ISSIP Speaker Series: Digital Service Innovation Research and Practice
Deadline:  April 15, 2018

ISSIP will soon be starting a new weekly speaker series called “Digital Service Innovation Research and Practice” to spur more collaboration in our community.  The goal of these calls is to help align academia research, where possible, with industry needs to promote and scale digital service innovation. In these speaker series, we aim to showcase research from the ISSIP academic community and top-tier students to ISSIP Institutional Members, and to introduce the research needs of our Institutional Members to our academic community.

Here are the details:

Format: 20 minutes presentation, 10 min Q&A

Calls will be recorded, and slides and recording will be available through the ISSIP website.

All speakers will be recognized on the ISSIP website, through LinekdIn and Twitter, as well as ISSIP Newsletter, and ISSIP Board calls. Surveys relative to specific topics may be sent to ISSIP members and in turn, shared with ISSIP members.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• The role of technological advances such as bots, AI, intelligent assistants, IoT, Cloud, Cognitive, and more in digital service transformation.
• Mitigating biases in AI systems.
• Digital Transformation, best practices, challenges, and opportunities, in business and verticals including healthcare, transportation, education,  government, education, energy, etc.
• IoT Services, and service framework architecture for various verticals (healthcare, transportation, energy, agriculture, industrial internet, education, and more)
• Data strategy and digital service innovation  
• Servitization of manufacturing
• Servitization of IT and B2B
• Servitization in various verticals (healthcare, transportation, energy, agriculture, industrial internet, education, and more)
• Blockchain and its impact on service innovation
• Blockchain and healthcare
• Economics of as-a-service vs traditional offerings in both ICT and non-ICT sectors
• The  digital worker, and personnel implication
• The digital worker and technological implications
• New skills needed for current/future roles
• New ways of thinking of workforce strategies…full-time employees, contractors + digital workers…how do you manage each holistically and separately?
• Liquid workforce
• Platforms, ecosystems, APIs.  
• Service Innovation, a people-centered smart framework for digital transformation and future of work
• Digital worker in the innovation ecosystems
• And more….

If you are a research faculty or scientist this is a great way to explore collaboration with industry and other research faculties.  If you are an industry expert, this is a great way for you to guide academic research toward applications areas important to your business, and explore collaboration with research faculty and student entrepreneurs.
If you would like to be considered as a speaker, please send a short abstract of your topic, along with your name, affiliation and title  to issip@issip.org with the subject line: “ISSIP Speaker.”