MyTShape Series
2026-09-09 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The second Wednesday of the Month at 9am PT “3. MyTShape Series” also known as “T-Shape Development – ISSIP Speaker Series” (register)
Series Topic and Hosts
On 2nd Wednesday of each month, all those interested in T-Shaped Development are invited to this series of interviews, talks, and panels. Jim Spohrer and Lou Freund are co-hosts. The kick-off agenda included a discussion of the purpose of the series, introduction of attendees, review of candidate upcoming talks, and brief presentation of AI-Powered MyTShape.com development platform, and exploration of user community growth goals, and possible open-source developer community growth goals. Jim and Lou are compiling representative publications of future speakers in the series. Each speaker will include a brief discussion of past work, as well as future goals and plans for the community to know about and potential help each with in the spirit of give-get-grow community development. This ISSIP Speaker Series is a platform for all those interested in T-Shaped professional research, education, and practice.
Co-Chairs: Lou Freund and Jim Spohrer
Designed as a forum for the global T-shaped research and publishing community for sharing their activities, and learning about the MyTShape.com platform in the process. Each event will feature expert speakers, with moderator, allow discussion and last one hour.
September 9, 2026:
Francesco Caputo – A T-Shaped Model for Rethinking Higher Education Programs

Quarterly Welcome of New Participants
2026-10-14 05:00 - 05:30
On Wednesday October 14th, new ISSIP participants are invited to join a zoom meetings to introduce themselves to each others. All ISSIP participants are also welcome to join to meet new participants. Everyone is welcome to share their give-get-grow professional development plans, whether its to give as a volunteer service role, get new skills or knowledge, or grow a larger network of colleagues. The host will be Vaishali Mane, ISSIP Quarterly Welcome Event Leader, along with Jim Spohrer, ISSIP Co-founding Board Director and Michele Carroll, ISSIP Executive Director.
When: Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Time A: 5am PT, 7am CT, 8am ET, 14:00 CET, 21:00 Singapore
Time B: 5:30pm PT, 7:30pm CT, 8:30pm PT, 2:00 CET, +1day 9:00 Singapore
All who register will be sent recording link after the event.
Zoom link will be emailed out 30 minutes before event.
Register here >

Discovery Summit 2026
2026-10-21
Topic: Perspective on Responsible AI and the Future of Work and Skills.

When: Wednesday, October 21, 2026
Start Time: 7:30am PT, 9:30am CT, 10:30am ET, 16:30 CET, 22:30 Singapore
Speakers, panelists, discussants, etc

Welcome
Christine Ouyang
Event Chair
ISSIP Vice President
1st Hour
Perspective on Responsible AI and the Future of Work and Skills

Parminder Jassal

Kevin Clark

Kyle Shannon

2nd Hour
Creating a Future We All Want: Building Resilient Communities
David Bray Zoom link will be emailed out 30 minutes before event.
All who register will be sent recording link after the event.

AAAI Fall Symposia
2026-11-06 - 2026-11-08 | Arlington, VA
The AAAI Fall Symposium series is usually held on the east coast during late October or early November. The series affords participants a smaller, more intimate setting where they can share ideas and learn from each other’s artificial intelligence research.
Topics for the symposia change each year, and the limited seating capacity and relaxed atmosphere allow for workshop like interaction. The Fall Symposium series is usually held on the east coast during late October or early November.

International Conference on Industry of the Future and Smart Manufacturing
2026-11-10 - 2026-11-14 | Venice, Italy
About The Event
The International Conference on Industry of the Future and Smart Manufacturing (ISM) is a yearly open forum fostering the smart culture and exploring the transformative impact of digital technologies characterizing the 4th industrial revolution across the full breadth of economic sectors.
The manufacturing community is leading a series of world-class breakthroughs driven by the convergence of physical and digital spaces, operational excellence and human-automation symbiosis that are intimately changing the profile and behavior of socio-technical ecosystems at all levels of public and private sectors.
To support this transition, ISM promotes the cross-fertilization of multidisciplinary knowledge bringing together a global community of eminent academics, research innovators, professionals, leaders and policy makers committed to build more efficient, agile, safe, sustainable and ethical systems; encourages the dissemination of the latest scientific advances, research results and industrial stories to strengthen the theoretical base of Industry 4.0/5.0; and provides a stimulating ground for business-to-science cooperation opportunities.

MyTShape Series
2027-03-10 09:00 - 10:00
The second Wednesday of the Month at 9am PT “3. MyTShape Series” also known as “T-Shape Development – ISSIP Speaker Series” (register)
Series Topic and Hosts
On 2nd Wednesday of each month, all those interested in T-Shaped Development are invited to this series of interviews, talks, and panels. Jim Spohrer and Lou Freund are co-hosts. The kick-off agenda included a discussion of the purpose of the series, introduction of attendees, review of candidate upcoming talks, and brief presentation of AI-Powered MyTShape.com development platform, and exploration of user community growth goals, and possible open-source developer community growth goals. Jim and Lou are compiling representative publications of future speakers in the series. Each speaker will include a brief discussion of past work, as well as future goals and plans for the community to know about and potential help each with in the spirit of give-get-grow community development. This ISSIP Speaker Series is a platform for all those interested in T-Shaped professional research, education, and practice.
Co-Chairs: Lou Freund and Jim Spohrer
Designed as a forum for the global T-shaped research and publishing community for sharing their activities, and learning about the MyTShape.com platform in the process. Each event will feature expert speakers, with moderator, allow discussion and last one hour.
March 10, 2027:
Marialuisa Saviano – A T-Shaped Model for Rethinking Higher Education Programs
