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AI Collective


AI Collective

WHERE OUTSOURCING AND GBS LEADERS WORK OUT AI 

AI is changing how outsourcing and global business services get bought, delivered, and governed, and most organizations are figuring it out as they go. The IAOP AI Collective gives practitioners a place to do that together. Led by Chief Architect Alex Rochlitz, founder of ScaleX, and an executive board drawn from enterprise buyers, providers, advisors, and law firms, the Collective meets monthly in virtual workshops built around real deployments and the decisions behind them. Between sessions, members keep the conversation going on a private discussion board.

The questions on the table are the ones landing on sourcing leaders’ desks right now. How do you price a contract when automation is doing a growing share of the work? What should governance look like once agents are making decisions inside a process? Which pilots are worth scaling, and how do you tell? Members bring what they’re seeing in their own organizations, and the Collective turns those experiences into shared knowledge the whole community can use. Over time, the program will grow to include an online portal, podcasts, and in-person retreats.

All IAOP Professional members can join the Collective. Corporate members have the opportunity to take on leadership roles, and provider corporate members will have additional ways to bring their tools and expertise to the community.

 

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Founding Executive Directors

Leadership:

  • Alex Rochlitz, Founder, ScaleX (chief architect)
  • Debi Hamill, Chief Executive Officer, IAOP
  • Kim Maneeley, Chief Operating Officer, IAOP

Thought Leaders:

  • Alice LaViolette, Vice President, Global Business Servies Strategy & Development, The Clorox Company
  • Mauricio Odovaine, COP, Global Head of Strategic Sourcing, Meta
  • Neil Hirshman, COP, Founder, Hirshman Strategies LLC
  • Emma Flett, Partner, Technology & IP Transactions, Kirkland & Ellis International LLP
  • Max Harris, Partner, Technology & IP Transactions, Kirkland & Ellis International LLP
  • Shael Roopchand, Senior Director, Corporate and AI Strategy, Avasant
  • Mark Voytek, COP, Chief Advisor of Thought Leadership, IAOP and Founder, Voytechnology Partners
  • Michael Nacarato, COP-GOV, Senior Director and Head of Third-Party Risk, Transamerica
  • Neda Parnian, PhD, Founding Board Member, The Security and AI Institute

 

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