NAACSOS – http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/naacsos/Call for participation Workshop on: 16 Sep 2013 Application deadline: 1 March 2013 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION – ESSA@work 2013 ———————————————————————– Are you currently working on a social simulation project AND want to discuss your work-in-progress? Then you might want to attend the ESSA@work workshop during the ESSA 2013 conference. ESSA@work invites all modellers …

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Designing a System That Works Some 75 million young people around the world are unemployed, yet most employers say they cannot find enough qualified candidates for entry-level jobs. What skills will help young people find work, and what is the most effective way of delivering them? A new McKinsey report finds that employers, education providers, …

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The 2013 Annual Meeting of the Service Management and Science Forum A Joint Meeting of the Art & Science of Service, the Service Operations Management Forum of EurOMA and POMS College of Service Operations August 4-6, 2013 Harrah’s, Las Vegas, NV Theme: Customer Centricity Meeting Announcement: The Service Management and Science Forum is a truly …

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Crowdfunding Many attendees at the first annual Next Generation Entrepreneurship and Global Crowdfunding Forum at Santa Monica on Nov. 16 saw crowdfunding as the clearest path to an economic comeback. One of the distinguished speakers, Howard J. Leonhardt, founder of the California Stock Xchange, predicted: “Crowdfunding will bring the grandest expression of human creativity and …

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Viral Videos That Matter Leading thinkers from around the globe will gather in London this March for the inaugural Global Grand Challenges Summit. They will brainstorm worldwide collaborations for addressing some of our planet’s most pressing issues…and you could earn the opportunity to be a part of it. The US National Academy of Engineering, with …

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GSN Weekly Update: 4 December 2012 Services & Trade News/Events  China overtaking USA as global trader. Brazil GDP grows at half forecast pace as investment, services dives. EU challenges require fundamental solutions with fiscal, energy unity: Mature economies need more trade in services; ‘China threat’ may reflect their own problems. Exponential growth in Asia-Pacific trade flows …

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ENGINEERING ACADEMIES IN US, UK, AND CHINA ANNOUNCE GLOBAL GRAND CHALLENGES SUMMIT Washington, DC, November 14, 2012 – The US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) today announced a major international summit to explore new approaches for solving some of the world’s most pressing challenges. The summit, to be held in London on March 12-13, 2013, …

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The International Society for Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP), a global non-profit consortium of industry, academia and governments has launched a research project to co-develop curricula guidelines for all forms of education in service with educators, government agencies and industry representatives around the world. As a first step in this project we have produced a brief …

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University Venture Fund USA has 23 million unemployed and 3.7 million unfilled jobs. According to a survey earlier this year of over 38,000 employers in 41 countries, 34% of companies worldwide reported finding it hard to fill open positions. If you ask, employers are more than happy to provide a laundry list of capabilities that …

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Machines are getting faster and algorithms better, so how might this help unlock more opportunities for the creative teams in society? If you haven’t read “Race Against the Machine” read this first, then read the eBook… http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/2012-winter/53208/winning-the-race-with-ever-smarter-machines/ Augmented teams of people are able to solve complex problems more rapidly… http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/24/science/scientists-see-advances-in-deep-learning-a-part-of-artificial-intelligence.html “This is a really breathtaking …

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