ISSIP Discovery Summit: Future of Work Series: AI & Automation, May 12, 2021, 8-11 am US Pacific Time

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AI is increasingly being applied in use cases involving optimization, decision support, and automation. AI-powered systems are poised not only to assist, and augment human capacity in some cases, but also carry out routine to complex tasks in other cases freeing up human time for innovative tasks. This is already starting to change the future and nature of work humans do. While robotic automation has been prevalent in manufacturing industry for decades now, a new breed of autonomous systems are making their way into various domains ranging from autonomous vehicles, drones, automatic fruit pickers, biometric-based security systems, to business process automation. In this workshop, speakers from academia and industry shared their perspectives on the role of AI in driving automation and decision support. 

Agenda (US/Canada, PST time zone)
8:00 am- Welcome	ISSIP President, Ulf Vinneras (Aruba Networks, USA) ISSIP Executive Director, Yassi Moghaddam (ISSIP, USA) Welcome and Summary Slides
8:10 – Panel 1  Business Processes	Moderator opening, Rama Akkiraju (IBM, USA) Jerry Cuomo (IBM, USA), AI-Powered Automation Marlon Dumas (U Tartu, Estonia), On the road to AI-Infused Process Execution  Wil van der Aalst (U Aachen, Germany) , Why Did BPM Fail? Vik Sohoni (McKinsey, USA), Automation Practices Needed to Succeed
9:30 – Break (10 minutes)
9:40 –  Panel 2  Digital Twins & Future Trends	Moderator opening, Terri Griffith (Simon Fraser U, Canada)  Shaun West (Lucerne U, Switzerland), Digital Twin Enabled Services  Hausi Muller (U Victoria, Canada), Digital Twins as Self-Adaptive, Autonomic, Software-Intensive Systems Bob Cohen (Economics Institute, USA), AI and Economic Efficiencies In Manufacturing Erin Bishop-Rapacki (Robot Startups & Investing, USA), Digital Twins for Robots Training
11:00 – Closing	Event Whitepaper Author, Ralph Badinelli (Virginia Tech, USA) Event Chair/Contact, Jim Spohrer (IBM, USA)

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