For the Love of Robots, in Singapore
In Feb 2019, I was invited to speak at the National University of Singapore. It was my first visit to Asia and really exciting. The AlumNUS wrote about it.
“Robots are not for everyone…” — These are not the words you expect to hear at a talk called For the Love of RobotsTM, much less see flashing on a presentation slide the disquieting image of a Terminator-like machine, which evokes a dystopian future where smart computers take over the world. Once she got the audience’s attention however, speaker Ms Janneke Ritchie — who has more than 20 years of experience in enterprise technology adoption — proceeded to dispel such fears and commonplace myths and also tackle the approaching reality of robots as co-workers.’