TICKETS AGENDA SPEAKERS WORKSHOPS PARTNERS 2017 HIGHLIGHTS
WIRED NEXT GENERATION WORKSHOPS
Read below for the available workshops on the day – twelve workshops will be announced over the next few weeks. Workshop registration will open on October 25.
Duration: 45 minutes Start times: 11.25 / 13.55
Hosted by the Royal Institution
During his time at the Royal Institution, Michael Faraday made some monumental discoveries about the nature of electricity and magnetism, which have since gone on to build the modern world, from generating power, to powering electric cars. Join the present day Ri to explore these discoveries and to learn how you can build a circuit on almost anything, using the same principles which are the key building blocks of our modern world.
Duration: 45 minutes Start times: 11.25 / 13.55
Hosted by Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Banking Group are excited to present a workshop showcasing the variety of apprenticeships you can choose within our large our organisation. There will be inspirational leaders from our organisation showing you how to master the digital world in our interactive coding session!
Duration: 45 minutes Start times: 11.25 / 13.55
Hosted by The Design Club
Attendees will design and prototype a mobile app to help tackle a social problem, using an industry-standard design thinking process. Together we’ll work through 5 phases: frame a design challenge, empathise with target users, generate ideas, prototype solutions, and test solutions for real-world feedback. Attendees can choose to bring their own smart phone or tablet, but this is not essential.
Duration: 45 minutes Start times: 11.25 / 13.55
Hosted by The Politics Project
Ever felt that young voices are ignored by politicians? Ever wondered how to make politics take place beyond the Houses of Parliament? In this session, social enterprise The Politics Project will teach you how to engage with politicians online and make your voice heard.
You will learn how to reach out to your MP online, create content based around your concerns, and send it on to your elected representatives. The session will end in a 'Digital Surgery' with a high-level politician, where you will have the chance to put your digital democracy skills into practice by asking them about the issues that matter to you.
Duration: 45 minutes Start times: 11.25 / 13.55
Hosted by Industrial Light & Magic, Lucasfilm
Become a Visual Effect Artist and create an animated flipbook of your very own trench run to destroy the Death Star! Animators from Industrial Light and Magic will be on hand to help. Flipbooks, paper, storyboards, stencils, pencils and markers will be provided. You provide the imagination!
Duration: 45 minutes Start times: 11.25 / 13.55
Hosted by Roblox and Code Kingdoms
The engines are revving - Space Racers are ready to go! However, no one likes a boring track. Using the massively popular gaming platform Roblox, this workshop shows you how to program Speed, Slow and Destroy power-ups to make things more exciting. Begin the journey by making your very own games!
Duration: 30 minutes Start times: 12.25 / 14.55
Hosted by Abracademy
In order to make decisions about their futures, young people need to believe in themselves and their abilities. Belief that they can get their dream job, confidence to ask those around them for help and the right mindset to embrace technology and learning new skills. We’ll take the audience on a journey of Belief: from inner belief to achieving their big ambitions!
Duration: 30 minutes Start times: 12.25 / 14.55
Hosted by Abbey Road Studios
The Red team from Abbey Road Studios will walk you through a hands-on demo of creating a great sounding song from scratch in just five minutes with generative composition app, Humtap, and Abbey Road's song-writing app Topline, as well as opening your eyes to possibilities with other apps.
Duration: 30 minutes Start times: 12.25 / 14.55
Hosted by YouTube
Three established creators will talk through how to build a successful YouTube channel. They will provide unique insights and learnings on how to find and share your passion and it with others, how to get set up to start filming videos, and how grow andmaintain a community.
Duration: 30 minutes Start times: 12.25 / 14.55
Hosted by WhiteHat
Participants will get to meet a group of real life apprentices who work in everything from tech to fashion and HR to marketing. These WhiteHat apprentices were all recruited into top companies to kickstart their career. You will have a chance to hear their experiences of finding, applying and completing an apprenticeship plus practice key skills to make you stand out in the interview and selection process.
