Futures Salon: Reimagining Jobs in the Circular Economy
By Forum for the Future
Date and time
Thu, 5 Oct 2017 17:00 - 19:00 GMT+8
Location
The IDEAS Hub at UWCSEA Dover
IDEAS Hub, Middle School Block, United World College SEA (Dover) 1207 Dover Road Singapore, 139654 SingaporeDescription
How will the circular economy change the way we work?
Governments and business are talking about the urgent need to shift to a Circular Economy, where resources are kept in use for as long as possible by recovering, recycling and reusing products in an economy that designs waste out of its processes.
Achieving this will mean a coming era of new ways of doing business, new solutions and new regulations. A suite of new skills will be required to enable this circular economy, and pioneers have started asking themselves - what new jobs will emerge in this future economy?
Forum for the Future explores different dimensions of the near future with our series of Futures Salons. Together with our friends at the United World College Southeast Asia (UWCSEA) and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, we help you imagine what it means to operate in a circular economy.
Hear from:
- Companies that are looking for solutions and services missing in our current economy;
- Entrepreneurs who are starting to respond to these gaps, and creating new jobs in the process;
- Students, who will form the crucial engines of this future economy; and
- Teachers and parents who want to prepare young people for the needs of the future.
Our guest speakers include:
- Harri Wavell, Schools and Colleges Programme Manager, Ellen MacArthur Foundation
- Chris Messer, Sustainability Business Partner, APAC, Kimberly-Clark
- Sumangali Krishnan, Head of Research & Strategy, Gone Adventurin’
- Nathan Hunt, Director of Sustainability, United World College Southeast Asia (UWCSEA)
The salon will be facilitated by Jiehui Kia, Senior Strategist at Forum APAC.
We invite you to add creatively to this important conversation. Please find a map of UWC Dover, indicating directions to the IDEAS Hub here.