Artificial Intelligence (AI) exploded in 2023.  You can hardly read an IT-related article, or have a discussion about technology, without referencing AI.  How are Universities responding to this new demand?  How are they changing their curriculum to train and educate towards these new skills?  What will this next generation of student expect from their future employers?  

SIM Member, Erran Carmel and his colleague, Gwanhoo Lee, are both professors at American University, Kogod School of Business and will help us answer some of these questions and more.  

Please join us on Thursday, February 22nd from 4:30 – 5:30 pm via Zoom to learn more and ask your questions.

Professor Carmel teaches Information Technology (I.T.). He is currently working on a number of research areas: Digital Health Passports; cybersecurity industry clusters; quantum industry clusters; the future of work. During the early decades of the rise of the global internet, Carmel studied the globalization of technology work and wrote three books in this domain. Carmel’s 1999 book "Global Software Teams" was the first on this topic -- and is considered a landmark in the field, helping many organizations take their first steps into distributed tech work. His second book "Offshoring Information Technology" came out in 2005 and became popular as outsourcing began to be taught in business schools around the world. His 2011 book is about the special issues that time zone separation imposes on global coordination of work. “I’m Working While They’re Sleeping: Time Zone Separation Challenges and Solutions” is co-authored with his AU colleague Alberto Espinosa.

He has written over 100 articles, reports, and manuscripts. He consults and speaks to industry and professional groups.


Professor Lee, Chair of the Department of Information Technology and Analytics, teaches digital leadership and strategy to undergraduate students and project management to graduate students. His primary research areas include digital innovation, digital transformation, digital health care, information privacy, cybersecurity, smart government, software development agility and complexity, and project management. He is an advisor to the South Korea's Presidential Committee on the Fourth Industrial Revolution. He has consulted for the World Bank and Samsung on digital strategy. He worked closely with IT executives from large U.S. organizations including 3M, American Red Cross, AMTRAK, Cargill, CSC, Deloitte, Freddie Mac, GAO, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, IBM, Marriott, Medtronic, Northwest Airlines, Pfizer, and World Bank. His research has been published in MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, European Journal of Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, Journal of Information Technology, Information & Management, Government Information Quarterly, Telecommunications Policy, Information Technology and People, Journal of Information Technology Management, and IEEE Pervasive Computing.