Join us to explore the future of sustainable technology through design, engineering, and finance.

Edinburgh Futures Institute introduces, ‘Designing Data and Innovation Futures to Wear’ a symposium to learn from and engage with leading academics and innovators across interconnected industries of robotics, data, design and healthcare on how they are harnessing technology to create our future, sustainable world. We will explore the possibilities that novel, wearable technologies and associated data provide to achieve a sustainable, circular future. Looking beyond hype, we will adopt a regenerative, holistic and design led approach to innovation in a multidisciplinary setting with an entrepreneurial mindset.

The aim of this event is to create the conditions for experimental dialogue across robotics, data, design, and healthcare, collaborating to inform a radically different approach to research and innovation at Edinburgh Futures Institute. The day will include a series of keynote speakers, a future thinking workshop, panel discussions and networking opportunities which aim to prompt new research and innovation opportunities at the intersection of material, data-science, business, engineering, and health. Look forward to a human and system centred explorative day of inspiration, possibility, and convergence.

Agenda

• 9.30am – Welcome and Session 1 – Data Design: Environmental data and the body
• 11am – Coffee break
• 11:30 – Session 2 – Green finance: Mining Materials, Green Data and Finance
• 1pm – Lunch
• 2pm – Session 3 – Robotics and Health: Novel Narratives
• 3.30pm – Coffee break
• 4.30pm – Event close, reflection and thanks
• 4.40pm – Drinks Reception until 6pm

Confirmed speakers to be announced soon!