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What happens when healthcare leaders, innovators, and technology experts gather around a single mission: keeping patients at the center of every decision?At the Patient at the Center Symposium, hosted under the Straight Outta Health IT program, Christopher Kunney guided a series of conversations with healthcare leaders, innovators, and executives focused on redefining patient-centered care. The event featured Eugene Greyfer, founder and CEO of Advocaid and Chief Operating Officer at Veritas Health Services, who shared how his work in Texas Medicaid exposed a critical gap in access to diabetic supplies. He explained how Advocaid combines connected hardware and software, including a dual blood pressure and glucose monitoring device with built-in cellular connectivity, to help underserved patients transmit real-time health data to providers, fully covered through Texas's remote patient monitoring (RPM) program.The symposium then expanded into broader system-level innovation with Jeffrey Heenan-Jalil, founder and CEO of hunterAI, who entered healthcare innovation after losing his brother to cancer and now focuses on healthcare financial transparency through AI-driven spend analytics. He described how his platform analyzes millions of transactions across hospital systems to identify inefficiencies, duplicate payments, and misaligned supplier contracts, with the goal of returning value back into hospital systems for reinvestment in patient care. Mitali Paul, Administrator for the Department of Surgery at Houston Methodist and board member of the Southeast Texas chapter of ACH, emphasized that patient-centered care is not a philosophy but an operational standard, reflected in her organization's nationally recognized outcomes and commitment to quality, compassion, and culturally competent care.Additional perspectives came from Ini Ekiko Thomas, Vice President at Memorial Hermann Health System and leader of its Innovation Hub, who highlighted the challenges startups face when working with large health systems, particularly around compliance, cybersecurity, vendor vetting, and aligning technology to real clinical or operational problems rather than “shiny object” solutions. Finally, event organizers Brittany Jones and Verndon Samuel of Gozio Health, alongside Josh Sol of FTI Consulting, explained that the symposium's purpose was to bridge the gap between providers, IT leaders, and innovators in a local setting where real collaboration could occur beyond large national conferences.Tune in to hear how today's healthcare leaders are turning innovation into real-world impact by putting patients at the center of everything they do! ResourcesConnect with Jeffrey Heenan-Jalil on LinkedIn here.Follow hunterAI on LinkedIn here and visit their website here.Connect with Mitali Paul on LinkedIn here.Follow Houston Methodist on LinkedIn here and visit their website here.Connect with Ini Ekiko Thomas on LinkedIn here.Follow Memorial Hermann on LinkedIn here and visit their website here.Connect with Brittany Jones on LinkedIn here.Follow Gozio Health on LinkedIn here and visit their website here.Connect with Josh Sol on LinkedIn here.Follow FTI Consulting on LinkedIn here and visit their website here.

