Podcasts about applied innovation

Send us a textDr. Bobby Reddy, MD is the Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Pi Health ( https://www.pihealth.ai/ ), a health technology and clinical research company committed to empowering life sciences companies to develop medicines faster and reach diverse patient populations. Dr. Reddy leads global operations, business development, and commercial activities with the mission of driving equal access to innovative medicines and clinical trials for patients around the world. Previously, Dr. Reddy served in leadership positions at BeiGene and AstraZeneca. At BeiGene, Dr. Reddy was Executive Director of Applied Innovation, a technology incubator in the Office of the CEO, which developed novel technologies to improve R&D and commercial capabilities. In this role, Dr. Reddy was the co-inventor of multiple patented technology applications which have successfully undergone enterprise adoption. He also built and managed multidisciplinary, global teams who led strategy, business development, global operations, and legal activities to drive development, implementation and growth of incubated technologies and companies. At AstraZeneca, Dr. Reddy was Head of Oncology Regulatory Science and Innovation, where he was a member of the global Oncology Regulatory Science and Strategy leadership team. Previous to Dr. Reddy's roles in pharma and biotech, Dr. Reddy was faculty of Harvard Medical School and a physician scientist and clinical dermatologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. His research focused on investigating the role of genetic and immunologic factors in melanoma development and progression, along with the development of novel therapeutic strategies. Dr. Reddy is also an alumnus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute – National Institutes of Health Research Scholars Program, through which he conducted research at the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Reddy completed an Internal Medicine internship at Brigham and Women's Hospital, during which he was given the Dunne Award for Humanism in Medicine by Harvard Medical School. He subsequently completed a Dermatology residency at Columbia University Medical Center, where he served as a Chief Resident during his final year of training. After residency, he completed a Melanoma Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Dr. Reddy obtained his M.D. with Alpha Omega Alpha honors from Rutgers–New Jersey Medical School. Dr. Reddy is a board-certified dermatologist and maintains an active clinical practice caring for patients at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he also teaches and mentors medical students and trainees.Important Episode Link - Pi Health Cancer Hospital - https://www.pihealthcancerhospital.com/#BobbyReddy #PiHealth #Dermatology #Oncology #Melanoma #Cancer #ElectronicHealthRecords #GenerativeAI #CDSCO #ClinicalTrials #India #CentralDrugsStandardControlOrganisation #ProgressPotentialAndPossibilities #IraPastor #Podcast #Podcaster #Podcasting #ViralPodcast #STEM #Innovation #Science #Technology #ResearchSupport the show

