THE FUTURE OF WORK IN THE DIGITAL AGE WILL BE DISCUSSED IN PORTO

More than 150 speakers from 30 countries will debate, next September 19 and 20, during a world labor congress in Porto, the impact of entrepreneurship, robotics and artificial intelligence in labor law. 

On the table of the second edition of "International Labour 2030" will be topics such as work on technological entrepreneurship and startups, the impacts of robotics, artificial intelligence and new technologies, new forms of work and intellectual property, industrial relationships and environmental impacts, the impacts of ageing of the population and oncological diseases at work, new trends for transnational collective negotiation and the future of labor law in the European Union.

Promoted by the Law Academy, in partnership with the Lawyer Society Nuno Cerejeira Namora, Pedro Marinho Falcão & Associados, the Association of Young Juslabolistas and Cielo laboral - Comunidad para la Investigación y el Estudio Laboral y Ocupacional, the congress proposes to "contribute for the discussion about the future of work in the search of solutions to the problems and potentialities posed by the new age”.

Confirmed at the event – this year entitled "Labour 2030 – Work Innovation, Are You Ready? The Future Digital. And it’s On!” – there are more than 150 speakers from more than 30 countries, being expected around 500 participants to discuss the future of work at Alfândega do Porto.  

Among the international participants are Catherine Barnard (Cambrige University), Pascal Lokiec (Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne Universsity), Guy Davidov (Hebrew University from Jerusalem), Matthew Finkin (Ilinois University, EUA), Lourdes Mella Méndez (Santiago de Compostela University), Philippe Pochet (European Trade Union Institute), Rüdiger Krause (Gottingen University), Frank Hendrickx (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium) e Denis Pennel (World Employment Confederation).

From Portugal, the main topics will be guided by José João Abrantes (New University of Lisbon), Catarina Carvalho (Portuguese Catholic University), Maria Rosário Palma Ramalho (University of Lisbon), Teresa Coelho Moreira (University of Minho) e Maria Regina Redinha (University of Porto).