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With Suresh Sunderrajan (President Commercialization, SRI), Deepam Mishra (Generative AI Innovation Leader, Amazon AWS), Jim Spohrer (ex-Dir. Open Source AI, IBM Research), Pandian Angaiyan (CTO, Tech Mahindra), Frode Odegard (CEO, Post-Industrial Institute).

	SRI, 333 Ravenswood Ave, Menlo Park
	Jun 28 (Wed) , 2023 @ 05:00 PM
	$35

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About the Post-Industrial Forum
Operated by the Post-Industrial Institute in collaboration with industry partners, the Post-Industrial Forum focuses on how to navigate the transition to a decentralized post-industrial economy & culture. Forum attendees & speakers include senior executives, investors, founders, & policymakers.

Decentralization, AI, & the Future of Firms
The decentralization of work inside & outside firms is accelerating. 40% of workdays now take place from the home, & more than half of millennials are doing full-time or part-time freelancing. AI platforms are enabling a new generation of applications which will provide freelancers & startups with super-productivity. This will accelerate the pace of technology disruption in virtually every industry.

AI will not only change how we work, it will affect how we link organizations together, how we do strategy, & how we build new products & services. The Internet & smartphones have already made it possible to create & rapidly scale extremely valuable micro organizations, & progress in AI will move us closer to autonomous firms. Transformation efforts are themselves in need of a transformation, as large organizations strive to innovate faster.

We will discuss:

Transformation challenges in Global 2000 companies
What will super-productivity look like?
AI's impact on transformation strategy
Organization structures for faster transformation
How large firms can mobilize their people with AI
Building micro-organizations
How will AI affect organizational culture?
Program
5:00 pm: Reception, networking

Enjoy wine, beer, sodas, sangria, & light appetizers

5:45 pm: Presentations

Opening Remarks

Dr. Suresh Sunderrajan, President, Commercialization Group, SRI International

Post-Industrial Transformation Strategies

Frode Odegard, Chairman & CEO, Post-Industrial Institute

100 x Knowledge Worker Productivity

Dr. Jim Spohrer, Fmr. Director, Open Source AI, IBM Research

How AI is Remaking Organizations

Deepam Mishra, Generative AI Innovation Leader & Strategic Advisor, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Skills & Talent for Building the Future

Dr. Pandian Angaiyan, CTO, Tech Mahnidra

7:00 pm: Panel Discussion, Audience Q&A

8pm: Program Conclusion

Speakers
Dr. Suresh Sunderrajan, President, Commercialization Group, SRI International

Suresh Sunderrajan brings over 25 years of experience & a passion for innovation at the intersection of technology & business. He focuses on developing SRI's commercialization strategy & provides overall leadership for the institute's commercialization efforts. Sunderrajan oversees SRI Ventures, Global Partnerships, the Nomura-SRI Innovation Center (NSIC), SRI Products & the Center for Innovation Strategy & Policy (CISP).

Previous to SRI, Sunderrajan was Associate Laboratory Director for Advanced Energy Technologies at Argonne National Laboratory. He earned a doctorate in chemical engineering from North Carolina State University & a master's degree in system design & management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sunderrajan holds more than 30 U.S. patents & has received the Distinguished Inventor Award at Eastman Kodak.

Deepam Mishra, Generative AI Innovation Leader & Strategic Advisor, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Deepam has over 15+ years of AI/ML leadership experience in startups & large enterprises. He has founded 4 AI/ML startups, was the CEO/founder of Venture Factory & has had several leadership roles in enterprise innovation. At AWS, Deepam is a Sr Advisor to AI/ML Startups & leads several programs related to startup-scaling, generative-AI & joint innovation. In this role Deepam advises some of the world's leading AI/ML startup founders as well as Enterprise AI leaders on how to bring AI into production.

Deepam has five US Patents & a large number of publications, including one that earned him an IEEE Most Referred Paper of The Decade Award. He has a BSEE from IIT, MSEE from Texas A&M & an MBA from The Wharton School.

Dr. Jim Spohrer, Fmr. Director, Open Source AI, IBM Research

Jim Spohrer is a retired industry executive (Apple, IBM), now serving on the Board of Directors of ServCollab (Serving Humanity Through Collaboration) & ISSIP (International Society of Service Innovation Professionals). At IBM, Jim served as Director for Open Source AI/Data, Global University Programs, IBM Almaden Service Research, & CTO at IBM Ventures. At Apple, he achieved Distinguished Engineer Scientist Technologist (DEST) for authoring & learning platforms. After MIT (BS/Physics), he developed speech recognition systems at Verbex (Exxon), then Yale (PhD/Computer Science AI).

With over ninety publications & nine patents, awards include AMA ServSIG Christopher Lovelock Career Contributions to the Service Discipline, Evert Gummesson Service Research, Vargo-Lusch Service-Dominant Logic, Daniel Berg Service Systems, & PICMET Fellow for advancing service science. In 2021, Jim was appointed a UIDP Senior Fellow (University-Industry Demonstration Partnership).

Dr. Pandian Angaiyan, CTO, Tech Mahindra

Dr. Pandian Angaiyan heads the technology office for Tech Mahindra's Technology Business as CTO based out of San Jose office. He has three decades of experience in incubating & leading computing businesses based on niche technologies, which gives him the right tools to lead disruptive digital transformation initiatives for Tech Mahindra's customers.

In his previous role, he has lead the Cloud Innovation Business for a global consulting company where he has played the role of Cloud Transformation Partner for several customers, helping define their cloud strategy, building a minimum viable products & eventually transforming them into full- fledged solutions. He also incubated & built platform based Cloud services group & established High Performance Computing Practice' with integration & acquisition of niche technological expertise & provided a differentiating solution benefiting major customers. Dr. Pandian has two decades of experience in various computing technologies starting from embedded systems all the way to hyper scale architectures.

Dr. Pandian has a Ph.D., in symbolic & numeric computational algorithms for real time applications from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore & has a Masters of Technology in Computer Engineering from Mysore University, India.

Frode Odegard, Chairman & CEO, Post-Industrial Institute

Frode studies how enterprises, investors, & policymakers can best navigate the transition to a post-industrial civilization & economy. He is the founder of the Post-Industrial Institute, which provides advisory, educational, & strategic services to corporates & investors to help them turn disruption into opportunity. Frode is also the founder of the Post-Industrial Forum, a global community formed to develop & promote a better understanding of the post-industrial transition & how to navigate it. Its members include investors, executives, founders, & policymakers.

Frode is the author of a forthcoming book on the post-industrial transition & regularly speaks to international corporate & investor audiences. A serial entrepreneur since his high school years, Frode's multi-disciplinary background stretches from theoretical computer science to the boardroom. He has a passion for history, linguistics, disruptive technologies, philosophy, & Iwama-style Aikido.