ABOUT CHARLES LEON:CHARLES' LINKEDIN PAGE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chleon/COMPANY WEBSITE: charlesleon.uk CHARLES' BIO:Writer and Illustrator of Sketch Journals, including The Kew Sketch Journal. International Speaker and Trainer on the Creative Process and how Applied Innovation actually works. With more than 30 years experience in design, and an extensive knowledge of neuroscience and the working of the creative mind, I bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to helping Organisations and Individuals overcome Innovation Stagnation and achieve Creative Breakthrough.SHOW INTRO:Welcome to the NXTLVL Experience Design podcast.EPISODE 77… and my conversation with Charles Leon. On the podacast our dynamic dialogues based on our acronym DATA - design, architecture, technology, and the arts crosses over disciplines but maintains a common thread of people who are passionate about the world we live in and human's influence on it, the ways we craft the built environment to maximize human experience, increasing our understanding of human behavior and searching for the New Possible.    he NXTLVL Experience Design podcast is presented by VMSD Magazine part of the Smartwork Media family of brands.VMSD brings us, in the brand experience world, the International Retail Design Conference. The IRDC is one of the best retail design conferences that there is bringing together the world of retailers, brands and experience place makers every year for two days of engaging conversations and pushing the discourse forward on what makes retailing relevant. You will find the archive of the NXTLVL Experience Design podcast on VMSD.com.Thanks also goes to Shop Association the only global retail trade association dedicated to elevating the in-store experience. SHOP Association represents companies and affiliates from 25 countries and brings value to their members through research, networking, education, events and awards. Check then out on SHOPAssociation.org On this episode I connect with Charles Leon who has 30 years experience in design, and an extensive knowledge of neuroscience and the working of the creative mind.We'll get to all of that in a moment but first though, a few thoughts…                 *                                  *                                  *When I was nine years old my mom put me in a after school art program in a small little studio a few minutes walk from my school. Every Thursday afternoon, after my regular school classes were done, I would walk down the street, sit in an art studio and learn how to paint in oils. For the next 10 years this was a welcome change in my daily routine that became in some sense a safe place. A place where all the world's troubles or the typical challenges I was having as a teenager would disappear and I would spend a couple of hours focused on painting. My mom had recognized early on that I was pretty handy with a pencil and very interested in creative expression. She did her very best to make sure that I was continually engaged in creative processes whether it was doing Ukrainian Easter eggs or sketching and drawing or baking creative Christmas cookies.She was always there pushing the go button on creativity. As it turns out, she was actually a pretty good artist herself and later in her life she began doing decorative painting which she became exceptionally adept at and the house was full of wonderful pieces of her craftsmanship.My interest in art followed me through the first few years of high school and finally landing in a place where it was just time to decide where I was going to university and to which program I would go.My mom, recognized that I was firmly sitting on either side of the creative and scientific fence, 1 foot firmly in both worlds, and she suggested architecture since it seemed to combine both of my interests.While I was studying to be an architect I took every single drawing and painting course that I could possibly take, whether they were weekly freehand drawing studios or evening classes or sketching schools.These courses during my university years were a safe place there I had more confidence than in doing pretty much anything else.But it really wasn't until those years in university under the tutelage of a great art teacher Gerry Tondino that I really began to understand drawing and painting.It wasn't so much that I was learning technical aspects of drawing or painting but that I was more learning how to see rather than simply look at things.Gerry would say, ‘once you learn to see and draw what you actually se, rather than what ou think you see, the drawing takes care of itself.'I had deep respect for Gerry Tondino and I think I really finally learned how to deeply appreciate the world around me to see the color, texture and value relationships. To understand how objects exist within a context and it wasn't specifically the thing you   looking at but everything around it that helped to define its edge.In college I would continue to take afterschool watercolor courses thinking that it was more convenient than painting in oils since there was a technical challenge of oil painting taking much longer to dry.There was something about the immediacy of watercolor that I liked. You had to think fast and plan. Watercolor was the process of painting in the shade and shadows leaving the white of the paper as the light and highlights. In oils, or now acrylic which I use almost exclusively, you are starting from the dark tones and building in layers to bring out the light.In watercolor there was equally some unpredictability and a learned skill of being able to get certain effects like running a clean wash of graduated blue for a sky over a background or how some pigments we opaque and others transparent, or how colors would interact with each other as water spread across the paper.I was taking workshops once and the teacher said to me “well it's clear you can draw and you've got, you know, a good hand, but I guess the question really is what do you want to say with the work that you create”That was a whole different way of thinking that I'd never really spend time with prior to that moment. I painted and drew simply because it was fun.What did I want to say?...And so I began to think pretty significantly about what message I wanted to convey or rather what stories the things that I drew or painted I might want to share with other people.It was interesting when I began to study architecture and think about design of places and things that I was drawn to the same question about what the architecture meant and what stories it would hold over the years that people would use it.I was always fascinated with traveling and standing within old buildings and wondering what the people wore when they were visiting here hundreds of years ago.What would they talk about. What was the news of the day or the politics what secrets were being not told as people visited and who came and went from within a building's walls.As I moved along my career, thinking about the stories that buildings would hold, it's perhaps not surprising that I somehow serendipitously end up in the world of brand experience place making,that the places that I would create for retailers would be imbued with a brand narrative and that somehow the buildings, stores or hotels would need to be able to demonstrate that subplot about who the intended user was, what their story was and how the place was a physical expression of both the person and the brand.Another experience while an architecture school was with a visiting professor and while I don't remember the exact project we were working on, I do remember her saying a phrase including the word “hodological”Hodological refers to the study of pathways or connections. It's used in fields of neuroscience sometimes thinking about the pathway and connections between neurons and synapses how signals move from one place to the other how information is shared across brain functional areas – In psychology it talks about things like paths in a person's life space and in the world of philosophy it might be considered to take in things like the interconnection between ideas a pathway between thought exercises and where one thought leads to another and what conclusions we might draw from that that decision making treein terms of geography it's really is about actual paths, walking paths for example, connection paths between geographic locations thing like trade route pathsThe interesting thing about the word hodological is not just that all these years later I clearly recall that word but that it also seemed to me that the idea of ‘transition' - moving from one place to the other - was very much a part of experience - that we don't stand still in buildings or public squares or on streets, we move and as we move, we naturally have a different experience at every moment.Sure, there's a gestalt experience of being in Times Square for example but every time we take a step our perspectival view of the context around us ends up changing and every moment technically speaking is also new,We're are clearly taking in some constants in sensory input but our point of view within that context ends up changing.I love this idea of walking through space and experiencing it differently with every step. Every step is a different vantage point to learn something new to see something from a different angle. In a broader sense, my fascination with the nature of change totally aligns with the idea the early -learned term – hodological.Pathways of change. Change through experience or experience through change. We may think that buildings don't change, but they do, albeit in some cases slowly. And over their lifetime they may be experienced be multitudes each one leaving and taking away a story.Transitions are important. I might suggest that all the good stuff happens in the in betweenness of moments in time, places and things. Transitions are where learning lives.Transitions become important as experience makers. So, things like stairs become fascinating places for architectural study. It's not surprising that many of the great architects also spend time designing stairways so that transitions between floors were less about a practical matter of moving your body up to a different level, but could be seen as an opportunity to experience new things along the way. An experiential moment that requires the person's commitment, to willingly give them self over to the idea of change. Cities have memories and our bodies have memories of cities. Buildings have memories and our bodies have memories of buildings.I have expressed before that I believe that there's very much a ‘give and make' of experience - that we interact and share with the built environment around us and it affects us as well. We and the environments we spend time in are deeply connected and our experience lives within us, within our bodies, not just within our heads. Our experience of building leaves within us a body memory, a narrative residue of how we felt while in one place or another.If you look at buildings overtime and understand that they've been used for years, they too have held countless numbers of stories of people that used them. Where they came from. Where they would go back to. Maybe they were transitioning through for a moment. Maybe they were lost and ended up taking a wrong turn and discovering something new.Those stories of buildings are interesting because it gives a life to architecture beyond stone, steel and glass. And this is where my guest Charles Leon comes into the story. Charles is a writer and illustrator of Sketch Journals, including The Kew Sketch Journal. He is an international speaker and trainer on the Creative Process and how Applied Innovation actually works. With more than 30 years experience in design, and an extensive knowledge of neuroscience and the working of the creative mind, Charles brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to helping organizations and individuals overcome Innovation Stagnation to achieve Creative Breakthrough.During the COVID pandemic Charles had a challenge simply staying inside while all of us were held up in our homes for months. With sketchb  ook in hand, Charles saw London England as a hodological space – one to be experiences not in the scientific, objective and measurable sense of streets of a certain distance ad width, buildings of a certain height, pathways connecting purpose driven users or as seen from a 3d person sense but more in the Jean-Paul Satre sense aptly described in Satre's essay, "Sketch for a Theory of Emotions," where his city was to be experienced in a lived-existential subjective sense. One in which he would travel daily, which sketchbook in hand, not always sure about the destination but certain that the path would be one of discovery, connection, and collecting through drawing and painting the memories of the buildings he encountered along the way.The output of these wanderings yielded 5 volumes in drawings and paintings of learnings about the buildings, their architectural details as well as the stories they revealed from within their walls…                 *                                  *                                  *ABOUT DAVID KEPRON:LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/david-kepron-9a1582bWebsites:  https://www.davidkepron.com    (personal website)vmsd.com/taxonomy/term/8645  (Blog)Email: david.kepron@NXTLVLexperiencedesign.comPersonal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidkepron/NXTLVL Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nxtlvl_experience_design/Bio:David Kepron is a multifaceted creative professional with a deep curiosity to understand ‘why', ‘what's now' and ‘what's next'. He brings together his background as an architect, artist, educator, author, podcast host and builder to the making of meaningful and empathically-focused, community-centric customer connections at brand experience places around the globe. David is a former VP - Global Design Strategies at Marriott International. While at Marriott, his focus was on the creation of compelling customer experiences within Marriott's “Premium Distinctive” segment which included: Westin, Renaissance, Le Meridien, Autograph Collection, Tribute Portfolio, Design Hotels and Gaylord hotels. In 2020 Kepron founded NXTLVL Experience Design, a strategy and design consultancy, where he combines his multidisciplinary approach to the creation of relevant brand engagements with his passion for social and cultural anthropology, neuroscience and emerging digital technologies. As a frequently requested international speaker at corporate events and international conferences focusing on CX, digital transformation, retail, hospitality, emerging technology, David shares his expertise on subjects ranging from consumer behaviors and trends, brain science and buying behavior, store design and visual merchandising, hotel design and strategy as well as creativity and innovation. In his talks, David shares visionary ideas on how brand strategy, brain science and emerging technologies are changing guest expectations about relationships they want to have with brands and how companies can remain relevant in a digitally enabled marketplace. David currently shares his experience and insight on various industry boards including: VMSD magazine's Editorial Advisory Board, the Interactive Customer Experience Association, Sign Research Foundation's Program Committee as well as the Center For Retail Transformation at George Mason University.He has held teaching positions at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology (F.I.T.), the Department of Architecture & Interior Design of Drexel University in Philadelphia, the Laboratory Institute of Merchandising (L.I.M.) in New York, the International Academy of Merchandising and Design in Montreal and he served as the Director of the Visual Merchandising Department at LaSalle International Fashion School (L.I.F.S.) in Singapore.  In 2014 Kepron published his first book titled: “Retail (r)Evolution: Why Creating Right-Brain Stores Will Shape the Future of Shopping in a Digitally Driven World” and he is currently working on his second book to be published soon. David also writes a popular blog called “Brain Food” which is published monthly on vmsd.com.  The next level experience design podcast is presented by VMSD magazine and Smartwork Media. It is hosted and executive produced by David Kepron. Our original music and audio production by Kano Sound. The content of this podcast is copywrite to David Kepron and NXTLVL Experience Design. Any publication or rebroadcast of the content is prohibited without the expressed written consent of David Kepron and NXTLVL Experience Design.Make sure to tune in for more NXTLVL “Dialogues on DATA: Design Architecture Technology and the Arts” wherever you find your favorite podcasts and make sure to visit vmsd.com and look for the tab for the NXTLVL Experience Design podcast there too.

Altra's Zero Drop Legacy - When Your Running Shoes Can Talk Guest: Alex Leuchanka, Biomechanics and Physiology Expert, Research Manager of Applied Innovation at Altra RunningIn this episode of AI Powered by People, we explore:The revolutionary story behind Altra Running's zero-drop technology and how it's transforming running biomechanicsWhy shoe design impacts your ankle, knee, and hip movement during runningThe science behind Altra's innovative Vanish Carbon shoe with its unique flexible-yet-rigid plate designHow AI could transform running shoe design and user experience through real-time feedbackThe evolution of Altra's popular Lone Peak and Escalante models, and what they reveal about natural running mechanicsKey Timestamps: 00:00 - Consumer perspectives on talking shoes 03:00 - The birth of Altra and zero-drop revolution 07:30 - Innovation in biomechanics and shoe design 13:30 - The future of AI-powered running companions 18:30 - Closing thoughts and community engagementFeatured Products:Altra Vanish CarbonAltra Lone Peak (Trail)Altra Escalante (Road)Follow Your Host and Guest:Sarah Nagle, LinkedInAlex Leuchanka, LinkedInFollow On Social:Instagram | @ vurveylabsLinkedIn | www.linkedin.com/company/vurveylabsDownload the Vurbs app to chat with your own Altra running companion!Vurvey.comVurvey.com

Jared Cohen is Co-Head of the Office of Applied Innovation and President of Global Affairs at Goldman Sachs. He also serves on the Management Committee of the firm. Jared is also the most senior Goldman executive to visit Israel since October 7. But Jared did not just visit Israel – and meet with a range of senior Israeli political leaders and security officials – he also was in Ramallah, in the West Bank to meet Palestinian Authority officials and Jordan – just before Jordan participated in the extraordinary multi-national defense of Israel, despite tense relations between the Israeli and Jordanian governments. And since then, Jared has traveled extensively throughout the Persian Gulf States, where he has a long history of deep relationships. It was interesting to get a fresh take from Jared on this region in transition. Prior to joining Goldman, Jared was an executive at Alphabet, before which he was Google's first Director of Ideas and Chief Advisor to Google's then CEO and Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. From 2006 to 2010, he served as a member of the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff and as a close advisor to both Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. Jared is a New York Times bestselling author of six books, including "One Hundred Days of Silence: America and the Rwanda Genocide," "Children of Jihad," "The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Business, and our Lives," which he co-authored with Eric Schmidt, and, most recently, "Life After Power: Seven Presidents and their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House," which you can order here: https://tinyurl.com/5xm8v7ft OR https://tinyurl.com/2ua6mzjd Paper discussed in this episode: "The rise of geopolitical swing states" -- https://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence/pages/the-rise-of-geopolitical-swing-states.html

Elav Horwitz, the Executive Vice President, Global Head of Applied Innovation, Gen AI Lead of McCann Worldgroup, joins AMA's Bennie F. Johnson to talk about creativity and the human experience, the needs for experimentation, and trends in technology.

