Podcasts about Edison Awards

On set Ebi Shankara and Eswari Gunasagar were gushing over this new show called ‘Karuvanam' on Vasantham in early Dec, and I took a peek and was blown away. I had to meet one of the guys behind this. We chatted, and it's not often that I get back so much from listening to this younger, serious filmmaker. He was so bent on not having his photo for this podcast that all he gave me was this blurry photo. I could have stolen one from the ether, but I'll honour his direction.Kumaran Sundaram is an award-winning Writer/Director with over a decade's experience. After studying film, he directed and wrote acclaimed works like Oh Butterfly, which won a Global Tamil Series Excellence Award at Edison Awards 2024. His MMA-themed drama Achamillai Manamae (Fearless Heart) won Best Direction at the New York Film and TV Awards 2023 and was nominated at the UK's Content Innovation Awards. Jillendru Oru Kalavaram (Happy Chaos), streaming on Netflix, garnered recognition. With credits on platforms like Viu and Discovery, he has produced programs internationally and aims to deliver life-changing stories, touching hearts one decisive moment at a time.

In this episode of Double Tap on YouTube hosts Steven Scott and Shaun Preece discuss updates to Be My Eyes, we find out about the new Glidance mobility aid everyone is excited about, and we chat design for everyone principles. Alongside the debut of its latest flagship model, GPT-4o, OpenAI introduced updates to Be My Eyes, a digital visual assistant designed to aid individuals who are blind or have partial sight. Initially integrated with ChatGPT in 2023, Be My Eyes leveraged OpenAI's GPT-4 to convert visual input into text, providing written descriptions of surroundings through a camera, which were then read aloud by ChatGPT's Voice Mode. Now integrated with GPT-4o, Be My Eyes benefits from the model's GPT-4 level intelligence, which is faster and enhanced across text, voice, and vision capabilities. CEO Mike Buckley joins the guys to explain more. Amos Miller, the CEO and founder of Glidance, shares the details of his innovative autonomous self-guided mobility aid for the blind community with host Steven Scott, which is now available for pre-order with delivery expected later this year. The new device has been showcased around the world over the past year, and was most recently named the gold winner of the Assistive Technologies prize at the 2024 Edison Awards. CEO of Rebokeh, Rebecca Rossenberg, talks to Steven and Shaun about the concept of design for everyone and the challenges faced by companies in creating inclusive and accessible products. Rebecca discusses the need for a meaningful design for everyone approach that goes beyond just words. She emphasizes the importance of involving disabled people as crucial stakeholders in the early stages of development. Get ahead of the conversation and check out the Double Tap YouTube channel every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday on the platform which you can find using this link: https://www.youtube.com/@DoubleTapVideo

Beth Carey is Co-Founder and CEO of Pat Inc, an award-winning language understanding platform representing meaning for machines to enable human-like interactions.Beth has a history of establishing and growing corporate technology businesses, leading large teams of technologists at IBM and Fujitsu, and facilitating the world-class IBM Leadership Development program across Asia-Pacific. She has established and exited an equestrian business and is the past inaugural Ambassador for global organization Women in AI.At Pat Inc, they have developed a meaning-based NLU (Natural Language Understanding) algorithm for the world's languages which humanizes conversations with machines. Pat's origin represents a ‘David and Goliath' story, as it's one that demonstrates solving an ‘hard AI' problem doesn't always require brute force. Pat has won Best New Algorithm for AI 2018/2019 at the global AI awards, Best Technical implementation for AI 2019/2020 and was a finalist in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, XR Education Challenge. In 2021, Pat was a nominee for the Edison Awards. #ai, #chatbots, #aiforgood, #linguistics, and #conversationalai https://pat.ai/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethjcarey/

What do winter jackets, smart screens and moisturizing face masks have in common? Innovations to create these three products all earned 2022 Edison Awards. And they all came from the same organization, NAMI, The Nano and Advanced Materials Institute. Learn more about these innovations in the latest Inspiring Minds Podcast.

