SSIP Ambassadors Annual Meeting - Round1 and Round2 Host: Christine Ouyang, ISSIP Ambassador Lead (https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-ouyang/) Round1 = Asia Friendly Time - Tuesday October 24, 2023 8pm ET/5pm PT) Round2 = Europe Friendly Time - Wednesday October 25, 2023 (9am ET/6am PT) ISSIP Ambassadors https://issip.org/about-issip/community/ambassadors/ ISSIP blog - where we hope ISSIP Ambassadors will contribute an article in 2024 https://issip.org/blog/ Example Christine on Edge Cloud: https://issip.org/edge-computing-what-it-is-and-what-its-future-holds-for-us/ Example Utpal on 5G: https://issip.org/5g-and-future-of-communications/ Or if they lead an ISSIP Supported Conference with Best Paper Awards Example ICServ: https://issip.org/2023-icserv-conference-awards/ Example HSSE: https://issip.org/2023-hsse-conference-best-paper-awards/ See conferences here: https://issip.org/2023-upcoming-conferences/ Self-Nomination - ISSIP Ambassador of the Year 2023 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfBMV1h7_9BLPi3IvdSV88UgtATnisGXy9z3YpEbV84KgPkAw/viewform Recording_Round1: https://youtu.be/zT7XR-KCOr0 Recording_Round2: https://youtu.be/-D8jtrcjhtQ Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/issip/20231024-issip-ambassadors-annual-callpptx GenerativeAI_Blog_Drafts: https://www.slideshare.net/issip/issip-ambassadors-20231023-v1docx

1. ISSIP Ambassadors Annual Meeting
We recognize and support the
development of people-centered,
data-intensive innovation that benefits
people, business, and society.
www.issip.org

2. A Fireside Chat with Jim and Michele
Jim Spohrer
Board Secretary/Treasurer
ISSIP
Michele Carroll
Executive Director
ISSIP
Christine Ouyang
Ambassador Lead
ISSIP
Host
IBM CONFIDENTIAL | October 2023

4. 4
ISSIP Board of Directors
ISSIP Strategy Council
ISSIP Executive Leadership Team
Utpal Mangla *
President, ISSIP
General Manager IBM
Industry EDGE Cloud;
IBM Cloud Platform
Linkedin
Michele Carroll *
Executive Director,
ISSIP
Founder & President
Carrollco Marketing
Services
Linkedin
Jim Spohrer *
Board Secretary/
Treasurer, ISSIP
Distinguished Fellow
IBM, Retired
Linkedin
Cecilia Lee
Editor-in-Chief, ISSIP
Service Design Lead
OneWeb
Linkedin
Deb Stokes *
VP and SC co-chair - ISSIP
Leader External Research,
Office of the CTO, Dell
Technologies
Linkedin
Dr. Jeffrey Welser
COO & VP, IBM
Research
Linkedin
Ammar Rayes *
Principle Technology
Product Mgr – DNAC &
AI
Cisco
Ammar Rayes (LI)
Yasunori Kimura
Principal Fellow at Center
for Research and
Development Strategy
Japan Science &
Technology (JST)
Linkedin
Yassi Moghaddam
*
Executive Director &
Lecturer, HCI Program
UCSC Silicon Valley
Linkedin
Haluk Demirkan *
Head of Science for
Demand Forecasting,
Data Analytics & Machine
Learning, Amazon
Linkedin
Annie Hardy *
Senior Visioneer
Cisco
Linkedin
Sunil Kripilani *
CTO
Waltz Health
Linkedin
Warner de Gooijer *
Global Lead Innovation &
Incubation
Cisco
Linkedin
Nicole Reineke
Co-founder, CTO
Shift.ai
Linkedin
PK Agarwal
Dean UC Santa Cruz,
Silicon Valley Ext
Linkedin
Rama Akkiraju
VP AI/ML for IT,
NVIDIA
Linkedin
Gerhard Gudergan*
Metropolitan Cities
Nathan Tymann
Director, Workforce
Planning & Early Talent
Red Hat
Linkedin
Alex Kaas
Fellow & Principal
Director
Accenture Labs
Ulf Vinneras
VP Service Product
Management
Aruba Networks
Linkedin
Heather Yurko *
VP, Digital Talent +
Terri Griffith *
Beedie Chair, Innovation &
Entrepreneurship
Simon Fraser University
Linkedin
‘*’ ISSIP Executive Committee

5. VOTE by Oct 31st for ISSIP Vice President 2024
(who will become ISSIP President 2025)
Vaishali Mane
Consultant, Senior Product Analyst
Mauricio Manhaes
Service Design Consultant
Human-Center AI Solution
Nicole Reineke (LI)
Founder SHIFT5.ai

6. Nominate Your Team + Spread the Word
APPLY HERE to nominate a colleague, team, project, or organization for
ISSIP recognition in 2024, for Excellence in Service Innovation
Deadline for Submission: 11:59 pm PST, Dec. 31, 2023
Call for NOMINATIONS -- ISSIP 2024
Excellence in Service Innovation Awards

7. Call for Actions
• Complete the ISSIP Ambassador 2023 annual survey in 5min
• Watch the replay: Discovery Summit - Tech for Good
• Please vote for ISSIP VP 2024
• Nominate ISSIP 2024 Excellence in Service Innovation Award
• Self-nominate for ISSIP Ambassador of the Year Award
• Please join the ISSIP Slack channel
• Please join the ISSIP Group on LinkedIn
• Get the introduction to ISSIP here
• Get the ISSIP zoom background here
Questions? Contact
Christine Ouyang
couyang@ibm.com
Ambassador Lead, ISSIP

8. ISSIP Discovery Summit: Tech for Good Recap
The event "Tech for Good" was held on September 27th
After keynote address by Carlotta Arthur of the National Academies of
Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, great panel conversation among:
Moderator - Event Chair, Deborah Stokes of Dell Technologies and ISSIP
Vice President
Vanita Wells, VP, Customer & Inventory Operations (Reality
Labs), Meta
David Lee – Director Tech for Good Lab at Baskin Engineering
School, UC Santa Cruz
Renee Yao – Global Lead, Healthcare AI Startups, NVIDIA
Nicole Reineke, Founder & CTO, SHIFT5.ai

9. Celebrate 70+ Ambassadors
connecting to 40+ professional organizations
since 2013
Congratulations!
ISSIP 2024
Ambassadors
Vaishali Mane
Mauricio
Manhaes
Melissa
Cefkin
Jens Neuhuttler
Jay
Kandampully
Laura
Anderson
Gwatirera
Javangwe
Bert Painter
Javier
Busquets
Kevin Clark

10. Generative AI
• Share your experience with ChatGPT or another GenAI
app?
• How are you leveraging AI at work or at home for
improving productivity?
• Ethical AI: Tech for good

11. Call for Actions
• Complete the ISSIP Ambassador 2023 annual survey in 5min
• Watch the replay: Discovery Summit - Tech for Good
• Please vote for ISSIP VP 2024
• Nominate ISSIP 2024 Excellence in Service Innovation Award
• Self-nominate for ISSIP Ambassador of the Year Award
• Please join the ISSIP Slack channel
• Please join the ISSIP Group on LinkedIn
• Get the introduction to ISSIP here
• Get the ISSIP zoom background here
Questions? Contact
Christine Ouyang
couyang@ibm.com
Ambassador Lead, ISSIP