As tensions in the Middle East continue to rise, what does this mean for markets and the global economy? Jared Cohen, president of Global Affairs and co-head of the Office of Applied Innovation at Goldman Sachs, and Sam Morgan, global head of fixed income currencies and commodities sales in Goldman Sachs' Global Banking and Markets business, discuss the economic impacts of rising geopolitical instability.  

In this episode of Total Michigan, host Cliff Duvernois sits down with Casey Lowery, the President of Applied Innovation, a technology company based out of Grand Rapids, Michigan. They discuss the company's journey from a startup in the copier and printer industry to its explosive growth into a tech giant with a strong presence in various states. As part of a family-run business, Casey discusses his experiences stepping into different roles within the company and his transition into his current position as President. The discussion provides unique insights into how Applied Innovation maintained its customer-focused ethos while growing and diversifying their services. The company's unique culture, transition into the IT space, and their approach to customer service are all discussed, revealing a story of perseverance, strategic growth, and the power of a service-centric approach.Links from this Interview:Applied Innovation Website: https://www.appliedinnovation.com/Children's Healing Center: https://childrenshealing.org/Simon Sinek Start with Why Ted Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ZoJKF_VuAAtomic Habits Book: https://a.co/d/9TQiYwE

A tecnologia em nuvem já impacta nosso cotidiano de diversas formas, desde a maneira que nos comunicamos até o jeito em que trabalhamos. Agora, o setor de saúde quer usar da tecnologia para revolucionar a forma que cuidamos do nosso corpo e mente. No terceiro episódio do Conversas na Nuvem, a apresentadora Marisa Kinoshita, Gerente de Marketing do Google Cloud Brasil, recebe Felipe Kitamura, Diretor de Applied Innovation e AI na DASA, e Maurício Craveiro, Head de Saúde do Google Cloud Brasil. Juntos, eles vão conversar sobre como a nuvem e a inteligência artificial podem ajudar médicos e pacientes no caminho por uma saúde preventiva e precisa.  O Conversas na Nuvem faz parte do hub de conteúdo do Google Cloud Cast. Nesse podcast, nós discutimos os desafios de negócios de diversos segmentos do mercado e debatemos como a tecnologia em nuvem vem ajudando as empresas a superá-los. Confira os links deste episódio: Estudo revela a ascensão da telemedicina no Brasil: https://bit.ly/44nB5LL Colaboradores da área de saúde classificam inovação como prioridade: https://bit.ly/3rrAvhH Saúde lidera nos segmentos com mais implementação de IA: https://bit.ly/46IAy8S Gostou do episódio ou tem alguma sugestão? Compartilha com a gente por e-mail em googlecloudcast@google.com

780: Jared Cohen and George Lee, the Co-Heads of the Office of Applied Innovation at Goldman Sachs, delve into the intersections between global affairs, geopolitics, and cutting-edge technology such as generative AI. As leaders in the financial services industry and technology space, both executives provide valuable insights into the significance of geopolitical swing states and the current state of global affairs, as well as the rapid rise of generative AI, and the role government regulation plays in technological advancements.

780: Jared Cohen and George Lee, the Co-Heads of the Office of Applied Innovation at Goldman Sachs, delve into the intersections between global affairs, geopolitics, and cutting-edge technology such as generative AI. As leaders in the financial services industry and technology space, both executives provide valuable insights into the significance of geopolitical swing states and the current state of global affairs, as well as the rapid rise of generative AI, and the role government regulation plays in technological advancements.

Innovation is perhaps one of the most commonly-used words in our industry. But what does it really mean in an industry based on, and fuelled by, tecnical innovation?In a new podcast series, Innovation Leaders, we're sitting down with heads of innovation at agencies and brands to find out. To launch the series, we met with Sarah Salter, Head of Applied Innovation, Wavemaker to discuss why an agency needs a Head of Innovation role in tne first place, what it means to clients, and what the demonstrable, tangible results are for brands like L'Oréal and Audible.

In an era of geopolitical instability and economic uncertainty, what are the implications for companies and investors? In the latest episode of Exchanges at Goldman Sachs, George Lee and Jared Cohen, the co-heads of Goldman Sachs' newly created Office of Applied Innovation, discuss shifts in the geopolitical landscape, how rapidly evolving technology is impacting our world, and how the new office works with the firm's clients to explore issues that sit at the center of a changing global marketplace. 

Gavin Starks has founded, funded, and run over a dozen organizations including acting as CEO of the Open Data Institute. He is the founder of Icebreaker One, an independent, non-partisan non-profit with global reach that convenes organizations to understand how best to use data as a continuous flow of evidence that informs action. He was a recent speaker at the DFC Leadership Summit on Technology and Applied Innovation and took time to sit down with Dave to talk about how curiosity, transparency and interoperability are key ingredients of meaningful transformation.

What does the world's largest aerospace company and leading provider of commercial airplanes, defense, space and security systems, and global services think about innovation? Bobby Niehaus is on the Applied Innovation team, which is the corporate ventures group that brings outside innovation into Boeing, essentially the bridge between Boeing's internal technology strategy and external innovation partners. We talk about outside-in innovation, the value of Corporate Venture Capital, the dual mandates of corporate venturing, overcoming NIH (Not Invented Here) Bias and portfolio development to trigger strategic transitions.

Want to become more heart-centered? We invite you to join us on Deb's Dailies (daily blog and newsletter), a daily reflection of living and loving life as a heart-centered leader. Michael Netzley is the Founder and CEO of Extend My Runway Pte Ltd (EMR, founded 2018), and an award winning executive development facilitator and coach now working with IMD SE Asia. In 2021 Michael was named one of APAC Entrepreneur magazine's entrepreneurs of the year. EMR, Michael's "second act," is a talent development platform that combines neuroscience with AI to deliver an ultra-personalised approach to strengthening your higher-order thinking. Our platform and BraiNergy Index enables employers and employees to verifiably improve performance, increase productivity, and deliver more innovative solutions. We strengthen and verify the higher thinking skills that employers need to compete in today's knowledge economy. Previously Michael spent 15 years on the faculty of Singapore Management University where he built a successful career in teaching excellence and executive development. Most recently, he served as the first Faculty Programme Director for the Graduate Certificate in Applied Innovation. His work was recognised with the 2011 Champions Award for innovative course design and delivery from the Central and Eastern European Management Association and the 2015 Best Case Award in entrepreneurship from EFMD. Connect with Michael at: https://www.extendmyrunway.com/ https://twitter.com/communicateasia https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelnetzley/

The music industry is being shaken up by the Web3 revolution, with greater accessibility and community engagement being driven by innovations in the NFT space. But what will it do for creation, curation and distribution in the music industry across the globe? And what really is a music NFT?This week, host Kary Kary Bheemaiah speaks to Finbar O'Hanlon, a British born, Australian raised digital media technologist, entrepreneur, musician and futurist. He is the Founder and Inventor of Linius Video Systems, a company that provides the globally patented video content delivery technology which solves the fundamental challenges that exist in the current workflow and monetization of video content delivery over the Internet. On top of that, he's also a guitarist; music composer, arranger, producer and philanthropist who has worked with some of the biggest names in music over the years.We also speak with Dheeren Velu, Director of Applied Innovation at CapGemini Invent. Dhereen is a Business Leader specialised in Artificial Intelligence. He focuses on guiding large enterprises and organisations in adopting A.I & Cognitive technologies to implement innovative and game-changing solutions through his role ar Capgemini, and was previously an IBM Watson Cognitive Solutions Leader and a key contributor to some of the earliest AI implementations in Australia. He is also currently the NFT Stream lead in Capgemini's Metaverse lab.Check out Finbar's TedX speech here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmRod9lQjkIAnd his youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/FinbarOhanlonListen in to some of our previous Web3 episodes below:Ep 37: Beyond the Crypto Crash - https://www.capgemini.com/insights/research-library/from-bull-to-bear-in-the-defi-crypto-market/Ep38: Building Brands with NFTs - https://www.capgemini.com/insights/research-library/building-brands-with-nfts/This episode was hosted by Kary Bheemaiah and produced by Harry Stott.This podcast is brought to you by Capgemini Invent. You can find out more about them at https://www.capgemini.com/service/invent/ and follow them on Twitter https://twitter.com/CapgeminiInvent.

