Terri Griffith, Keith Beedie Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Simon Fraser University; 2022 ISSIP President The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP) is pleased to recognize several outstanding volunteers' contributions during 2024. The ISSIP “Above and Beyond” honor highlights…
Congratulations to all the 2024 ISSIP AI Collab (Academic-Industry Collaboration Lab) students for earning an ISSIP Digital Certificate! Students can add the ISSIP Digital Certificate to their LinkedIn profile by following the instructions here. PSU George Lueckenhoff (LI) (DC), Shaurya…
APPLY HERE to nominate a colleague, team, project, or organization for ISSIP Excellence in Service Innovation Award Deadline for Submission: 11:59 pm PST, Dec. 31, 2024 The ISSIP Excellence in Service Innovation Award is given once each year to a company or organization…
Paul Timmers (EU), Hiro Hamada (Japan) and Lee Nackman (US) to Join Kazuyoshi Shimada (Japan) and Christine Leitner (CEPA) ISSIP announced three distinguished panelists for the third and final event in the 2024 AI Impacts on Democracy event finale Wed…
Exploring the Positive Impacts & Opportunity of AI for Global Democracy The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP), the global non-profit advancing Service Innovation for our interconnected world (ISSIP) is hosting a series of panel discussions in 2024, to…
Our congratulations to ISSIP 2024 Vice President Nicole Reineke on achieving her 100th US Patent in just four years. Says Nicole, “I am profoundly grateful to work at companies that cherish creativity and actively support patent filings. I’m equally thankful…
ISSIP is proud to have members attending, participating and impacting the July Event. The 2024 Human Side of Service Engineering (HSSE) Conference is organized within the framework of the International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE) as an…
What is an AI Digital Twin of a person? Watch as Reid Hoffman's AI digital twin interviews himself. Read more about AI digital twins here. Congratulations to all the 2024 ISSIP AI Collab (Academic-Industry Collaboration Lab) students for earning an…
IESS is one of ISSIP’s priority conference sponsorships annually. In 2024, Jim Spohrer, our co-founder and board director spoke at the pre-conference events and workshops, delivered a keynote talk and assisted with judging best papers. Below are full proceedings of…
The 2023 ISSIP ICServ Prospective Research Award are awarded to: Title: Do gestures make robots more empathetic?: Exploring artificial empathy, helpfulness, and social connectedness Authors: Shintaro Okazaki (LI) (DC), Tan Viet Tuyen Nguyen (GS) (DC), Oya Celiktutan (LI) (DC) Title:…