Innovation in Large Service Systems

Healthcare, Environment and Smart Living Executive Speaker Series

Carnegie Mellon University's Silicon Valley Campus at NASA Research Park

In the coming years we anticipate a diverse and rich set of technologies and systems that can sense and respond to the needs of the society in areas such as HealthCare, Environment, Energy and Green Living. We envision that such service systems will not only transform the way we live, but dramatically change the underlying services economy, manage our costs better and improve quality of life. Examples of such systems include healthcare service systems (e.g. remote home monitoring), smart regions, environmental sensor systems and traffic systems.

Carnegie Mellon University's Silicon Valley Campus, in collaboration with several academic and industry partners, held a successful Executive speaker series in 2009-2010 and a large year-end NIH workshop to address some of the challenges. The speaker series will continue through 2011 and beyond, and attract the best minds world-wide to present their real-world experiences and challenges involved in the design and delivery of service systems, infrastructures and futuristic smarter living environments.

The speaker series will bring a diverse group of participants: systems practitioners, design specialists, businesses and academia willing to engage in an open discussion on challenges in service systems and provide recommendations for future research and innovation. The Executive speaker series will be held once a month in 2011, and will culminate into a year-end International workshop on consumer well-being and services.

Primary Steering Group Members

Carnegie Mellon University, Silicon Valley Campus (Prof. Martin Griss, Director) - Founding Member
360Fresh, Inc (Dr. J. Sairamesh) - Founding member
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh and Silicon Valley (Dr. Jane Siegel)
Stanford University (Dr. Amar Das)
Columbia University and Medical Center, NY (Dr. Stanley Hum)
Nokia Research, Palo Alto (Dr. Umesh Chandra)
IBM Research, Almaden (Dr. Jim Spohrer)
SAP Research (Dr. Paul Hofman)
Kaiser Permanente (Dr. Fred Hosea)
UCSF (Sorena Nadaf)
ONC (Wil Yu)
NIH (Dr. Patti Weber)
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (Dr. Skip Garner)
West Wireless Health Institute (Dr. Steven Garverick)

The speaker series occurs monthly in Northern California, alternating the locations between Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley (NASA Research Park) and UC Berkeley. If you are unable to join us in person, talks are offered via live webcast [webcast access].