With brands now seeking more and more ways to engage with consumers, NFTs are presenting a new opportunity to engage with audiences. In this episode we discuss how you can build your brand with NFTs with Matty Soudagar, Founder of MetaKey, who recently had an exciting collaboration with the Australian Open Tennis Championship. Matty was also recently named a top100 NFT winner https://nftnow.com/nft100-list-2022/A special thanks to todays guests Mateen Soudagar, Founder of MetaKey, and Dheeren Velu, Director of Applied Innovation at CapGemini Invent. This episode was hosted by Kary Bheemaiah and produced by Thomas O'Mahony.This podcast is brought to you by Capgemini Invent. You can find out more about them at https://www.capgemini.com/service/invent/ and follow them on Twitter https://twitter.com/CapgeminiInvent.

Did you take a break from your career?  And you're not sure how to reenter the workforce?  Alice shares:     - How she picked herself back up after being told she has no relevant skills because she took 15 years off to be a mom.   - How creating two failed startups helped her land her dream job. - How our dreams will change, and it's OK to acknowledge that.     - How she was able to find sponsors and get reclassified and promoted from being a staff member to a professor.     Connect with Alice on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/alicearmitage.

Join a few of the season 1 alumni as we reconnect to talk about what's on our minds and in our hearts as we celebrate the season, and plan for 2022.What you'll learn about in this episodeRegulation F is Implemented what do the next 6 months look like?The communication shift to digitalHow to use listening as a tool to improve resultsPodcast and Book recommendationsGuest: Bethany Robertson  Debt Recovery Solutions of  OhioVice President, co-owner, and founder of Debt Recovery Solutions of Ohio, Inc. since 2002 where her vision and passion for strategy continues to push the company to new heights.Website: https://drsohio.com/Guest: Debbie Frank CEO Credit Bureau Service llcCredit Bureau Services is known for being a collection agency that is passionate about helping people become debt-free. Website: https://www.creditbureauservicesinc.com/Guest: Joann Needleman Leader Clark Hill PLCJoann Needleman leads the firm's financial services regulatory and compliance practice and advises banks, financial institutions, and financial services entities on regulatory compliance matters.Website: clarkhill.com  Guest: Harry Strausser III President Applied InnovationHarry is a second-generation collection veteran having held the position of President of two successful collection firms until the sale of those firms in May 2017.  He currently holds the position of President of Applied Innovation, a software company that serves the ARM space.Website: https://www.appliedinnovationinc.com/

