September 11, 2023 Berkeley Innovation Forum Open Innovation Journey Henry Chesbrough, Solomon Darwin, Jim Spohrer https://corporateinnovation.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/BIF-Fall2023-7.28.23.pdf Pre-Event: Monday, September 11, 2023 at The CITRIS Innovation Hub UC Berkeley, 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, MC 1764 7:45pm - 8:30pm 8:45pm Fireside Chat: The Open Innovation Journey - Moderated by Henry Chesbrough Henry Chesbrough Faculty Director, Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation, UC Berkeley Olga Diamandis Former Disney, Smuckers, Mattel, P&G Executive Jim Spohrer Former Exec: IBM, Distinguished Scientist at Apple, Director of IBM AI Nitin Narkhede General Manager, Emerging Technologies and Innovation, Wipro Bus pick-up to Hotel Shattuck Plaza Henry Chesbrough is a professor at the Haas Business School, UC Berkeley, and faculty director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation. An internationally acclaimed author, Dr. Chesbrough’s Open Innovation concept was first introduced in his award-winning book, Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology (2003). When he coined the term Open Innovation, he defined an approach that companies around the globe now use to innovate. Today, Chesbrough works directly with companies through Garwood’s programs to apply the principles of Open Innovation, and he continues to refine our understanding through his research and books. Olga Diamandis is the senior manager at TE Connectivity. Previously, she served as principal technical architect at the Walt Disney Company. She also worked as principal scientst of innovation & knowledge management at The J.M. Smucker Company. Before that, she served as senior manager of Open Innovation at Mattel. She also has experience as a manager of global business development at Procter & Gamble, alongside a previous managerial role at Nestle. Jim Spohrer previously served as IBM Director of Cognitive OpenTech - which includes open source AI/ML/DL - as well as director of IBM’s deep question-answering system Watson. Prior to that, he worked as a Distinguished Scientist in Learning Research at Apple Computer, Inc. where he developed SK8, Educational Object Economy - an open source learning object community - as well as WorldBoard which served as a vision for Planetary Augmented Reality system. Nitin Narkhede is General Manager of Emerging Technologies and Innovation at Wipro Technologies. He is responsible for the development of new services and solutions based on emerging trends and technologies at Wipro. Nitin has been in the forefront of a number of technology and business model transitions during his 20 years of work at Wipro. Prior to his current assignment, he managed Wipro’s e-Business Solutions Practice in the Americas. Nitin has over 23 years of experience in the technology industry spanning IT strategy and planning, information systems and software product development, technology strategy and innovation management.

1. Fireside Chat:
The Open
Innovation
Journey
September 11, 2023
Jim Spohrer <spohrer@gmail.com>
(https://www.linkedin.com/in/spohrer/)

2. Jim Spohrer is a Silicon Valley-based Advisor to industry, academia, governments,
startups and non-profits on topics of AI upskilling, innovation strategy, and win-
win service in the AI era. Most recently with a consulting team working for a top
10 market cap global company, he contributed to a strategic plan for a globally
connected AI Academy for achieving rapid, nation-scale upskilling with AI. With
the US National Academy of Engineering, he co-led a 2022 workshop on “Service
Systems Engineering in the Era of Human-Centered AI” to improve well-being.
Jim is a retired IBM Executive since July 2021, and previously directed IBM’s open-
source Artificial Intelligence developer ecosystem effort, was CTO IBM Venture
Capital Group, co-founded IBM Almaden Service Research, and led IBM Global
University Programs. In the 1990’s at Apple Computer, as a Distinguished Engineer
Scientist and Technologist, he was executive lead on next generation learning
platforms. In the 1970’s, after his MIT BS in Physics, he developed speech
recognition systems at Verbex (Exxon) before receiving his Yale PhD in Computer
Science/AI. In 1989, prior to joining Apple, he was a visiting scholar at the
University of Rome, La Sapienza advising doctoral students working on AI and
Education dissertations. With over ninety publications and nine patents, he
received the Christopher Lovelock Career Contributions to the Service Discipline
award, Gummesson Service Research award, Vargo and Lusch Service-Dominant
Logic award, Daniel Berg Service Systems award, and a PICMET Fellow for
advancing service science. Jim was elected and previously served as Linux
Foundation AI & Data Technical Advisory Board Chairperson and ONNX Steering
Committee Member (2020-2021). Today, he is a UIDP Senior Fellow for
contributions to industry-university collaborations, and a member of the Board of
Directors of the International Society of Service Innovation (ISSIP) and ServCollab.
Jim Spohrer, Advisor
Retired Industry Executive (Apple, IBM)
UIDP Senior Fellow
Board of Directors, ServCollab
Board of Directors, ISSIP.org
Changemaker Priorities
1. Service Innovation
2. Upskilling with AI
3. Future Universities
4. Geothermal Energy
5. Poverty Reduction
6. Regional Development
Competitive Parity
Technologies
1. AI & Robotics
2. Digital Twins
3. Open Source
4. AR/VR/XR
5. Geothermal
6. Learning
Platforms

3. The big news about IBM’s Open Innovation Journey
happened 555 days after I retired – Jan 6, 2023!
IBM (now VP) will give you the up-to-date IBM story
Tomorrow, 804 days after I retired – Sept 12, 2023!

4. “Jim from IBM”
as Story Jukebox
Prompt (to OpenAI DALL-E 20230911):
Please create a painting of an old classic jukebox
with many musical images coming out of it as stories,
more in the style of Van Gogh
1. Inner Sourcing and IBM’s Open Innovation Community (Bill Higgins)
2. Focus from Patents to Open Innovation (Dario Gil)
3. Red Hat Acquisition (Arvind Krishna)
4. IBM Watson, Linux Foundation & Open Source AI (Todd Moore, Chris
Ferris, Brad Topel, Jeffrey Borek, Vijay Bommiredipalli, Animesh Singh,
Susan Malaika, Jim Spohrer)
5. IBM Watson, Cognitive Build & Cognitive Enterprise Jam (Ginny
Rometty)
6. Global University Programs, T-shaped Skills & ”If nothing changes,
nothing changes” (Nick Donofrio)
7. Service Science & T-Shaped People (Jim Spohrer, Henry Chesbrough,
Paul Horn, Nick Donofrio, Paul Maglio, Dianne Fodell, Wendy Murphy)
8. Global Innovation Jams (Mike Wing)
9. Smarter Planet, Globally Integrated Enterprise, IBM VC Relations
Group (Sam Palmisano, Jon Iwata, Gerry Mooney)
10. Linux (Linus Torvald, Irving Wladawksy-Berger)
11. Java Educational Objects, SONIA Alliance, Apple-IBM Kaleida, SK8,
EOE, WorldBoard , Squeak, (John Wolpert – IBM, Jim Spohrer, Ruben
Kleiman, Mark L. Miller, Don Norman, Alan Kay – Apple)
12. From Mainframe (Hardware & Software) to IT Outsourcing Service
(Lou Gerstner)
13. IBM PC – Open Architecture Standard (Don Estridge)
14. IBM Relational Databases and SQL (Edgar Codd)
15. Origins of Computer Science (Thomas J. Watson, Sr., Benjamin Wood)