Ingenuity Amplified

We're joined in this one by Mike Mueller, President and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association. The AIAC represents over 90% of Canada's aerospace sector. We talk about the role of aerospace in the Canadian economy; the recent AIAC Canadian Aerospace Summit highlights (where contextere won an innovation award; and some hot topics around aerospace and innovation.

In this episode, we meet Command Sergeant Major Troy Welch, U.S. Army (Retired). Host Gabe Batstone learns more about his friend's amazing career in the US Army, which actually began as a cook, when he enlisted as a Food Service Specialist. He then served in every leadership position from First Cook, Shift Leader, Platoon Sergeant, First Sergeant and Command Sergeant Major. We discuss Korea, and his Pentagon stint with the first four-Star Female General. Welch is now with the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) and describes the amazing and excellent work they're doing.

We're joined in this one by Carl Byers who discusses Contextere's launch of "Madison," an AI-enabled workforce productivity & decision support software that delivers actionable intelligence to the last tactical mile, empowering your frontline workers and improving asset performance. Imagine employees having conversations with equipment about error codes, service bulletins, live data feeds or past performance. Built for frontline employees and designed for industrial domains, Madison empowers blue-collar workers who make critical minute-to-minute decisions that impact productivity, safety, and ultimately cost. Madison extracts enterprise, IoT and technical domain data to generate new operational insights and deploys these insights in real-time to the end users working on the last tactical mile.

Our guest is Scotty Greenwood, CEO of the Canadian American Business Council, whose members are Fortune 500 companies like Amazon, Google, Coca-Cola, and Pfizer, to name a few. Scotty is a former American diplomat to Canada and a frequent media commentator and public speaker. We discuss the Council's roles and goals, what Canada-US relations look like today, along with innovation and entrepreneurship.

We're joined by Rob Slaven, long time Captain in the Royal Australian Navy. Rob is now Defence Business Development Director with Serco, a company that works primarily with government services, most prominently in the sectors of law & order, health, transport, justice, immigration, defence and citizens services. We discuss: Rob's transition from the Navy to civilian work; how he and Gabe met; the role of Innovation in the Australian Defence Force; and the RSV Nuyina, Australia's new Antarctic icebreaker. You might not always think of Australia when you are thinking about icebreakers. We talk all about that. And does the South Pole have the same geopolitical challenges we see in the North?

We're joined in this episode by Lindsay Siegel, the Head of Impact at Company Ventures in New York City. We discuss innovation, the pandemic, the current state of “work” and supporting our next generation of entrepreneurs' and employees (Gabe and Lindsay participate in mentoring of underprivileged high school and college students in New York City).

In this episode, we discuss how we ensure a more productive, sustainable and inclusive future of production. We also define and discuss the concept of Stakeholder Capitalism and how not-for-profit status plays a key role in all of it. Our special guest is Francisco Betti who joined us from Geneva. Francisco is a key leader with the World Economic Forum, the head of Shaping the Future of Advanced Manufacturing & Value Chains.

In this episode, we're joined by Micah Kotch, Managing Director of URBAN-X by BMW MINI. Micah has direct experience with utilities, government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, educational institutions and early stage companies. He is interested in startups that embrace change as well as regulators and innovative large companies working on solutions for climate and energy issues. Today we talk about UrbanX, the synergy with Contextere, Climate, Tech Accelerators, and how Micah misses playing pickup basketball with one of the Beastie Boys in Brooklyn.

We're joined in this episode by Sara Holoubek, the CEO and founder of Luminary Labs, a consultancy that develops strategies and innovation systems to help Fortune 500, government, and nonprofit organizations thrive in the face of change. She is also an active early stage investor. We discuss her company, its capability, along with the intersection of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Strategy...words that are often misunderstood, confused and misused. We talk about social responsibility and capitalism and much more.Innovation, Capitalism and Humanity

Today, we're very pleased to be joined by Dr Peter Williams, long time veteran of IBM and distinguished engineer. Peter played a major role in the development and delivery of IBM's smart cities and smart utilities solutions. We discuss Smart Cities in the aftermath of the Pandemic; City Resilience and Technology. We also dive a bit deeper, discussing where the water industry is at with regards to smart technology; and the pitfalls of IoT and AI.

Welcome to our introductory episode of Ingenuity Amplified. Today we get to know our co-hosts, Contextere founders Gabe Batstone and Carl Byers. We learn about their very interesting backgrounds; their unique philosophies on business and life; how and why they created Contextere; what the company is all about and more.

Ingenuity Amplified is new a fast-paced series of conversations with intelligent people who care about people, hosted by AI entrepreneurs who are experts in digital transformation. Join Steve Warne and Contextere founders Carl Byers and Gabe Batstone for a monthly dive into the Future of Work, Industry 4.0 and more with global thought leaders, technology experts and people you didn't even know you should know. Our goal is that you will leave every episode with at least one new idea or inspiration that causes you to do something different.