This year, I was really happy to be back at Sport Accord, speaking about all things technology. We covered artificial intelligence, immersive tech, and gaming to talk about the future of sport.
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This year, I was delighted to host an event within ESF focused on the future of artificial intelligence, featuring Madhumita Murgia, AI Editor for the Financial Times.
What a fantastic week at The University of Salford. We had our The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures livestream event with great talks from Marieke Navin, Dr Helen Whitehead, and Dorien de Vries, each discussing how artificial intelligence is shaping their work.
We even managed to align that event with the Greater Manchester Institute of Technology inaugural conference, which brought students and staff from across the colleges and university together. I was delighted to give the keynote talk and proud to have so many of our colleagues supporting the event. It was fantastic to hear from Jo Purves, Claire Foreman, and GCHQ about all the exciting things that are happening.
Finally, we went up to the STEM Learning UK and met Séverine Trouillet FRSA and the incredible team to take part in the second of the The Royal Institution livestreams.
So many people helped to make all of these events happen, especially anthony stephens, Tina H-Mistry, Andre Davies, Maria Dickinson, Daniel Williamson.
We also launched our Salford 360 campaign, which brings together each of our schools to speak about key areas of interest. This month, we've focused on artificial intelligence and you can read
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One more week to go! Have a great weekend everyone!
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I was delighted to be the keynote for this amazing, first event, bringing together all of our college partners to talk about the latest innovations in science and technology. We focused a lot on artifcial intelligence and immersive technologies.
It was a pleasure to speak at the Brilliant Festival in Liverpool, where we got into all the ways in which technology is fostering new skills within education. This new event is likely to develop a major legacy for the region, so well worth a follow.
I was delighted to give the keynote at this year’s Luxembourg National Research Fund science communication conference, speaking about artificial intelligence and immersive worlds. Such a fantastic community with some incredible work. Find more about them here
Fantastic visiting Oxford University to speak about innovative practices in science communication, harnessing the potential of digital to engage people differently.
Very pleased to Chair a panel at the SEG3 conference in London, focused on the metaverse.
Panel: The Road to an Interoperable Metaverse
Thursday, June 29
An open metaverse is the long term goal of many within the space, but what would this look like, and how can it be achieved? This session will explore:
The technological framework that needs to be in place to support the vision
The timelines to achieving an open metaverse
The role of blockchain
The role of universal game development standards
Ownership of digital assets in web2 and web3 environments
The impact of interoperability on consumers and enterprise
I was delighted to be the host of the Global Esports Summit, which took place again this year in London.
You can take a look at all the exciting sessions that took place.
Discover more on esports here.
Some thoughts ahead of #HostCity2022 next week.
"COVID has brought about a step change in audience expectations, which must be seen in the context of a longer history of making our live and remote experiences increasingly immersive, flexible, and technologically enabled. The Web2 era nurtured this desire and COVID embedded the expectation, readying us for web3.
For sure, the error we make is concluding that this is a move away from the importance of physical space as a crucial component of a compelling experience, but what's changing is the capacity to level up the physical world with immersive integrations which have been prototyped during COVID. Audiences expect to be more active and the data driven event economy finds a crucial extension through volumetric and locative audience data.
The future of the elite event experience is phygital - e.g watching digital content layered over a physical swimming pool and seeing the projection of Olympic swimmers live into the space, as it happens, or the transition of triathlons into arena based virtual worlds, or running in your gym alongside athletes as they compete. These are our clues which shed light onto the future and it's as big a shift as was the design of the amphitheatre in ancient Greece.
In this context, rights holders need to massively rethink what they do and what they are in relation to their audience. Simply staging something isn't enough anymore. The Olympic Channel is a great example of how institutions are experimenting to find their feet in a world where the media proposition around events is vastly different. The MVP in this future is to wrangle the innovation community that can remake events for a vastly different set of audience expectations."
Join us for Host City in Glasgow next week!
“If you liked what you heard at NSL, then follow these accounts to get involved.” Prof @andymiah
Well this was an absolutely phenomenal event! Over 1500 households registered for the event and you can watch back my presentation on the TEDx platform here.
I've really fallen behind on updating my website, so I'm going to blitz through the last 3 months!
Way back in March, I gave a talk for the doctoral school of the University of Lausanne about ethics and xr sports. It was a great way to think through some new ideas and you can find the entire session here.
A talk for the Global Alliance for Responsible AI
Global Sports Week took place last week, led out of Paris, France. I gave a Masterclass on Esports and, while so much was online, a huge amount of activity tool place. Here’s a bit about how it felt.
I was really honoured to be part of a session organized by the Scottish Parliament to advise the Scottish Government on their public communication strategy. The session was a really good opportunity to think about how we evaluate government communications, especially in times of urgent need for clear messaging and quick public reactions. I hope this may develop into some further research on the subject and may well need some international collaborators to get it done.
I was really honoured to take part in the inaugural esports education programme hosted by LDNUTD, a fantastic esports team in London. Reaching out to young esports players in London, the sessions covered all aspects of becoming an esports professional. I was really pleased to speak to school kids and beyond about how to think through developing a public speaking presence in the esports world. Here’s a bit of what we covered.
I was delighted to speak about Extraterrestrial Ethics this month for #BNW2020, a fantastic event, which brought together artists, philosophers, scientists, and engineers to think through some of the biggest problems we face.
My talk on ET Ethics gets into an expanded definition of alien life forms that takes into account the new biology we are creating through synthetic biology and the likelihood that our evolution may take place outside of planet Earth!
More on that later!
Earlier this month, the British Esports Association produced the Esports Education Summit, in partnership with Pearson Education. I was delighted to speak in a session with Dr Maria Stukoff, as host.
We covered career paths in esports, from how STEM subjects are really benefitting from the esports pathway to the creative work involved in designing increasingly immersive experiences in esports.
These are remarkable times and I was very pleased to have the chance to speak with people from the STFC and UKRI community about the importance of science communication. Here’s the re-run.