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#E4s - AI and the future of work: The promise and the challenge
Event by: TU Wien Innovation Incubation Center (TUW i²c)
Location: i2c Innovation Incubation Center, Taubstummengasse 11, Wien - Wieden
About event
Artificial intelligence is suggested to redefine the future of work and the way in which managers, employees, teams, organizations, and industries create and capture value. This technological disruption creates major opportunities as well as meaningful challenges. In this workshop, participants will be exposed to pioneering research on the use of AI for different types of knowledge work, both analytic and creative tasks.We will then learn whether, when and how to use AI to achieve the personal career goals of the participants as well as organizational goals. We will emphasize how to avoid the risks derived from using AI in the workplace while adopting it to enhance productivity and even creativity.
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About the speaker
Hila Lifshitz is a Professor of Management at Warwick Business School and a visiting faculty at Harvard University, at the Lab for Innovation Science (LISH). She is heading the Artificial Intelligence innovation Network at WBS.
Professor Lifshitz’s research focuses on developing an in-depth empirical and theoretical understanding of the micro-foundations of scientific and technological innovation and knowledge creation processes in the digital age. She explores how the ability to innovate is being transformed, as well as the challenges and opportunities the transformation means for R&D organizations, professionals and their work. Her recent work on AI for critical decisions the ISSIP Excellence in Service innovation award (2023) and two best paper awards (from the Management Information Systems Quarterly journal and from the Association for Information Systems, 2022). Her first field study was an in-depth 3-year longitudinal field study of NASA’s experimentation with open innovation online platforms and communities, resulting in a scientific breakthrough. This study received the best dissertation Grigor McClelland Award at the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) 2015, Best Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ) paper based on dissertation (2018) and Best published paper elected by organizational communication and information systems division of Academy of Management (2018).
She investigates new forms of organizing for the production of scientific and technological innovation such as crowdsourcing, open source, open online innovation communities, Wikipedia, hackathons, makeathons and AI based innovation processes. Her work received the prestigious INSPIRE grant from the National Science Foundation and was recognized to have a strong impact on the industry; She received the Industry Studies Association Frank Giarrantani Rising Star award and the Industry Research Institute grant for research on R&D.
Prior to academia, Professor Lifshitz worked as a strategy consultant for seven years, specializing in growth and innovation strategy in telecommunications, consumer goods and finance.
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This event is organized in collaboration with the Research Unit of Data Science and Service Unit of Center for Research Data Management
About the Entrepreneurship for Scientists Series
The Entrepreneurship for Scientists Series organized by the TU Wien Innovation Incubation Center (i²c) is targeting scientists who would like to enrich or develop a personal entrepreneurial skillset & business competencies, know more about opportunities how to navigate innovations from „the lab“ to society or who would simply like to engage in entrepreneurial thinking. These workshops are free of charge to scientists from all faculties and institutes of TU Wien. Registration required.
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