Let's Talk: Digital - Exploring the brave new world of AI, Robotics in public service

1. Let’s Talk Digital: Robotics
Neil Keeler Group Manager People & OD
Phil Webster Robotics, AI & Technology Lead
Pepper Robot
Southend Borough Council

2. Session Outline
• The Drivers For Change - Phil
• What Southend is doing – Pepper
• Round Table exercise – Neil & Phil

4. Respect for the Aged Day
September 15th
JAPAN
1963 163
2014 29,357
2018 39,000

5. “Accept the proposition that
humans are not disabled. A
person can never be broken.
Our built environment, our
technologies are broken and
disabled.”
Hugh Herr
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

6. “As part of our social care
transformation programme
we wanted to do something
that genuinely was very
different to anything else
we saw out there,”
Sharon Houlden
Director of Adult Services and Housing

7. ROUND TABLE EXCERCISE

8. robotics@Southend.gov.uk
@PepperSouthend
Southend Borough Council
neilkeeler@southend.gov.uk
@Neilkeeler
Tel: 01702 215683