6th Kids AI Camp: AI x Inclusion (Designing for All) for kids 7-15 and parents
Topic: Designing for All or "One size fits One"
We look at who a product leaves out and what that costs the business. We design with every user in mind, not the majority.
Agenda for the day
At 13:45, we gather at the Enabling Village.
Our 2nd learning journey is on building for a market other people skipped - led by a tour guide from Ludus Lab, empowering people with disabilities with tourism & hospitality jobs in Singapore.
At 16:30, we are back at the ACE Ideation Centre.
Ex-Microsoft Public Sector Director Rob Smith’s interactive masterclass "Different People, Better Products” (17:00 – 18:30) onsite at our venue.
An interactive workshop connecting different experiences with practical product choices. Participants will use their camp product ideas to ask who might find them difficult to use and how they could work better.
Speaker bio
Robert (Rob) Smith brings 22 years of experience in technology, including 12 years with Microsoft in Asia, where he held sales leadership roles across education and the public sector. Working across the region has given him an appreciation of the different cultures, perspectives and experiences that shape how people use technology.
More recently, a journey with his children led Rob to discover and better understand his own neurodiversity. Looking back, many of his past experiences, particularly how he learned, began to make much more sense. It has deepened his appreciation of how differently people can experience the same world and why choice matters.
In this interactive workshop, Rob will bring those perspectives together to explore a simple idea: different people help us build better products. Through discussion and a hands-on challenge, children and adults will identify barriers in their own product ideas, explore improvements and consider how AI can help, where it can get things wrong, and why human judgement remains important.
What children and adults will learn
Recognise how differences in thinking, communication, culture and circumstances can reveal needs a product team might miss.
Identify a barrier in a product and suggest an improvement for the people using it.
Explain how a better experience can help users and create business value.
Explore where AI can help, what needs checking and how people can stay in control.
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Networking dinner at 6.30 pm - 7 pm
Assel, the founder of EDUTech Future will close the Day 4 Kids AI Camp's topic on AI x Inclusion with the Masterclass: "How to make my school and community more inclusive?" based on Assel's work on school bullying prevention and child protection consultant at UNICEF, as a secondary school replacement teacher, and as a regional manager building a child's socio-emotional skills and well-being at Microsoft.
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Speakers:
Assel Mussagaliyeva-Tang
Robert Smith
Ludus Lab