Let's talk robotics with Professor Hind Benbya

Joining me in today’s episode is Professor Hind Benbya. Hind is the Head of Information Systems and Business Analytics at Deakin University, Melbourne (Australia) and a visiting fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (UK). Prior to joining Deakin, she served as a Research Chair in Digital Business and Department Chair of IT and Innovation Management in Montpellier Business School (France) and worked as a consultant in IBM (Italy) and STMicroelectronics (Switzerland and Morocco). She has also served as a Visiting academic on the faculties of Cambridge Judge Business School (UK), The London School of Economics (UK), Georgia State University (USA), University of California, Los Angeles (USA), and Grenoble School of Management (France).

She received her Habilitation (Postdoctoral degree) from the University of Paris XI, a Ph.D. and a MSc from University of Salento (Italy), where she spent two years at the UCLA Anderson School of Management (USA) investigating how leading firms in the Silicon Valley use IT platforms to enable knowledge sharing, collaboration and innovation. She also holds a dual master’s degree from, ESSEC Business School and Aix Marseille University (France).

Prof Benbya is a globally recognized expert in the area of digital technologies and IT-enabled transformation and innovation. Her most recent research focuses on artificial intelligence, especially around human-robot interaction and the implications of automation via algorithms and robotics on work and organizations.

Prof. Benbya’s research has been published in several leading academic (e.g., MISQ, JMIS, JAIS, JIT) and practitioner journals, (e.g., MIT Sloan Management Review & MISQ Executive) and she is author and editor of four books. She has won numerous international awards and currently serves as a Senior Editor for both MISQ Executive, and the Journal of the Association of Information Systems. She is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Strategic Information Systems.

Prof. Benbya has provided executive education and consulting services to leading organizations in over 10 countries across four continents in the areas of digital business, crowdsourcing and innovation, analytics 4.0 and artificial intelligence to many companies such as HP, Cisco, Allianz, Sanofi, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Siemens, Avio.

To contact Hind email her at h.benbya@deakin.edu.au