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Imperial Lates Online: Staying Connected
How can technology help us to feel closer to friends and family? Catch up with our events as we imagine a new interconnected future at Imperial Lates Online.
Explore the value, future and role of technology in maintaining human connections in our week-long digital celebration of science for adults as part of London Tech Week.
Join our debate on how lockdown has changed the future of work, put pen to paper to rediscover the value of snail mail in our creative postcard workshop, or see our special Reddit Ask Me Anything where you posed your questions to our Computational Privacy Group on the safety of track and trace systems.
Create your own version of our first Imperial Lates Online cocktail, the Butterfly Effect. Plus there are podcast interviews and more for you to enjoy at your leisure. Then immerse yourself in our Lates with our wonderfully eclectic Stayed Connected music playlist made with suggestions from you and our scientists!
Imperial Lates Online are most suitable for over 18s.
Imperial Lates Online: Staying Connected is supported by Huawei, Lead Technology Sponsor
Staying Connected events
The Butterfly Effect
A mind-bending twist on a lemongrass margarita. Designed with chaos theory in mind, this colour-changing cocktail reflects some of its core principles – demonstrating how one small change in initial conditions can create a significantly different (but just as delicious) outcome.
How safe do you feel on public transport?
Transport economist Laila Ait Bihi Ouali discusses designing safer transport systems after finding women are more likely to feel threatened and the effect this could have on their lives and careers.
How safe do you feel on public transport?
Lates TV
Re-inventing the supercomputer
Dr David Thomas talking about trying to create supercomputers that will deliver increased efficiency and energy savings.
Re-inventing the supercomputer
Creating supercomputers that will deliver increased efficiency and energy savings
Dr David Thomas talking about trying to create supercomputers that will deliver increased efficiency and energy savings.
Time for technologies to respect our psychological needs
Professor Calvo believes that tech needs to serve our psychological needs and here is why
We are exposed to technology in every aspect of our life. It makes things done faster, better and more efficient. However, Professor Calvo believes that technology needs to respect and serve our psychological needs and here is why.
Design Psychology: Technologies for good mental health
Dr Nejra van Zalk explores how we might design technologies to suit humans better
Dr Nejra van Zalk explores how we might design technologies to suit humans better, sharing examples of where technology has had an impact on mental health in both negative and positive ways.
Is your data private?
Using data while protecting privacy with Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye
Privacy, does it still matter? What can mobile phone data be used for? How do we safely use big data while moving forward? We live in a time when information about most of our movements and actions is collected and stored in real time. Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye discusses how traditional data protection mechanisms fail to protect people's privacy in the age of big data.