AI as a Service Series

AI as a Service Series
Chair – Cecilia Lee
Next Event: May 20, 1pm PT – Jim Spohrer Interview – (register here)
Upcoming event
When: Wednesday, May 20th, 2026
Time: USA PT/ET 13:00/16:00, Europe CET 22:00 CET, Asia Singapore 7:00
Chair: Cecilia Lee (ISSIP Ambassador)
Speaker(s): Jim Spohrer
All those interested in “AI as a Service” are invited to the kick-off event of a series of interviews, panels, talks. Cecilia has asked Jim Spohrer to kick-off the series and to answer the following questions:
– What is your definition of AI-as-a-Service?
– How can we understand this concept from a value co-creation perspective?
– How AI practitioners see this and how this concept may manifest within an organisation that is going through a rapid transformation driven by AI?
– AI-as-a-Service enables and accelerates innovation vs. enables a seamless AI integration into organisations and helps them build AI-centered strategic competence?
– The evolution of AI in business and our society so far, and how it is related back to the concept of AI-as-a-Service, value co-creation and AI smart service ecosystem?
Jim will also provide his perspective on Bek (2026) Services: The New Software in the AI era.

