We’ve waxed lyrical about the future so much, we’ve all become paralysed. Let’s instead form a do-ocracy movement around MODERN work and find things today that build a better future. I’m not saying kill your dreams…just make them more realistic by taking ownership and action of the steps today to create that better future. We won’t look back and say “AI, crypto and 5G really saved us as a society” so let’s get on with creating our future on purpose, and not by accident. This session will be an activation, provocation, and commencement of a movement. No bs thought leadership. Let’s do this!

The city of 2050 is emphatically not a place of work: it is a place of play. A place to relax, to enjoy, to explore and to spend. Yes, we may still commute there for work as needed - when the team needs to get together to ‘con-spire’. The rest of the time, our urban cores offer themselves as centres of pure enjoyment. How can we rethink urban living and turn our cities into pleasure gardens? Our amazing panellists each take us on their own ‘walking tour’ of this city of 2050, a Garden of Earthly Delights, where people are instinctively drawn for almost the precise opposite of any of the reasons they visit cities today. We invite the audience to contribute their own designs and imaginations for our city of 2050 - because a shared delight is better than a secret one.