On this week's episode of Inside Outside Innovation, we sit down with Kevin Leland, CEO and Founder of Halo and Matt Muller, Director of Applied Innovation at Baxter. The three of us talk about the changing world of open innovation and what it takes to connect and collaborate, to solve big industry problems. Let's get started. Inside Outside Innovation is the podcast to help new innovators navigate what's next. Each week, we'll give you a front row seat into what it takes to learn, grow, and thrive in today's world of accelerating change and uncertainty. Join us as we explore, engage, and experiment with the best and the brightest innovators, entrepreneurs, and pioneering businesses. It's time to get started. Interview Transcript with Kevin Leland, CEO and Founder of Halo and Matt Muller, Director of Applied Innovation at BaxterBrian Ardinger: Welcome to another episode of Inside Outside Innovation. I'm your host, Brian Ardinger. And as always, we have another amazing set of guests. Today, we have Kevin Leland, who is the CEO and Founder of Halo. And Matt Muller, who is the Director of Applied Innovation at Baxter. Welcome. Kevin Leland: Thank you. Brian Ardinger: Hey, I'm excited to have you both on the show to talk about a topic that's near and dear to a lot of folks out there. That's the topic of open innovation and how to corporates and startups and new ideas get started in this whole world of collaborative innovation. Kevin you're the CEO and founder of Halo. What is Halo? And how did you get started in this open innovation space? Kevin Leland: Halo is a marketplace and network where companies connect directly with scientists and startups for research collaborations. It's about as simple to post RFP or a partnering opportunity on Halo as it is to post a job on LinkedIn. And then once it's posted scientists submit their research proposals. We went live in January. Matt and the team of Baxter was our very first customer. So, the earliest of early adopters and they were a really fantastic partner.I came across the idea of Halo and got into open innovation really kind of by accident. The original concept for Halo was crowd funding for medical research. So, a little bit different, but we would work with technology transfer offices at universities to identify promising technology that just needed a little bit of funding to get to the next level.And through that experience, I learned that scientists needed more than just funding. They needed the expertise and the resources of industry. Meanwhile, I was learning how industry was actively trying to partner with these scientists and these early-stage startups, because they realized that they were less good at the early-stage discovery process of research. And so to me, it seemed like an obvious marketplace solution. And so that's where the impetus of the business came and how we started. Brian Ardinger: Let's turn it over to you Matt. From the other side of the table, from a corporation, trying to understand and facilitate and accelerate innovation efforts. What is open innovation mean to you and how did Halo come to play a part in that?Matt Muller: As you mentioned earlier, I'm Director of Applied Innovation here at Baxter and I am in our Renal Care Business. And so that's the business at Baxter that's focused on treating end stage kidney disease. And that's one of Baxter's largest businesses. As a company, we have over $12 billion in sales annually, and dialysis in the renal care businesses, is our largest business unit.And it is an area that we've struggled with innovation. And particularly what we excel at, at Baxter is we excel at treating kidney disease in the home. So, this is a particular therapy called peritoneal dialysis. Patients are able to do it in their home while they sleep. And one of the big challenges that we have today with peritoneal dialysis is that patients need dialysis solution. They use about 12, 15 liters of this sterile medical solution every night to do their therapy. And today the way we do that and the way we've done it ever since this therapy has been around since early seventies is we literally deliver that solution in bags, by trucks. We make it in big plants in the United States and trucks drive all across the country and they deliver it to patients in their home.And as a company, we, for a long time have said, we really need to change this business model. It's not sustainable for us. It requires our patients store a lot of water in their home or the solution rather in their home. And they have to essentially dedicate a whole room of their houses to storage of their supplies.So, we have, for the longest time said, we want to change how this is done. And we want to be able to use the patient's own water in their home. And instead of delivering all these bags of solutions deliver concentrates much like if you go on, you buy a soft drink at the movie theater, it comes from a concentrated box of syrup that is, you add water to it and you have your soft drink. And so that's our vision. And we've struggled for many years of how to bring innovation into the marketplace for making that pure water that we need in the home. We have a lot of very bright scientists at Baxter. The problem is that as Kevin mentioned before, our scientists are really good at solving particular problems in particular getting products to market. Where we've been struggling is that the science has not or at least we haven't been aware of the science that could really allow us to break this barrier and make the leap to be able to make this pure solution medical grade solution in the home. And that's why we've reached out to Kevin and his platform as a way to do that is to go out to a really broad community of researchers to bring new ideas into the company, to help us figure out new ways to approach the problem.Brian Ardinger: The history of open innovation is long. And there's a lot of things that have been tried in the past. Did Baxter try other methods in the past? Or how did you go about trying to determine what things we should innovate internally and try to solve that way versus when and where we go outside for solutions? Matt Muller: I would say as a company, we probably hadn't been as involved specifically in the university and in the startups space. So, a lot of times as a company, we have a lot of people that come to us with ideas and looking for funding. Most of the time, it's a very common proposition that they give you. They need a certain amount of funding, and in three years, they'll have a product. Three years is like the magic number. And the reality is that it's frequently the claims and the charity are very oversold, and we haven't been really successful in that type of space. And so, we've been really looking at different ways to engage a larger community. The other element of it too, is sometimes when you talk open innovation, we're limited by our existing network of people. And so that is the employees and who they work with. Maybe it's the fact we're in Northern Illinois, we're close to Northwestern University and people here have relationships with professors at Northwestern.So, we develop those relationships and the open innovation opportunities through those connections. We've been looking into how do we expand that? Reach a broader audience and get a global connection, so to speak and open to new ideas. Brian Ardinger: And that's a great segue. Kevin, you've worked with companies also besides Baxter out there and that. What are some of the typical mistakes or challenges that you see corporations making when trying to get started in an open innovation.Kevin Leland: First of all get started is kind of the big challenge, because there's still some resistance to open innovation, and even the term open can be scary to some companies because it implies, or it can be interpreted as we're letting all of our competitors know what our strategic interests are. And so, I'm even hesitant sometime about using the word open. I mean, we're really about facilitating partnerships between companies and researchers who have mutually shared interests and can work together to solve problems. Some of the approaches in the past to me just seemed really inefficient, like traveling around the world and going to conferences and hoping you hear somebody speak or get a referral from someone or just call up the universities. Or just more likely to just work with Harvard, Yale, and Princeton are just example of select universities as if there couldn't possibly be great research coming out anywhere else.And so that was part of the problem that I was trying to solve with Halo in terms of democratizing access to companies like Baxter for all scientists, regardless of where they are in the world, or what institution, where they reside and making the process a lot easier for both the scientists and for the company.Because one of the reasons that companies don't pass a wider net is because it's a lot of tedious administrative work in terms of emailing and downloading attachments and PDFs. So, the platform is designed to streamline that entire process so they can cast a wider net. The Ewing Marion Kauffman FoundationSponsor Voice: The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is a private, nonpartisan foundation based in Kansas City, Missouri, that seeks to build inclusive prosperity through a prepared workforce and entrepreneur-focused economic development. The Foundation uses its $3 billion in assets to change conditions, address root causes, and break down systemic barriers so that all people – regardless of race, gender, or geography – have the opportunity to achieve economic stability, mobility, and prosperity. For more  information, visit www.kauffman.org and connect with us at www.twitter.com/kauffmanfdn and www.facebook.com/kauffmanfdn.Brian Ardinger: Are there types of businesses or types of challenges that seem to work better when tackled in this open format or open environment? Kevin Leland: We're focused on scientific innovation. So the other key difference is that all of our community are PhDs or part of funded startups. So it's not a challenge site where just anybody can submit an idea. So that's one of the key differences. Brian Ardinger: Are the types of businesses or types of challenges that seem to work better in this type of environment.Kevin Leland: In the case of Halo, we seen everything from very specific requirements that were similar to what Baxter was looking for where they lay out the actual technical requirements of what they're looking for. And then on the other side of the spectrum, we have what Bayer has done, which is a very open-ended call for proposals around the area of sustainable agriculture. And so, the platform is flexible enough that it works for either approach. The key difference, I mean, it really depends on the goal of the company. So in the case of Baxter, a lot of our other customers like Pepsi or Reckitt, they're looking for a very specific solution, to a challenge that they have. Whereas a company like Bayer kind of doesn't know what they don't know, and they're just kind of want to see what's out there.And then from a management perspective, when you do have a very open-ended call, you get a lot more proposals and the more specific requirements the fewer you are going to get. So, it kind of depends on, on what your ultimate strategy is. Brian Ardinger: That's a great way to segue it back to Matt. I'm assuming that your work with Halo is not the only type of innovation initiative that's going on at Baxter. Can you talk a little bit about some of the other innovation efforts that are going on there and how does your work with Halo fit in with those?Matt Muller: As a company, really, a lot of our innovation framework is built into our core business objectives. The way we're structured as a company we're in business units. So, as I said, I work in renal care, so everything, we start with our business and understanding what does that business strategy. Where do we want to play as a company? And then what are the key problems that we want to solve?And I mentioned up front one of the key problems right now that we want to solve, is we want to figure out how to be a more sustainable business and get away from shipping water across the globe. So that's a key strategic initiative for our business. So, then what we define at that point, what are the key elements or the problems that we need to solve in meeting that strategic initiative. One is how do we purify water in the home? And then we figure out what are the ways, you know, based on those specific problems we find we have, what are the best ways to solve that problem?So, in some cases, we're at a point where we need more ideas. Whereas a company, we stagnated and we tried these pathways are not fruitful. We're kind of keep banging our head against the wall. Let's really go out there and see what's out there. And that was an example of what we did with Halo. We also have our own internal engineering organization. We're a global company. So, there are specific things that we may do from an innovation project where we would work on it internally because we feel like we have the internal expertise. Or a lot of times what we will do is we'll look for external partnerships and that may be in the form of through various engineering consulting companies and product development consulting companies that we may partner with because they may have very specific experiences in a space that we're interested in, or maybe an adjacent space.And that's another big element is we get siloed and focused in medical. But there are a lot of adjacent areas where technologies are being developed and, you know, maybe it's the petroleum or refining industry, or maybe it's, you know, some other area of medical that we just don't play in. And we can bring in these consultant firms that just have much broader exposure. And so that's also an element that we look at. So it's really a mix between this open concept like what we do with Halo, engineering consulting and partnerships, and then internal. Brian Ardinger: You know the world is changing so fast and everything is happening so rapidly that it's tough to keep up. Even if you're an expert in your particular industry, like you said, even understanding what's going on in cross industries and that. Kevin, can you talk a little bit about the types of industries that you serve and why a platform like this can give advantage to corporate?Kevin Leland: Yeah, absolutely. I thought it was interesting when Matt was talking about getting inspiration from other industries like oil and gas or petroleum, because that's really what the platform is designed for. Researchers don't necessarily think in terms of what the commercial application is. They think of what their expertise is. And by collecting all this data on what their focus area is and then on the flip side, what companies are interested in, we can more programmatically find connections that in potential partners where otherwise, it would really have no idea that there might be a fruitful opportunity there. In general, we've been focused like broadly on the area of sustainability, which can include anything from sustainable agriculture, like Bayer to sustainable packaging or work with PepsiCo and then water treatment, which is what we did with Matt and his team.So that's a really broad category. We do have a few other opportunities are kind of outside that scope. But we are also looking at doing more in the medicine and pharmaceutical areas as well. Brian Ardinger: Matt, can you talk a little bit about the early days of finding an innovation effort like this? What were some of the challenges or pitfalls or things you had to do to get buy in and then go and actually execute on this particular challenge? Matt Muller: It's hard to sometimes in a large company get traction. And so, you need a champion. And Kevin's known that cause we've actually worked together to help to get that traction within Baxter. I think it helped as we got started because Kevin had some prior connections with some core people at Baxter, which helped to get some initiative.But I think the biggest challenge is getting started and showing the value and gaining the buy-in to get something like this funded internally in a large company. I think a lot of people have an opinion of large companies have endless resources. And can do anything they want. But the reality is everything's looked at very closely.You're constantly getting distracted with the new crisis or the new area of focus. And people are constantly changing roles and companies. So, you need that champion internally. You need to then be able to get that own internal opportunity to influence. To get the approval, to fund something like this.But then secondly, you need the success stories to come out of it, because if you don't have that initial success, chances are that then you're not going to get that momentum and people aren't going to believe in following through with it. And that was key to our relationship here is getting really some initial successes that we could point to. And then things have kind of evolved from there. Brian Ardinger: And that's a great point. I think a lot of companies are naturally more fearful because failing in an existing business model is not a good thing, but yet to innovate, you know, that there are some things that are probably not going to work and that. Open innovation almost gives you some opportunity to try and test and experiment a little bit outside of your core realm.Gives you a little bit more ground cover sometimes to have different types of conversations than you would have, just if it was only internal and working from that perspective. Kevin, what else are you seeing when it comes to the benefits of companies reaching outside of their four walls to create their innovation initiatives? Kevin Leland: The biggest benefit and maybe Matt can speak to this is they're identifying partners that they would have never known about otherwise. So Matt was able to identify a team in Australia. UNSW Sydney. And I don't think Baxter has anyone on the ground there, and probably wouldn't have found that otherwise. And then the secondary benefit is it's almost like a market analysis tool or market intelligence tool because the companies are learning about new technologies and trends and different pockets of innovation around the world that they really didn't have visibility into previously.Brian Ardinger: What are you guys most excited about moving forward?Kevin Leland: I'm really excited to see this working. So, you know, I did a ton of customer discovery before launching Halo. I had dozens of interviews with innovation executives on one side and scientists on the other side. But you never really know until you actually go into the wild and introduce a platform to the users to see if it's going to work. And we've done 20 plus RFPs now since Baxter. We work to put 12 Fortune 500 companies, every one of them has resulted in signed agreements. And, you know, obviously it takes time to see these products into the marketplace, but that's the next thing I'm excited about is when Baxter introduces a new home dialysis device, where patients can make the dialysis solution from their kitchen and don't have to have 900 pounds of solution sitting in their bedroom.Brian Ardinger: Matt, what are you excited about? Matt Muller: Well, I like your vision of the future there, Kevin, first of all. Beyond that, you know, and obviously helping us accelerate, getting the innovative products to market. The other thing that I've really enjoyed is being able to make these broader connections that we never would have before. Kevin used the example of we're connected now with the University of New South Wales on a really interesting research project.But the other thing that this connected us with is a whole network of experts on an NSF Foundation called New, which is very well aligned with some of our core business and research interests that we never would have had before. You know, if we hadn't been involved with this initiative. And so, it's those types of things that also really get me excited because it really helps us.You know, at the end of the day we're scientists. We're engineers. We all like collaborating with other scientists and engineers to solve problems. And this is just exciting because it broadens that network for us even more. For More InformationBrian Ardinger: Matt and Kevin, thank you for collaborating here at Inside Outside Innovation and sharing some of the insights on what's working in this new changing landscape that we're in. So, I appreciate you both being on. If people want to find out more about yourselves or the companies and that that you work at, what's the best way to do. Kevin Leland: For me, they can connect with me on LinkedIn. Just search Kevin Leland should be one of the top three, I think, or go to Halo. Science Matt Muller: And similarly, you can connect with me on LinkedIn. I'm Matthew Muller, Director of Applied Innovation, Baxter Healthcare. We also have a company bio description on Kevin's platform. Halo. We also have put out two new challenge statements with respect to some of the key technical challenges that we have in our space. So, you know, go to Kevin's platform and check those out as well, please.Brian Ardinger: Well, Matthew, Kevin, thank you again for being on Inside Outside Innovation. I look forward to continuing the conversation and thank you very much.Kevin Leland: Thanks Brian.Brian Ardinger: That's it for another episode of Inside Outside Innovation. If you want to learn more about our team, our content, our services, check out InsideOutside.io or follow us on Twitter @theIOpodcast or @Ardinger. Until next time, go out and innovate.FREE INNOVATION NEWSLETTER & TOOLSGet the latest episodes of the Inside Outside Innovation podcast, in addition to thought leadership in the form of blogs, innovation resources, videos, and invitations to exclusive events. SUBSCRIBE HEREYou can also search every Inside Outside Innovation Podcast by Topic and Company.  For more innovations resources, check out IO's Innovation Article Database, Innovation Tools Database, Innovation Book Database, and Innovation Video Database.  

