Members Only Roundtable
The COVID pandemic has only accelerated changes that were already in progress in the way we work, how we work and where we work. It has emphasized other aspects of our lives that depend on making a livelihood, such as where we live, how we balance work/ family/ personal priorities; what career paths will look like; how we collaborate with peers; whose work must be done in person vs done remotely, and who has access to the technologies that enable remote work; health and safety in the workplace; urban planning and even the redesign of our living spaces. There are also implications for business, which will have to accommodate these changes, and also new opportunities emerging that will change their strategic planning and growth.
In this webinar we will engage experts to share their insight from their research, their views on the trends that are now clearly emerging, and their advice on preparing for the future of work, of the workforce, and of the organizations of the future.
This webinar follows the Work of the Future @MIT webinar on April 29.
This event is for ILP Members, MIT community, and invited guests only. You can confirm your company's membership here: https://ilp.mit.edu/search/members or feel free to request an invitation to this event by sending an email to ask-ilp@mit.edu
Patrick J McGovern (1959) Professor of Management Founding Director, Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI) MIT Sloan School of Management
Thomas W. Malone is the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. At MIT, he is also a Professor of Information Technology and a Professor of Work and Organizational Studies. Previously, he was the founder and director of the MIT Center for Coordination Science and one of the two founding co-directors of the MIT Initiative on “Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century.” Professor Malone teaches classes on organizational design, information technology, and leadership, and his research focuses on how new organizations can be designed to take advantage of the possibilities provided by information technology.
For example, Professor Malone predicted, in an article published in 1987, many of the major developments in electronic business over the following 25 years, including electronic buying and selling for many kinds of products. Then, in 2004, Professor Malone summarized two decades of his research in his critically acclaimed book The Future of Work. His newest book, Superminds, appeared in May 2018. Professor Malone has also published over 100 articles, research papers, and book chapters; he is an inventor with 11 patents; and he is the co-editor of four books.
Malone has been a cofounder of four software companies and has consulted and served as a board member for a number of other organizations. His background includes work as a research scientist at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), a Ph.D. from Stanford University, an honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich, and degrees in applied mathematics, engineering, and psychology.
Thomas Lord Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Director, Microphotonics Center MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Lionel Kimerling is the Thomas Lord Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT and the Director of the MIT Microphotonics Center. After a PhD at MIT, he served as Captain in the USAF. He was Head, Materials Physics Research at AT&T Bell Laboratories when he joined the faculty of MIT as Professor. He has authored more than 550 technical articles, and he holds more than 75 patents in the fields of integrated photonics and semiconductor processing. At AT&T, he led the corporate-wide Silicon Materials R,D&M Technology Forum. At MIT, Kimerling was Director of the Materials Processing Center for 15 years, establishing it as the industry portal for faculty across all materials-related disciplines. The MIT Microphotonics Center brings together faculty from eight departments in the Schools of Engineering, Science, Business, and Humanities for large industry-sponsored research programs and the Communication Technology Roadmap (CTR). More than 300 industrial, academic, and government organizations have contributed to Roadmap releases, which are now merged under the Integrated Photonics System Roadmap, International (IPSR-I). Kimerling’s research teams have enabled long-lived telecommunications lasers; developed semiconductor inspection and root cause diagnostic methods such as DLTS, SEM-EBIC and RF-PCD; and pioneered silicon microphotonics.
Kimerling was President, TMS; Chairman, Editorial Board of the Journal of Electronic Materials; and he has served on the Advisory Board, National Center for Photovoltaics, DOE and the National Materials Advisory Board, NRC. Kimerling is the recipient of the ECS Electronics Division award, the TMS John Bardeen Award, the MIT Perkins Award for Excellence in Graduate Advising, and the Humboldt Senior Scientist Research Award. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, AAAS, TMS, MRS and the U Tokyo School of Engineering.
William B. Bonvillian began teaching science and technology policy MIT in 2007, and has also taught a course on innovation policy since 2017. Prior to this position, from 2006-17, he was Director of the MIT’s Washington, D.C. Office, reporting to MIT’s President. In this position he worked to support MIT’s strong and historic relations with federal R&D agencies, and its role on national science policy. He has assisted with major MIT technology policy initiatives, on energy technology, the “convergence” of life, engineering and physical sciences, advanced manufacturing, online higher education and its "innovation orchard" project on startup scale-up. Prior to that position, he served for seventeen years as a senior policy advisor in the U.S. Senate. His legislative efforts included science and technology policy and innovation issues. He worked extensively on legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security, on Intelligence Reform, on climate change, on defense and life science R&D, and on national competitiveness and innovation legislation leading to the America Competes Act in 2007.
Debbie Phillips, President of WFD Consulting, is responsible for client strategy and global business development world-wide. Including her consulting and business development roles she also successfully managed the strategic direction for the American Business Collaboration, a collaboration of companies dedicated to creating and implementing solutions to improve employees' ability to integrate work and personal responsibilities. Debbie has over 30 years experience in work-life consulting and dependent care and has been with WFD Consulting since 1996.
Debbie works with clients globally in the areas of collaboration management, strategic thinking, strategic planning, work-life strategy, dependent care strategy, dependent care solutions, multigenerational workforce, new ways of working, women's advancement, mentoring and flexibility. Debbie has also strategically guided research and implemented solutions for the American Business Collaboration companies on key business issues such as child care and elder care, multigenerational workforce, business travel, the dispersed workforce and the current focus on new ways of working in a global economy. In addition, Debbie has guided the development of products and services that directly impact the recruitment, retention, engagement and productivity of critical and high potential talent. Debbie's clients include Abbott Laboratories, AT&T, CBIZ, Deloitte, ExxonMobil, Fidelity, GE, General Mills, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Lucent, Merck, MetLife, Pfizer, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Prudential Financial, Singapore Employer Alliance, Texas Instruments and Wyeth.
Prior to joining WFD, Debbie owned and operated a child care business for ten years and worked for the Massachusetts Office for Children licensing child care and writing regulation and policy for child care, adoption, residential care and foster care. She is past-President of the Boston Association for the Education of Young Children. Debbie received her undergraduate degree in Early Childhood Education from Wheelock College and a master's in Management from Cambridge College.
Ben Langis is currently the Head of the Workplace of the Future and Senior Vice President at State Street. In this capacity he is responsible for designing and defining the end-state vision and strategy of how the company’s workplace will operate across technology, human resources, its real estate portfolio, and other areas of impact globally.
Prior to his current role, Ben served as the Chief of Staff to the Chief Operating Officer of State Street. Ben joined State Street in 2012 and has led a number of global transformation, organizational design, and analytically-based initiatives across the firm in many different roles. These roles mainly focused on using operational delivery data to generate client insights through the application of advanced and predictive analytics and data visualization.
Before joining State Street, Ben was a management consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton where he focused on corporate strategy, quantitative modeling, and valuations. Previous to Booz, he worked for a boutique investment bank doing mergers and acquisitions and served five years in the U.S. Navy as an officer in the submarine force.
Ben is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics. He earned a Master of Business Administration from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and a Master of Policy Management from Georgetown University where he was selected as a Bryce Harlow Fellow.