speech prompts for an updated speech for 2017 I just gave to a year 11 group of students at the Anglo European School in Essex. Covers the future world of work, trends and global movements. Available to give this speech to further interested South Eastern England schools given enough notice.
37. Ebola vaccine created
Child death rates down
globally
India plants 50 million trees
in 24 hours
Suicide rates down
worldwide
Ozone layer repairing itself
Mind controlled robot arms!!
Wild tiger numbers up (1st
time in 100 years)
Global aid - up 7%
Solar powered plane
circumnavigates world
Malaria down 60%
globally
93% of the world's
children now literate -
highest in history
Huge global push towards
renewable energy
Humpback whales no
longer endangered
64. A part of Creston Unlimited
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Good morning. Thank-you for inviting me to speak.
Adam Knight. Head of the Planning Department. Advertising agency. Central London
Speak to you about preparing for the world of work, when you’re likely to enter it in a few years time.
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As I already said. I work in a digital advertising agency
Here we all are.
280 of us in total
Job of an Ad agency to convince people to buy things from our clients brands.
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We work with Car brands such as Audi, McLaren and Infiniti.
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Tech companies such as Vertu Mobile Phones, British Telecomms and Canon.
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Youth brands such as Lynx, Call of Duty, Skylanders and Destiny.
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I’m a Planner.
My job to create a strategy that helps our clients get to a great idea
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Use my understanding of their BRAND….
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Their potential and current buyers…
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Their competitors and wider MARKET insights to help us get to the right solution.
My job to know more than anybody else about the brands I work on.
Take all this information and turn it into a strategy that our clients pay us for.
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My job to stay on the cutting edge of culture.
Which social media platform about to explode, and which is about to die.
To understand what excites people
What will get them to buying stuff
What will get them talking
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To get this inspiration, I need to be inspired myself.
So I look up at others who are changing the world.
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I like to look at those who are doing good.
self-made successes.
Transforming the planet.
Talk briefly about two of them:
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Might not recognise his face.
May not know his name
But this man is changing the world
Profound impact on the world you inherit in some 10 / 20 years time
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Founding PayPal.
Sold Paypal to ebay
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Made $165 million dollars in the process
Most people stop there!
Instead, reinvested every penny
Now transforming two big old important industries
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First industry transforming is cars
He founded Tesla
Building the first truly desirable luxury electric car.
Completely disrupting the way cars are sold too.
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Massive steps in reusable rocketry.
Is now regularly landing first stage rockets, which is the first step to Mars and us becoming an interplanetary race
Yes. Elon Musk is basically Tony Stark from Iron Man.
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Powerful
Effective
Successful women
Major focus in fashion
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Burberry had a massive problem. Chavs.
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Angela single handedly rescued one of the biggest brands on the planet
Reimagined the brand from the ground up.
Used tech to transform the shopping experience, both online and in store.
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Then she was poached by Apple
To do the same for them.
Appointed as their SVP of all Retail for Apple
Raise the bar again, and leaving all other tech retailers behind.
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What can we learn from them?
You tell me.
Try to behave as they would
Try to emulate their ways of approaching each day
Strive for their levels of success.
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Right, lets talk a little bit about last year…
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The zika virus arrived and made lots of babies quite ill
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Terror attacks across the globe
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Police shootings and violence led to public outcry and uprisings
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THE LOSS OF SOME GREAT GLOBAL ARTISTS – a big loss to the arts
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And its quite a scary future too…
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This guy is going to be the leader of the free world later on today
I’m a little scared…
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This is going to happen, and mass with your schools logo, and my mortgage too!
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Predicated you’ll have to work till you're eighty
Longer than anybody that has ever existed
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Many people will die of obesity related illnesses
Whilst others starve to death
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Empty our oceans of fish
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Hit the point of irreversible climate change
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Pretty depressing right?
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But fear not, there are some crappy things that happen out there.
But its also a pretty awesome world too…
You’ll live longer than any other generation before you
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We’ll learn to grow and build spare parts
You’ll be bionic
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We’ll learn to grow meat in labs
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Drone technology will disrupt :
Photography
Transport
Medical
delivery sectors
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We’ll soon create AI as smart as our own brains.
Then it’s a bit of an unknown about where this will take us.