Duration: 30 minutes Start times: 12.25 / 14.55
Meet some of the WIRED editorial and art team and learn what it takes to make a magazine, from finding must-read stories to designing an eye-catching cover. Then, have a go at making your own WIRED cover – with prizes for the best designs.
Duration: 30 minutes Start times: 12.25 / 14.55
Hosted by Jess Wade, Imperial College London and Wellcome Collection
Join us in our quest to make the world’s most popular encyclopaedia more diverse. Wikipedia is the fifth most popular website in the world, but its biographies are biased against women and people of colour. We want to make the internet great again - but we need your help! You will learn about extraordinary scientists and engineers as well as learning how to contribute to a website that is accessed 32 million times a day.
Attendees will be taken on a short walking tour within the museum, led by a certified art expert.
Abracademy is a learning and development company using magic as a tool to help people develop soft skills. We blend magic (yes, real rabbits-in-hats magic!) with learning design and facilitation to deliver training programmes to schools, and companies. Our programmes are based on two mindsets: Belief and Wonder.
Noam Sohachevsky, Founder, Design Club Noam does a bit of everything. Creating learning resources, running workshops, growing the mentor network, and building strategic partnerships. A designer by trade, Noam co-founded Mint in 2004. Helping grow the business into a successful startup studio, he left in 2016 to explore new challenges. Along with Design Club, he works part-time at Apps for Good as a Service Designer.
Jemima Gibbons, Head of engagement, Design Club Jemima helps with marketing and engagement, developing our comms plan and helping build the Design Club community through social media. As a social media and content strategist, Jemima works with government and global brands as well as SMEs and startups. She's a published writer and blogger and has worked as a trainer, facilitator and university lecturer.
Founded in Manchester in 2015, The Politics Project aims to transform the way in which young people and politicians interact. We do this through providing students with a democratic education made for the 21st century that leaves them confident in their ability to engage with the democratic process. Our Digital Surgeries programme, which WIRED Next Generation attendees will take part in, has won plaudits from both educationalists and politicians, and was shortlisted by the Cabinet Office in the National Democracy Week Awards 2018.
Roblox is the world’s largest entertainment platform, allowing people to imagine, create, and play together in immersive, user-generated 3D worlds. There are over four million young creators and developers on the platform, who have so far created more than 40 million experiences. Roblox is freely available on all modern smartphones, tablets, computers, Xbox One, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Code Kingdoms is one of our key education partners, providing a fun introduction to coding and creating games on Roblox.
The Royal Institution’s (Ri) vision is for a world where everyone is inspired to think more deeply about science and its place in our lives. Home to eminent scientists such as Michael Faraday, Humphry Davy and Kathleen Lonsdale, its discoveries have helped to shape the modern world. Just as importantly these scientists recognised the importance of sharing their work with the wider public. Today it continues its mission to build on its heritage and create opportunities for everyone to discover, discuss and critically examine science and how it shapes the world around us. An independent registered charity, the Ri provides science education, public engagement, and heritage activities for people of all ages and backgrounds across the UK and around the world.
Since 1975, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) has set the standard for visual effects, creating some of the most stunning images in the history of film. At the forefront of the digital revolution, ILM continues to break new ground in the field not only in visual effects but now virtual reality, augmented reality and immersive entertainment as well. Founded by George Lucas, ILM is the leading effects facility in the world, with studios located in San Francisco, Singapore, Vancouver and London. The company serves the motion picture, commercial production and attraction industries. ILM has created visual effects for over 350 feature films.
WhiteHat is a tech startup matching young people to the best career-focused apprenticeships on offer at some of the UK's most exciting companies, from Google and Facebook, to BP and Warner Bros. By delivering training in partnership with world-class content providers such as General Assembly and Flatiron School, and through a combination of 1:1 coaching and cutting-edge tech, WhiteHat is creating an outstanding alternative to university via apprenticeships. In the UK, WhiteHat is at the forefront of enabling companies to use their apprenticeship levy to train a diverse group of future leaders in the technical skills they need.
This article was originally published by WIRED UK