Harry Strausser III is a second-generation collection veteran having held the position of President of two successful collection firms until the sale of those firms in May 2017.  Throughout his career Harry was active in the Mid-Atlantic Collectors Association where he served as President, and ACA International, Inc., the association of credit and collection professionals, in which he is a Senior Certified Trainer. He has served on the ACA International Executive Committee and held the position of President in 2004-2005. He currently holds the position of President of Applied Innovation, a software company that serves the ARM space.He holds an MA in communication from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania and a BS in business administration from the same institution. He has served as a full-time adjunct professor for the Department of Communication Studies at Bloomsburg University where he taught interpersonal communication, public speaking, and corporate communication. As a sought-after industry speaker, he has traveled extensively across the United States and internationally during which he has conducted over 1000 educational and motivational programs for associations, private enterprises, conferences, and public seminar events.Harry enjoys travel, music, working outdoors at his home, and spending time with his family and two golden retrievers, Tindaqwae (Tin- Dah-Quay) and Luna.What you'll learn about in this episode: “The accounts receivable management industry is dominated by small, privately held companies which make finding broad benchmarking data difficult because there is little public financial data available and few companies are willing to part with sensitive financial data.”  Key benefits and strongest elements of a benchmark group.How to overcome the dynamics of trust with small to midsize agenciesHow to go about starting or finding the right groupSteps and what you should and shouldn't doSIze of the group and size of the companiesHarry shares valuable insights he's gained from years of experience.KPIs the good and the badBenchmarking reports you should seek right nowResources:Website: https://www.appliedinnovationinc.com/Email: hstrausser@appliedinnovationinc.comLinkedIn: Company https://www.linkedin.com/company/applied-innovation-inc-/LinkedIn: Personal https://www.linkedin.com/in/harry-strausser-iii-7413106/Additional Resources:IBIS World Debt Collection Industry InfoACA International Research Center Info

We normally equate blockchain with cryptocurrency. However, smart people around the world are devising new ways to use blockchain in increasingly clever ways. We discuss three of those applications in this podcast. Chris Blask, Global Director of Applied Innovation at Unisys has invented a Digital Bill of Materials based on blockchain as a way to [...]

In this episode we will be talking to Colin Keogh, PhD, who is an innovation, technology, and engineering consultant among many other things. Colin is from Bray in Co. Wicklow, Ireland and continues to live there which makes me and him neighbours. We actually teed up this interview on Bray seafront.While Colin is still close to his roots he has packed so much into the last 10 years that it is difficult to keep track of what he is up to at any given time. Colin studied Mechanical Engineering at UCD at undergraduate level and then went on to do his Masters there in Energy Systems, followed by a PhD in Engineering working at the on-campus SMARTlab and the Inclusive Design Centre.He then and worked at the university later as a Research and Development Engineer and later set up his own independent consultancy business. As well as his work as an independent consultant over the last number of years some of the initiatives that Colin has been involved with include the Printastic Project. the Open Source Ventilator initiative, Forbes Lister Europe and the Rapid Foundation See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tune in and hear from four of the five 2020 ILTA Influential Women in Legal Tech Honorees and two special guests discuss the skills lawyers will need for the future in this 38-minute podcast. Episode 5 includes Jackie Nagtegaal, Futurist & Managing Director at Law for All as moderator and Alice Namuli Blazevic, Partner at Katende, Ssempebwa & Company Advocates and Co-Founder of The Legal Innovation Hub, María Jesús González-Espejo, Vice President at European Legal Technology Association (ELTA) and Managing Partner at Instituto de Innovación Legal, Maya Markovich, Chief Growth Officer, Nextlaw Labs at Dentons, and Professor Alice Armitage, Professor & Director of Applied Innovation at Hastings College of Law and Chief Executive Professor at LexLab at UC Hastings.  The five virtually sit down and chat about skills lawyers needed for the past decade and the role of law schools (5:20), where lawyers can get the skills they need (21:55), inclusivity in law schools (32:00), more! Moderated by Tracey Pardo, Business Analyst, Cooley LLP   Listen to the other episodes here:  Episode 1 - The Impact of COVID-19 on the Lawyer's Role Episode 2 - Data, Algorithm, and Legal texts: How can we utilize them to improve justice Episode 3- How the Client Behavior Has Changed Episode 4 - Is the Pandemic Triggering Transformation in the Legal Industry?

In this episode of The Judgment Call Podcast Daniel Gross and I talk about: What attracted Daniel to starting companies in the first place?What makes (scalable) software special for entrepreneurs?What are the incentives in Open Source software ecosystem?Is religion a major driver for entrepreneurship? What are the drivers for starting a company and where does this unending optimism come from?How can ‘gamification’ help us learn?How can we institute measurements for long-term consumer satisfaction?How ‘Youtube style learning’ will change the future of the next generation.What benefits pioneer.app offers to successful applicants?How Pioneer can help curate a body of knowledge in entrepreneurship.Is entrepreneurship an algorithm?Are the BIG 5 personality traits predictive in a founder success?Daniel’s views on the ‘Big stagnation’.Daniel’s tips for the best places to start a company. Daniel Gross is an entrepreneur and thinker and futurist who started out with Cue (a search engine). He later worked for Apple and joined  Y Combinator as a partner. Daniel is also an angel investor and runs his own (remote) distributed accelerator /incubator called pioneer.app (funded by Stripe and Marc Andreessen). You can reach Daniel on Twitter.

Mike J. Walker is an accomplished architect with a vast amount of experience as a leader, innovator and technology expert. Currently, Mike is Senior Director, Applied Innovation and Digital Transformation at Microsoft and previously has worked at leading technology companies such as Gartner, Hewlett-Packer, and Dell. And his career has taken him across Ohio, Seattle and Austin.In this episode we talk with Mike about his career working for some of the most innovative companies in the world, the incredible ecosystems of these tech companies and their cities, and how Ohio can play a leading role in the future.Mike is internationally known as an expert in innovation, strategy development, and enterprise architecture. His insights are sought-after as a speaker at major events worldwide. Additionally, he has delivered keynote speeches for conferences and events on five continents.Connect with Mike on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikejwalker/

This podcast launched the Centre for Legal Innovation's (CLI) second series on Reinvent Legal Business (RLB 2). RLB 2 will explore areas like new legal businesses, new approaches to legal service and product delivery, new roles and, how all this combines. We're viewing these changes through a global lens in this series, so each session features specialists from more than one country - global thought leaders and doers who are shaping next practices and, share their knowledge and experience about how they got there (or are continuing their journey) and, their successes and failures along the way. In this podcast,  Terri Mottershead, Executive Director, CLI, facilitated a panel discussion that focussed on The Case for Legal R&D – Legaltech Hubs and Innovation. Terri was joined by an amazing international panel of legal innovation/legaltech hub leaders from law schools and legal practice in Australia, India and the USA: Alice Armitage, Professor & Director of Applied Innovation, UC Hastings College of the Law  (USA); Michelle Grossmann, Chief Innovation Officer & Transformation Lead, Lander & Rogers Lawyers | iHub (Australia); Komal Gupta, Head of Innovation, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (India); and Maya Markovich, Chief Growth Officer, Nextlaw Labs at Dentons (USA). Topics discussed included: What's the purpose of innovation/legaltech hubs? What do the people leading these hubs do? How do the hubs work, and who do they work with or for? How do the hubs contribute to legal innovation/legaltech development? Are these hubs reinventing lawyer/client relationships through experimentation and additional ways to collaborate? Have the hubs become the R&D function of the legal industry? This was an insightful, informative, candid and generous discussion – a conversation that will stay with you and have you buzzing for hours if not weeks after you listen to it. Thank you so much Alice, Michelle, Komal and Maya for a brilliant conversation – we are inspired by your amazing work and the difference it makes in the legal industry every day! P.S. This podcast was also recorded as a webinar so, if you would like to watch it, you'll find it here.

Andy Puzder- former chief executive officer of CKE Restaurants, Author The Capitalist Comeback-The Trump Boom and the Let's Plot to Stop It.COL (Ret) Bob Morris to use his experience as a former Army logistics officer and his small Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small business, the Center for Applied Innovation, LLC, to form a small business consortium to produce high quality sanitizer. Endorsed by Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull.

Today, we speak with Professor Alice Armitage about law firm economics and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Professor Armitage is the Director of Applied Innovation at UC Hastings, where she teaches a course on the business skills necessary to build a tech startup. She’s also a two-time entrepreneur.

Kelly-Ann McHugh interviews Namita Bhide, Founder of Denim Consulting, on innovation in the financial service sector and why moving to a "proof of value" rather than "proof of concept" model is key to making collaborative, simplified, customer centric change. SHOW NOTES 01:54 Career Journey & Risky Choices 14:53 Trends, Introspection & Collaboration 23:33 Applied Innovation 26:36 Top Challenges for Financial Services 32:16 Gender Diversity 35:22 Rants & Revelations 38:16 Rapid Fire Round Get Transcript and more: https://www.riskywomen.org/2020/05/podcast-s3e4-is-common-sense-uncommon-in-risk-and-compliance-namita-bhide/

Geeks Reminiscing — Looking back over aged (tech) shoulders JD Marymee (Microsoft HQ Seattle | Applied Innovation Architect, Professional Flight Instructor and Author) JD and I met in the USA in 1996 when I started working at Novell’s Utah (Provo) HQ. His tech background and experience is jaw-dropping! JD’s history covers some of the most pivotal technology milestones in our industry and the various pioneers he engaged during those times. Listen in as we casually throw back to some of those fascinating instances, do some BIG name dropping and he shares his views on Blockchain. Unfortunately I couldn’t keep him talking longer (because he had to jump on a call with NASA and Starlink) but I’m sure (the older) geeks out there will love hearing some of this tech history. Consider this Part I : I promise to bring him back to surface more of this history chronologically. There is SO much he still has to share! Connect with JD on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmarymee/ Follow Stafford on Twitter https://twitter.com/staffordmasie Connect with Stafford on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/stafford-masie-69489726/ When you're ready to #BeHeard, contact the podcast specialists at

Join us for our first Zoom interview! Alaina McClue discusses Entrepreneurship in Orange County including Wave Wearable's acceptance into Wayfinder, a well-respected Incubator at the Beall Center for Applied Innovation.

Richard Sudek, PhD, is the Executive Director of UCI Beall Applied Innovation. UCI Beall Applied Innovation brings campus-based inventions and entrepreneurship together with Orange County's vibrant business community to support job creation and economic growth.

Today's Guest: Joseph Grzymski | Chief Scientific Officer, Renown Health | Sr. Director for Applied Innovation, Desert Research Institute Greg and Joe talk about Joe's unique path from Philosophy to Oceanography and Quantitative Biology to Population Health - and how it all led to a small community hospital system leading the world's largest community-based population health study. Important Links: Joe's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-grzymski-3049a2/ Joe's Twitter: https://twitter.com/grzymski The Healthy Nevada Project: https://healthynv.org/ Nature Communications Article: Genome-wide rare variant analysis for thousands of phenotypes in over 70,000 exomes from two cohorts: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-14288-y

Brian Dorsey and Mark Mirchandani are back this week with guests from Capgemini as we learn all about ML in the rugby industry. Priscilla Li, Head of Applied Innovation, and Aishwarya Kandukuri, Data Scientist, start the interview explaining what they do at Capgemini and how the company uses new technologies to enhance projects with their partners. When Capgemini became the official global innovation partner of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, they were tasked with creating new ways for fans to use technology to further their experience. Priscilla and Aishwarya explain how they created a series of digital projects to accomplish this goal, and how the experience inspired them to use AI to automate aspects of the actual rugby games, such as identifying a scrum. They explain the challenges of these projects and how they conquered those challenges, as well as ways it has benefited the rugby commentators, players, and fans. Later, they talk specifics regarding the process of tagging images and audio to use in AI projects and things they learned along the way. Priscilla and Aishwarya wrap up the interview with advice for others who may want to tackle a similar project. Priscilla Li Priscilla Li is a leader of Applied Innovation Exchange in the UK.  Her purpose is to apply innovation in ways that advance humanity with a team that is diverse in gender, thought, discipline and experience.  Together, they shape ideas and breathe life into them through the application of emerging technologies with a human perspective.  Priscilla has held leadership roles in innovation and technology, advising and implementing innovative solutions across industries in telecommunications, transport, public sector, and media.  As a founding member of Artfinder, funded by Silicon Valley and UK Venture Capitalists, she delivered the first image recognition technology to discover, share and sell art. In 2012, she was selected by Business Weekly as one of the top Cambridge entrepreneurs and received the Chairman’s Award for excellence at American Airlines. In the Applied Innovation Exchange, she continues to bring to life the art of the possible, collaborating with start-ups, academia, and the wider community to unlock new opportunities for growth and meaningful transformation.  Grateful for her journey, she hopes to inspire women to be pioneers, unencumbered by the reality of today, but energised by the promise of tomorrow.   Aishwarya Kandukuri Aishwarya Kandukuri is a Data Scientist in Capgemini’s Insights & Data Practice. Her role involves testing ideas and concepts by analysing data and building machine learning models using emerging technology. Aishwarya works with an interdisciplinary team to drive business solutions. She worked on various projects across the industries to apply Machine Learning concepts to solve complex business problems to meet the needs of the customers. She continues to seek innovative approaches and explore new technologies to achieve long lasting solutions. Cool things of the week From raw data to machine learning model, no coding required blog Helping contact centers respond rapidly to customer concerns about COVID-19 blog How can Chatbots help during global pandemic (COVID-19)? blog Verily COVID-19 Pathfinder virtual agent site COVID-19 Rapid Response Demo on GitHub site Deconstructing Chatbots video Recent Podcasts with Priyanka: GCP Podcast Episode 188: Conversation AI with Priyanka Vergadia podcast GCP Podcast Episode 195: Conversational AI Best Practices with Cathy Pearl and Jessica Dene Earley-Cha podcast Interview Capgemini site Altran site Rugby sevens partnership and technology site AWS Kinesis site AWS Fargate site Applied Innovations Exchange on Medium blog Emerging technologies in sports site Applied AI within a Pop-Up store: a collaboration between Action for Children and Capgemini AIE video To get the Quarterly Applied Innovation UK newsletter email TensorFlow site Firebase site Question of the week We talk to our friend Zack about how we could build something similar with ML! AutoML might be the way to go! Where can you find us next? Capgemini will be at more What’s Now London Events with topics like Disrupting The Field Brian has been working on videos like Rethinking VMs - Eyes on Enterprise. He’s also been live streaming with Yufeng in Adventures with Yufeng on VMs. Mark will be making more videos like Kubeflow 101.

