Automation, advanced manufacturing, AI, and the shift to e-commerce are dramatically changing the number and nature of jobs around the world. New industries, new skills, and new economies are on the rise. AI and robotics are upending the conventional work, and more interestingly, On the internet, everything is for hire via high adoption of sharing economy. Universities and academic institutions are reorienting to new practices. A brief reflection on the future work, jobs, and technology by exploring the most disruptive and emerging practices

1. The Future of Work.
EMERGING WORK, SKILLS, TECH & JOBS

2. Afzal Ibrahim
Head of R&D, Future Lab
Emirates NBD
Hello!
My daily life has lot of experimentation and exploration
on digital business models using emerging tech such as
blockchain, machine learning, API etc.
An avid art lover. Founder http://theartist.me

3. The Future of Work?

4. What drives future of work?

5. Your workplace is..
everywhere
Working nine to five for a single employer is
slowly vanishing.
Independent experts are on a all-time rise
From crowdsourcing to ghost writing, translating to
customer service management, you might be
surprised how many different types of jobs are
available
Shift #1

6. Human + Machine - A
new partnership is
evolving
Automation, advanced manufacturing, AI, and the shift to e-
commerce are dramatically changing the number and nature of
jobs around the world.
In 2017, Google spend approximately $30b for machine
intelligence company acquisitions, research and development
UAE has become the first country to have a Artificial Intelligence
minister
Shift #2

7. On the internet,
everything is for hire
Sharing economy, also known as collaborative
consumption, is a trending business concept that
highlights the ability (and perhaps the preference)
for individuals to rent or borrow goods rather than
buy and own them.
World’s largest taxi company,
owns no taxi
Largest accommodation provider,
owns no real estate
Fastest growing bank, have no
actual money
Shift #3

8. Fastest growing bank, have no
actual money
New industries, new
skills, and new
economies are on rise
Technological trends are giving rise to what many
thought leaders refer to as the “imagination economy.” -
“an economy where intuitive and creative thinking create
economic value, after logical and rational thinking have
been outsourced to other economies.”
• Space Tour Guide
• Virtual Reality Designer
• Smart City Architect
• 3D Fashion Designer
• Organ designer
• Gene modeler
• Crypto Economist
Shift #4

9. Work is changing.
The gig economy is growing.
New tech and business models are emerging
AI and robotics are upending the conventional work.
Universities and academic institutions are reorienting to
new practices.

10. Future of Work
Focusing on the 7 most exciting and disruptive
industries and practices

11. Conducted interviews with respective experts
Inputs from leading research agencies
..and we are going like..7,6,5,4,3,2,1

12. 7.
Urban Design
_______
Urban design is the process of designing and shaping cities, towns and villages.

13. Smart City
Designing, building and governing smart cities

14. Why Cities?
Cities are the engines of modern city

15. The importance of “place” in town planning and urban
design has come to bring together the experience
from a variety of domains
1. People – Level of satisfaction
2. Business – Ease of trade
3. Community – Education, Healthcare and
Infrastructure

18. Policy
Makers
Finance +
Law
Experience
Designers
Design +
Tech
Energy
Engineers
Engineering +
Energy
Smart
Architects
Civil + IoT +
Policy
Happiness
Governors
Psychology
+ Design
Infrastructure
Engineers
Mech. +
Computers
Digital
Bankers
Tech +

19. SHANGHAI
Shanghai Natural History Museum. Set in a
park near the Pudong financial district, the
building spirals down, into the earth, like an
excavation of the city’s pre-urban roots
Nautilus Shell shape controls the
heavy traffic of people
Green climate and water systems
supported by 11000 species
Pool that cools the building that
embraces Shanghai’s exuberant
futurism

20. Rather than having to pick their way
down perilous hillsides, people could
hop in a gondola and soar to a metro
station.
Serves the poor and integrates them
into the city, gives them access to jobs
and other opportunities
MEDELLIN
Medellín’s New Cable Cars Unify a
Fractured City. Medellín is nestled in a valley
high in the Andes, and many of the city’s
poorest residents live in comunas they built
on the steep slopes.

