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The Digital Servitization Exchange Podcast
Connecting research and practice in the transformation from products to digital services.
The Digital Servitization Exchange Podast explores how manufacturers create and capture value through services and software. Designed for both researchers and practitioners, the podcast brings together academic insight and industry experience to unpack the concepts, challenges, and opportunities driving digital servitization.
Each episode delves into themes such as service innovations, subscription models, industrial IoT, digital platform ecosystems, and organizational transformation. Rather than focusing on individual voices, the podcast emphasizes relevant topics that matter across domains — offering evidence-based perspectives for academics and actionable ideas for business professionals.
By bridging theory and practice, The Digital Servitization Exchange Podcast provides a space where learning flows both ways: from research to real-world implementation, and from practice back to research.
Ideal for: academics, doctoral researchers, industrial leaders, digital transformation managers, service strategists, and anyone shaping the future of digitally enabled services.
The Digital Servitization Exchange Podcast
#12 Student-Driven AI Futures — From Ideas to Impact
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Description
In this episode, we explore a diverse set of AI innovation use cases from adaptive workplace tools to strategic industry solutions and truly transformative AI applications. What makes these ideas unique is how they were created: through close collaboration with students participating in the course Digital Futures and Responsible Innovation. Students didn’t just imagine what AI can do - they critically examined what AI should do. Each use case reflects hands-on student work that combines technical creativity with business reflection, addressing real-world challenges such as cybersecurity awareness, healthcare triage, mental health support, misinformation, smart factories, and sustainable everyday living.
The episode highlights how student teams applied responsible innovation principles privacy by design, human-centered AI, trust, inclusivity, and societal impact while developing concrete, implementable concepts. It’s a behind-the-scenes look at how the next generation of leaders is shaping AI solutions that are not only intelligent, but also ethical, practical, and future-ready.
Key words
Co-Creation, Responsible AI, Student-Led, Human-Centered, Future-Ready