After 24 years as the BBC's media correspondent - and 40 years reporting and analysing media issues for the press and broadcasters – Torin now speaks, writes and chairs events for a range of media, arts and academic bodies, including Voice of the Listener and Viewer, BBC Alumni, Worktech.

This talk explores the future of work, drawing on Daniel Susskind's best-selling books, The Future of the Professions (2015; 2017) and A World Without Work (2020; 2021). Traditionally, many people have imagined that only blue-collar workers are challenged by automation; yet white collar-workers are now within reach as well. In the future, we will neither need nor want professionals -- lawyers, doctors, accountants, teachers, architects, financial advisers, the clergy, consultants, and many others -- to work as they did in the 20th century.

WORKTECH is founded on the principle that a harmony of people, place and, above all, technology should form the basis for how organisations plan the future of work. Amid the global pandemic, this vision has swum into focus as companies have pivoted to a new model with remote working and a hybrid model at its core.
In this session, Philip Ross will share how marginal ideas have become mainstream and by sharing an overview of emerging trends and latest innovations shaping the world of work, he will paint a portrait of the transforming landscape and share tools on how companies can embrace the

WE examine the future of the office and explore implications from the Investor, Developer, Property and Technology perspectives. What are the key issues facing the future of the office in a post pandemic world. What are the reasons and ways to innovate? What role does technology play?

How do we create change in the workplace (new technology, regulation, basic standards). How do we think about work and the rewards of work, and how do we respond to inevitable inequality? We explore how algorithmic systems are eroding good work’ and examine new initiatives in the context of the emerging future of work in London post the pandemic.

In this session, Sir John Sorrell will explain how the design industries have galvanised London as a world city, why organisations need to pay close attention to creative leadership, and how delight can be a transformative factor in the new workplace. Interview with Jeremy Myerson of Worktech Academy.

As the industry looks towards leading workplaces to help forge a strategy back to the office, this session explores the pioneering journey GSK has undertaken to achieve its global Smart Working programme. Working closely with its technology partner Sony Nimway, GSK piloted a series of Innovation Hubs and smart workplaces across its global portfolio.

As the world weighs up its real-estate options, we will hear from leading law firm Norton Rose Fulbright about their thinking for future proofing their workplace strategy and real estate footprint, while fostering creativity, new ideas and top talent. Michelle and Peter share the firm’s vision, roadmap, policy on hybrid, leadership and innovation through all elements including technology.

The purpose of the office has changed. Hybrid Working is the term on everyone's lips but for many, big questions remain unanswered; How do you bring the workforce back into the office? and What should that office look like? Creating a truly effective workplace has always required a perfect balance between people, place and technology. Given this most recent and dramatic global shift in the way we work, how do we now best drive communication, motivation, engagement with the right facilities, tech, tools to work, think and collaborate.

This session examines how we can harvest the power of IoT and turn it into an enabler for human success. Imagine what we could achieve if we turned buildings into active members of our teams. A team member that was intuitive - that could sense, understand, and subtly address our needs without us even realising.

The office is not a destination for solo work, but a destination for unique collaborative experiences. Intelligent workspace experiences are now a must have, not a nice to have, to earn the right to host our employees in our offices and motivate workplace return. A successful modern hybrid workplace needs intelligent adoptions, accommodations, and an increased focus on collaboration for a successful transformation.

This session explores how we Build back business better. In a VUCA world, how can we make a risk multiplier a change intensifier. How can we swerve the great resignation? Climate and Covid (and the accompanying social injustice), has led to the great resignation and recalibration of the employer - employee social contract. Hybrid working articulates this societal change and whether it increases or decreases carbon emissions, what does it mean for the environment? What is the sustainability of hybrid working?