Will Artificial Intelligence take away a sizeable number of jobs in the future world of work?

Jan. 11, 2016 - PRLog -- Are we looking at a future world of work where virtual workers with cognitive and human like communication abilities as well as systems driven by Artificial Intelligence and advanced analytic software would replace human workers in various entry and middle level jobs? This is a distinct possibility as we already have virtual workers like ‘Amelia’ of IPsoft Technologies and advanced analytic software like IBM’s Watson. What will hundreds of thousands of young career aspirants should do in such a scenario? What will be their roles in such a scenario? How should they develop their careers in such a world of work? ISB&M Careers21 (http://careers21.in/) Symposium, being organized in Kolkata by ICPAD Consultancy and Scintillance Education & Consulting on 23-24 January, 2016 at the CII-Suresh Neotia Centre of Excellence for Leadership, will address these questions to help students understand the future well.

Understanding the future scenarios is extremely important in preparing for a career in addition to studying for acquiring a degree. The inaugural keynote seminar ‘Future world of work, key trends and what you must know’ will be addressed by Debasish Biswas, Country Head, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, Ex VP & Head – Education Alliances, Star TV. Dr. Pramod Kumar, Ph.D. IIT Bombay, President of ISB&M and ex-Professor of XLRI will inaugurate the Symposium as the Chairman of the Proceedings at the Symposium.

The Symposium will organize unique Master Classes, which are lecture-cum-workshops built to deliver experiential learning. At these classes, as opposed to conventional seminars, students will learn about future technologies and trends by participating in various in-class short assignments and exercises. There will be 12 Master Classes on several fields of work and several leading experts such as Joy Mustafi, Senior Data Scientist of IBM, considered as one of the top ten Data Scientists in India, Rizwan Shaikh, one of the leading Ethical Hacker and Information Security Consultants in India, Shrinivas Ayyar, one of the leading Digital Marketing experts of India and Krishna Tammireddy, Co-Founder of Juno Tele Solutions and ex-Sales Head, App World and Content Marketing (APAC, Middle East & Africa) of Blackberry will take these classes to enlighten young students about the future world of work.