But I’m optimistic.
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Cars will drive themselves
Less accidents on the road.
An all electric future will help the environment too.
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By the time you buy your own home, its likely you’ll be able to power it yourself, off the national grid
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We’re becoming more aware of the benefits and importance of diversity in the workplace,
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And all these things too…
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Only thing I can promise is change
Positive change
Negative change
You decide how you respond.
A case of disrupt, or be disrupted
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Technology will be at the centre of all this change.
Technology comes in all shapes and sizes
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In ancient times the wheel disrupted everything.
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TV Leisure time / advertising
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Whereas now, it’s an Apple Watch.
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Nice quote from Douglas Adams, an English writer -
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<15th birthday - absolutely normal.
The way its always been
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15th and 35th birthday
New
Exciting
Make a career out of it.
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>35, Evil,
Against Nature.
Avoided at all costs”
You are right at the start of your personal journey with technology. You are very lucky indeed.
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One thing behind technology now, and in the future is code.
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Somebody pretty famous is a fan of Coders
Will.i.am: Coders Are Today's Rock Stars
Understand and use technology.
Understand and use code.
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There are now free online tools and tutorials for all ages
Kids…
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Young teens
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Teen and up
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Look around you
Amount of people entering the job market within a few miles of your home
About the same time as you
Looking for the same jobs in the same sectors.
Multiply number by 100 Region
Multiply number by 4,000 Country
So, my next piece of advice is…
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TO STAND OUT
Significantly.
Do something that makes you stand out from everybody else
Mine was joining the army cadets and reaching the highest rank possible.
That got me my first job.
Write a blog.
Do charity work.
Join a team and get involved.
Write music and learn to play an instrument well.
Whatever you do. Do something.
When that 'why should I hire you' question comes, you need to have a great answer
But whatever you do, do something
Before you need to
Make it something you enjoy.
You’ll be better at it that way
Some strong pieces of advice
Stuff I’ve learnt that’s helped me along the way.
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Be inspired
Be challenged
Be blown away
Watch something each day – I use TED Talks for that
Read something every week – I read a blog called ‘wait but why’
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No, don’t hug the odd looking guy next to you in science.
Find your inner nerd
Play with tech.
Learn to code
Programme an Arduino
Get to grips with how tech and code works
Learn about what it does
And how you can turn that to your advantage
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We play out our lives in front of everybody else.
On Facebook
On Twitter
On Instagram
What you say online is permanent.
Photos you put online are permanent.
So manage and build your online profile carefully
Potential employers will google you.
What will they find?
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Find somebody that inspires you
Successful
Charitable
Happy
Millionaire or in poverty
It can be anybody
Understand what they doing different.
And start doing those things
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The world is changing.
Learn Chinese
Understand India better
Read Russian history
Even more important places in 10 years
Develop a balanced and knowledgable world view
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Donate to charity.
Take granny out for lunch
Help your brothers and sisters with their homework
Offer to walk your neighbours dog.
Karma exists
Good things happen to good people.
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Bored people are boring.
Don’t be a bored person.
‘if you want something done, ask a busy person.’
I’m a big fan of that.
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Switch off the PS4 and get out.
Experience something new each week.
Learn a skill
Go somewhere you’ve never been before
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Whatever it is.
Hatmaking
Delivering milk
Carpentry
Do something you love happy.
But use technology –XXXXX - to do it better and smarter than anybody else.
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Not literally.
Break things trying something new
Falling over trying hard enough
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Just got your Mock Results.
Starting course counselling sixth form pathways.
A big and scary time for you
And that’s okay.
But you’re in the right place.
You’re part of the Anglo Family
Family of languages
Family that exposes you to other cultures and places
Family with rappers and Chief executives.
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No, I’m not selling my dining room furniture on ebay
I’m pleased to announce
Five work experience placements available to your year
Happening during your summer break
Your teachers will tell you more as we have it.
But there will be a completely open application process.
We’ll be looking for the most creative people here.
Not about your grades or your background, we just care how creative you can think.
So, keep your ears open for more and make sure you apply when the time comes.
Thank you for your time and attention.
I hope at least some of that helps you in the future.
Privilege to speak to you today.
See some of you later in the creative workshop.
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Thank-you
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