What do winter jackets, smart screens and moisturizing face masks have in common? Innovations to create these three products all earned 2022 Edison Awards. And they all came from the same organization, NAMI, The Nano and Advanced Materials Institute. Learn more about these innovations in the latest Inspiring Minds Podcast.

Leotek wins two Edison Awards. Espen Technology appoints Freddy Prestonas RVP for the South. DLFNY will have a tour of the New York Public Library. IES and PNNL will have a free webinar on 26 MAY.

L’institut de recherche sur les technologies industrielles (ITRI) de Taïwan a remporté deux médailles pour des innovations médicales lors des prix Edison Awards, qui récompensent les produits et solutions innovants dans une série de domaines tels que la technologie, l'éducation et la science. Aujourd’hui, c’est sur la facette innovante de l’ITRI qui contribue au développement de nouveaux produits capables de changer notre quotidien qui nous intéresse avec deux inventions basées sur les TIC et qui ont été primées aux prix Edison Awards : des implants médicaux qui facilitent l’intégration des tissus (médaille d’argent) et un scanner rétinien de dépistage précoce du diabète (médaille de bronze). BioMS-Ti est une structure de squelette bionique hybride qui est fabriquée grâce à la technologie d'impression 3D SLM. L'implant canulé bioactif a une conception de structure poreuse contrôlable et peut être combiné avec des matériaux biocéramiques ou ostéogéniques pour accélérer la régénération osseuse et l'intégration de l'interface des tissus durs/mous. Les processus de conception et de fabrication personnalisés lui confèrent un potentiel énorme en tant qu'implants médicaux de précision personnalisés en orthopédie, en dentisterie et en médecine esthétique. BioMS-Ti a été concédé sous licence à Ingrowth Biotech Co. Ltd. pour la conception et la fabrication de clous osseux ligamentaires et à BlueLab Inc. pour la production de cages de fusion intersomatique. Portable Edge AI-DR est un système assisté par IA pour détecter la rétinopathie diabétique (RD). Il peut localiser quatre lésions principales, classer cinq niveaux de gravité de la rétinopathie diabétique et peut aider les médecins à diagnostiquer la RD, en fournissant des soins avancés aux patients atteints de complications oculaires diabétiques dans un dispositif médical portable et en réduisant le besoin de consultation vers des ophtalmologistes pour les patients atteints de troubles bénins. L’ITRI ​​​​a collaboré avec le concepteur et fabricant de dispositifs médicaux Medimaging Integrated Solution Inc. (MiiS) pour développer la solution portable, y compris la caméra de fond d'œil portable et l'ordinateur de bord AI.

Mary Beth was the Manager of the GE Lighting Institute in Cleveland, Ohio for 18 years.  She was responsible for the overall operation and curriculum development for this training and education center that hosted over 4000 visitors a year. Mary Beth and Michael and Greg take a little trip down nostalgia lane recalling the days of the Edison Awards and training at the institute. She might be retired from GE, but Mary Beth hasn't stopped. You can still learn a thing or two from the professor.

On Inspiring Minds, we often talk about BIG ideas...on today's episode, we're going small. Smaller than you can even see with a microscope...as we dive into advancements in nanotechnology. When you start to manipulate matter on this near-atomic scale...it creates the opportunity to produce new structures, materials and devices. This work is producing impacts in many sectors including medicine, consumer products, energy, materials and manufacturing. In 2021, the Edison Awards recognized the work of the Nano and Advanced Materials Institute (NAMI) with two Silver Edison Awards. Director of Operations Jenny Yiu and Director of Research and Development for Electronics Dr. Tracy Liu are here to uncover what's happening at the Hong Kong-based institute that will affect consumers around the globe.