21. MECCA
Shanghai Natural History Museum. Set in a
park near the Pudong financial district, the
building spirals down, into the earth, like an
excavation of the city’s pre-urban roots
A Purpose-Built Airport for a
Massive Wave of Visitors.
Disappear 600 Tons of Trash a
Day With Pneumatic Tubes
Tightly coupled ventilation
systems into bridges and
infrastructure

23. 6.
Engineering
_______
Multi-disciplinary

24. One of the greatest, if not the greatest
engineering feat was the introduction of
electricity.
Its development and deployment have had an incalculable impact on our societies. Just think about how
much blood, sweat, and tears have been saved since its introduction. Work has become easier and our
general standards of living have risen considerably.
As we become more and more dependent on technology, engineers will become increasingly important.

25. The Engineers of the Future Will
Not Resemble the Engineers of the
Past
James Plummer – Former Dean Stanford University

26. The future of engineering is
interdisciplinary
It will take us into areas that today we cannot
even foresee

27. Few examples..

28. Self Driving Cars
Mechanical + Computing +
Electronic

29. Brain Machine
Interfaces
Electrocardiography + Neuro Eng.
+ Computing
Neuralink is developing ultra high bandwidth brain-
machine interfaces to connect humans and computers.

30. Neuralink is developing ultra high bandwidth
brain-machine interfaces to connect humans
and computers.

31. Q-9 Reaper used by the U.S. Air Force. (Image courtesy of
Smart Flying
Machines
Aeronautical Engineering + Computing

32. Agriculture Engineering
Biotech + Mechanical + Computing
Harvesting the future - Agricultural Engineers
improve the technology and processes that supply
us with our food.

33. Social Intelligence - Ability to connect with others
in a deep and direct way to sense, stimulate and
absorb right emotions
Computational Thinking - Ability to translate vast
amounts of data into abstract concepts and to
understand data based reasoning
Educating the engineers for 21st century

34. 5.
Finance and
Accounting
_______
New economies are on rise

35. Accounting is the language of
business

36. Accountants, analysts and spreadsheet maestros are the
quintessential faces of finance.
Numbers gurus ensure the accurate processing, accounting
and reporting of any practice that has transactions of
monetary value
Finance experts continue protecting an organization’s
financial integrity and shareholder value as the gatekeeper of
a single version of the truth about business performance.
This will never change..

37. Investment
Bankers
Fund
Managers
Trading
Ninjas
Insurance
Designers
Accountants
Corporate
Lawyers
Risk
Specialists
Economists
Bankers
Business
Predictors
Finance
Career
Landscape

38. There are two factors that
create significant shifts in the
finance world

39. 1. Data Science
and Automation
2. Entry of
digital currencies
A formal discipline that studies protocols that
govern the production, distribution, and
consumption of goods and services in a
decentralized digital economy. Crypto economics is
a practical science that focuses on the design and
characterization of these protocols.
Financial Engineering and Financial Risk Analysis
are two key practices evolving in finance supported
by a series of automation tech

40. Blockchain is a technology
Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency built using
blockchain technology
Cryptocurrency is a digital currency

41. Cryptocurrency
Hype or Reality?
Fact > The world skips the hype and giving this
asset a fair chance.
Reality > New business models are evolving,
where diverse and multiple industries are coming
together to serve the changing needs of
customers

42. From hype to
reality, adoption is
faster than
expected
$20B
Average Blockchain
market across the globe
in 2024
$290M
Total amount of
investment raised by
Blockchain startups
$1.2M
Average annual
investment on Blockchain
projects by organizations
$8-12M
Reported potential
annual savings for banks
utilizing Blockchain tech
69%
Percentage of banks that
are experimenting on
permissioned Blockchain
networks
Blockchain is more than just a technology, but
facilitates new types of economies.
Efforts and investments from around the world
reflect how blockchain changes money, business
and world

43. Influencing the Future of Financial Markets
Global Blockchain’s multi-pronged approach to harnessing the power of
cryptocurrencies allows the company to focus on a volatile and unregulated asset
class while also diversifying enough to reduce its institutional risk
• Crypto Economists – Those who understands the impact
of digital currencies in the current structure and apply
needed policies and regulations
• Digital Assets Risk Analysts – Those who analyse the
risk aspect

44. One fact.

45. How governments control money, how companies
make money, how financial markets work, how
individuals can maximize income through
investments, and much more.
Everyone must know the basics of
accounting – How money works? – is
very important in life

46. 4.
Artists and
Designers
_______
Every human is an artist.

