
Dr. Jim Spohrer is a member of the advisory board at the Post-Lean Institute. He is also the Director of Cognitive Open Technologies at IBM, which include open source intelligence augmentation (IA), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL). Previously, he was Director of IBM Global University Programs and IBM’s Cognitive Systems Institute Group.
Jim co-founded IBM’s first Service Research group, ISSIP Service Science community. He was the founding CTO of IBM’s Venture Capital Relations Group in Silicon Valley. In the 1990’s, he was awarded Apple Computers’ Distinguished Engineer Scientist and Technology title for his work on next generation learning platforms.
Early in his career, Jim was a senior scientist at Verbex, an Exxon company, working on speech recognition and machine learning.
Jim’s current team and system building focus is T-shaped innovators working to rebuild rapidly from scratch digital cognitive systems for smarter/wiser service systems.
With over ninety publications and nine patents, Jim is also a PICMET Fellow and a winner of the Evert Gummesson Service Research award as well as the S-D Logic award. Jim is also the Chairperson of the Linux Foundation AI, Technical Advisory Council. He has a doctorate in Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence from Yale and a BS in Physics from MIT.