On Inspiring Minds, we often talk about BIG ideas...on today's episode, we're going small. Smaller than you can even see with a microscope...as we dive into advancements in nanotechnology. When you start to manipulate matter on this near-atomic scale...it creates the opportunity to produce new structures, materials and devices. This work is producing impacts in many sectors including medicine, consumer products, energy, materials and manufacturing. In 2021, the Edison Awards recognized the work of the Nano and Advanced Materials Institute (NAMI) with two Silver Edison Awards. Director of Operations Jenny Yiu and Director of Research and Development for Electronics Dr. Tracy Liu are here to uncover what's happening at the Hong Kong-based institute that will affect consumers around the globe.

Preston Pan, R&D engineer for the US market of EBM Technologies, kick-off season 2 of Inspiring Minds, a podcast powered by the Edison Awards. Preston talks about how EBM Technologies has evolved over the years and continues to innovate to give doctors and clinicians in the field tools that they need to make real-time diagnosis. EBM Technologies, provides medical imaging systems and specialize in picture archiving and communication system, also known as PACs. The company was founded in 1988 in Taiwan with over 150 employees located in four offices. EBM Technologies has installed their PAC system in nearly 3,500 hospitals across regions of Asia, North America, and are planning to enter the Middle East market soon. A 2021 Edison Award Winner, the UDE app turns an iPad into a medical image viewer and server used for diagnosis. Listen as Preston dives deeper into what it means to win an Edison Award and what is next from EBM Technologies!

Preston Pan, R&D engineer for the US market of EBM Technologies, kick-off season 2 of Inspiring Minds, a podcast powered by the Edison Awards. Preston talks about how EBM Technologies has evolved over the years and continues to innovate to give doctors and clinicians in the field tools that they need to make real-time diagnosis. EBM Technologies, provides medical imaging systems and specialize in picture archiving and communication system, also known as PACs. The company was founded in 1988 in Taiwan with over 150 employees located in four offices. EBM Technologies has installed their PAC system in nearly 3,500 hospitals across regions of Asia, North America, and are planning to enter the Middle East market soon. A 2021 Edison Award Winner, the UDE app turns an iPad into a medical image viewer and server used for diagnosis. Listen as Preston dives deeper into what it means to win an Edison Award and what is next from EBM Technologies!

Today, we meet with Kevin DiMarzio, the vice president of business development at RedWire. He leads a team of professionals in the identification and capture of new opportunities, customer engagement and retention, and business strategy focused on technology solutions. Their recent efforts include new material processing techniques, quality tool sets, and unique ways to use existing terrestrial methodologies in the microgravity and space environment. Prior to joining Made In Space, the company that was recently acquired by Redwire, Mr. DiMarzio worked for Siemens Energy in the power generation sector primarily focused on the large gas and steam turbine industries. He holds a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelors of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Central Florida. We met Mr. DiMarzio at the recent Edison Awards where both Kevins were panelists on the Future of Florida's Space Economy segment. We are excited to talk with him today about 3D printing and additive manufacturing in space as well as how future engineers can get involved. Learn more at Redwire's website: https://redwirespace.com/ and, you can check out our own new AIA website at https://www.aerospacehigh.org/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shawna-christenson2/support

Arrow Electronics took home the 2021 Silver Edison Award in the category of Social Tools for Disabilities & Illnesses for its Belle Dragon social robot. The project granted the wish of 14-year-old cancer patient Belle Cress through Make-A-Wish Colorado. This marks the third consecutive year that Arrow's Corporate Social Responsibility humanitarian technology program has been recognized with an Edison Award. Congratulations!The Edison Awards organization also named Arrow engineering services project manager Victoria Bohannon-Pea as a 2021 Lewis Latimer Fellow. Bohannon-Pea, who joined Arrow as an intern in 2014, managed the dragon's development and coordinated several technology partners and suppliers. The Latimer fellows will meet regularly to exchange ideas and build a new community of African American innovators. It is named for Lewis Howard Latimer, a Black inventor and patent draftsman who improved Thomas Edison's original light bulb by patenting the use of a long-lasting carbon filament. Latimer's invention paved the way for the commercialization of lighting.

