 Artificial intelligence and developing digital technologies are performing tasks in the workplace and educational settings, changing the jobs we do and naturally transforming the future landscape of work and study. At Staffordshire University, future thinking is at the heart of their course offering and student experience. At the Olympic Park in East London, Staffordshire University London's Digital Institute is working with some of the biggest technology companies in the world to prepare students for the jobs of the future. And tailoring the student experience to the needs of future employers with access to world class facilities like this arena for esports events. Our course portfolio here is very much along the entertainment and digital technologies so esports, computer games design, alongside cyber security computer science and we have a new portfolio coming on board, virtual production, immersive entertainment technologies, fintech and other professional technologies, artificial intelligence and data science. We have an education pipeline coming from schools and colleges into university to study. That pipeline continues into the world of work so it's really important for our industry partners to see how students are learning, what they're learning. I'm Keller Watling and I'm doing a BA honours in esports. It's not really about like the playing of the games, it's more about the business side of things so setting up events, creating events, managing equipment, managing staff. All delivered in a real world setting. I don't see any classrooms. No, there's a reason for that. We have modelled our campus on a production house. We wanted to create a teaching and learning environment for students and for staff that better reflects how students are going to work in industry. So this campus has a feel of being a production zone, a production warehouse where we really do encourage students to create the uncreated. A number of years ago we set ourselves the ambition to be the leading digital university in the UK by migrating all of our services to the cloud and what that really did was it shifted our focus away from managing infrastructure, wiring etc and enabled us to focus on being creative, innovating and delivering new products for our students as well. So that was really exciting. We've been able to do things like launch the UK's first artificial intelligence driven digital coach. The Beacon app gives students and staff access to everything they need via a desktop or mobile phone. It'll even provide directions and uses machine learning to personalise the whole experience. Beacon really is a digital coach for all things Staffordshire University. But alongside digital technology the university is also transforming its physical space with state of the art facilities. We call it our clicks and mortar strategy. We always encourage students to engage in face-to-face delivery because there's something that you can get out of that but we always offer students the choice of being able to access things remotely as well so that blended mix is really important. And when coronavirus brought the country to a standstill the university's investment in digital technology paid dividends. By migrating to the cloud even before the pandemic we were using Microsoft teams to deliver some of our teaching and learning. We were so ahead of the curve that actually we were in contact with the Microsoft development team to help influence them in terms of how they developed it further. Those companies that had good digital skills have thrived, been able to reinvent themselves and pivot quickly to a very changing marketplace. So for our students making sure that they have strong digital skills is absolutely key. A commitment underpinned by three and a half million pounds of new investment in the Staffordshire University London's Digital Institute, increasing opportunities for students to work alongside big tech employers. Hi I'm Phoebe Greenwood and I'm studying my masters in e-sports. Here East is a really good digital complex so it's a really good place to begin that journey. I've already been approached by a team in London to do some work with them so yeah it's definitely a good place to be for you know getting those connections. Bigger, bolder and better I think it is key. So this is the first stage we've opened we are now committed to a considerable investments over three and a half million we're taking on two additional units here at the Here East campus and we're more than doubling in size. The right space in the right location for the cross-pollination of new ideas. Building on the Olympics legacy with the same kind of transformational thinking that's transforming the skyline of East London.