Terri Griffith, Ph.D., ISSIP President, 2022

Terri Griffith holds the Keith Beedie Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business. She spent two decades in the Silicon Valley and in 2012 was honored as a Woman of Influence by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Terri helps people and organizations accelerate performance and prepare for the futures of work. More…

Utpal Mangla, ISSIP Vice President, 2022

Utpal Mangla (MBA, PEng, CMC, ITCP, PMP, ITIL, CSM) is General Manager, Industry EDGE Cloud; IBM Cloud Platform, at IBM where he is responsible for driving EDGE Cloud use cases and offerings across all industries.  He is also a member of IBM’s Industry Academy, Industry Services Talent Ecosystem growth & 5G EDGE Acceleration teams.   More...  

Jim Spohrer directs IBM’s open source Artificial Intelligence (AI) efforts.  Previously at IBM, he led Global University Programs,  co-founded Almaden Service Research, and was CTO Venture Capital Group.  After his MIT BS in Physics, he developed speech recognition systems at Verbex, an Exxon company, before receiving his Yale PhD in Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence. More

Yassi Moghaddam is the Executive Director of International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP).  In this capacity, she has been leading the organization to catalyze industry-academia collaboration in cutting-edge research, best industry practices, and innovative educational models focused to prepare businesses and individuals for  the fast-changing world of work. More…