In 2014, Robbie Cabral was down on his luck. “I was working my normal job and, sadly, I got laid off,” he tells Andy Jacob, CEO, of Dotcom Magazine. Cabral continued, “The same day I got laid off, my daughter was born.” Then, a simple idea turned his situation around: While at the gym, he wondered “how come there is not just a lock that you can open with a fingerprint, but also with a traditional key,” he recalls. It would be a convenient and safe upgrade from commonplace, analog locks, he thought. That idea led him to invent BenjiLock, a patented product that does just that. He took his invention, which won accolades at the annual Consumer Electronics Show, all the way to ABC's “Shark Tank,” where he landed a $200,000 investment from Kevin O'Leary in exchange for 15 percent equity in the company. Applauded as “the essence of the American Dream” by Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary, Robbie Cabral is no stranger to the Edison Awards, taking home the award for the category of ‘Consumer Sensors and Biometrics' in 2018. His invention, BenjiLock, is widely renowned as one of the most impactful modern-day innovations for personal security, using groundbreaking fingerprint technology. Robbie's innovations took the prestigious 2021 TWICE Picks CES Award for its brand new BenjiLock Fingerprint Bike Lock, Gear Brain's Best Tech of CES 2021 for its Fingerprint Sport Lock, and Digital Trends chose BenjiLock as one of the Editor's Pick Best Smart Locks and Top Tech CES 2021 awards for its Fingerprint Door Lock About BenjiLock: Based in Los Angeles, California, and founded in 2014 by inventor and entrepreneur Robbie Cabral, BenjiLock is redefining the personal security experience using hybrid technology with the consumer in mind. After its recent Shark Tank success, Robbie Cabral landed Kevin O'Leary as an investor with a 15% equity stake in the company. Next, he secured a licensing partnership with Hampton Products International, the leader in security and hardware innovations and makers of BRINKS locks, giving the startup over 30 years of manufacturing and production experience. Today, BenjiLock's fingerprint technology is expanding into a portfolio of products—an upcoming line of bike locks, next-generation of padlocks, drawer closet, and cabinet locks, and a brand-new line of smart home door locks. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

iOBED International has become one of the first companies in the mattress industry to win a gold medal in the consumer goods category at the Edison Awards.

Stephen Key has successfully licensed more than 20 simple ideas that have generated billions of dollars of revenue during the past 30-years. Stephen holds 12 patents. His products have been sold by some of the most recognized brands such as Disney and Walmart. Stephen has won many awards including the Edison Awards. Stephen [...] The post Generate Billions In Sales With Simple Ideas appeared first on Small Business Advice Help For Startups and Entrepreneurs.

The first two time guest of the Inspiring Minds podcast, CEO of Whipsaw Design, Dan Harden joins Justin Starbird again to talk more about device and product design. When Dan was on last time, he and Justin talked in depth and detail about product design, how design companies go about working with clients, and how they create expectations about projects. On this episode, Dan dives deeper into how projects move through the process from concepts, to design, and then into commercialized products. It is an important topic at the Edison Awards, because we have been fortunate to recognize some really amazing projects that followed this exact process. As Dan points out, "it's a mystery, or maybe customers don't even think about where products come from. You go to the store and you see these things and you're like, Oh, it just exists. There are countless hours, weeks, and even years that go into the development of a lot of products out there, especially the more innovative ones that requires a lot of R&D, a lot of development, a lot of brainpower to pull it off. Process is everything. Process is key to innovation. You've got to have a sound process to get you there. Every project is different." Dan has no secrets to success. Whipsaw has worked hard to bring many every day products to life in a way that help create an impact, improve our lives, and make the public more healthy. Listen to Dan and Justin on today's episode of Inspiring Minds!

