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Digital Social Matching in Professional Life - CANCELLED

LocationKanslerinrinne 1, 33100 Tampere
Paavo Koli -hall, Pinni A 1st floor
Date20.3.2020 8.00–12.00
Registration deadline: 16.3.2020,10.00
LanguageEnglish
Entrance feeFree of charge
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How to select the right people for the right tasks? How could data analytics help make good social matching decisions? Why are ecosystems, platforms, data APIs and human-AI collaboration important here?

WHILE THE SEMINAR HAD TO BE CANCELED DUE TO THE COVID19 EPIDEMIC, you may find the presentation slides here. Furthermore, we'll see if the seminar could be organized at a later time.

BEST,

ORGANIZERS

Welcome to be inspired by research findings of the Big Match project! The seminar is intended for anyone interested in digitalization, human resource management, data science, decision-making in organizations, human-AI cooperation, and service design.     

Participation is free but requires registration: sign up here!  

NO MORE SIGN-UPS! THE SEMINAR IS CANCELLED DUE TO THE COVID19 EPIDEMIA  

There is also a Facebook event to support discussion, feel free to join here!   

Program 

10:00 Coffee & something savory available

10:15 Opening: what is professional social matching all about?   

10:30 Research presentations:   

Serendipity – Social serendipity in professional life

Decision-making – Current practices of social matching decision-making in recruitment and team formation   

Digitalization – Opportunities and pitfalls in digitalizing social matching   

Inspiring company stories? 

12:00–12:45 Lunch break (self-paid)

Interaction and networking: social matching in action   

12:45 Research presentations:   

Data science – new mechanisms for Twitter followee recommendations   

Data science – Using StackExchange data to identify latent expertise   

Digital ecosystems – Opportunities for API-based business ecosystems around matching 

Outlook – opportunities for future research and service development    

 

Closing by 14:00   

 

Remember to sign up!    

 

Organizers:   

Big Match project, funded by Business Finland, Adecco, Brella, Demola, Futurice, and Yle   

Technology x Social Interaction research group   

Novi Research Center 

New Social Research programme  

Organiser

Thomas Olsson, Jukka Huhtamäki, Ekaterina Olshannikova, Sami Koivunen, Erjon Skenderi

Further information

thomas.olsson@tuni.fi or jukka.huhtamaki@tuni.fi