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Future of work

What changes when the work itself becomes agentic, and what that asks of the people doing it.

Mostly for businesses and learners
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Future of work
Changing professions
Spinouts and student entrepreneurship
Applied AI in universities

Programmes under this theme

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Cohorts working on this, over weeks rather than an afternoon.

AI for Lean Spinouts
AI for Lean Spinouts.
Completed
August 2026
AIIA Business Challenge Dissertations: see what AI could do for your business.
For businesses in London and the South East: a University of Surrey student takes on your challenge as their dissertation, supervised by the University. Free to take part.
Open for applications
Crackathon™
Short, social AI hackathons for team days, staff development and teaching, alongside any celebration, in person or online. Pull a cracker, open the prompt, crack it as a team.
The Future of the Professions (and Professionals) in the AI Age
Free seasons of talks and sessions on how AI is changing one profession at a time.

Coming up on this theme

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Single sessions. Coming to one is the cheapest way to find out whether the longer thing is for you.

17:00 to 17:45
AI Innovation Accelerator: Work with the next generation of AI engineers
A free 45-minute online briefing for engineering firms wondering what agentic AI could do for them, and what it would take to find out with a Surrey MSc student.
Open to everyone
17:00 to 17:45
AI Innovation Accelerator: Work with the next generation of AI engineers
A free 45-minute online briefing for engineering firms wondering what agentic AI could do for them, and what it would take to find out with a Surrey MSc student.
Open to everyone
13:00 to 13:45
AI Innovation Accelerator: Work with the next generation of AI engineers
A free 45-minute online briefing for engineering firms wondering what agentic AI could do for them, and what it would take to find out with a Surrey MSc student.
Open to everyone
17:00 to 18:00
AIIA AI Engineering Challenge: briefing
[WHY COME TO WRITE] A short online briefing the day before the 2026 Crackathon opens: what it is, how the days work and how to take part.
Open to everyone
17:00 to 18:00
Santa's North Pole Productivity Challenge: launch
[WHY COME TO WRITE] The evening launch of the 2026 Crackathon, on the day the first self-guided day opens.
Open to everyone
AIIA AI Engineering Challenge: hackathon day
Teams form and go to work on businesses' draft challenges, so the feedback sharpens the briefs before they reach the University.
Open to everyone
Illustration of a balance scale weighing three people against one AI robot
Universities
Foresight

What would a just transition to the future of work actually involve?

Just transition is one of the most borrowed phrases in climate policy, and one of the hardest to deliver. Now it's turning up in debates about AI and work. I went looking for who's already working on it, and what nobody has worked out yet.

Michael Kohn, founder of Agent Build Club
Michael Kohn
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