There are over 25 million asthma suffers and over 80 million allergy sufferers in the United States alone. This creates a large group of people that are all hyper-aware of the air they breathe. Although they may not refer to the air they breath in the technical terms that the air purification industry speaks about, these people do talk about mold and bacteria. It is a very important topic. Today, air quality and airborne illness, Covid-19, are at the forefront of people's mind. Jaya Rao, CEO and Co-Founder of Molekule, joins host Justin Starbird for the latest episode of Inspiring Minds to talk about what led to the founding of such a game changing company. Jaya's brother is a life long allergy and asthma sufferer and "He lived it and so we knew he was feeling it (the poor air quality) and a whole bunch of other people were feeling the pain of breathing dirty air, and that we could meet them there and talk about how we're different." Jaya's father had developed a technology that could purify the air right in your home instead of through an HVAC system in the ducts of your home. The next challenge was, "Okay, you've had filtration for years. Here's something new. Would you want to try it?" "A lot of times aesthetically, people end up using it (the product) and then throwing it on the side of the road because they're done with it and throwing it into the trash. We wanted this (the Molekule Air) to be an object that really felt compelling to you, that you felt like it belongs in your home, it belongs as a centerpiece in your home because it's doing something important. It's cleaning your air." I think the biggest step was trying to come up with something fundamentally different in the way it looked, and then getting that manufactured and finding partners. We took it one step at a time but now as I look back at it, I just think, "I don't know how we did it with, at that time, a really small team." I think it was just we were naive maybe to the challenges ahead and we just kept going. Ultimately got the product out, which at the time, a lot of Silicon Valley hardware companies were not able to do. That was really just a big moment to finally arrive at. Today, Molekule is a multi-Edison Award Winning Company and forever part of the Edison Awards amazing community. Listen to the full interview with Justin and Jaya now!

On this episode of Inspiring Minds, host Justin Starbird welcomes good friend of the Edison Awards, serial entrepreneur, part owner, developer, and all-around awesome guy, Ryan Fogelman. Ryan is the CEO of Conversion Development is leading Gold Edison Award Winner Fire Rover, CO-hatch and former Edison Award Winner Re-Grip. Listen to Ryan talk about how he has over come obstacle after obstacle to find success. He says it best in this expert, "I've typically not had deep pockets in anything that I've worked on. I've never been one where a company like Accenture would say, “Okay, why don't you become part of my research and development team and help us figure out what the next product market would be.” What I do is I'd like to work from the ground up. I'd like to work with inventors. I'd like to understand. I'm curious. I think that's where the Re-Grip. I fell in love with the innovation, in the simplicity of what the invention was. With Fire Rover, the same thing. It's a very complex product and I work with the inventors and it was one of my really good friends who actually had the idea for the company and he did the first year of building prototypes and then I got involved. Again, when I get involved, I think it's the next level. You have the inventor who creates that product. Then I look for products. Number one that I think are going to make it because nobody wants to waste their time. I don't want to say I refuse to fail. I'd like to think that I refuse to fail. Of course, I fail, but at the same time, it's always going to be a calculated risk on the projects that I want to work on. Then there are the surprises. You work on a passion project, like CO-hatch that actually now has a mind of its own and a life of itself. I think I'm always looking for innovation. I'm looking for things that excite me. Then, from my perspective, when I get involved, it's, “Okay, what's the best way and channels to start to drive awareness.” Then from that perspective, it's, “Okay, now, we get awareness, let's prove the product works, and then let's try to go out and actually get real sales.” You get real sales, it turns into a real business. There are some great ideas out there and there's a lot of very naive inventors and I say that with the most respect. Inventors should be naive. They should stay naive. They should believe that the world is simple and that they can create a product because what's made the US and what's made the American way it's our innovation. It's looking at a problem and trying to find something new, which is why I love the Edison Awards. Because when you go there, there are all of these different products of people who've created something or a different mousetrap or something. That's huge. Now, bringing it to market is different. Sometimes I feel like I crush the inventor's dreams when I'm like, “Create your product. Get your patent, be done.” Then bring someone in like myself or a group that licensed it to a company that has the money and the deep pockets that can really bring it to market. Again, as we all know what the internal combustion engine, it's not the most efficient product that's out there. My great grandfather used to say, “It was the biggest forest that was sold to all of us as Americans.” At the end of the day, that product made it because of the deep pocket. We would have had electric cars 50 years ago if it was for what the best and most innovative products are. There's always the reality of business. I think that's the hard part for people to understand."

