Discover how decentralization and AI
will dramatically reshape the way organizations function

June 11, 2024
4:30pm-8pm

Hosted by SRI
333 Ravenswood Ave.
Menlo Park, CA 94025

Reinventing the Enterprise: Our New World of Work

Reinventing the Enterprise:
Our New World of Work

Many of the ideas about how organizations are “supposed” to work emerged in the aftermath of the Industrial Revolution. Some go all the way back to the Bronze Age! In this session we will look at how AI and Decentralization are transforming the work experience and reshaping every aspect of the Enterprise.

This event is also a celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Post-Industrial Institute, which was incorporated on June 1, 2004. Join us for some goodies and deep thinking about how organizations are about to change in fundsmental ways.

We will explore:

         Wine, beer, sodas, and light appetizers will be served. 

5:30 pm: Welcoming Remarks
          Dr. Suresh Sunderrajan
          President, Commercialization, SRI

5:35 pm: Organizational Evolution: Past, Present, Future
          Lessons from 20 Years of Organizational Transformations
          Frode Odegard
          Founder & CEO, Post-Industrial Institute

6:00 pm: Presentations and Panel Discussion 

Moderator: Alison McCauley, Founder & CEO, Unblocked Future

New Research on AI and the Workforce
Heather Jerrehian
VP, Product Management, Employee Workflows
ServiceNow

Enterprise Decentralization Case Study
Dr. Mihir Parikh
Strategic Thought Leader
Nishith Desai

Super Productivity with AI Agents
Stefan Petzov
VP of Innovation and Partnerships
Swisscom Silicon Valley

7:30pm: Networking

8:00pm: Program Conclusion

:00:00Most of the ideas about how organizations are “supposed” to work emerged in the aftermath of the Industrial Revolution. Some go all the way back to the Bronze Age! In this session we will look at how AI and Decentralization are transforming the work experience and reshaping every aspect of the Enterprise.

This event is also a celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Post-Industrial Institute, which was incorporated on June 1, 2004. Join us for some goodies and deep thinking about how organizations are about to change in fundsmental ways.

We will explore:

         Wine, beer, sodas, and light appetizers will be served. 

5:30 pm: Welcoming Remarks
          Dr. Suresh Sunderrajan
          President, Commercialization, SRI

5:35 pm: Organizational Evolution:
                 Past, Present, Future
          Lessons from 20 Years of
          Organizational Transformations
          Frode Odegard
          Founder & CEO, Post-Industrial Institute

6:00 pm: Presentations and Panel Discussion 

Moderator: Alison McCauley, Founder & CEO, Unblocked Future

New Research on AI and the Workforce
Heather Jerrehian
VP, Product Management, Employee Workflows
ServiceNow

Enterprise Decentralization Case Study
Dr. Mihir Parikh
Strategic Thought Leader
Nishith Desai

Super Productivity with AI Agents
Stefan Petzov
VP of Innovation and Partnerships
Swisscom Silicon Valley

7:30 pm: Networking

8:00 pm: Close

Speakers

Dr. Suresh Sunderrajan
President, Commercialization, SRI

Suresh Sunderrajan brings over 25 years of experience and a passion for innovation at the intersection of technology and business. He focuses on developing SRI’s commercialization strategy and provides overall leadership for the institute’s commercialization efforts. Sunderrajan oversees SRI Ventures, Global Partnerships, the Nomura-SRI Innovation Center (NSIC), SRI Products and the Center for Innovation Strategy and 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 and a master’s degree in system design and management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sunderrajan holds more than 30 U.S. patents and has received the Distinguished Inventor Award at Eastman Kodak.

Frode Odegard
Chairman and CEO, Post-Industrial Institute

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

Alison McCauley
CEO,
Unblocked Future

Alison is Founder and CEO of Unblocked Future, a consultancy that drives adoption at the forefront of emerging tech, and has been working with pioneers in artificial intelligence since 2010. Her focus in on the human dimension of unlocking business value from transformative technology, and she has helped executives to navigate and inspire tech-driven change for over 20 years. Working at the nexus of the enterprise, disruptive innovation, and organizational change at the birth of many categories, Allison serves as a trusted advisor to both pioneers building new markets and the business leaders seeking to leverage new technology.

Alison is the author of international best-selling book Unblocked (published by O’Reilly Media, 2019), her articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Venture Beat. Over 90,000 students have taken her course created for LinkedIn, and she is a speaker at conferences around the world.

Heather Jerrehian
VP, Product Management — Employee Workflows
ServiceNow

Heather Jerrehian is the VP of Product Management for Employee Workflows at ServiceNow, leading the data science team in delivering next generation AI solutions and Workforce Intelligence products.  She is the former CEO of Hitch (acquired by ServiceNow) and has been a tech executive and serial entrepreneur for 20+ years, bringing an innovative and strategic approach for building new products and GTM strategies. 

Heather is a Founding LP for How Women Invest, and recently rang the closing bell at NASDAQ to kick off The New Table campaign to get 10,000 more women to the investment table.  Heather serves on Fast Company’s Executive Board and was named a Silicon Valley Women of Influence and Watermark’s Senior Executive of the Year.

Dr. Mihir Parikh
Strategic Thought Leader, Nishith Desai

Dr. Mihir A. Parikh is a Futurist and Strategic Thought Leader at Nishith Desai Associates—an India-centric global law firm. He leads the firm’s Research and Innovation as well as Strategic Legal Consulting practice from Silicon Valley office in Palo Alto, California. He helps companies understand and apply a strategic legal perspective to manage future business risks, defend competitive advantages, and create new growth opportunities. He also advises PE/VC firms in investment decisions and creating value for portfolio companies by integrating technology and law as strategic assets.

Additionally, Mihir heads the firm’s initiative of setting up PACER, a thought leadership center for the intersection of Technology, Law and Strategy. He is also an adjunct professor in the Management of Technology and Innovation department at New York University (NYU) and teaches in graduate programs. Mihir holds a Ph.D. in AI for Business from Georgia State University. His dissertation – Adaptive Decision Support Systems – investigated the efficacy of artificial intelligence (AI) in financial decision-making.

Stephan Petzov
VP Innovation and Technology
Swisscom Silicon Valley Outpost

Stefan Petzov is leading Swisscom’s Innovation Lab in Silicon Valley. In this role, he is responsible for identifying and evaluating new technologies and services. Stefan is also responsible for strategic innovation initiatives and works closely with the senior leadership to ensure that Swisscom is always at the forefront of innovation.

About the Post-Industrial Forum

For the first time in the history of humanity, we have exponential technology development coupled with massive decentralization. Rapid progress in Artificial Intelligence is further accelerating these trends.

We believe that humanity is experiencing a profound change, on an anthropological level. We are transitioning to a post-industrial civilization, and many industrial-era assumptions about jobs, organizations, and industries are becoming obsolete.

Brought to you by the Post-Industrial Institute in collaboration with industry and academic partners, the Post-Industrial Forum brings together leaders building the organizations of the future. Our purpose is to connect the dots and find smarter ways to navigate the changes now taking place.

Forum members build relationships with other pioneering practitioners, get introductions to invited speakers, enjoy  access to exclusive content and events, and participate in post-industrial management research and education.  Organizational members include Hyundai, MARA, Siemens, Broadcom, Swisscom, Tech Mahindra, and SRI.

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