the ecommerce giant amazon hosted the firstever jobs fair of the future in the past week of november and invited over 100 secondary school students from london uk for an interactive session the students have showcased the top 10 ai jobs of the future and given demos on the future of work from industry leaders the event marked the launch of the alexa young innovator challengeayic the ayic is amazons new coding competition for children in the age group of 1318 years where they get to explore the potential of artificial intelligence ai and win prizes the students were invited to amazons shoreditch office in london to get firsthand exposure to the future ai jobs created to inspire and excite the upcoming generation of technologists in the event amazon showcased innovative ai and computer science jobs that would gain demand in the future including metaverse architects paramedic drone programmers ai sports coaches and environment protection agents the event was hosted by uk ambassador for amazon future engineer lauren kisser alongside youtuber and computing graduate tobi brown a member of the sidemen among others brown said that at a time when 25 of the 18yearolds are searching for career advice on youtube its important to share such information and motivate the next generation to consider careers in the tech and digital sectorsamazon also plans to host virtual class chats in schools across the uk where amazon leaders and current apprentices will reveal and share the insights from their educational and career journey in these chats the amazon leaders will discuss the future potential of ai with teachers and students this event was organised following the research report commissioned by amazon which revealed that 82 of secondary school teachers believed that their students would be highly interested in ai and computer science if they get a chance to speak to industry leaders in these sectors