Industrial Technology Research Institute is located in the northern part of Taiwan, Hsinchu, won two Edison Awards for 2020 for their contributions to innovation. In the first of their two wins, ITRI took the Edison Award Gold in the Adhesives category for their product Celluad, a product developed in part by Dr. Lin, Research Director of Materials Research and Development at the company. Dr. Lin joined Justin Starbird and explained how Celluad was created using cellulose, an organic material found in plant cell walls, this adhesive is low-cost, strong, water-resistant, and environmentally friendly. Compatible with existing manufacturing processes, Celluad provides excellent adhesion when applied to plywood, flooring, and lumber core board. Most importantly, ITRI's adhesive is completely free of formaldehyde, a carcinogenic chemical found in the resin used to construct most artificial wooden boards. In this way, ITRI offers an adhesive solution that is effective and affordable as well as healthier for manufacturers, consumers, and the environment. The second award ITRI received this year was bronze in Cellular Research for iKNOBEADS, the world's first and only biomimetic magnetic beads capable of fighting cancer by stimulating, expanding, and strengthening T cells through imitation of the immune system. Dr. Chen also joined Justin and worked directly on their development, explains that the knobby shape which gives iKNOBEADS their name and makes them so effective was the result of a happy accident that occurred while experimenting with different bead sizes when it was found that the addition of texture to the beads increased expansion rate. Because of this, iKNOBEADS not only fight cancer but do so with an incubation period reduced by three to four days, reducing opportunities for contamination and saving money. Listen as Dr. Lin and Dr. Chen talk through innovation, commercialization and what winning an Edison Award has meant for ITRI.

Wayne Liu, SVP of Perfect Corp, joins Justin Starbird to discuss how a hardcore technology company applies their innovation to the beauty industry. Yes, to their roots, Perfect Corp incorporates R&D, engineering and innovation to all of their projects. According to Wayne, "...More than two-thirds of our employees are really technically driven. However, it's not only technology. The spirit of the Edison Awards is really how to apply the technology into the real world and commercialize it, and then create benefit for the majority of the people. That's really something we are looking at. We use our technology to create a product, and then we find a place where it can be useful and can benefit all the people. Then we commercialize, and get the business successes." That business model is confirmed by winning the Edison Award. Wayne adds that, "we recognize that we are having an impact on the market which we are choosing, which is the beauty industry. We are really mainstream now." Listen as Wayne shares how Perfect Corp is getting set to celebrate their first 5 years!

Reema Poddar is a highly successful executive with 26 years of experience in the software Industry. Poddar is a respected thought leader in Technology and authority on Digital and Organizational Transformation. Her successes include accelerating Digital & Organizational transformations enhancing customer experiences, enabling companies to improve automation, developer productivity, and operational excellence. She recently served Teradata Inc, as the Executive Vice President and “Chief Product and Development officer” of the company and was responsible for leading worldwide product, technology, innovation, corporate security, and analytics strategy. Here she was instrumental in helping the company through its ambitious cloud transformation and the transition of multibillion-dollar product line from a perpetual to a subscription-based offering. In 2018 & 2019 under her leadership, Teradata delivered the world’s first Data and Analytics Platform – “Vantage”, and the first SaaS application- “Vantage CX”. These multi-cloud offerings led to acquiring net new enterprise logos & doubling the cloud revenue for the company. Prior to joining Teradata, Poddar held a variety of senior executive positions within General Electric Company, Emerson Electric and Software Start Up - Intellution Inc. She is a passionate leader who empowers teams to take risk, fail fast and learn. She is focused on helping women in all areas of technology to reach their next level of success in life and work and is actively involved in a variety of STEM programs, Women in Technology initiatives and other nonprofits. She holds several business, technology, and CEO leadership awards at GE and the companies she has served. In 2019, Poddar was named one of the Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology by the National Diversity. In 2018, Poddar was honored by the San Diego Business Chambers for her business impact and technology leadership, as well as San Diego Magazine recognized her in the top 5 of the city’s powerful female leaders. Poddar is also an honored recipient of the 2015 Edison Awards for New Product Innovation for healthcare industrial internet of things. In 2014, she was honored with the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology award for the most innovative new product solution. Poddar holds a Master’s in computer science and a Master’s in Physics.

