Agnis Stibe

Prof. Agnis Stibe is an Associate Professor in the Business Innovation Department at The Business School of RMIT University Vietnam and an Extraordinary Professor of Artificial Intelligence for Society 5.0 at the University of Pretoria. He designed and directed an Artificial Intelligence program at EM Normandie Business School in collaboration with EPITA Engineering School. Agnis also established research on Persuasive Cities at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology and advised the SoCity DAO project team at the MIT Media Lab. This first-of-its-kind decentralized prosocial platform empowers urban citizens to make their communities more livable and cities hyper-performing. 

Awards & Recognition:
- 2021, Persuasive Technology, 16th International Conference on Persuasive Technologies, Best Paper Finalist award together with MIT Media Lab for "Improving Context-Aware Habit-Support Interventions Using Egocentric Visual Contexts."
- 2015, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA MIT Media Lab, Advancing Wellbeing grant to design and teach a graduate course on “Health Behavior Change at Scale: Persuasive Urban Systems for Healthy and Sustainable Routines”
- 2015, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), HCI/MIS Workshop, Best paper award for “The Art of Online Persuasion through Design: The Role of Issue Involvement as it Influences Users based on Prior Knowledge” by Cyr, D., Head, M.,Lim, E., and Stibe, A.
- 2014, University of Oulu Graduate School, Finland, Travel grant award for attending the 9th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2014) to present the complete research paper “Using Social Influence for Motivating Customer to Generate and Share Feedback” (which was distinguished as the 3rd best presentation).
- 2014, Funding for finalizing a doctoral degree in 2014, based on the proposal by the University of Oulu Research Council and of the Dean of the University of Oulu, Graduate School.
- 2012, Doctoral Program on Software and Systems Engineering, Finland, PhD scholarship award
- 2012, Nokia award, Finland, PhD scholarship award from the Foundation of Nokia Corporation
- 2007, Gratitude from the Ministry of Education and Science, Latvia For long-term and creative work in Summer school for prizewinners of academic, Olympiads in Latvia presented by the Minister of Education and Science.
- 2002, Gratitude from the Ministry of Education and Science, Latvia, For long-term and creative work in Summer school for prizewinners of academic Olympiads in Latvia presented by the Minister of Education and Science.
- 1997, Promotion Scholarship, Latvian Fund for Education under “Program for Education, Science and Culture”.

Industry Experience:
2022 - present: Scientific Advisor at Filos
2021 - present: Hyper-Performance Advisor at InsideBE.com, Strategic Advisor at GetFocused.team
2020 - present: Strategic Advisor at Wyblo, Paris Chapter Lead at Transformative Technology Community, Startup Advisor at the University of California San Diego
2019 - present: Transformation Advisor at The Littery, Mentor at Intercell, Transforming Mentor at FasterCapital
2018 - present: Transformation Advisor at Mindworx, Attitude on Health Advisory Board of the Australian Health and Nutrition Association
2017 - present: Hyper-Performance Advisor at AgnisStibe.com
2005 - present: Teambuilding Coach at Business Consulting Partners

Employment History:
2020 - 2022: EM Normandie Business School
2017 - 2020: ESLSCA Business School Paris
2014 - 2017: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2011 - 2014: University of Oulu
2008 - 2010: First Data International Northern Europe
2006 - 2007: Oracle East Central Europe Limited
2004 - 2006: Hewlett-Packard EMEA
2002 - 2004: MicroLink Latvia
1997 - 2002: Bates ADM
1993 - 1997: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia