Our third year Events Management students took part in a Futures Conference at the end of November. A panel of speakers included alumni, academics and practitioners from a range of industries including Comedy Producer Toby Jones, Alumni Cerys Butcher who is working as a Technical Apprentice at Adlib Audio and Teresa Moore, Director of A Greener Festival. Students asked the questions and gained great insight into the opportunities and challenges the panel are facing in relation to issues such as Brexit, technology and sustainability. The following week Dr John Baruch gave a lecture to students, sharing the complexity of the 4th Industrial Revolution and how to embrace the drivers of a new economy that will be dominated by robotics and sustainability; it all starts with education.