, including co-director of a regional education and technology center, director of emerging technologies, and senior fellow. Over those years Bryan helped develop and support the nonprofit, grew peer networks, consulted, and conducted a sustained research agenda.
In 2013 Bryan launched a business, Bryan Alexander Consulting, LLC. Through BAC he consults throughout higher education in the United States and abroad. Bryan also speaks widely and publishes frequently.
Joyce Gioia, MBA, CMC, CSP.
Celebrity Futurist, Certified Speaking Professional, and Certified Management Consultant Gioia [joy-yah] has helped thousands of clients create a more stable workforce, by focusing on the human side of business. Her clients have included American Honda, Caterpillar, Procter and Gamble, MetLife, AT&T, SAP, the Government of Singapore, and the States of Colorado, Kansas, and North Carolina. A sought-after professional speaker for over 20 years, Gioia has spoken in 47 states and on seven continents. She is featured regularly in national media like Industry Week, Inc., The Christian Science Monitor, Business Week, Entrepreneur, National Public Radio, and MSNBC. Having earned three masters degrees, including an MBA, Gioia is also author of five books, including three business bestsellers: Impending Crisis: Too Many Jobs, Too Few People and How to Become an Employer of Choice, and Lean & Meaningful. She has appeared on local and national television over 50 times in the last 19 months. Most recently, Gioia has a new TV show, called Looking Forward with Joyce Gioia, where she interviews the top thought leaders in their fields to keep her viewers “ahead of the curve”.
Bob Stein
Bob Stein has been engaged with electronic publishing full-time since 1980, when he spent a year researching and writing a paper forEncyclopedia Britannica - "EB and the Intellectual Tools of the Future." In 1984 he founded The Criterion Collection, a critically acclaimed series of definitive films, which included the first supplementary sections and director commentaries and introduced the letterbox format. He also founded The Voyager Company, which in 1989 published one of the first commercial CD-ROMs, The CD Companion to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. In 1992 Voyager published the first electronic books, including Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park.
In 2004 The Macarthur Foundation provided a generous grant with which Stein founded the Institute for the Future of the Book, a small think & do tank aimed at exploring and influencing the evolution of new forms of intellectual expression. In 2005 the Institute published the first "networked books," which were instrumental in the recognition of the important shift to social reading and writing as discourse moves from printed pages to networked screens.
Hotel Information:
Rooms are available at the Hotel UMass, located on the campus of University of Massachussetts-Amherst.
To make reservations contact Hotel UMass at 877-822-2110 and request the "NERCOMP Room Block" or Group Code NOM16C.
The room block for December 5th, will be available until 5:00pm on November 7th, 2016. Guest rooms are available for $125 per night.
Getting to the Campus Center Parking Garage… From Massachusetts Avenue (after exiting from Route 116) At the second set of lights turn left onto Commonwealth Avenue – Boyden Gymnasium is on the corner of Commonwealth & Massachusetts Avenues. At the next set of lights turn right onto Campus Center Way and proceed up Campus Center Way – The entrance to the Campus Center Parking Garage is at the top of the hill on the right.
Parking is available in the Campus Center Garage, pick up your parking pass at the registration desk and pay $5 when leaving.
Park on the 2nd floor of the parking garage and walk thru the hallway into the Student Center and go down to the first floor.
Presentations, Slides and Handouts:
1. The Future of Work,Notetaking Guide Joyce Gioia, The Herman Group
2. The Future of the Book, Speaker: Bob Stein, Author, The Future of Everything
3. The Future of Higher Education Economics, Speaker: Bryan Alexander, Bryan Alexander Consulting, LLC
4. The Future of Food, Speaker: Christopher Wolf, Strategic Capabilities & Foresight, Tyson Chicken