Hosted by ISSIP, and sponsored by San Jose State University (SJSU) Lucas Graduate School of Business, and Cisco, ISSIP Discovery Summit, Future of Work in The Digital Age, was held on Nov. 13-14, 2017, in Santa Clara, California, USA. During this 2-day by invitation-only working Discovery Summit, experts from IBM, Cisco, Accenture, National Science Foundation (NSF), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Stanford, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, San Francisco State University, and more… explored how organizations, as service systems, are redefining work and preparing their workforce for the challenges and opportunities of the future.
Monday, Nov 13, 2017
- Introductions, Context and Scope – Yassi Moghaddam, Executive Director, ISSIP & Heather Yurko, Lead Future of Work, Employee Engagement, Cisco Systems, view presentation.
- Alex Kaas – Labs Fellow, Accenture Technology Labs – Accelerating Competence; Amplifying Collaboration, Leveraging Community, and Accessing Crowd: The impact of digital technology on the future of work, view presentation
- Faith LeGendre – Business Outcome Strategist, Cisco Systems, Fellow, Aspen Institute; Aspen Institute First Mover Fellow Project at Cisco: Overview & Observation, view presentation
- Rama Akkiraju, Distinguished Engineer, IBM; What does work look like in building AI services?, view presentation
- Martin Kenney, Distinguished Professor, Department of Human Ecology, U.C. Davis; The Platform Economy and the Future of Work, view presentation
- John Zysman, Professor, Political Science, Co-Director, Berkeley Roundtables on International Economy (BRIE), U.C. Berkeley; The Platform Economy and the Future of Work, view presentation
- Alexandra Medina Borja, Cognizant Program Officer, Work at the Human-Technology Frontier: Smart Service Systems, NSF; The Future of Work at the Human-technology Frontier: opportunities and challenges for research and education, view presentation
- Yasunori Kimura, Principal Fellow at Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), and Fellow, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.; JST’s perspective on Super Smart Society, view presentation
- Jeanette Blomberg, Principal Research Staff Member, IBM Research; Cognition in Practice: Aligning machine analytics with everyday work practices, view presentation
- Jeff Saperstein, Career Transition Coach, San Francisco State Adjunct Professor, Author, Consultant; Platforms of Innovation for “The Interconnected Individual”, view presentation
Tuesday, Nov 14, 2017
Define What We Would Like To Be Able To Do
- Martha Russell – Executive Director, mediaX , and Senior Research Scholar, The Human Sciences Technology Advanced Research Institute, Stanford University, view presentation
- Summary of major themes from all the discussions of the past 2 days. view presentation