Junaid is a mathematician turned educator. He has spent over a decade working on innovative learning technologies, reaching students of all ages and abilities from around the world. Junaid has a DPhil in Mathematics from Oxford and a Masters in Education from Harvard, where he studied as a Kennedy Scholar. He once earned fleeting fame as a Countdown series winner. Junaid is currently working with bestselling science author Simon Singh on developing the world’s largest online maths circle, parallel.org.uk.
In his talk, he will argue that there are several areas of intelligence where we have the crucial edge over machines - including in mathematics. We often hear about the threat posed by intelligent machines, but Junaid will suggest that we should not ‘surrender to our robot overlords...’ but celebrate the remarkable system of thought developed by humans over millennia.