3.3.2021 at 17:00 - 19:00 (online)

“Digital society and career competences of PhD graduates”

The digital society is all around us. Bitcoins, Artificial intelligence and robotics are parts of our lives in the economic, social and political and governmental area. There is no career without knowledge about these developments. Working in governmental administration or business also requires knowledge about the ethical and legal aspects of the digital communication and applications that connect systems and people all over Europe and the world. What are the consequences for the PhD graduates of today, how do they deal with this and did they miss introduction into those developments during their doctorate studies?

In this PhD career café we will hear three interesting presentations. Professor of practice Rob van den Hoven van Genderen will give an introduction to the European ethical and legal requirements concerning AI.
Titta Jylkäs (PhD, senior service designer at frog) will talk about her experiences in “AI and Service Design: Immersing into a new field as a designer".
Linus Schaaf (PhD, senior service designer at Volkswagen commercial vehicles) will share his expertise about “Human-centered, accelerated decision-making by application of digital co-creation”, using 10X-Service Design Lab as an example.

Want to know more about our alumni? See these videos:
• Titta Jylkäs
• Linus Schaaf

The meeting will be held online via Microsoft Teams. As the event is arranged with support from the project ‘Working life cooperation in strategic doctoral training’, getting the meeting link will require registration. You can sign up by Friday 25th of February via this registration form
In the same registration form, we welcome questions to the presenters and ideas for future café meetings.

The career café is organized by the Graduate School of ULapland, in co-operation with Working life cooperation in strategic doctoral training - project (funded by the European Social Fund). These career café meetings are a place for discussing and raising awareness of the vast career possibilities of doctoral degree holders. The online meetings are here to support our doctoral students in developing career thinking and planning in the following areas:
• recognizing and strengthening useful skills for PhD careers
• identifying versatile career opportunities
• supporting networking among doctoral alumni, doctoral students, and stakeholders in business life as well as in academia