Some of us may have been saying that for years, but now the Gartners of the world are picking up on it too. So, the oracles have spoken: “The application of graph processing and graph DBMSs will grow at 100 percent annually through 2022 to continuously accelerate data preparation and enable more complex and adaptive data science”. That all sounds great, in theory. In practice, however, things are messy. If you're out to shop for a graph database, you will soon realize that there are no universally supported standards, performance evaluation is a dark art, and the vendor space seems to be expanding by the minute. Recently, the W3C initiated an effort to brings the various strands of graph databases closer together, but it's still a long way from fruition. So, what's all the fuss about? What are some of the things graph databases are being used for, what are they good at, and what are they not so good at? Property graphs and RDF are the 2 prevalent ways to model the world in graph; What is each of these good at, specifically? What problems does each of these have, and how are they being addressed? RDF* is a proposal that could help bridge graph models across property graphs and RDF. What is it, how does it work, and when will it be available to use in production? What about query languages? In the RDF world, SPARQL rules, but what about property graphs? Can Gremlin be the one graph virtual machine to unite them all? What about the future of graph databases? Could graph turn out to be a way to model data universally? Moderated by George Anadiotis. Panelists: Geoffrey Horrell Director of Applied Innovation, London Lab at Refinitiv Steve Sarsfield VP of product, Cambridge Semantics Joshua Shinavier Research scientist, Uber

Rich is currently in the WayFinder program at the Beall Center for Applied Innovation.

Listen to our talk between Nick Hawtin and Professor Alice Armitage about the law, technology and education! Professor Alice Armitage is the Director of Applied Innovation, which includes overseeing two innovative hubs – LexLab & Startup Legal Garage.

In this episode MING Labs COO, Sebastian Mueller interviews our guest Steffen Schacher. Steffen runs the Applied Innovation Exchange for Capgemini in Singapore which is part of 16 centers worldwide. He is responsible for Innovation Ideation, creating PoC's, and curating an ecosystem. Steffen talks about his definition of innovation and how organizations can get started with an innovation process. He elaborates how Capgemini's AIE helps corporates leverage the startup ecosystem, and discusses how an Open Innovation approach can succeed and scale up.

Dan Heinfeld is currently the President of LPA, a leading national architecture firm, and he has been there for over 30 years.  He leads their design and sustainability initiatives as well.  LPA has more than 400 people in 6 offices in California and Texas.  Their Orange County office, in Irvine, is right in the middle of one of the "innovation" areas here - University Research Park - and right next to Acorns, CloudVirga, Ready at Dawn, and the Beall Center for Applied Innovation at UCI, to name a few of his neighbors.Dan is an architect with a strong sense of duty to leave a lasting impact on the built environment and has been focused on sustainability long before others did, combining that with design excellence.  LPA has one of the largest portfolios of LEED certified projects in the US and has earned hundreds of awards for their designs.LPA has led the way in adopting energy reduction and efficiency in their buildings, even creating their own Irvine office as a living laboratory for design, redevelopment and energy reduction. Dan was the recipient of the 2018 President’s Award from the American Institute of Architects-Orange County chapter in recognition of his contribution to local architecture.Dan clearly leads by example with his innovative spirit.  And while I tend to focus on innovation here in Orange County in areas like software, technology has infiltrated architecture in so many ways that I bet I can’t even appreciate.  Dan and I talked about that and how technologically savvy today's talent is in his business. He is another great example of a world-class leader here in our community, accelerating things in his industry, his business and in Orange County.

Lemon Way is a B2B platform that offers payment processing, wallet management, and third-party payment solutions for crowdfunding, e-commerce, carsharing, mobiles, and marketplaces. It supports organizations in complying with regulatory obligations and gives them access to real-time back-office operations to fight payments fraud. Lemon Way has been qualified as an Intermediate ScaleUp by the Capgemini ScaleUp Qualification program. In this podcast, listen to Lemon Way’s experience with Capgemini ScaleUp Qualification. Capgemini ScaleUp Qualification maximizes effective collaboration between startups and traditional financial institutions and orchestrates the right partner ecosystem for sustained collaboration. To know more: Check out the database of Qualified ScaleUps - scaleup-qualification.capgemini.com/scaleups Playlist of Capgemini ScaleUp Qualification Podcasts - http://bit.ly/2Mjd29V FinTech Co-Innovation with Capgemini’s ScaleUp Qualification - http://bit.ly/2Mn0KNI Suggest a ScaleUp to qualify – https://scaleup-qualification.capgemini.com/suggest-scaleup

Richard Sudek is the Chief Innovation Officer at UC Irvine, and Executive Director of UCI Beall Applied Innovation.  Over the last 5 years there, he’s firmly established the center as a key part of the innovation ecosystem here, connected it to the OC community and what he calls an “innovation district”, and accelerated UC Irvine’s efforts in commercialization of its research and IP, and created an entrepreneurial energy and activity at the school that’s at an all-time high.  He also teaches entrepreneurship at UCI.He was previously at Chapman University as both a professor of entrepreneurship and director of their entrepreneurship center.  Prior to that Richard received a masters and PhD in Management from Claremont University. He’s a former chairman of Tech Coast Angels here and has made many angel investments. He was also a successful entrepreneur as CEO of Nadek Computer Systems.He is a great example of a leader and key stimulator of innovation activity in Orange County.

Not all law firms are equal. In fact, some of them are drastically different from one another. As technology becomes even more pervasive in the legal industry, the industry is changing and reacting. This week, we share a special live panel discussion from UC Hastings’ legal innovation hub, LexLab. The panelists spoke to an audience of legal tech startups, students, and legal professionals on some of the factors and considerations driving change in the law firm model. Panelists speaking in this week’s episode are: Augie Rakow of Atrium LLP; Sameena Kluck, previously of Thomson Reuters; Nick Long, Director of Gravity Stack at Reed Smith LLP; and Patrick Palace, of Palace Law. The discussion is moderated by Alice Armitage, professor and Director of Applied Innovation at UC Hastings, and CEP of LexLab. The panel was recorded as part of the LexLab Lunch-and-Learn speaker series. LexLab is an innovation hub within UC Hastings, which is building a concentration in law and technology for students, and an accelerator for legal tech startups.

What does 'applied innovation' really mean? What are the challenges businesses face, and how can they overcome these? In the introductory episode of the Applied Innovation podcast, Frank Wammes (www.twitter.com/fwammes), Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, Capgemini Europe discusses these and other questions with Lanny Cohen (www.twitter.com/lannyscohen), Chief Innovation Officer, Capgemini. To learn more, visit www.capgemini.com/innovation.

There is no shortage of talk about innovation in the aid and development space - but how much of this talk has actually moved beyond small scale piloting programs into standard operations for funders and implementors? My unscientific read from the field continues to say "not much," especially in the case of large-scale implementors. Like any established system or process, fundamentally shifting the way business is done takes both time and unwavering leadership. The US Global Development Lab at USAID seeks to be a mechanism for taking ideas to change-making action. As explained by Alexis Bonnell, my guest on the 124th Terms of Reference Podcast, the Lab seeks to be a catalyst for nothing less than "the transformation of the development enterprise by opening development to people everywhere with good ideas, promoting new and deepening existing partnerships, bringing data and evidence to bear, and harnessing scientific and technological advances." Alexis is the Division Chief in Applied Innovation and Acceleration for The Lab. As you've come to expect from TOR guests, she is definitely someone to listen to: she has developed and delivered over a billion dollars of humanitarian and development programming in over 25 conflict, post-conflict, and emergency countries, in almost every sector from education to stabilization, for more than 30 International Bi-lateral donors, 10 UN agencies, the military, and the private sector.

Today on Through the Noise we bring you collaborators from different parts of the development world -- Alexis Bonnell from USAID, who is an "Innovation Evaganelist" and Steven O'Connor, Communications Director of DAI -- an employee owned global development firm. Ms. Bonnell is part of USAID's new Global Development Lab which is undertaking the challenge of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030. Technological advancements have made unprecedented changes possible while harnessing the collective brilliance of humanity. Listen up to learn more about their plans to change the world and maybe some of the strategies they emply will be useful in your own work. Alexis Bonnell is the Head of Applied Innovation at USAID and is focused on harnessing innovation to address humanities greatest challenges. Alexis has delivered over one billion dollars in development and humanitarian programming in over 25 countries, working with over 200 partners across all sectors of aid. USAID is the lead U.S. Government agency that works to end extreme global poverty and enable resilient, democratic societies to realize their potential. Steven O'Connor is DAI's Senior Director for Corporate Communications. He oversees internal and external communications for the company, which currently employs some 2,500 people on 150 projects in 92 countries. DAI is an employee-owned international development company dedicated to shaping a more livable world.