Empathy and Storytelling in the Age of AI and Restructure

This may be soft skills, but it's a hard talk - about the two oldest technologies that still run everything: empathy and storytelling. This session reframes office politics as narrative power and shows you how to ethically build influencemanage up, and protect your team. Without selling out your soul.

The Human Touch

Context: Person and Program in Partnership (PPP)

In an era defined by rapid advancements in AI, the question isn’t whether machines will replace us - but how we’ll evolve alongside them. 

There is an irreplaceable role for human imagination and emotional depth in the creative process - qualities that no algorithm can, currently, fully replicate.

Eileen Kennedy is a Professor at UCL Knowledge Lab (Institute of Education, University College London), researching digital learning design, largely in contexts of displacement and crisis such as Lebanon and the Thai-Myanmar border. As part of this work, she has been researching innovative approaches to the co-design of digital learning through the CoMOOC model (Co-designed Massive Open Online Collaboration).