Thanks to all the speakers and those who registered – please see the recording here and the master slides here. Many thanks to our keynote Joanne Wright (IBM VP) for her LinkedIn post after the event! After the keynote, the ISSIP-Business Expert Press partnership was highlighted by sharing the book “Breakthrough: A Growth Revolution” by Martin Fleming, former IBM chief economist – see book, short video, and press release.
ISSIP explores the Future of Expertise, at speed, scale, and complexity w IBM, Cisco, Resilinc, Waltz Health, NYU/Harvard, Aachen University
Sep 28: Wednesday, 9-11:30 am US Pacific Time (12 pm -2:30pm ET USA; 6pm-8:30pm CET),
Where: Virtual Event
Title: 2022 Discovery Summit: Future of Expertise – Part 2
Series: Discovery Summit Series, Contact: Michele Carroll (LI)
Industry struggles to hire the adaptive talent needed to keep up with accelerating change and to digitally transform operations and ecosystems. Universities struggle to successfully graduate increasingly diverse individuals with needed skills, experience, and mindsets to hit-the-ground-running and succeed, even as some question the need for a university education. Governments realize that the sustainable wealth of nations depends more than ever on high-skill, high-pay, highly-engaged workers within their borders. Simultaneously, individuals face a dizzying array of ‘opportunities’ to up-skill for more pay, but struggle to choose the best path for quality-of-life. New technologies and a host of disruptive and impending world events, only add to the complexity of this important topic – the future of expertise.
Together we’ll review findings of our advance poll, hear from IBM, Cisco, Resilinc and Waltz Health top executives and from thought leaders at the intersection of academia and industry in Europe (University of Aachen and Warwick University), the US (Harvard) and Canada (Simon Fraser University), and take on breakout discussion for deeper connection on key topics.
Sessions to include:
- Keynote Address, “Expertise in the Times of Digital Transformation,” Joanne Wright, SVP Enterprise Operations & Services, of IBM is leading the digital transformation of a corporate lifetime. How do you attract, retain, and grow the right team and individual expertise while undergoing a massive enterprise digital transformation? How do you form a business operations strategy that simplifies how your teams work and reduces everyday complexity? Learn how Joanne and her team are improving their operational capabilities, growing their skills, and radically simplifying how work gets done at IBM.
- Dr. Hila Lifshitz-Assaf of Warwick University/Harvard “Would anyone shout “Eureka” in 2032? The process of innovation and creativity in the Digital Age” In this talk, Prof Lifshitz-Assaf will share with us her groundbreaking research on the changing nature of expertise and its impact on the innovation process. This research suggests to question our underlying assumptions on how we organize for research and development and creative problem solving processes more broadly. She will describe her key findings from conducting field research with NASA, IRI and her new work to receive our thoughts and insights as well on what the future holds.
- Panel Discussion & Dialogue moderated by Terri Griffith, President of ISSIP and Keith Beedie Chair for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Simon Fraser University, with Bindiya Vakil, CEO of Resilinc, Warner de Gooijer, GIS Service Innovation Lead for Cisco, Sunil Kripilani, CTO of Waltz Health and Gerhard Gudergan, CEO Metropolitan Cities MC GmbH | Head of Research at FIR (Univ. of Aachen, GY)
- +a special pre-release offer for all participants from Martin Fleming, former Chief Economist of IBM, and author of, ‘Breakthrough: A Growth Revolution,’ which promises to be one of the most important books of 2022, coming out on Oct. 5, 2022.
ISSIP will publish a white paper to highlight key insights and learnings shared at this event, building on those of our first dialogue in this series, Discovery Summit “Future of Expertise – Part 1” (conducted on June 29th, click for info and white paper).
