1. COTTAGE INDUSTRY 2.0
Team name: Cottage Invention
Team leader: Martin Seneviratne
Team members: Adrian Wong
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

2. THERE & BACK AGAIN
INDUSTRIAL-SCALE FARMING
LOCAL AGRICULTURE
LOCAL ORGANIC
FARMING
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3. LOCAL REVOLUTION
Affluent, well-educated urban
people now choose this:
2020 VISION
The same industrial-to-local
shift will happen for the tech
industry
How will this affect
the workplace?
Locally-grown, community-based food
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4. In 2013:
...is designed by guys in Palo Alto
Technology & software
used all over the world
...and built in a handful of industrial centres
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5. In 2020:
The workplace will be all about a new generation of
COTTAGE INDUSTRY
...for technology!
The tech industry will be dominated not by corporate giants....
but by individuals working in personalised ‘cottage’ workplaces
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6. COTTAGE WORKPLACES
Computer programming will be Developers will build hardware
simple: a drag-and-drop task themselves with 3D printing
Everyone can be an entrepreneur
THE DREAM JOB
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7. EDUCATION
How do we tailor an education system for an
entrepreneurial, community-focused workplace?
We build an entrepreneurial,
community-focused education system! 1
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8. EDUCATING ENTREPRENEURS
DREAM EDUCATION
science + business
innovation-focused
development training
Already: startup accelerators
are popping up in universities
This model will permeate
down through all layers
of the education system
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9. EDUCATING ENTREPRENEURS
We want to equip school kids with the same mentality &
sense of opportunity as a developer in Silicon Valley
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10. COMMUNITY EDUCATION
DREAM EDUCATION
preserves local identity
built to address local issues
in a globalised world
CONCLUSION
Education in 2020 ENTREPRENEURIAL + COMMUNITY-ORIENTED
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