47. DESIGN IS
WHERE
SCIENCE AND
ART
BREAK EVEN
Mieke Gerritzen

48. A very diverse practice..
GRAPHIC
DESIGN
FASHION
DESIGN
UX
DESIGN
GAME DESIGN
ILLUSTRATOR
DIGITAL
DESIGN
DIGITAL ARTIST
ART DIRECTOR
INTERIOR
DESIGN
CAD DESIGNER

49. Industrial design is the creative act of determining and
defining a product’s form and features.
During this process, the designer follows a design
process that will ensure the functionality, convenience and
aesthetics of the product
Industrial Design

50. Design
element
Manufacturing
element

55. Good design makes a product useful
Good design is honest

56. 1
2
3
PRODUCT
DESIGNERS
3D PRINTING
MODELLERS
EXPERIENCE
DESIGNERS
Retail shopping is not solely about the transactional experience
any more. It’s about going into a store, feeling the vibe of that
brand and getting that bigger lifestyle out of it.
Products are going to be less static in the future. If you walk into
a retail store, customers could customize their products to
whatever size they want, such as an oversize version.
The creative act of determining and defining a product's form and
features takes place in advance of the physical act of making a
product, which consists purely of repeated, often automated,
replication

57. A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist,
inventor, mechanic, objective economist and
evolutionary strategist.
Vivienne Westwood

58. 3.
Data
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
_______
Bringing meaning to everything we do

59. Data is new oil

60. Data Scientist
Considered to the sexiest job
of 21st century, requires a
mixture of multidisciplinary
skills.
It’s not about becoming a master of all, but learning and understanding statistics has a major
mileage in the near future
Industry
Knowledge
Machine Learning
Programming
Statistics

61. Data Scientist
A modern data
scientist is a good
story teller

62. Natural Language Processing
Specialist
Develop intelligent engines that can percept human language into text
and elevates existing automation mechanisms
Statistician + Domain
Expertise
Design and build statistical and mathematical models to understand and
predict diverse scenarios
Chatbot Designer
Develop engines that can understand intent and context and based on
which build creates meaningful conversation
Automation Ethicist
Evaluates the noneconomic impact of smart machines, both the upside
and downside.
Computer Vision Engineer
Develop models and logic on computer vision and perception primarily
used in defense, airports etc.
Machine Learning Programmer
Ability to write scripts to automate artificial intelligence programs based
on the needed intent
Few of the most
demanding and emerging
data science jobs..

63. Interestingly, there are tools
backed up significant research to
predict the risk of losing job due
to automation

64. WILL ROBOTS TAKE MY JOB?
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66. 2.
Entrepreneurship
_______
Search for change, responds to it and exploits it

67. The best way to predict future is to
create it – Peter Drucker

69. 7. Urban Design
6. Engineering
5. Finance
4. Artists and Designers
3. Data, AI and Robotics
2. Entrepreneurship
1. ?

70. 1.
Be a life long learner
_______
The future of job is bright, if you have the right attitude
and has a strong intent to learn new skills

71. Subscribe to extensive, world-
class online courses
and learning content in various
platforms

72. The three takeaways are..
Interdisciplinary is the key theme – How do we master in more
than one branch of knowledge?
Faster understanding and adoption of technology
Everyone is a problem solver

73. Thank you,
We’re more than happy to assist you further.
Drop a line to afzalib@emiratesnbd.com or
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75. We’re more than happy to assist you further.
Drop a line to afzalib@emiratesnbd.com or
futurelab@emiratesnbd.com
Thank you,