Ken Gray, Edison Awards Steering Committee member and former Global Director of Innovation at Caterpillar Inc., joins host Justin Starbird. Today they discuss Ken's unique and insightful perspective on the elements companies should consider while focusing on innovation. Justin & Ken go back nearly 10 years and their friendship started at the Edison Awards in Chicago in 2012 when Ken and his team at CAT disrupted an entire industry by launch the Hybrid Excavator and won GOLD that year. Ken also explores how the size of an organization redefines the appropriate approach to innovation, informed by an extensive career working with companies from large corporations to nonprofits and startups.

Listen today as Justin talks with Edison Awards Executive Director, Frank Bonafilia about how the Edison Awards got its start, who was first recognized and what makes him so committed to innovation. The Edison Awards is one of the few global platforms that really recognizes, honors, and fosters innovation innovators. Frank shares how, "it's really the teams that we're looking to recognize and honor. We're doing this in the name of Thomas Edison, who we see as one of the greatest innovators of all time." Frank continues to be amazed how someone like Thomas Edison who's been passed away over 100 years ago is still revered, and is the icon of innovation around the world. The world has come a long way from the recognition of a calling card compared to putting someone in space or making people's lives secure.

Arpan Sheth is a detail-oriented software development manager with experience building systems supporting millions of users. At Twitter, he leads engineering teams that build user-facing ad products that help Twitter generate hundreds of million dollars in revenue. Arpan likes to forge strong stakeholder relationships and lead, motivate, and influence his teams to deliver high-quality software products. He has deep experience in building consumer software products from scratch and scaling it to millions of users. Before Twitter, Arpan was a Director of Engineering at Saavn for 7 years. His work helped Saavn scale from 200,000 users to almost 75+ million users, and he led efforts to build secure and scalable 75+ APIs, subscription systems, web presence across desktop and mobile platforms, voice-enabled device integration with Google Home, Sonos and Amazon Alexa, Programatic Ad Systems to manage the full ad campaign life cycle, etc. Saavn was acquired by Indian Telco Jio. Arpan is a senior member of IEEE and has been invited to be a judge at Webby Awards, Stevie Awards, Edison Awards and SIAA Codie Awards. He holds a Masters degree in Information Management from University of Washington and holds an undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Engineering. Arpan lives in the Silicon Valley with his wife and daughter. He loves spending time with his family, cooking interesting food, and learning new technologies

ZHERORisk The European Union (EU) paid for universities in Italy to conduct an R&D project aimed at lowering the safety, health and environmental risks associated with high performance flooring installation products to zero. Today, most flooring installation products are very corrosive and have caustic chemistries. While these floor installation products offer high performance, they currently are required to include the “Danger” warning on their containers/packaging. If not disposed of properly, the waste from these products can end up in the soil and water supply, posing an environmental risk. ZHERORisk products offer a major innovation that will change the way tile and stone are installed and significantly reduce the risks that currently exist. These products will offer better working conditions and overall health for installers, as well as improvements in building wellness and very low environmental impact. The products are GEV-EMICODE certified to be very low in emissions. The ZHERORisk product line will launch in the U.S. beginning in March and continuing throughout 2019. Tile Doctor Shield® o   First non-toxic antimicrobial product approved for hard surfaces that has no potential for environmental impact o   Recently received patent for application of antimicrobial for tile and stone o   Finalist in Edison Awards for Innovation Tile Doctor      

