The automation of ‘knowledge work’ brings major changes to companies and alters the way we understand work itself. What will the workplace of the future look like once humans and machines interact on a cognitive level? As we redefine our perception of the division of labour, what role will the managers of the future play?
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Richard STRAUB
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Founder and President, Global Peter Drucker Forum, Vienna | | | |
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Rahaf HARFOUSH
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Digital Anthropologist and Author, Red Thread Inc., Paris | | | |
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Marc TEERLINK
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Chief Business Strategist, IBM Watson Group, New York | | | |
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Andreas TREICHL
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Chairman of the Management Board, Erste Group Bank AG, Vienna | | | |
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Julia KIRBY
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Senior Editor, Harvard University Press; Author, Only Humans Need Apply, Cambridge | | | |
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Founder and President, Global Peter Drucker Forum, Vienna
| 1984-1987 | Director, PC Sales IBM Austria
| 1987-1992 | Director, PC Unit, IBM Austria
| 1993-1994 | Assistant General Manager, PC Marketing, IBM EMEA
| 1994-1995 | Regional Director, PC IBM Central Europe and Russia
| 1996-1997 | Director, IBM Global Marketing and Sales Institute, Belgium
| 1997-2001 | Chief Learning Officer, IBM Global Sales and Distribution Group
| 2001-2005 | Director, Learning Solutions, IBM EMEA
| since 2006 | Associate Director, Corporate Services EFMD
| since 2006 | Senior Adviser, IBM Global Education Industry
| since 2006 | Senior Adviser to the Chairman, IBM EMEA
Reader, Department of Computer Science, University of Bath
| 1986 | BA in Behavioral Science, The College of the University of Chicago
| 1986-1988 | Sole technical employee, Lawrence I Schulman & Co. / First Options of Chicago
| 1988-1991 | Project Leader for automating the exchange-floor staff, A M Investors, Chicago
| 1992 | MSc in Artificial Intelligence, The University of Edinburgh
| 1999-2000 | Research Assistant, Human Communication Research Center, University of Edinburgh
| 2000 | MPhil in Psychology, The University of Edinburgh
| 2001 | PhD in Computer Science, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| 2001-2002 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Primate Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge
| 2002-2010 | Lecturer B (Assistant Professor), Department of Computer Science, University of Bath
| 2007-2009 | Visiting Research Fellow, Methods and Data Institute, University of Nottingham
| 2007-2009 | Resident Faculty and Hans Przibram Fellow, The Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Vienna
| 2010 | Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Oxford University
| since 2010 | Reader (Associate Professor), Department of Computer Science, University of Bath
| 2011-2013 | Visiting Research Fellow, Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, University Mannheim
Digital Anthropologist and Author, Red Thread Inc., Paris
| 2004-2006 | Bchelor of Arts, Business Administration and Management, Ivey Business School at Western University, London (Ontario)
| 2006 | Exchange Program, Media & Communications, HEC - Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Paris
| 2006 | Research Analyst & Media Strategist, New Paradigm Learning Corporation, St. Petersburg (Florida)
| 2006-2008 | Research Analyst & Project Manager, Hotspex Market Research, Toronto
| 2008-2009 | Indipendent Consultant
| 2009-2011 | Associate Director, Technology Pioneers, World Economic Forum, Geneva
| since 2012 | Founder, Digital Foresight & Innovation Strategist, Red Thread Inc., Paris
Chief Business Strategist, IBM Watson Group, New York
| since 1982 | Professional Freelance Photographer
| 1986-1994 | Managing Consultant, Global Bank, Emerging Market Start-Up Manager, Big Five Consulting Firm'
| 1995-1997 | Sales & Marketing Manager US West Coast; Transformation Manager, AT&T
| 1997-2001 | Director Europe, Relationship Technologies, BI & CRM, Teradata
| 2001-2002 | IBM Internal Sales Transformation Team Executive, IBM
| 2003-2004 | Executive Principal IBM Internal Sales Transformation, IBM
| 2004-2007 | Business Intelligence Practice Partner Nordic, IBM
| 2007-2010 | Analytics Consulting Leader West & South Europe, IBM
| 2010-2014 | Global Strategist, Big Data Analytics & Optimization, IBM
Chairman of the Management Board, Erste Group Bank AG, Vienna
| 1975 | Master's Degree in Economics, University of Vienna
| 1976-1977 | Trainee programmes at Citibank, Morgan Stanley and Brown Brothers Harriman, New York
| 1977-1994 | Various management positions at Chase Manhatten Bank in New York, Brussels, Athens and Vienna
| 1994-1997 | Member of the Management Board, Erste oesterreichische Spar-Casse, Vienna
| 1997-2008 | Chairman of the Management Board, Erste oesterreichische Spar-Casse, Vienna
Senior Editor, Harvard University Press; Author, Only Humans Need Apply, Cambridge
| | Julia Kirby is a senior editor at Harvard University Press, focused on helping research-based books by scholarly authors reach broad audiences and influence current thinking. She joined HUP after a fifteen-year career at Harvard Business Review, where she worked with hundreds of management thinkers over the years to bring their ideas to practitioners across sectors of the economy and all around the globe. Her newest book, with Tom Davenport, is Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines (Harper Collins, May 2016). She also coauthored (with Chris Meyer) the 2012 book Standing on Sun: How the Explosion of Capitalism Abroad Will Change Business Everywhere, praised by The Financial Times as one of the best business books of its year. Prior to HBR, Julia worked in the management consulting industry, producing and packaging insights on emerging technologies, strategy, marketing, talent management, and leadership. |
