Iain and Jo at ASM Technologies, a UK technology integrator, asked Matthew to be the keynote at the company's first ever European Summit, held at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London. The audience was a mix of executives from some of the UK's largest technology companies and distributors.
The session covered the impact of technology on the future of work and society, along with some of the trends at the top of people's minds at the time, such as the Metaverse.
"Global productivity is stagnating, in spite of technological advances."Matthew Griffin, London, September 2022
Matthew opened with the productivity conundrum the world faces: global productivity is stagnating in spite of technological advances. He explained the reasoning behind several four day week experiments, as companies try to drop old work norms and find new ways to lift productivity.
He then set out the differences, for better and worse, between the automated, autonomous and augmented technologies that are rewriting and disrupting work. Using examples such as construction and neurosurgery, he showed how even the most demanding and skilled jobs are being decentralised, as converging technologies let people work in new ways from anywhere, even home.
The audience left with a clear picture of how where we work, how we work, and who and what we work with are all changing at once.
