Ambition: Tech that fights workplace ageism

Piyachart Phiromswad studies technological, social and economic ways to unleash the power of a globally aging population.

From exoskeletons and robotic arms to the mass adoption of remote work, learn more about how these tools could empower elderly workers and better the world — for everyone.

What is senior employment technology?

It is a technology that can be used to reduce or remove physical and cognitive barriers for work for senior citizens. Like people wearing glasses today, which we use to erase or remove our vision problem, senior employment technology is something that we can use to transform senior employment from scarcity to abundance.

Why you should listen

Economist Piyachart Phiromswad is a professor at the Sasin School of Management at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. With more than a decade of experience teaching executive education, he has developed a program around "responsible transformation," a discipline to help leaders prepare for the demographic, economic and environmental disruptions ahead.

At the heart of responsible transformation is a recognition that while companies need to adapt to survive, they must also — and can! — do so without disregarding the survival of others and society.

Phiromswad particularly focuses on disruption as it relates to senior citizens, those living and working in developing countries and small and medium-sized enterprises. He was a winner of the 2022 TED Idea Search.