Scott Bahneman is an ergonomics expert on a mission to teach others in the corporate world how to combat the "sitting disease." He is the Founder & Chairman of SitTight™ a company that has transformed sitting into an activity that improves your health by using your body's natural ability to balance. Bahneman been featured on Innovation Nation with Mo Rocca, Fast Company Magazine, and last year, SitTight won the bronze at the 2018 Edison Awards! Dr Ron and Dr Gerry will take your questions after our interview. You will hear among other topics how active sitting improves mental and physical health and why balance is a key component.   Call 347-989-8899 Faceboof Dr Ron Unfiltered Uncensored

Konuğumuz Eren Erdoğan: Eren Erdoğan Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi İnşaat Mühendisliği bölümünden 2013 yılında mezun olmadan önce akıllı ev teknolojileri geliştiren PEAK isimli girişimini kurdu. 2015 yılına kadar PEAK üzerinde çalıştıktan sonra Poi Labs'de satış ve iş geliştirme direktörü olarak görev aldı. Kendisi Stanford Üniversitesi'nde girişimciler için market stratejileri, ürün/market uyumu prensipleri gibi konularda eğitimler almıştır. 2010'dan beri YGA'da gönüllü olan Eren Erdoğan 2017'den beri bir YGA projesi olan, dünyanın ilk akıllı bastonu olma özelliğini taşıyan WeWALK'ta global bir ürün haline gelmesi için San Francisco'da çalışmaktadır. WeWALK, alışılageldik beyaz bastonu yenilikçi ve akıllı bir hale getirerek görme engellilerin daha bağımsız ve güvenli bir şekilde hareket etmelerine imkân tanır, üç özelliği sayesinde ise herkesle eşit şekilde toplum hayatına katılmalarına katkıda bulunur. Forbes 500 şirketlerinin yarıştığı Edison Awards'ta altın ödülün sahibi oldu. Birleşmiş Milletler'de “Daha iyi bir yaşam için teknoloji” başlığı altında iki kez örnek proje olarak anlatıldı.

The Avaya Happiness Index on Blockchain, which securely collects and automatically analyzes customer interaction data from multiple sources across all channels in real time , has been named a 2018 Award Finalist for the internationally-renowned Edison Awards™.

The Edison Awards, celebrating 30 years of honoring the best in innovation and excellence in the development of new products and services, announced today that Avaya was voted a Gold Winner for innovation in the category of Cyber Security at the April 20th event at The Capitale in New York City.

This week we did something a little different than our previous episodes. Instead of discussing a specific new movie (and/or its predecessor) we take a deep dive into the current, and future, landscape of the Superhero movie industry. Specifically, we spent most of our time on the MCU and DCEU. And it’s not like we’re the first people to trash the DCEU, but we like to think that we did it the best (who’s counting really?). Our anger at the DCEU, and our love for the MCU (look the acronyms up if you need to, I’m too lazy to type the words 8 times each), was fueled by the liquid stylings of Sixpoint Tesla and Jammer. That’s right we broke all types of Flix & a Six ground. Multiple beers for multiple movies. True innovators. We’ll be expecting our Edison Awards in the mail. We hope you enjoy a very special episode of Flix & a Six, only on The Spinchoon!

Thomas Edison once said, “I have not failed. I’ve found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Today’s guests are known for identifying and honoring those who make things work. Inspired by their namesake, the Edison Awards are the global leader in recognizing, honoring, and fostering innovation and innovators. Frank Bonafilia, Executive Director, Edison Awards and Clint Robinson, Associate Vice President, Black & Veatch & Edison Awards Steering Committee member join Jeffrey. Lessons Learned: • Recognize both the thinkers and the doers • Focus on the innovation within the product, what makes you different • Don’t rush, spend the time needed to excel • Video is key in today’s YouTube-educated society • Quit talking to the mirror and find a new audience to share your ideas with Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices