Practical Ethics for Tech Teams

Full-Day Tutorial (6 hours)

It’s time for our industry to take ethics seriously.

Timetable

9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Monday 4th

Audience

Product managers, designers, software engineers, leaders

Key-Learnings

  • Practical ways to anticipate ethical risks that accompany new technologies.
  • Tools, games, and approaches for teasing out unintended consequences and identifying externalities that may fall on hidden stakeholders.
  • Strategies and tactics to reposition ethics as not only the heart of new product development, but a lasting competitive advantage for their teams.
  • Knowledge of common pitfalls in ethical reasoning.
  • How to set incentives and targets that protect users, while also achieving meaningful business objectives.

Practical Ethics for Tech Teams is an intensive workshop on ethics in digital product development and design, run by Cennydd Bowles, a leading designer at the forefront of the tech ethics movement. Learn about the fundamental principles of contemporary ethics, use them in lively debates about emerging technology, and apply what you’ve learned through practical, hands-on exercises and games.

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