Martin Brazinet, head of Technology at AWS Canada AWS Canada has opened its first Canadian Partner Innovation Hub in Toronto, a purpose-built facility designed to help Canadian businesses move from AI experimentation to production-ready implementation – with their partners in the lead. The center, publicly announced June 2 at the AWS Summit Canada, is the Canadian evolution of AWS’s GenAI Innovation Center (GenAIIC) model. Globally, 65 percent of solutions that went through the GenAIIC program have made it to production, some in as few as 45 days. The key distinction for the Toronto hub: it is explicitly built around partner delivery and scale. “Seventy percent of our customers are hoping to get their GenAI implementation done using a partner,” said Martin Brazinet, head of technology at AWS Canada. “Having an environment where we can bring our launch partners and show cross-industry specificity is how this came about.” The facility opens with four launch partners: CGI, Dedicatted, Elevata, and OpsGuru. Each visit is tailored rather than templated – partners customize the demos and talk track for a specific customer, then move into a structured workshop designed to get C-suite, architects, and line-of-business stakeholders aligned on a shared action plan before they leave. Dinesh Bhavsar, director of AI, emerging technologies and innovation at CGI, said the space addresses a gap he sees regularly in how customers approach AI adoption. “If you’re starting with AI as the solution, you’ve already failed,” he told In The Channel. “You haven’t thought about what problem you’re actually trying to solve.” AWS says it intends to expand access beyond the four launch partners, with industry specificity and differentiated offerings being the primary selection criteria for future participants. Read Full Transcript Hello and welcome to In The Channel from ChannelBuzz.ca, bringing news and information to the Canadian IT channel community for the last 16 years. I’m Robert Dutt, editor of ChannelBuzz.ca, your host for the show. So here’s a number worth thinking about. 650,000 Canadian businesses are already on the AI adoption path, but only a third of them have actually mastered it. The other two-thirds are still at a very basic level of implementation, and the challenge isn’t getting started, it’s getting serious. Moving from a proof of concept that generates excitement in the boardroom to a production solution that actually changes how the business runs. That gap between prototype and production is the problem AWS Canada is trying to help its partners solve, and on June 2nd, the company formally launched its answer, the Partner Innovation Hub in Toronto. I was on site the day before the launch for a couple of conversations. First, I sat down with Martin Brazinet, head of technology at AWS Canada, who walked me through the vision behind the centre, why it’s built around partners and what success actually looks like. Then I spoke with Dinesh Bhavsar, director of AI, emerging technologies and innovation at CGI, one of the four launch partners, about what the space means for his clients and how he thinks about sparking curiosity with customers who may not yet know what questions to ask. Let’s get right into it, starting with my chat with Martin Brazinet. Thanks for taking the time, really appreciate it, especially on the eve of the centre going public and getting it launched out there.Martin Brazinet: Oh, thank you very much. It’s my pleasure to be here with you, Rob. Rob: For folks who aren’t familiar with the concept or haven’t heard it yet, can you kind of give us the elevator pitch, I guess, for the Partner Innovation Centre – what it is and why Toronto is the place for it? Martin Brazinet: Yeah, no, for sure, Rob. Every day my team is working with customers and helping customers adopt AI on a continuous basis. We see a lot of excitement from customers who wanted to get deeper into AI. I believe in terms of Canadian customers, there are 650,000 customers already in Canada that have adopted AI. But surprisingly, only about a third of them have really mastered AI – two-thirds of them are still at a very basic level of AI adoption. And we see that, and customers want to get some support on having a better understanding of how they can adopt AI at a more transformative level that touches their industry and touches their requirement. And the AWS Partner Innovation Hub is really there for that – to provide that space where we can see solutions in action, having an immersive environment where we can, with our partners, show some solutions that are transformative, and then talk about an action plan on how to put that in effect within their environment. Rob: You guys have had other innovation spaces, innovation hubs, innovation centres, that kind of thing globally. Can you kind of tell me a bit about how you’ve built on those ideas? And especially, I’m interested because you chose to put “Partner” right on the tin in terms of the name of this centre – why was the partner focus so important for this one? Martin Brazinet: Yeah, of course. So I guess two-fold here. From a GenAI Innovation Centre perspective – and this is called GenAIIC – GenAIIC is something that we started in 2023 with a lot of demand from our customers. And this is based on our own experience of bringing customers into an immersive environment, thinking about their scenario, showing them solutions and prototypes. And that has been super successful – that was an AWS practice. We’ve brought thousands of customers globally to adopt the solutions that we were presenting. I think it’s 65% of the solutions that went through our GenAIIC that went to production, and some of them just within 45 days. Over time, we’ve adopted a lot of partner motion as part of the GenAIIC in order to scale it and bring way more industry knowledge, industry specificity. And so we took the best of the GenAIIC in terms of the demos and the industry specifics, and we made it more scalable. And this is how the hub here that we’re implementing in Toronto came about. Toronto is the first Canadian hub that we’re launching, and it’s really because we see that Canadian customers really want to have that partner support to launch their GenAI journeys. In fact, 70% of our customers are really thinking about using partners to be deploying their GenAI environment, and having an environment where we can bring our launch partners – that we’ll talk about in a minute – to bring that cross-industry specificity. Rob: Let’s talk a little bit about one of the problems that you’re designing to solve here – the dynamic that you see where AI projects stall out between proof of concept and actually getting out there and earning their keep in the business. How widespread a problem is that for Canadian partners talking to their customers today? Martin Brazinet: Well, I think that’s one of the problems, right? Our customers have started to adopt AI, and they had that first stage of adoption of having pretty basic implementation. And when it comes to having more complex use cases to address in terms of really trying to transform their industry, they lack some of the knowledge that is required to move this to production. And this is where working with partners such as the launch partners that we have here – which are CGI, Dedicated, Elevata, and OpsGuru – they’ve been going to those types of projects dozens of times. They know how to move from proof of concept to production, building the right runbook, upscaling the customer environment, and they are that proof of success that can really reassure customers in that journey to moving to production. Rob: We talked a little bit before this about a shift that you’re seeing in how purchasing decisions are being made – kind of away from IT and towards line of business, the people who actually own the ultimate solution. How do you find that’s changing what a partner actually does to spec, to architect, to close a deal? Martin Brazinet: Well, it comes back to the fact that right now, the solutions that were initially planned were very generic. When you’re buying an AI solution off the shelf, it’s relatively non-complex to bring to production, but then you don’t transform your business as much. And it’s really where you see the partner with different depth of expertise – whether it’s consulting expertise that really understands how you need to shift your production environment if you’re in a manufacturing environment, or if you’re a global organization – having the partners that understand those different dynamics and can bring their expertise to help them launch and transform your business. Rob: Is this a Canada-specific challenge, or something you’re seeing around the world? And if it is sort of a universal challenge – which I suspect at least to some degree it is – is there anything that’s specifically unique about the Canadian market and its peculiarities? Martin Brazinet: Yeah. I think overall Canadian businesses are, in some aspect, maybe less risk-taking than some other countries. Rob: You would not be the first who said that. Martin Brazinet: Yeah. So being supported by a partner that has the experience to move this into your environment is certainly reassuring to customers in terms of the chances of success and avoiding costly mistakes that some may have made. So I think this is kind of maybe more unique to Canada, and this is why the number that I shared earlier – of 70%, 70% of customers are hoping to get their GenAI implementation using a partner – there’s certainly a connection between those two data points there. Rob: Yeah. I sometimes use the term, “Canadian businesses like to have someone walk through the minefield first and see where it is.” In the case of the right partner who’s done this a bunch of times, they hopefully know where all those mines are beforehand, and specific to your industry. Rob: So let’s talk about the centre itself and the experience. Walk me through – if I’m a partner and I’m bringing a customer in here, what does that look like in practice? How does the experience unfold? Martin Brazinet: Yeah. So I think the first thing is every visit to the hub is expected to be a tailored visit. It’s not a demo centre where everybody gets the same experience. A partner is going to take the time to really tailor it with demos and a talk track that are certainly pertinent to the customer that is going to come. So with that in mind, the visit has two dimensions. The first dimension is to work through that immersive demo centre where they’re going to see curated demos that speak to their industry. And it’s going to give some form of reference in terms of the art of the possible – what is the most innovative organization in my specific industry thinking about, and solving problems in different ways? So I think that’s a very intuitive moment where the lights are turning on and you see the art of the possible. And then we’re going to shift to the second aspect of the visit, which is the workshop. And the workshop is where you build that alignment. We have the leadership of our customers present there, and it’s often a diverse set of personas that are going to come – it’s going to be the C-suite and the architects and the line of business, not just the CIO. And we’re bringing the partners’ architects and our architects as well from AWS. And altogether we’re going to try to align the value map of the use cases that they’re trying to solve from a customer perspective, and define what the workstreams are – whether it’s to do a better understanding of the KPI for that use case that we’re thinking about, or whether it’s to go directly to a proof of concept or proof of value, or just to bring it to production. We’re going to get that customized experience. So by the end of the session, the customer walks out of here not only having seen really impressive technology, but they’re going to walk out of here with a plan in hand and documented next steps that we can go and pursue together. Rob: And I think that last bit may inform this, but I’m curious what you think is the most powerful thing about this space – the thing that you think is really going to get things moving, get things unstuck and create some momentum toward getting AI solutions that are meaningful, that are delivering business outcomes. Martin Brazinet: You know, that’s a good question. There’s certainly the inspiration moment that is quite powerful – really understanding how technology can now solve a problem in a completely different way. And we try to say that to our customers: if you are going to implement a generative AI solution, don’t try to just automate the steps that are already part of your process, but try to look at it through a completely different lens so that you get a disproportionately better outcome. But to answer your question directly, I think some of the most powerful things that come out of here is the alignment – getting the leadership alignment of our customers, all being in the room, realizing the same capabilities together, and then brainstorming with subject matter experts on what the next steps are. You walk out of here with a consensus on what the best next steps are. And I think that alignment from the leadership perspective is really, really powerful. Rob: Is it a best practice to lock the door and not let anyone have pizza until everyone’s got on the same page? Martin Brazinet: Where did you learn about that? I cannot reveal my sources. Rob: So if I’m a partner who’s participating here and I want to bring a customer in – what does that look like in terms of lead time, in terms of setup, in terms of thinking through what I want to be showing and talking about? Martin Brazinet: I mean, I guess it depends on where you are in terms of your journey. There’s not a one-size-fits-all. If you’re pretty advanced in terms of defining the outcomes that you’re trying to drive and it’s really about understanding what technology we can align, it’s probably something that we can get ready to do in a couple of days. But if you’re still at the ideation level and you don’t really have a clear understanding of what you’re trying to do, there’s probably more work to do in terms of gathering the requirements and understanding what “good” looks like in terms of the outcome of that session. So I’d say anywhere between a couple of days to a week or two of prep work. Rob: And I guess lead time will depend on how popular the place is and how many customers are lining up outside the door. Martin Brazinet: Absolutely. And that’s why we have a few launch partners – so that we start with scale and each of them bring their own set of capabilities. And we also have the scaling factor behind having a few large launch partners with us. Rob: What’s the vision for the broader partner community going forward? You’re starting with four – what’s the message in terms of a roadmap for more partners having access, and how are you looking at what the qualifying metrics will be to get on the list to bring customers in? Martin Brazinet: Yeah. Well, I think to your point, this is a starting point. We’re starting with four and it’s not an ultra-gated approach – we want to scale. We want to bring partners that have differentiative offerings. I think that’s the main selection criteria. We’re looking to bring differentiative offerings from the perspective of either industry or type of use case. But this is expected to be a transformation session – not to talk about “oh, I just need to migrate from A to Z.” So if a partner has a specificity in terms of the industry or the way that they tackle problems, we’re certainly willing to hear it and scale our capabilities here. Rob: What are some of the things that you think will make for the best customers to bring in here, in terms of where they’re at in their journey – what the partners have identified as being beneficial for them versus maybe what the customer themselves has already figured out is beneficial for them? Martin Brazinet: I think it’s about rotating on the personas. We often pivot when we think about technology and AWS and cloud and AI to the tech owners of the businesses – we go to the CIOs and the architects. But a lot of the expectation from AI and generative AI is a revenue growth imperative that our customers are looking at, and that’s really a board-level priority. So we’re hoping to get more than just the usual technical leaders. Let’s go to the line of business – the people that are really interfacing with the industry problem they’re trying to solve – and see how AI and generative capabilities are now able to accelerate the innovation within that space. Rob: You mentioned the art of the possible on the customer side. I’m curious on the partner side – as I imagine we’re close enough to having customers going through here regularly that some of the partners have started to identify who they want to bring in – any surprises, without naming names or with naming names if you wish, in terms of what you’ve seen partners bringing to the table in terms of the types of customers or the types of things they want to be showing off? Martin Brazinet: Yeah, well, it’s a little bit early because we’re really launching this today – it’s going to be announced at the summit the day after tomorrow. So I think we’ll see that and make those discoveries as we go. We’re super excited and our partner ecosystem is really excited about that. But I can’t wait to get some of those learnings. Rob: So if this works out the way that you’re hoping, what does success look like a year from now? What are you measuring – is it deal velocity, customer outcomes that are actually out there, something else? Martin Brazinet: That’s a good one. I think the real measure of success is moving to production. Because that’s where the rubber meets the road and we are able to measure the outcome that we’re trying to drive. If it just turns out that we’re visiting the innovation hub and having great discussions and we walk out with a roadmap, but none of this goes into production – I think that’s the exact problem that we’re solving for. I’d say moving to production, and deepening the expertise into different industries, and really thinking about solving the problem in a different way – so that when we solve a problem in a different way, we can scale those learnings to other customers and help the Canadian industry evolve in that matter. Rob: Big picture – how significant do you think this place, and places like this, will ultimately play in moving the needle on AI adoption in the Canadian market, especially for partners and for customers? Martin Brazinet: Well, I think the opportunity is immense. If I just go back to my initial statement – there are 650,000 Canadian customers and two-thirds of which are at that very basic implementation of AI. We need to unblock those customers. We need to accelerate them. And I think places like this one are a way to get there. So I expect it’s going to be really impactful, providing this format is what customers need. They need to see things through a different lens and they definitely need the support of the partner community to move to implementation and get them to production. So I’m hoping it’s going to be really impactful for Canadian customers to accelerate their transformation. I think the number that I saw is that we expect 85% of the Canadian industry needs to change within the next five years, driven by AI adoption. So if we want our Canadian customers to stay innovative, to stay relevant, to be as productive and innovative as the rest of the industry, I think doing those experiments that we’re doing here with the hub is how we can help them. That’s a lot of folks through the centre. Rob: Good luck with the launch and getting partners in here and getting some of those AI projects moving forward. Thanks for taking the time. Martin Brazinet: No, thank you very much. It was great speaking with you today. That was Martin Brazinet from AWS Canada on the vision behind the Partner Innovation Hub and what it’s designed to unlock for Canadian businesses on their AI journeys. Now let’s hear the partner side of the story. Dinesh Bhavsar is director of AI, emerging technologies and innovation at CGI – one of the four companies tapped as launch partners for the facility. His take on what customers actually need, and the honest conversations partners sometimes need to have, is a nice complement to what we just heard from AWS itself. Rob: Dinesh, thanks for taking the time. I appreciate it. Dinesh Bhavsar: Thanks for having me. I appreciate it as well. Rob: Tell me a little bit about where your customers at CGI are at with AI. Obviously one of the precepts here – and this is something I’ve heard from partners for at least the last year – the idea that we start out strong, we have lots of ambition to do AI, but we don’t necessarily know what we want to do, we don’t necessarily know how we want to do it. We don’t know what that outcome looks like. What are you seeing from customers today in terms of where their AI journey falls off, for want of a better phrase? Dinesh Bhavsar: Yeah, I think there’s a broad spectrum of maturity when it comes to understanding what AI is, what it’s not, and what it can do for the organization. So we’ve had great clients who have a really good, clear understanding of what AI can do for their business and their business processes. And then we’ve had clients who are just, “Hey, I need to implement AI – Dinesh, help me implement AI.” And it’s those clients where we really have to have the honest conversation about the fact that if you’re starting with AI or any technology as the solution, you’ve already failed. Because you haven’t thought about what problem you’re actually trying to solve, and yet you’ve jumped to AI being the solution for all things in life. I don’t think that’s the case in many instances, but you do have to have those honest conversations with clients about that. Rob: Tell me about how you guys got involved here with the centre. At what point did AWS pull you in, and what was the initial reaction to the idea of doing this kind of an innovation hub? Dinesh Bhavsar: Yeah, I think at CGI – and especially within our team in the emerging technologies, AI and innovation team – we really try to drive a culture of innovation, a culture of customer-first mindset. And through our partnership with AWS, we were able to bring clients in to work through that concept and that practice. So that really allowed our clients to understand what it really means to put customer-first in every opportunity, in every challenge that they’re trying to solve. And I think through that partnership, through that collaboration, this hub really allows us to bring that to life and really bring clients into that journey. And we’re hoping to bring more of those experiences to our clients, as well as our CGI partners. I think CGI as a whole is looking to innovate and drive more customer-centric, or client-centric delivery. And I think this practice, this centre, will allow us to showcase some of that as well with our partners. Rob: What do you think will be the most impactful, especially when it comes to the demos and the things that they can show off here? I know it’s hard to predict because every customer is going to be different, but just in terms of things that you think might really get into a customer’s mind. Dinesh Bhavsar: Yeah, I think it’s the application of AI. Real-world scenarios, real-world application – I think that’s going to stand out. It’s very easy to think about the theoretical aspects of everything that’s happening in the AI space. Like I said, clients can get very lost. All of us can get really lost in everything that’s happening. But when you try to bring it down to real, tangible examples where people can see it in action, that relates to their role or relates to their business process – I think that’s when AI really becomes real. And I think this allows us to showcase that. Rob: What do you think it’s going to do in terms of speed to value, speed to outcomes – whatever you want to call it – in terms of the sales and architecting cycle that you guys go through with customers? Dinesh Bhavsar: Yeah, I think it’ll accelerate that quite a bit. Again, I’m a big advocate of solutions – real screens, real models, real-world solutions – and less of theoretical slides. I think the days of current state assessments and advisory alone are of the past. I think clients expect us to show real working solutions. And once you actually have that – what I always say is 70%, 80% there – you only really have the balance to customize for the client. And that allows you to move a lot faster than how we do today. Rob: You guys, I have to presume, are very familiar with the idea of working with the C-suite and working across the business. But I’m curious how much more of a shift you’ve seen towards line of business and C-suite as we’re looking at this AI technology stack. Dinesh Bhavsar: Yeah, I think we’ve gone from the world of being curious and wanting to understand more about AI at that level – and a bit of FOMO, I think – we’ve had executives that are in the race for the sake of being in the race to deploy AI – to more of, “Okay, I understand the technology now. I really need to understand the ROI or the value that it’s going to help drive in our business. What impact does it have on our employees?” So technology alone is great, but really you need to surround yourself with the human-centered, customer-centric practices – like design thinking, systems thinking, for example – which are great practices to surround yourself with AI or any technology. And I think C-suites are now understanding what that human impact is going to be. Efficiencies, sure, but it’s really around empowering their employees with more decision-making power at a pace that hasn’t been there in the past. So I think that’s evolved. Like I said, there are some notions out there of being in the AI space because it’s the thing to do right now. But I think executives, I think middle managers are all taking a step back to really understand what value it can bring, and really understand the cost of maintaining and creating these models. So I think the maturity has evolved quite a bit. Rob: How important is it that it’s a physical location? You guys are obviously global in scale with customers both local and international. And the whole concept of the cloud, of AI, of all this – is that it’s out there, it’s everywhere, all at the same time. And yet it does come down to getting everyone in the same room and hashing it out, working it out, and getting everyone aligned on the same value. Dinesh Bhavsar: Yeah, I mean, I’m a big advocate of in-person experiences. So I think having a physical space does allow you to bring a different mindset when you walk into it – whether that’s how it’s laid out and how people can navigate the space, complemented by the technology there to help you think differently, and then of course the collaborative spaces that surround it. Whether it’s workshops, groupthink, communal seating – I think all of that makes a big difference in a space like the Innovation Hub here. I think it does help that people get away from their day-to-day routine and come through an experience like this, because I think it does help you think differently, think more boldly. And it allows you to, again like I said before, be vulnerable, ask all the questions, and know that you’re surrounded in a safe environment that allows you to do that and fosters it. So physical space, to me, is great. I’m a big advocate of whiteboarding. I love whiteboarding. I’m such a visual person that I just draw it all out and see how it all works. And you’d be surprised to see how quickly decisions can get made when everyone’s in a room together, focused on one thing and not distracted by the emails and the phone calls – but really allowing themselves for focused work, group work. Rob: It sounds like almost the benefits of an off-site type of meeting, just where the site involved happens to be purpose-driven for what you’re trying to do with it. Dinesh Bhavsar: Exactly. And you want to be intentional. You want to come in here for a purpose. You want to come here with intention. And you do need facilitation of that. And I think the space helps facilitate that thinking. I think the people in the room can help facilitate that as well. But I think it is much more important to have a space like this than to not. Rob: How are you thinking about the customers who come in here, especially in terms of prioritization? Is it the biggest opportunities first, or is it you want to look at those who have big hairy audacious goals, or those who maybe don’t quite realize yet what could be the goal? Dinesh Bhavsar: Yeah, it’s probably the last part. In my world in emerging technologies and innovation, our role is really to help clients think about things they haven’t thought about yet, help CGI partners think about things they haven’t thought about yet, and really the art of the possible. So I think having clients come through here and really seeing what it could be is very beneficial. I’m hoping that seeing real-world solutions really helps to say, “Okay, well, what is AI and how does it help me and my business process? And what does that mean for my employees? Or what does it mean for my customers? Or what does it mean for my partners?” And so I think those questions can all be sort of answered in a space like this, in an experience like this, with real solutions. So yeah, I think it’ll be great. I don’t necessarily prioritize in terms of the size of the pie. My job is more about sparking curiosity with all our clients. And so we focus a lot more on strategic pursuits than tactical delivery. Rob: In terms of the kinds of demos you want to be delivering, I’m curious how customized, how granular do you want to go on setting those up? Is it a matter of the more customized the better, or do you want to keep it at an industry level? What does best case look like for you? Dinesh Bhavsar: Yeah, I think for me, one thing is keeping it as simple as possible – that will get the most adoption and understanding of what we’re trying to showcase. I think industry-wide definitely helps, because then you can see what others are doing, or where the industry is headed, and how that can apply to your specific scenario. And then you have to flex, right? So I think there are certain demos that are very business-friendly – where you do have executives come in and want to understand those solutions at a high level – and then you can have it so that you can go technically deep as well for the right audience and have those conversations. So you do need to be able to flex the demo, but I would say industry-wide, what’s truly emerging – and again, focus on what clients perhaps are not thinking of or considering yet – and really show them the art of the possible. Rob: Last one for me – a year from now, once getting folks in here is a frequent experience and you’ve got lots of reps on it, what are you thinking about in terms of one specific type of AI success story that you hope will have come out of bringing a customer into this facility? Dinesh Bhavsar: Yeah, I think I hope to bring a lot more clients through this experience, as I call it. I’m hoping we can bring real-world AI solutions that have impacted not only the client themselves, but I think it’d be great to see AI supporting social good, and us being able to dive into responsible innovation as well. So an AI solution that’s helping Canadians collectively across the country would be a great AI use case. And we’re doing a lot of work at CGI in terms of responsible innovation and how do we drive AI for good, for Canadians, with Canadians. And I’m hoping that use case or something gets sprung from this space. Rob: Big goals. I wish you well on that. Dinesh Bhavsar: Yeah, appreciate it. Thanks for having me. Rob: Thank you. There you have it – Martin Brazinet from AWS Canada and Dinesh Bhavsar from CGI. I’d like to thank both Martin and Dinesh for their time, and for carving out space for these conversations in the middle of what was a busy launch week. A couple things that stuck with me from these two interviews. Martin’s numbers are worth sitting with: of 650,000 Canadian businesses already on the AI journey, only about a third have gone deep. Two-thirds are still at the basics – not for lack of ambition. It’s just that moving from proof of concept to production is genuinely hard. It takes industry expertise, stakeholder alignment, and someone who’s been through the minefield enough times to know where the mines are. What I appreciate about Dinesh’s perspective is how direct he is with customers about the starting point. If someone comes to CGI and says, “I need to implement AI – help me,” he’ll be the first to tell them that they’ve already made a mistake, because they jumped to the solution before identifying the problem. That’s a conversation a lot of partners are navigating right now, and it’s a healthy one to hear out loud. The hub itself is an interesting bet on the idea that getting the C-suite, the architects, and the line-of-business people in the same room, seeing the same demos, and walking out with a shared plan is what actually gets these projects unstuck. The model has a good track record globally – 65% of solutions through AWS’s GenAIIC program have made it to production – so there’s something to build on here. If you found this one useful, I’d love to have you follow or subscribe to the podcast. We’re on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and most of the major directories. And if you’ve got a moment, ratings and reviews are always helpful. Until next time, I’m Robert Dutt for ChannelBuzz.ca, and I’ll see you in the channel.

What does it really take to turn a promising European startup into a successful US business? In this special fifth-anniversary episode of Innovation Storytellers, I sit down with Simone Tarantino, Managing Director of the Transatlantic Innovation Hub and Managing Partner at HVentures, to discuss the challenges, opportunities, and realities of building bridges between two of the world's most influential innovation ecosystems. From its flagship location on Fifth Avenue in New York City, the Transatlantic Innovation Hub is creating a launchpad for European startups, scaleups, corporates, and innovators looking to expand into the United States. Simone shares how the Hub helps companies move beyond simply securing office space by providing access to investors, advisors, legal experts, business development partners, and the relationships that often determine whether international expansion succeeds or fails. We also explore the cultural differences between European and American innovation ecosystems, why networking remains one of the most valuable business skills, and how founders can avoid common mistakes when entering a new market. Simone reflects on his own journey from entrepreneur in Italy to ecosystem builder in New York, including the lessons learned from starting over and finding his place in one of the world's most competitive business environments. The conversation goes beyond startups and venture capital. We discuss why corporate innovation initiatives often struggle, the importance of translators who can bridge the language gap between startups and large enterprises, and why collaboration frequently delivers better outcomes than competition. Simone also shares his vision for a growing global network of innovation hubs connecting New York, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Whether you're a founder looking to expand internationally, a corporate leader searching for fresh ideas, or someone fascinated by how innovation ecosystems are built, this episode offers valuable lessons on creating connections that help ideas travel further and grow faster. What role could stronger partnerships play in accelerating your own innovation journey?

Welcome to Dean's chat where we discuss all things podiatric medicine and surgery! In this episode, Drs. Jeffrey Jensen and Johanna Richey welcome back Dr. Christy King and Dr. Devon Glazer for an exciting preview of the upcoming Western Foot and Ankle Conference. The discussion highlights the evolution of the meeting into one of the premier live podiatric education experiences in the country, blending cutting-edge lectures, hands-on innovation, and the unique energy of Disneyland. Dr. King shares insights into the planning process behind building the scientific program, including this year's highly anticipated “Great Debate” featuring leading experts discussing complex flatfoot reconstruction topics. Dr. Glazer discusses the creative strategy behind the conference layout, sponsor hall, and Innovation Hub, emphasizing the importance of attendee engagement, tactile learning, and peer-to-peer collaboration.The conversation also explores the return and success of fully live conferences post-COVID, with attendance expectations continuing to grow after last year's sold-out event. Both guests stress the value of networking, mentorship, and providing students, residents, and fellows with opportunities to present research and connect with leaders in the profession. New additions this year include integrated poster presentations within the exhibit hall, expanded debate-style lecture formats, emerging technologies for chronic pain management, and sessions focused on artificial intelligence in podiatry. Throughout the episode, the group reflects on the collaborative spirit, innovation, and sense of community that make the Western Foot and Ankle Conference a standout educational experience for podiatric physicians at every stage of practice. We hope to see you there! https://www.thewestern.org/TheWestern/Register/TheWestern/Registration.aspx?EventKey=2026WFAC&hkey=c8f70f7a-2669-45f3-a9e9-8e954773b824

Ireland's growing reputation as a global leader in digital healthtech innovation was highlighted at a major industry event which took place at Trinity Business School. Scaling Digital Healthtech in Ireland, hosted by the four Irish European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIH),in collaboration with Enterprise Europe Network and Ibec, saw over 400 stakeholders from across the health and life sciences sector come together to hear from leading experts across government, industry and academia, alongside panel discussions and case studies showcasing real-world innovation and impact. Digital Healthtech represents the combination of smart connected devices and AI-powered digital health tools which are transforming the delivery of healthcare and creating opportunities for new disruptive products and services by Irish companies. The event marks the first in a series of national engagements designed to support Irish SMEs and public sector organisations in accelerating the development and adoption of digitisation and to increase the awareness of supports which are already available. Ireland has established itself as a hub for cutting-edge healthtech innovation, supported by a thriving ecosystem of technology companies, researchers and policymakers. The event explored both the opportunities and challenges associated with scaling digital healthtech solutions, including artificial intelligence integration, regulatory compliance, cyber resilience, and access to funding and European markets. Speaking at the event, Minister of State for Trade Promotion, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation Niamh Smyth TD underlined the Government's commitment to advancing Ireland's digital health ecosystem. "Today highlights the strength of Ireland's digital transformation and its growing, innovative healthtech ecosystem. The Government recognises the importance of maintaining and building on this momentum. At the end of 2025, €23 million was announced through my Department and the Digital Europe Programme to extend the European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIH) Programme to 2029. This investment will enable our hubs to significantly accelerate digitalisation among SMEs and public sector organisations, delivering over 3,000 engagements, 1,100 "Test Before Invest" projects, and more than 200 training courses nationwide. "As work progresses on the National Life Sciences Strategy, Ireland is well positioned to lead the future development of this sector. Bringing together industry, innovation, and expertise is essential to achieving our shared ambition: supporting Irish companies to scale globally while delivering meaningful benefits for patients and healthcare systems. "These efforts are reinforced by a wide range of supports designed to help SMEs grow and internationalise their digital health solutions. These include Enterprise Ireland, the National Enterprise Hub, Local Enterprise Offices, Ibec, Health Innovation Hub Ireland, the European Enterprise Network, and the network of European Digital Innovation Hubs operating across Ireland." Joe Healy, Head of Research and Innovation at Enterprise Ireland said: "Through the European Digital Innovation Hubs, we are supporting Irish enterprises of all sizes and stages to harness advanced technologies, build capability, and compete internationally. This event demonstrates the importance of connecting the network to drive uptake of the supports on offer and strengthening collaboration across industry, government and academia." Ciara Finlay, Ibec Senior Executive said, "Demographic shifts accompanied by the rise of chronic diseases, coupled with the recent impact of the greatest global health emergency in over a century have highlighted the importance of fostering better health system resilience across the world. Digital Health is a solution that can unlock some of the challenges ahead. The digital health segment is estimated to grow at over 17.4% between 2021 and 2027 to €426 billion. "The Medtech, digital health...

Inside Sydney's AI Hub: Building University Automation That Works In this episode, Dan and Ray are joined by Dan Hart, now leading the Automation and Innovation Hub at the University of Sydney. Dan shares how the Hub has evolved from a robotic process automation team into a university-wide service using automation and AI to improve everyday work. With around 400 automated processes running across the university, the team helps staff remove repetitive, time-consuming tasks without taking away the human parts of their roles. The conversation explores practical examples, including AI-powered invoice processing, and how generative AI is changing the software development lifecycle. Dan explains how tools like Cursor and AI-assisted coding are speeding up development, while also raising important questions about security, code quality, workload intensity, and developer wellbeing. The episode also dives into vibe coding, what it means for enterprise systems, and why the future of software development may depend less on hand-writing code and more on communication, problem-solving, and understanding users.

Stephanie Hoff explores the collaborative powerhouse of the UW Dairy Innovation Hub through interviews with the agricultural deans of UW-Madison, UW-Platteville, and UW-River Falls. From 3D printing with spoiled milk to cutting-edge nutrient modeling, the high-impact research and new academic programs drive Wisconsin's dairy industry forward. Glenda Gillaspy, Carrie Keller, and Michael Orth also discuss how they navigate economic shifts and legislative advocacy to ensure the Hub's future.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In der 365. Episode spricht Marc mit Dr. Florian Skupin. Er leitet das Center for Legal Technology and Data Science sowie den Bucerius Legal Innovation Hub an der Bucerius Law School. Florian berichtet von seinem Weg vom BWL-Studium über die Promotion bis hin zum Wissenschaftsmanagement. Das Gespräch thematisiert die wachsende Komplexität von Gesetzen bei gleichzeitig stagnierenden Nachwuchszahlen sowie die Transformation klassischer Kanzleistrukturen hin zu interdisziplinären Teams. Zudem beleuchten Marc und Florian die Chancen und Risiken von KI in der Justiz. Wie verändert generative KI die tägliche Arbeit in Rechtsabteilungen und Kanzleien? Welche neuen Rollenbilder wie der Legal Connector entstehen durch den technologischen Wandel? Wie kann die Justiz trotz drohender Pensionierungswellen ihre Leistungsfähigkeit durch Technik sichern? Welche praktischen Möglichkeiten haben Studierende heute um sich frühzeitig digitale Zusatzqualifikationen aufzubauen? Antworten auf diese und viele weitere Fragen erhaltet Ihr in dieser Folge von IMR. Viel Spaß!

May 5, 2026: Your daily rundown of health and wellness news, in under 5 minutes. Today's top stories: Life Time launches Innovation Hub turning select clubs into testing environments for emerging wearables, recovery, nutrition, and AI products with path to network rollout Pickleball Inc. raises $225M at $750M valuation combining pro leagues and media, as pickleball hits 24M US players with tennis at 27.3M and padel 35M globally Crazy Mountain non-alcoholic beer founded by George Clooney raises $15M seed led by CAVU as alcohol consumption declines and NA alternatives gain traction Today's episode is brought to you by AIIR — a modern communications and experiential agency for health, wellness, fitness, and performance brands. From earned media to events and creator-led campaigns, AIIR helps companies sharpen their story, earn attention, and build trust that compounds. Visit https://aiir.agency to learn more. More from Fitt: Fitt Insider breaks down the convergence of fitness, wellness, and healthcare — and what it means for business, culture, and capital. Subscribe to our newsletter → insider.fitt.co/subscribe Work with our recruiting firm → https://talent.fitt.co/ Follow us on Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/fittinsider/ Follow us on LinkedIn → linkedin.com/company/fittinsider Reach out → insider@fitt.co

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Craig Hepburn sits at the intersection of enterprise technology and cultural institutions. He spent years as UEFA's Chief Digital Transformation Officer, overseeing its digital ecosystem, OTT platform build, and Innovation Hub. He moved to Art Basel as CDO in 2023. He is now an independent AI strategist, Perplexity Fellow, and prolific writer on the structural implications of AI for organisations and industries. His Substack has become essential reading on the gap between AI hype and implementation reality.Hepburn's central thesis is that most people and organisations are “tourists in someone else's architecture.” He draws a sharp distinction between using AI (prompting chatbots, generating content) and building with AI (constructing proprietary systems, workflows and tools). He argues the latter is what will separate winners from losers — and that the window for making that shift is narrowing fast.Crucially, Hepburn's argument extends beyond sport. His recent writing on “The Builder and the Billion Dollar Lie” contends that entire industries — consulting, systems integration, transformation programmes — were built inside the gap between the person who understood a problem and the person who could build the solution. Agentic AI, he argues, is starting to close that gap. That has profound implications for the agency model in sport.Unofficial Partner is the leading podcast for the business of sport. A mix of entertaining and thought provoking conversations with a who's who of the global industry. To join our community of listeners, sign up to the weekly UP Newsletter and follow us on Twitter and TikTok at @UnofficialPartnerWe publish two podcasts each week, on Tuesday and Friday. These are deep conversations with smart people from inside and outside sport. Our entire back catalogue of 500 sports business conversations are available free of charge here. Each pod is available by searching for ‘Unofficial Partner' on Apple, Spotify and every podcast app. If you're interested in collaborating with Unofficial Partner to create one-off podcasts or series and live events, you can reach us via the website.

Nach satten 18 Jahren daheim als Mutter und Ehrenamtliche und Selbständige merkte Priska Zurbrügg, dass es Zeit war, eine neue berufliche Herausforderung anzugehen. In ihren alten Job wollte sie nicht zurück - dann kam eine Anfrage für einen Job bei Campus für Christus auf sie zu, den sie sich anfangs nicht zutraute. Aber durch ein Bauchgefühl und ganz viel Lust, entschied sie sich trotzdem, dass anzugehen und sich aufs Wasser zu begeben. Anfangs war vieles schwer und herausfordernd, selbst solche einzelne Dinge wie ein Kopiergerät überforderten Priska. Aber dann ging sie das an und hört seitdem nicht auf, sich weiter zu entwickeln. Erst Auszubildende für Lernende, dann Mitarbeiterin im Bereich MPE, dann Recruiterin und seit neustem auch noch Styleberaterin und Eneagrammcoach - Priska lernt gerne neue Dinge und hört nicht auf, neugierig zu sein. Diese Geschichte kann ermutigen, Dinge wirklich anzugehen. Priska ist uns da ein Vorbild. Wir erwähnen das Programm Viamia, die berufliche Standortbestimmung: https://viamia.ch/Zu den Jobs von Campus für Christus geht es hier: https://www.cfc.ch/ueber-uns/jobs/ und zum Innovation Hub von Campus hier: https://www.cfc.ch/ueber-uns/innovation-hub/Jobs bei Campus WE findest du hier: https://www.campus-we.ch/ueber-uns/#team

Follow The Enterprise Zone  Detroit is the starting point for a national movement if Usher Raymond IV gets his way. The Multi-Grammy-Award-winning artist is issuing a direct challenge to global entrepreneurs and local leaders: stop "taking" from cities and instead match his seed investment to uplift the creators of tomorrow exactly where they are today. This landmark $1 million partnership with the Boys and Girls Club inside the historic Michigan Central station serves as a first-of-its-kind model for "Participation over Preparation." The 15,000-square-foot space, which opened last month, is inside The Station at Michigan Central. The entire fifth floor is dedicated to young creators interested in digital content, fashion, film, video production, and music. For Usher and fellow Boys & Girls Club alum Big Sean, this hub is a calculated rejection of traditional gentrification. The goal is not to encourage children to leave their hometowns to find success, but to provide them with world-class tools—from virtual production studios and special effects labs to autonomous drone training—to build massive businesses within their own neighborhoods. This tall task aims to impact one million Black creators by 2050 and scale to 500 hubs nationwide, proving that when you invest in local "opportunity zones" with authentic mentorship, you don't just change a life—you help shape a city's future. Subscribe to FORBES: https://www.youtube.com/user/Forbes?sub_confirmation=1 Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat at members-only events with leading thinkers and doers, access to premium video that can help you get ahead, an ad-light experience, early access to select products including NFT drops and more: https://account.forbes.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=growth_non-sub_paid_subscribe_ytdescript Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes: http://forbes.com Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ชมวิดีโอ EP นี้ใน YouTube เพื่อประสบการณ์การรับชมที่ดีที่สุด https://youtu.be/JdlFZHio1lcเมื่ออุตสาหกรรมเดิมของไทยกำลังถึงทางตัน เราจะไปต่ออย่างไรในโลกที่แข่งขันด้วยเทคโนโลยี แม้ไทยจะมีโครงสร้างพื้นฐานด้านสุขภาพที่แข็งแกร่ง ทั้งโรงพยาบาลมาตรฐาน และบุคลากรที่ทั่วโลกยอมรับ แต่ยังขาด ‘นวัตกรรม' ในระดับสูงขณะเดียวกันเม็ดเงิน VC ทั่วโลกนอกจากลงทุนใน AI ก็เริ่มไหลเข้าสู่ Healthcare มากขึ้น จึงเป็นโอกาสทองของไทยที่แข็งแกร่งในอุตสาหกรรมการแพทย์ที่มีจุดแข็งด้านโครงสร้าง บุคลากรการแพทย์ และการให้บริการที่ดี กลายเป็น 'Innovation Hub' ที่สร้างนวัตกรรมเองได้ เพื่อเกิดเป็น New S-Curve ให้กับประเทศอย่างยั่งยืนThe Secret Sauce เอพิโสดนี้ พูดคุยกับ นพ. ศุภชัย ปาจริยานนท์ CEO & Co-Founder, RISE และ Managing Partner, SeaX Ventures ถึงยุทธศาสตร์ ยกระดับ Healthcare ไทย จาก Medical Hub สู่ Health Innovation Hub ของอาเซียน และโอกาสในการใช้แต้มต่อด้านต้นทุน คุณภาพ และระบบบริการทางการแพทย์ของไทย สร้างระบบนิเวศนวัตกรรมที่แข่งขันได้ในระดับโลก

เปิดพอดแคสต์เอพิโสดนี้ใน ⁠YouTube⁠ เพื่อประสบการณ์การรับชมที่ดีที่สุดเมื่ออุตสาหกรรมเดิมของไทยกำลังถึงทางตัน เราจะไปต่ออย่างไรในโลกที่แข่งขันด้วยเทคโนโลยี แม้ไทยจะมีโครงสร้างพื้นฐานด้านสุขภาพที่แข็งแกร่ง ทั้งโรงพยาบาลมาตรฐาน และบุคลากรที่ทั่วโลกยอมรับ แต่ยังขาด ‘นวัตกรรม' ในระดับสูงขณะเดียวกันเม็ดเงิน VC ทั่วโลกนอกจากลงทุนใน AI ก็เริ่มไหลเข้าสู่ Healthcare มากขึ้น จึงเป็นโอกาสทองของไทยที่แข็งแกร่งในอุตสาหกรรมการแพทย์ที่มีจุดแข็งด้านโครงสร้าง บุคลากรการแพทย์ และการให้บริการที่ดี กลายเป็น 'Innovation Hub' ที่สร้างนวัตกรรมเองได้ เพื่อเกิดเป็น New S-Curve ให้กับประเทศอย่างยั่งยืนThe Secret Sauce เอพิโสดนี้ พูดคุยกับ นพ. ศุภชัย ปาจริยานนท์ CEO & Co-Founder, RISE และ Managing Partner, SeaX Ventures ถึงยุทธศาสตร์ ยกระดับ Healthcare ไทย จาก Medical Hub สู่ Health Innovation Hub ของอาเซียน และโอกาสในการใช้แต้มต่อด้านต้นทุน คุณภาพ และระบบบริการทางการแพทย์ของไทย สร้างระบบนิเวศนวัตกรรมที่แข่งขันได้ในระดับโลก

เปิดพอดแคสต์เอพิโสดนี้ใน YouTube เพื่อประสบการณ์การรับชมที่ดีที่สุดเมื่ออุตสาหกรรมเดิมของไทยกำลังถึงทางตัน เราจะไปต่ออย่างไรในโลกที่แข่งขันด้วยเทคโนโลยี แม้ไทยจะมีโครงสร้างพื้นฐานด้านสุขภาพที่แข็งแกร่ง ทั้งโรงพยาบาลมาตรฐาน และบุคลากรที่ทั่วโลกยอมรับ แต่ยังขาด ‘นวัตกรรม' ในระดับสูงขณะเดียวกันเม็ดเงิน VC ทั่วโลกนอกจากลงทุนใน AI ก็เริ่มไหลเข้าสู่ Healthcare มากขึ้น จึงเป็นโอกาสทองของไทยที่แข็งแกร่งในอุตสาหกรรมการแพทย์ที่มีจุดแข็งด้านโครงสร้าง บุคลากรการแพทย์ และการให้บริการที่ดี กลายเป็น 'Innovation Hub' ที่สร้างนวัตกรรมเองได้ เพื่อเกิดเป็น New S-Curve ให้กับประเทศอย่างยั่งยืนThe Secret Sauce เอพิโสดนี้ พูดคุยกับ นพ. ศุภชัย ปาจริยานนท์ CEO & Co-Founder, RISE และ Managing Partner, SeaX Ventures ถึงยุทธศาสตร์ ยกระดับ Healthcare ไทย จาก Medical Hub สู่ Health Innovation Hub ของอาเซียน และโอกาสในการใช้แต้มต่อด้านต้นทุน คุณภาพ และระบบบริการทางการแพทย์ของไทย สร้างระบบนิเวศนวัตกรรมที่แข่งขันได้ในระดับโลก

Video episode!Start Summit 2026, an event organized by students in Switzerland. Featuring an elevator and a challenge every entrepreneur knows well: explain a complex idea in 60 seconds without losing what truly matters.From Start Summit 2026 in St. Gallen, we recorded an Intangiblia Flash episode capturing the energy of a place where investors, founders, and inventors come together to accelerate, expand, and turn real technology into reality.The best founders don't treat intellectual property like paperwork, they treat it like strategy. I walk around the Start Summit, talking about patents, trademarks, open-source licensing, and the real reason IP matters to customers and investors. If you're building a startup and wondering what “defensible” actually means, these short interviews make it concrete in minutes. We talk about a dual approach that many deep tech companies overlook: patent the core hardware innovation while keeping software open source under a permissive license to drive adoption and let customers go deep without fear of IP constraints. Then we jump into consumer and assistive tech, including a cat health-monitoring station that measures intake, temperature, and more, plus a smartwatch built for people with cognitive impairments that uses symbols, schedules, and voice prompts. It's a reminder that product design, trust, and usability can be as important to protect as the underlying tech. An experienced investor and company builder shares why IP is a game-changer in biotech, medtech, semiconductors, and industrial technology, especially when partnerships or acquisitions are the likely path to scale. We also touch on common founder pitfalls, like filing too early, and why a strong IP portfolio is something you reinforce over time, not a snapshot you frame once. If you want more founder field notes like this, subscribe, share the episode with a builder friend, and leave a review with the smartest IP lesson you've learned so far. Video episode!Send us Fan MailCheck out "Protection for the Inventive Mind" – available now on Amazon in print and Kindle formats.The views and opinions expressed (by the host and guest(s)) in this podcast are strictly their own and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the entities with which they may be affiliated. This podcast should in no way be construed as promoting or criticizing any particular government policy, institutional position, private interest or commercial entity. Any content provided is for informational and educational purposes only.

Today we are meeting two super inspiring women: Lia Carlucci (founder and CEO of the Food Campus Berlin) and Janka Alwon, influencer and food blogger, also Known as Jankalicious.  This podcast is part of the series “Tomorrow's Table, Rethinking Food As We Know It”, which weaves together the experiences and insights of projects and living labs within the FOOD 2030 Network launched by Cleverfood. Cleverfood is a European project aimed at fostering collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and systemic change in the food sector. Food Campus Berlin is also part of the FOOD 2030 Network. Host & producer: Valentina Gritti Guests: Lia Carlucci (Food Campus Berlin) and Janka Alwon (@jankalicious_) Music: Leonardo Prieto  More about Food Campus Berlin: https://www.foodcampus.berlin/?lang=en  Planetary Health Diet: https://eatforum.org/eat-lancet/the-planetary-health-diet/  Janka's blog: https://www.jankas.blog/ and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jankalicious_/?hl=en   This episode is part of the podcast series "Tomorrow's Table: rethinking food as we know it" co-produced by Slow Food Youth Network and ICONS for the EU-funded CLEVERFOOD project.

Artificial intelligence is dominating conversations across industries, and agriculture is no exception. But beyond the hype and headlines, what does AI actually mean for Canadian farms today—and where does it realistically fit? In this episode of The Final Mile podcast, host Shaun Haney speaks with Mohamad Yaghi, vice president of AgExpert and Innovation Hub at... Read More

A weekly podcast covering women’s sports news. This week: Jakara Anthony and Josie Baff have won Gold Medals for Australia at the Winter Games, the Indigenous All-Stars have claimed victory over the Māori All-stars in Rugby League, and Willa Pearson has become the youngest goal scorer in Women’s A-League history! For the key story, we discuss a four-year study by FC Barcelona’s Innovation Hub, which suggests that injuries sustained by footballers while menstruating may take significantly longer to heal than those suffered when not on their period. Want to know when all the women athletes are competing at the 2026 Winter Olympics? Download our 2026 Milano-Cortina Women's Sports Calendar here. Get the wrap delivered to your inbox as a weekly newsletter! Subscribe here for the newsletter. https://bit.ly/tfapsubscribe Come join the women's sports fan club. Shop our TFAP merch: https://www.thefemaleathleteproject.com/shop Buy our kids book The A to Z of Who I Could Be, or book for adults GIRLS DON’T PLAY SPORT. this Christmas!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to the CanadianSME Small Business Podcast, hosted by Maheen Bari. In this episode, we explore how innovation ecosystems, strategic learning, and strong founder networks help Canadian entrepreneurs build world class ventures and achieve measurable growth.Our guest is Nirali Rathwa, Associate, Member Experience, Programming and Corporate Innovation at MaRS Discovery District, Canada's largest innovation hub. Nirali shares how capability building, community driven support, and inclusive program design are shaping the next generation of successful founders across the country.Key HighlightsEvolving Startup Reality: How AI and global connectivity are reshaping entrepreneurship in Canada. Power of Networks: Why community, partnerships, and shared learning accelerate founder growth. Capability Building: How skills like pricing, hiring, and storytelling matter as much as capital. Accessible Pathways: How digital platforms and programs expand access beyond major cities. Future Vision: How MaRS is enabling founders to tackle climate and healthcare challenges.Special Thanks to Our Partners:UPS: https://solutions.ups.com/ca-beunstoppable.html?WT.mc_id=BUSMEWAGoogle: https://www.google.ca/A1 Global College: https://a1globalcollege.ca/ADP Canada: https://www.adp.ca/en.aspxFor more expert insights, visit www.canadiansme.ca and subscribe to the CanadianSME Small Business Magazine. Stay innovative, stay informed, and thrive in the digital age!Disclaimer: The information shared in this podcast is for general informational purposes only and should not be considered as direct financial or business advice. Always consult with a qualified professional for advice specific to your situation.

The world is changing at an exponential rate. By 2030, two billion jobs will be transformed or displaced. Are you prepared to bridge the gap between innovation and adoption, or will you fall into it?In this "Golden Nuggets" highlight, we're extracting the high-level leadership blueprint from John Rathje, VP and CIO of Kent State University. John oversees the tech strategy for a top-tier R1 research powerhouse—the same place that birthed the liquid crystal technology in your smartphone.From writing code on a borrowed computer to leading global tech shifts, John shares why "looking up" is the most important skill an entrepreneur can have in the next decade.Key Takeaways:(1) Stop Hunting, Start Solving: Don't build a product and look for a market; find a massive pain point and obsess over it.(2) Environment is Everything: You are the architect of your team's creativity. Build an "Innovation Hub," not just a workspace.(3) Human Impact to Code: Technology is built by people, for people. If you lose the human element, you lose your competitive edge.Listen To The Full Podcast Episode Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vr-_ybTrFI#FutureOfWork #EntrepreneurMindset #LeadershipTips #TechInnovation #GoldenNuggets #JohnRathje #2030Vision #BusinessGrowth #StartupAdvice

Following Chris' usual Milk Market Report, Will Evans and Ben Eagle welcome new senior consultants Beth Parry and Tim Kneale, who share insights from their specialist work with farms across the UK and discuss the practical on farm innovations they believe are genuinely transforming efficiency, resilience and long term sustainability in dairy. With DairyTech just days away, Becki Reay and the team discuss the big conversations expected at this year's event, including milk price movements, new technology and the future direction of the sector, as well as what they are most excited to see, from the Innovation Hub to the activity on the Kite stand. Please note: The information provided during this podcast has been prepared for general informational purposes only and does not constitute advice. The information must not be relied upon for any purpose and no representation or warranty is given as to its accuracy, completeness or otherwise. Any reference to other organisations, businesses or products during the podcast are not endorsements or recommendations of Dairy Consulting Ltd or its affiliated companies. The views of the presenter are personal and may not be the views of Dairy Consulting Ltd. The contents of this podcast are the copyright of Dairy Consulting Ltd.

Episode 204 with Conrad Tucker, Director of Carnegie Mellon University Africa, the only United States research university with a full time teaching and research presence on the African continent.Based in Kigali Innovation City, CMU Africa was established to address the shortage of high quality engineering and technology talent required to drive Africa's digital economy. Conrad brings deep experience at the intersection of engineering, artificial intelligence and education to a wide ranging conversation on how world class skills, applied research and innovation can unlock Africa's long term economic potential.In this episode, Conrad explains how CMU Africa is developing globally competitive African engineers and artificial intelligence specialists who are choosing to build their careers on the continent. We explore how research in artificial intelligence, cyber security, energy and mobility, and information and communications technology is being applied to solve real African challenges across government, industry and entrepreneurship.The conversation also examines CMU Africa's growing role in entrepreneurship and startup development through its Innovation Hub, including partnerships such as the collaboration with NBA Africa to support early stage African startups. Conrad reflects on the importance of inclusive excellence, pan African university collaboration and long term investment in education and skills as critical foundations for Africa's digital transformation.What We Discuss With ConradHow Carnegie Mellon University Africa was established to build Africa's world class engineering and technology talentDeveloping African artificial intelligence and engineering graduates who stay and build careers on the continentUsing research in artificial intelligence, cyber security, energy and mobility to solve Africa's most pressing challengesSupporting African startups and entrepreneurship through the CMU Africa Innovation Hub and the partnership with NBA AfricaWhy inclusive excellence, collaboration and long term investment in education are essential to Africa's digital futureDid you miss my previous episode where I discuss The Economic Importance of the African Diaspora Reclaiming Native Language and Identity? Make sure to check it out!Connect with Terser:LinkedIn - Terser AdamuInstagram - unlockingafricaTwitter (X) - @TerserAdamuConnect with Conrad:LinkedIn - Conrad Tucker and Carnegie Mellon UniversityMany of the businesses unlocking opportunities in Africa don't do it alone. If you'd like strategic support on entering or expanding across African markets, reach out to our partners ETK Group: www.etkgroup.co.ukinfo@etkgroup.co.uk

Making the case for a better at home A1C test. Orange Biomed is developing a compact, one-drop, at-home A1C testing device they say could make frequent A1C checks easier and more accessible than ever. They're passionate about closing the gap for people who struggle to get to clinics regularly… and the research they share is compelling: four A1C tests a year can lead to a nearly 4% reduction in A1C levels. We'll talk about why more frequent A1C monitoring matters—even in the era of continuous glucose monitoring—how their new device works, and what early clinical trial results look like. This podcast is not intended as medical advice. If you have those kinds of questions, please contact your health care provider. More about Orange BioMed here Announcing Community Commericals! Learn how to get your message on the show here. Learn more about studies and research at Thrivable here Please visit our Sponsors & Partners - they help make the show possible! Learn more about Gvoke Glucagon Gvoke HypoPen® (glucagon injection): Glucagon Injection For Very Low Blood Sugar (gvokeglucagon.com) Omnipod - Simplify Life Learn about Dexcom  Check out VIVI Cap to protect your insulin from extreme temperatures The best way to keep up with Stacey and the show is by signing up for our weekly newsletter: Sign up for our newsletter here Here's where to find us: Facebook (Group) Facebook (Page) Instagram Check out Stacey's books! Learn more about everything at our home page www.diabetes-connections.com    Episode transcript:   Stacey Simms  00:05 Today on diabetes connections, making the case for a better at home A1C test. Orange biomed is developing a compact, one drop device that they say could make frequent A1C checks easier and more accessible. They're sharing research that four A1C tests a year can lead to a nearly 4% reduction in A1C levels, but they say a lot of people can't get to the clinic that much. We'll talk about why this matters, even in the era of CGM, how the device works and what the early clinical trial results look like.   This podcast is not intended as medical advice. If you have those kinds of questions, please contact your healthcare provider.   Welcome to a bonus episode of diabetes connections. I hope your December is going well and that you know somehow you're able to take some time for yourself in the middle of all the holiday rushing around this time of year can be magical and stressful and exhausting and wonderful, and you know, all the things. And it's the same thing over here, super busy getting all this stuff done before the end of the year. Love it. But, you know, getting podcast episodes out, writing all the things we write and planning for next year, as they say, We're staying booked and busy.   But quick behind the scenes here to better explain this episode, I taped this interview way back over the summer during the ADA Scientific Sessions conference. I had some technical problems. I actually thought I lost this interview. There were two interviews that seemed to have gone missing. We're going to air the other one very soon. But thankfully, I do have backups upon backups. So all the info that you're going to hear today is still relevant.   This product, a small A1C test, is still in development. The only dated bit is about their follow up event that took place in August. Orange Biomed was launched in 2021 in South Korea, with its US headquarters in Providence, Rhode Island. Its founders are two Duke University alums, and they're my guests, CEO Yeaseul Park and Co-President Unghyeon Ko, We are also joined by Janice Dru-Bennett. She is a senior advisor at the company. Now, English is not the first language of two of these three speakers. This is a good time to remind you that most podcasting platforms have pretty good transcription services these days, especially Apple, I think they have a fantastic real time transcription service for podcasts that has been impressive to me in how they translate diabetes language. They're getting better at it. But I am also going to put a transcript of the interview in the show notes, which I don't normally do because the podcast services have gotten so good at it, but I think it could be helpful for at least a few of you out there. Okay, here is my conversation from the floor of ADA from the team at Orange biomed.   Yeaseul Park, Janice Drew Bennett and Dr Ko, Welcome to diabetes connections. I can't say live from ADA, because we're taping this to air later, but you're all there. Thank you so much for joining   Yeaseul Park  03:08 me. Yes, thank you. We're   03:10 excited to be here. Oh   Stacey Simms  03:11 my goodness. Can I ask first, how is the trip? I mean, yes, let me ask you. You guys came a long way.   Yeaseul Park  03:17 Yeah, it was 13 hours from Korea. But it's I'm so excited, because this event is really one of the times, and this is actually our third time attending ADA.   Stacey Simms  03:31 That's great. And we have so many questions for you, but Janice, let me ask you, you're there as everybody's setting up at the kind of beginnings of the show. What is it like right now for people who aren't familiar with ADA,   Janice Dru-Bennett  03:42 yes, you can hear the hammers in the background, although, but not on this podcast, but there's a lot of noise and people walking by. We're just setting up this the day before the exhibit hall opens and Dr Cole will be presenting at the Innovation Hub tomorrow, which is where we're sitting right now, with tables of innovators will be showcasing their diabetes innovations, and   Stacey Simms  04:04 there's a lot to get to. Dr Koh, I know you're presenting, but yes, let me ask you, like, what why? I know you said it's your third year, but why is orange biomed at ADA, what is your goal   Yeaseul Park  04:16 for us? ADA, is for a learning experience. As well as a platform to share. We come to see how all those around the world are fighting against diabetes, whether through clinical research, digital tools or technologies or community programs. At the same time, you're so proud to hear what orange biomat is building anytime, and eight months exhausting. That makes diabetes monitoring not accessible, not so many. And this year is especially exciting because Dr ko our co founder of orange buying at the group of speaking at ADA brand new program the innovation Hall.   Stacey Simms  04:58 That's awesome. So Dr Koh, tell me. Little bit about this, the Innovation Hub is pretty cool, but what are you going to be talking about?   Unghyeon Ko  05:05 Yeah, actually, I'm talking about the engineering part. I mean our technology, so our orange biomed, we are trying to solve a simple but a serious problem about the A1C accessibility. So to increase the A1C accessibility. So we are, we are developing at home device to measure the A1C level. So I'm, I'm talking about how difficult to increase the accessibility of A1C, but our technology is handled that difficult problem. So we now he's so agreed. So I'm going to introduce our technology and emphasize the importance of the A1C measurement at home.   Stacey Simms  05:49 Yeah, so A1C, it's interesting. My son was diagnosed at two, and in the pediatric world, you know, they'll just prick a finger generally and have that A1C right away. But my husband lives with type two, and he gets his labs drawn. And then it takes forever. So tell me a little bit before we go further about what you're hoping to do and making this easier for the patient,   Speaker 1  06:10 the frequent monitoring of A1C is so important to prevent the diabetic complications. So the money, so if you there is some so I can say that there is a research that if you measure the A 1d the four times a year, the People's A1C level is decreased like 3.8% but if you measure the A 1d at one per year, Then the A1C level is increased 1.5% so the frequent A1C monitoring is so important to prevent the diabetes complications. But problem is A1C measurement is only available at clinical site at this moment, so most of the A1C monitoring is done by the clinical side. So that's why people are difficult to monitoring A1C, because they have to visit the clinics forever. So is so like four times, or even eight times visit the clinics or hospital is quite difficult, especially in the people living in the far area from the hospital. So that's why the home A1C test is required. So I think that's why the accessibility of the A1C is one of the important things in managing the diabetes complications.   Stacey Simms  07:39 Dr Koh, is there evidence that, I mean more frequent A1C testing, I think would give many people peace of mind, perhaps. But is there evidence that it really does help in your health?   Speaker 1  07:51 Oh, yes, it is actually like from there is the research, like the famous research about the A1C level, like the research name this t and this research proved that the A1C is the one of the strongest predictor of diabetes complication. So A1C is completely related with the risk of diabetes complication. So like keeping A1C on the 7% dramatically lower the risk of diabetes complications. And also, there is another research in UK, the UK PDS study, and that study said they are A1C. Lowering A1C by just 1% can reduce overall mortality by 15% and microvascular complication by 37% so the roaring A1C is the goal of the treatment of the   Yeaseul Park  08:47 diabetes. So   Stacey Simms  08:48 when I think of at home diabetes tests, blood tests, seem like they're they're really sensitive, right? You have to be very careful with things like that, although we do, we did finger sticks at home for years and years. Are there challenges with at home A1C testing that that people like me could mess up,   Yeaseul Park  09:06 sure actually when I was doing pandemic outside system? So it's a new   Yeaseul Park  09:19 box of mustard with five or six needles inside, and we need to collect this blood to sound the left result. But then I really tried to collect the requirement matter blood, which is like it was like bleeding. Oh, it's not just retiring in one block, one drop of block, but it's like you need to try, yeah, many times, not just in one spot, to collapse in the block. And the other way you. Built female in, built a lot more broadly, to store your venous blood, and that's features like discomfort.   Stacey Simms  10:10 Would you mind taking us through your experience with the A1C testing? You were talking about how much blood it took? Yeah.   Yeaseul Park  10:17 So it, it requires many, many drops of blood. So I felt like it's like bleeding, and you make a lot of mess around the table. And so I felt, even though it's it was a topic time it was pandemic. So that's the only option I had at that time, but I wanted to make it simple and easier. And the other types of point of care devices only use a drop of blood still have some limitations, because we all don't want to bleed too much, so sometimes we try to finger stick very small and just squeeze to get enough blood. But if you squeeze to get enough sample volume, that's make your other liquid, like sweats, can also mix with your blood, and that actually affects the accuracy of the testing usually so many point of care devices also not recommend you to squeeze to get enough blood, so that means you need to treat a little too deep to get enough. So we really wanted to make this whole process or simpler and more problem.   Stacey Simms  11:43 Can you share a little bit about what the device looks like, what the patient experience is when they use it?   Speaker 1  11:48 Dr, CO, so our device is a palm size. Is in most like, like self, self poem, so it's a palm size device. So our device has no switch, but there is only a slider in the front of the device. So if you slide that, you can the device is turned on and you can insert the cartridge, and the cartridge is disposable cartridge. So after that, you just collect your blood and dilute it in the collecting tube and drop the sample into the cartridge, then analyze the A1C like automatically. So it's quite similar with the covid by covid test kit. So the covid test kit collect the sample in your nose and mix with the Rickett and drop it right? And it's quite similar.   Stacey Simms  12:45 So do you do a finger stick to put on the cartridge? How much blood to yells? Point, you know? How much blood do you need?   Speaker 1  12:52 Our devices for home use device, so it's quite we use a very different technology, because our device analyze the red blood cell one by one. So actually, we don't need exact unlike like five micro or 10 micro, we don't need the exact sample block. So we just need one drop of blood. So if the one drop is big, or if the one drop is right or small, it's fine for us. So one drop of blood, mix with their sample and drop one drop onto the cartridge. So maybe you can, you can drop one more than one drop, but we recommend one drop. So one drop of blood sample my dinner the rest yesterday pointed out that the skeezing the finger of blood is a problem for other device because, because in our body, there is a body wicked inside your under, under your skin. So if the body wicked is mixed with the blood samples, so it might be a problem because it dilute the blood sample. But our device, we analyze the Red Cross itself. So if it is diabetes, I think so we will find so you just puncture very best, and if you scale it, and it's totally fine for us. So it's, it's one of the good point of our device.   Yeaseul Park  14:20 How long does it take to get the results? It takes like, five minutes. Okay, yeah, and that's all at home. Yeah. Yezel, who do you see using this? Who is this for? Basically, it's for everyone. I think whoever has pre diabetes, diabetes type one, type two, and especially, I think who has limited access to primary care or lab testings. You know, many people who are older, tends to have more, especially the people who has limited access to primary care or lab testings. We believe this device can give more value to them. Yeah, and especially some people who have limited mobility, if they are older, or if they have experienced that amputation or something like that, they cannot go to the hospital by themselves. They need a caregivers to drive them to the hospital for the simple lab testing. But now I think it empowers patients who has that limitation still can take control their health by using this kind of home use device. How accurate   Stacey Simms  15:33 is it? I assume you have studies, and you've done some trials on how on the accuracy?   Yeaseul Park  15:37 Dr, CO, do you want to add that?   Speaker 1  15:40 Oh, yeah. So we are preparing the clinical trial. So the official clinical trials will be done within this year, but so that's our plan. But we we tested our device already using the in in last year. So last year, feasibility studies show that our device is quite similar with other point of care devices, and hopefully because at that time, our device, our especially our cartridge sensor, we just manufacturing our own like our in our lab. So this time, the official clinical trial in in this year, we are going to manufacturing in the factories so it might be more precise. So we hopefully we trying to chase the hospital accurate.   Stacey Simms  16:30 And I have to ask, where more and more people with diabetes are wearing a CGM and looking at time and range. What would you say to people who would tell you, well, we don't really need A1C anymore. We have time and range. Dr Cody, I see you nodding. Go ahead, yeah, yeah.   Speaker 1  16:47 So that's a very important point, but because the timing range is also important, and the CGM is very great technology for diabetes people. But problem is, like the A1C and C GM target different, like the CGM target the hypothesemia, but the A1C targeting the diabetes complications. So like, if you measure the timing range and you can manage your average glucose more nicely, but it might be prevent your hypothenia. But if you want to assess your diabetes management, you might be measure A1C. So if you measure timing range, but you also have to measure the A1C. So A1C is for everyone's and so. And also, the point is, if you don't treat the insulin, or if you don't treat the any medications, then you don't need to actually using the CGM, that's the ADH recommendation. So, but in in that case, you need the A1C as well. So A1C for everyone, and the CGM is for the people who treated the insulin. That's the ADA guide, right? And then,   Stacey Simms  18:12 yes, let me just ask you. You know, you came all this way. As you say, this is your third time at ADA. Trials are starting soon. What's your hope here? Is this something you see in homes of everyone who has any kind of diabetes? What's the big goal for Orange biomed?   Yeaseul Park  18:28 Every time we talk to a day, we can feel what's going on here in diabetes industry. It's a huge maybe first year, I the most frequently hard keyword was aid system. But after that, we now have GLP one, and now we hear more keyword around obesity. So that's a little slightly different trend I can feel. And once you come and join this full sessions, then I can see there's make everyone is making a progress, and we are all together. Want to fight against diabetes in their own way or with their own expertise, whether it's pharmaceutical, whether it's medical device or diabetes, sex, sometimes any other community programs that really support this patient and families, the community, and it's Really this whole atmosphere actually really motivates our team and myself, and we can feel the value. I can really feel this we are doing something valuable to patients and our community, and that's the most great thing, like the greatest thing that I can take when I come back to home with a. After the ADA. And for sure, we want to have opportunity to make voice what we are doing at Orange biomed, and want to deliver this value to the patient and other healthcare professionals. Otherwise, even though we are working hard to make this progress, no one knows, and that makes any changes the world. So that's the important purpose we are coming here. That's great.   Stacey Simms  20:30 Janice, before I let you all go, I know you wanted to talk about an event you've got coming up in Chicago. Can you tell me a little   Janice Dru-Bennett  20:37 bit about that? Yes, we're really excited for Orange biomed to be hosting the first map your health event, a local event here in Chicago, we have done a solving healthcare challenges webinar to announce our map your health campaign, which is, monitor your A1C, monitor your health and then adapt your treatment and prevent chronic disease. And we're actually going to be hosting on August 16, from 10am to 3pm in Chicago at their humble Park, Health Wellness Center, the first local event, inviting all local partners. We'll have some virtual sessions, showcase with yoga or ask the endocrinologist. So we'll have a very exciting agenda that both virtual and on site participants can join in, eat healthy foods. See, see what's in Chicago from a screenings perspective, and really get people motivated to map your health. So hashtag, map your health. Tell your your your health story, and let's get everyone, um, healthier. Wow.   Stacey Simms  21:35 Okay, fantastic. Well, yes, I'll park Dr co Janice, thank you so much for joining me. Have a terrific show. I know this is an audio podcast, but especially behind you. Yassil, it has been wild to watch the construction guys are going by and motorized carts and things are going up behind you. So have a wonderful ADA. Keep us posted, and we'll get the word out about your event in August and going forward. Thanks so much for joining me.   more information in the show notes about the studies and about orange biomed. You can sign up for alerts and emails from them as their product moves forward. So if you're interested, definitely check that out. Thank you to my editor, John Bukenis from audio editing solutions, thank you so much for listening. I'm Stacey Simms. I'll see you back here soon. Until then, be kind to yourself.   Benny  22:30 Diabetes Connections is a production of Stacey Simms media. All Rights Reserved, all wrongs avenged.    

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You're growing your real estate team or real estate brokerage.Some of your agents are interested in starting a team within your business. Or small teams are approaching you about joining your team or brokerage.What kinds of rules and standards should you have in place? What are the tough conversations you need to have? How do you open up this opportunity while preserving the integrity and profitability of your business?For helpful ideas and practical lessons, enjoy this conversation with Eric Bramlett, Broker and Owner of Bramlett Partners, an independent brokerage with 125 agents.Pay special attention to the three paths an agent can take to get what they want without starting a team!Watch or listen for Eric's insights into:Focus as your defining trait for growth and impactThe differences between and value of a North Star and an annual focusMaking client service and 5-star reviews your sustainable growth engineDecisions that allowed Bramlett Partners to shift from a decade of slow growth to 125 agents and 90% retention over the past few years Why “how many agents do you have?” is a terrible question and how median production balances out average productionThree paths a high-performing agent can take to get what they want without starting a teamThe standards an agent must meet to become team eligible Ways to support teams inside your team or brokerage and differences in value prop for agents vs teamsResearch results: what agents really want from a brokerage (spoiler: a sense of belonging)Ways to nurture a valuable cultureAt the end, learn about individual performers, the Innovation Hub, delivery vs pickup, and the days-on-mountain metric.Team Standards at Bramlett Partners:→ Team eligibility and team building policies: https://support.bramlettpartners.com/article/329-team-eligibility→ Team and team leader hiring process and standards: https://support.bramlettpartners.com/article/776-team-team-leader-hiring-process-standards→ Team culture code: https://bramlettpartners.com/join-bramlett#culture→ Team retention stats: https://bramlettpartners.com/join-bramlett#growthMentioned in this episode:→ Research on what agents want from brokerages: https://www.mikedp.com/articles/2025/8/21/research-study-what-agents-really-want-in-a-brokerage→ Sean Soderstrom (Courted) and Eric Bramlett discussing the research: https://youtu.be/rECokGVWZkA→ Brittany Hodak on The Customer Experience Podcast: https://bombbomb.com/podcasts/creating-superfans-brittany-hodak-customer-experience/→ Brittany Hodak on Bramlett Partners Podcast: https://youtu.be/X-CJs13KNhc→ Creating Superfans: https://brittanyhodak.com/book#/→ The Real Estate Innovation Hub: https://www.reinnovationhub.com→ FUB Co-founder Dan Corkill on Real Estate Team OS: https://www.realestateteamos.com/episode/customer-centricity-follow-up-boss-founder-dan-corkillConnect with Eric Bramlett:→ Eric @ Bramlett . me→ https://bramlettpartners.com/agents/eric-bramlett→ https://www.instagram.com/bramlettpartners/Connect with Real Estate Team OS:→ https://www.realestateteamos.com→ https://linktr.ee/realestateteamos→ https://www.instagram.com/realestateteamos/

We have done it yet again with special guest Ricarlo Winston Community Engagement Specialist of Access Health Inc. and Cyndi Langlois Community Empowerment Manager of Grand Valley State University Innovation Hub. Collaborating together to continue building communities, access to proper funding for individual and businesses.GVSU Innovation Hub/Muskegon•Cyndi Langlois•Community Empowerment Manager• langlocy@gvsu.edu• (616) 331-6906Access Health Inc.•Ricarlo Williams-Winston• Community Engagement Specialist•rwilliams@access-health.org•(231)728-5160Unapologetic Links:https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/a3d...https://anchor.fm/mel-johnson0 https://www.breaker.audio/un-at-polog...https://overcast.fm/itunes1510696709/...https://pca.st/hud62u72https://radiopublic.com/unpologetic-W...https://open.spotify.com/show/0QZof2y...https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-unapologetic-1-podcast-111272307/https://linktr.ee/unapologeticpodcast1Social Media Links: Hit that Follow, Share, LikeIG: @unapologeticpodcast_101FB:@U1podcastTwitter: @U1podcastTikTok: @unapologetic1podcastPinterest: @unapologeticpchttps://www.linkedin.com/in/unapologetic-podcast-llc-35ba77232

Ricarlo Winston Community Engagement Specialist and Cyndi Langlois Community Empowerment Manager continue to elevate communities with programs like the "Blue Print Project" from Access Health Inc. and the Innovation Hub discussing new programs, how they are improving current programs and more GVSU Innovation Hub/Muskegon•Cyndi Langlois•Community Empowerment Manager• langlocy@gvsu.edu• (616) 331-6906Access Health Inc.•Ricarlo Williams-Winston• Community Engagement Specialist•rwilliams@access-health.org•(231)728-5160Unapologetic Links:https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/a3d...https://anchor.fm/mel-johnson0 https://www.breaker.audio/un-at-polog...https://overcast.fm/itunes1510696709/...https://pca.st/hud62u72https://radiopublic.com/unpologetic-W...https://open.spotify.com/show/0QZof2y...https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-unapologetic-1-podcast-111272307/https://linktr.ee/unapologeticpodcast1Social Media Links: Hit that Follow, Share, LikeIG: @unapologeticpodcast_101FB:@U1podcastTwitter: @U1podcastTikTok: @unapologetic1podcastPinterest: @unapologeticpchttps://www.linkedin.com/in/unapologetic-podcast-llc-35ba77232

In this episode 187 of the Disruption Now Podcast, we sit down with Benjamin Ko, the CEO of Kaleidoscope Innovation, a firm leading the way in human-centered design and engineering — especially in healthcare. From developing wearable technologies for spinal cord injury patients to crafting surgical tools built around human ergonomics, Ben and his team are proving that empathy is a competitive advantage in the age of AI.We dive into the central question: If AI can optimize everything, where do we still matter? Ben argues that empathy isn't just a soft skill — it's a design superpower. He discusses how Kaleidoscope's cross-functional teams of designers, engineers, and researchers bridge the gap between physical and digital worlds, why 95% of AI projects fail due to lack of human context, and how clarity of thought and ethical design can shape a better, more responsible tech future.If you're a founder, product designer, healthcare innovator, engineer, or policymaker interested in building smarter systems with deeper purpose — this episode is for you.

What does it take to lead digital transformation when fear, culture, and AI disruption collide?

Attention veterans wanting to become entrepreneurs: Grand Valley State University's Innovation Hub in Battle Creek will join statewide locations hosting the Michigan Veteran Entrepreneur Lab.Amy Hilton manages entrepreneurship initiatives at GVSU in Battle Creek and joins Commiunity Matters for details on the coursework - called a "cohort" - which is meant to help veterans make their business owner dreams a reality.Episode ResourcesGVSU MVE LabABOUT COMMUNITY MATTERSFormer WBCK Morning Show host Richard Piet (2014-2017) returns to host Community Matters, an interview program focused on community leaders and newsmakers in and around Battle Creek. Community Matters is heard Saturdays, 8:00 AM Eastern on WBCK-FM (95.3) and anytime at battlecreekpodcast.com.Community Matters is sponsored by Lakeview Ford Lincoln and produced by Livemic Communications.

The 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup in England has broken records both on and off the pitch — from advancing gender equity to achieving unprecedented broadcasting figures and ticket sales. But what do these successes mean for host councils and local communities once the tournament ends?In this episode, we speak with Cllr James Petter, Deputy Leader of West Northamptonshire Council, whose portfolio spans the local economy, culture, and leisure, and Dr Becca Leopkey from the University of Georgia, a world-leading expert on the visible and invisible impacts of hosting major events.Our vibrant conversation centres on Northampton, an official host town that staged tournament games across three weekends and delivered a range of community activations. These engaged local residents, sports clubs, businesses, and universities throughout the Rugby World Cup. Cllr Petter and Dr Leopkey share insights on the importance of involving diverse local groups, capturing both planned and unexpected successes, and addressing the crucial question: what's next?Together, they explore how Northampton can build on the momentum of the tournament to deliver long-term regional benefits. This episode forms part of the Summer of Women's Sport mini-series supported by the Institute of Advanced Studies and Spirit of 2012, who champion inclusive knowledge exchange and partnership building.Want to know more? Make sure to check out the Loughborough University Women in Sport Research and Innovation Hub, plus the Loughborough Lightning rugby franchise who kick off their PWR season with Northampton Saints at Franklin's Gardens this autumn.What does hosting mean?: 4:00Harnessing the hosting: 8:45Yarn bombing: 10:07Maintaining the momentum: 13:19The Fanzone: 17:36Next steps: 23:03 Collaboration: 35:10

From streamlining complex onboarding flows to surfacing the right information at the right time, design thinking encourages product design teams to bring empathy and intentionality into every layer of product development, creating experiences that are intuitive, responsive, and centered around real human needs. Temenos is leading the charge to bring that mindset back to banking innovation, with Erik Johnson, Head of Product Design, at the helm. For Johnson, creativity and collaboration go hand in hand with functionality. On this episode of the Tearsheet podcast, Johnson talks about structuring his design team in a “centralized, hybrid” model, solving design challenges with data and empathy, and how Temenos' Innovation Hub in Orlando is structured to be a “we space” for exploring and co-creating new banking products.

Fluent Fiction - Italian: Power Outage: Teamwork Triumphs in Milan's Innovation Hub Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/it/episode/2025-09-19-22-34-02-it Story Transcript:It: Milan è una città viva, sempre in movimento.En: Milan is a vibrant city, always in motion.It: Nell'autunno variopinto, la zona dell'innovazione brulicava di ingegneri e scienziati.En: In the colorful autumn, the innovation district buzzed with engineers and scientists.It: Leonardo, un inventore appassionato, passeggiava nervoso davanti al suo ufficio.En: Leonardo, a passionate inventor, nervously paced in front of his office.It: Aveva preparato una dimostrazione speciale per l'Oktoberfest, che si svolgeva con grande entusiasmo nelle strade vicine, con pretzel caldi e birra a fiumi.En: He had prepared a special demonstration for the Oktoberfest, which was being celebrated enthusiastically in the nearby streets, with hot pretzels and beer flowing in abundance.It: Improvvisamente, tutto si oscurò.En: Suddenly, everything went dark.It: Una scarica di energia e poi, il nulla.En: A surge of energy and then, nothing.It: Il quartiere high-tech era senza corrente.En: The high-tech neighborhood was without power.It: Leonardo si preoccupò immediatamente per il suo progetto innovativo.En: Leonardo immediately worried about his innovative project.It: Doveva trovare una soluzione, e presto.En: He needed to find a solution, and quickly.It: A pochi isolati di distanza, Ariana era nel suo ufficio.En: A few blocks away, Ariana was in her office.It: Guardava con attenzione i dati sui suoi schermi mentre una leggera ansia le solleticava la mente.En: She was watching the data on her screens attentively as a slight anxiety tickled her mind.It: Stava lavorando a un progetto segreto di sicurezza informatica.En: She was working on a secret cybersecurity project.It: Sentiva che il blackout era collegato alla sua ricerca, ma non poteva dirlo a nessuno.En: She felt that the blackout was connected to her research, but she couldn't tell anyone.It: Almeno, non ancora.En: At least, not yet.It: Leonardo, disperato, sapeva che doveva parlare con qualcuno di cui si fidava.En: Leonardo, desperate, knew he had to speak to someone he trusted.It: Pensò subito a Ariana.En: He immediately thought of Ariana.It: Anche se riservata, era la migliore nel suo campo.En: Although reserved, she was the best in her field.It: Vi si avviò velocemente, il cuore che batteva forte.En: He headed there quickly, his heart pounding.It: "Ariana," disse quando entrò, "abbiamo bisogno del tuo aiuto.En: "Ariana," he said when he entered, "we need your help.It: Tutto il quartiere è al buio."En: The whole neighborhood is in the dark."It: Le loro strade si incrociarono in quel momento di urgenza.En: Their paths crossed in that moment of urgency.It: Ariana esitò.En: Ariana hesitated.It: Pensava ai dati segreti a rischio, ma decise comunque di aiutare.En: She thought about the secret data at risk, but decided to help nonetheless.It: "Va bene, ma devi fidarti di me," rispose con serietà.En: "Alright, but you need to trust me," she replied seriously.It: Iniziarono a lavorare insieme, scandagliando i sistemi.En: They started working together, scanning the systems.It: Leonardo era impressionato dalla maestria di Ariana.En: Leonardo was impressed by Ariana's skill.It: Così abile, così attenta ai dettagli.En: So adept, so detail-oriented.It: Lei, a sua volta, si fidò sempre più di lui.En: She, in turn, trusted him more and more.It: Dopo ore di lavoro intenso, scoprirono la verità: un attacco informatico mirato.En: After hours of intense work, they discovered the truth: a targeted cyberattack.It: I criminali cercavano di rubare informazioni preziose, compreso il progetto di Ariana.En: The criminals were trying to steal valuable information, including Ariana's project.It: In quel momento di rivelazione, Ariana sapeva che non poteva più nascondere nulla a Leonardo.En: In that moment of revelation, Ariana knew she could no longer hide anything from Leonardo.It: "È colpa mia," confessò con voce tremante.En: "It's my fault," she confessed with a trembling voice.It: "Ma possiamo fermarli insieme."En: "But we can stop them together."It: Insieme orchestrano un contropiano.En: Together, they orchestrated a counterplan.It: Ariana bloccò l'attacco, mentre Leonardo riattivava i sistemi.En: Ariana blocked the attack, while Leonardo reactivated the systems.It: La corrente tornò, e con essa la vita vibrante del quartiere.En: The power returned, and with it, the vibrant life of the neighborhood.It: Al termine di questa avventura, il progetto di Leonardo continuò come previsto.En: At the end of this adventure, Leonardo's project continued as planned.It: La sua dimostrazione fu un successo, applaudita durante le celebrazioni dell'Oktoberfest.En: His demonstration was a success, applauded during the Oktoberfest celebrations.It: Ariana, anche se consapevole degli eventuali rischi lavorativi, si sentì finalmente più leggera.En: Ariana, although aware of the potential work-related risks, finally felt lighter.It: Leonardo e Ariana si erano guadagnati oltre che il rispetto reciproco, una nuova amicizia.En: Leonardo and Ariana had gained not only mutual respect but also a new friendship.It: Leonardo scoprì quanto fosse importante collaborare e fidarsi degli altri.En: Leonardo realized how important it was to collaborate and trust others.It: Ariana, invece, si sentì meno sola e più forte nell'affrontare le avversità.En: Ariana, on the other hand, felt less alone and stronger in facing adversities.It: Il cielo di Milano al crepuscolo brillava di nuovi inizi e di storie di successo.En: The sky over Milan at dusk shone with new beginnings and stories of success. Vocabulary Words:vibrant: vivaengineers: gli ingegneriscientists: gli scienziatidemonstration: la dimostrazioneenthusiastically: con grande entusiasmosurge: la scaricablackout: il blackoutsolution: la soluzioneanxiety: l'ansiacybersecurity: la sicurezza informaticareserved: riservataurgency: l'urgenzainterconnected: collegatosystems: i sistemiadept: abiledetail-oriented: attenta ai dettaglirevelation: la rivelazionetrembling: tremantecounterplan: il contropianopower: la correnteappreciated: applauditarisks: i rischifriendship: l'amiciziatrust: fiduciacollaborate: collaborareovercoming: affrontareadversities: le avversitàdusk: il crepuscolobeginnings: nuovi inizisuccess: il successo

Host Jeremy C. Park talks with Jeremy Qualls, Executive Director of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center at Williamson County Schools, who discusses the center's growth and success. Established seven years ago, the center initially had 72 students but now has 270 with a long waitlist. The program offers a unique, non-traditional education experience, exposing students to real-world entrepreneurship, including interactions with venture capitalists, mentors, and angel investors. Students spend one period a day at the center, learning through hands-on experiences and collaborations. Mentors include leaders from business, tech, medical and other industries in the community and specialists like a patent attorney.Jeremy Qualls next highlights their pitch process where the student entrepreneurs compete for a grant, which is 100% funded by private donations. He mentions that the winner gets an opportunity to submit to Chicago and that they have had several students make the top 20 in the past. He shares the success story of Anthony Beckett, who created an educational technology product called Markify, which won the IncubatorEdu National Pitch Competition last July and already has gained 12,000 users worldwide. Jeremy mentions that Markify is now looking for angel investment to hire someone to market and sell the product.Jeremy Qualls then discusses the success of a current student, Abby Goddard, who created Spikey, a spiked drink detection keychain. Abby was selected as the winner of their local Shark Tank this year. She recently fulfilled an order for 800 units.Jeremy then introduces The Innovation Hub, a project funded by a grant from the State of Tennessee for vocational education. The Innovation Hub, which will be a 25,000 square foot facility, aims to shift the traditional educational model and create innovative partnerships. He discusses the new vocational pathways being introduced at the central facility. The aviation program, in partnership with Franklin Special School District and Hawkins Flight Academy, allows students to obtain a private pilot license at 16. The program also includes a partnership with MTSU, providing up to 12 hours of college credit. The entrepreneurial program, in partnership with Thompson Caterpillar, offers two post-secondary programs: heavy machine technology and electrical power generation. These programs are designed to provide direct-to-work opportunities and matriculate into post-secondary institutions. The Innovation Hub also will focus on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and hospitality, with a culinary arts program being the largest requested CTE program. The Innovation Hub will include a mock hotel lobby, a work-based learning site with Honest Coffee, and more. The project is expected to be completed by August 2026 for the start of the 2026-2027 school year.Jeremy Qualls wraps up discussing the importance of partnerships in workforce development, particularly in the Middle Tennessee region. He emphasizes the need for business partners with a desire for a return on investment in the form of a future workforce. He also mentions the need for more partners offering apprenticeships or internships, and the possibility of in-kind donations. Jeremy encourages potential partners to reach out directly to him at jeremy.qualls@wcs.edu for more information.Visit https://www.wcs.edu/secondary/entrepreneurship-innovation-center-eic to learn more about the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center at Williamson County Schools.

Open Innovation gehört zu den ältesten Methoden, um Innovation voranzutreiben. Trotzdem lohnt es sich immer wieder, einen frischen Blick darauf zu werfen – vor allem, wie Unternehmen diese Methode heute leben.In dieser Podcast-Folge haben wir dafür ein besonders spannendes Beispiel: Zeiss, eines der führenden Industrieunternehmen Europas, weltweit bekannt für die Zusammenarbeit mit ASML und den legendären Spiegel, der in Chip-Herstellungsmaschinen zum Einsatz kommt. Doch Zeiss hat noch eine andere, bemerkenswerte Seite: einen einzigartigen Zugang zum Thema Innovation.Dr. Max Riedel leitet sein Büro und Team direkt auf dem Campus des Karlsruher Instituts für Technologie (KIT). Von dort aus sucht er gezielt nach Ideen aus der Studierendenschaft und aus der Spitzenforschung, die für Zeiss relevant sein könnten. Im Gespräch erzählt er nicht nur von erfolgreichen Projekten, sondern auch von Vorhaben, die gescheitert sind – und warum gerade diese Erfahrungen oft die wertvollsten sind.Herausgekommen ist ein offenes und erfrischend transparentes Gespräch über Innovationsprozesse in der Industrie. Für alle, die wissen wollen, wie man Open Innovation im Unternehmenskontext wirklich lebt, ist dies eines der besten Beispiele.Ich habe das Gespräch sehr genossen – und hoffe, ihr könnt daraus ebenso viel mitnehmen. Viel Spaß mit dem Podcast!Tickets zur Summer Academy: https://www.eventbrite.de/e/future-candy-summer-academy-2025-tickets-1335224164419?aff=oddtdtcreatorLinkedIn Max Riedel:https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-riedel-b0065211b/Gern Mail an mich: nick@futurecandy.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of the Women in Sport Summer Series, we explore how governance, marketing, and collaboration are driving transformation in women's sport—both in the UK and globally.Featuring Alex Teasdale, Executive Director of Women's Rugby at the RFU, and Dr Dana Lee Ellis, a leading academic in sport marketing and event governance, we unpack the strategic role of the Women's Rugby World Cup 2025, the power of inclusive networks, and the importance of visionary innovation initiatives.This conversation is part of the Women in Sport Summit, supported by the Institute for Advanced Studies, Spirit of 2012, and the Women in Sport Research and Innovation Hub at Loughborough University.Intros 0:00Leadership and collaboration: 3:50The eve of the Rugby World Cup: 8:14Amplification: 11:57Focus on women's sport: 14:08Sport beyond the event: 16:23Global and private examples: 23:51Inclusive leadership: 32:01Looking ahead: 38:27Key takeaway: 45:25#LoughboroughUniversity #ExpertsInSport #SportsInnovation#FemaleAthletes #Podcast #Rugby #rugbyworldcup #womensports Follow Loughborough University: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@lborouniversity Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lborouniversity/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lborouniversity Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lborouniversity/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/school/loughborough-university/ Website: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/

Inside INdiana Business Radio for the morning of August 4, 2025. Rose-Hulman is advancing work on its $102 million Innovation Grove project in Terre Haute. A new report ranks Indiana's early childhood education system 42nd in the nation, with cuts to state programs and long waitlists straining access. Also: Greenwood-based Indiana American Water breaks ground on a new $50 million treatment plant, Scale Computing is acquired by a Texas firm, and Escalade sees a dip in quarterly income. Get the latest business news from throughout the state at InsideINdianaBusiness.com. Ask ChatGPT

In this episode of Experts in Sport, host Dr Hannah Fox Dugdale is joined by Dr Verity Postlethwaite to explore the groundbreaking launch of Loughborough University's Women in Sport Research and Innovation Hub. Discover how this initiative is set to transform women's sport from grassroots to elite, tackling real-world challenges with cutting-edge research.We also hear from special guest and former England international, Karen Carney OBE, as she shares powerful insights on athlete health, equity in sport, and what this hub means for the future.A must-listen in the build-up to the 2025 Summer of Women in Sport!Intro: 0:00Karen Carney: 8:07Women in Sport Research and Innovation Hub: 8:47 The research gap: 10:50 Women focused research: 14:39 The media: 20:41 Leadership: 23:26 The hub contribution: 25:23 Women's sport in action: 27:09 Karen Carney OBE is also an ambassador for the new hub - https://www.lboro.ac.uk/news-events/news/2024/september/karen-carney-sport-health-wellbeing-ambassador/For more information visit:https://www.lboro.ac.uk/news-events/news/2025/march/women-in-sport-hub-launch/https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/women-in-sport-hub/https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias/programmes/women-in-sport/https://www.ncsem-em.org.uk/events/tackling-the-gap/

Inside INdiana Business Radio for the afternoon of June 24, 2025. Officials in Batesville have broken ground on the $8.1 million Batesville Arts & Innovation Hub, an expansion of the Batesville Memorial Public Library. Plus, Gov. Braun says all of Indiana's public colleges and universities are freezing tuition for the next two years. And the University of Southern Indiana lands D1 status. Get the latest business news from throughout the state at InsideINdianaBusiness.com.

On today's show we're excited to welcome Rick Peng, the Innovation Hub Manager and Digital Licensing Professional at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. We talk about how your organization can build an outside-in, external innovation program to deliver outsized results. Rick breaks down the secret sauce of the MSK Innovation Hub, an accelerator program designed to encourage collaborations between Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and digital health companies, focused on the diagnosis, treatment, and care of cancer patients. We discuss their new Innovation Hub Challenge focused on AI Drug Discovery – and why the access to data sets, is a key unlock for ai driven solutions.

How can you reimagine student employment as experiential learning? What projects can students work on to learn and grow while helping their university? What skills and relationships can they build along the way? We dive into these questions with Julia Allworth who founded and leads University of Toronto's Innovation Hub which trains students in design thinking and deploys them as consultants on projects improve the student experience.

In this episode, Duane Mancini sits down with Isaiah Kaiser, Co-Founder and CEO of Auxilium Health, and Elyse Ball, Vice President of Programming at Bounce Innovation Hub. Fresh off Auxilium Health's exciting $1.5M oversubscribed pre-seed round and new office at Cleveland Clinic, Isaiah returns to share their journey since his first appearance in episode 147. Elyse discusses the vital role of Bounce Innovation Hub in supporting startups and how her journalism background aids in her work. Together, they delve into navigating the regional iCorp program and the JumpStart accelerator, offering invaluable advice for raising capital and maneuvering the startup landscape. Tune in to hear their insights and get a glimpse into Auxilium Health's next major milestones.Isaiah Kaiser LinkedInElyse Ball LinkedInDuane Mancini LinkedInAuxilium Health WebsiteBounce Innovation Hub WebsiteProject Medtech WebsiteProject Medtech LinkedIn

Dr. Kim Freeze joins the Exchange to discuss her work of uplifting underserved voices in entrepreneurship and the Pitch Latino event she's leading on June 12.

Dr. Kim Freeze joins the Exchange to discuss her work of uplifting underserved voices in entrepreneurship and the Pitch Latino event she's leading on June 12.

In Episode 122 of The TBD Podcast, Garrett sits down with Richard Munassi from Tampa Bay Wave to discuss how Tampa has become a serious hub for startups. They talk through why founders are choosing to build here, how companies raise early funding, and what makes some startups succeed while others stall. Richard explains how Tampa Bay Wave supports founders, what he looks for when selecting companies, and why a strong team matters more than just a good idea. If you're building or thinking about building a company, this episode gives you a clear look at what it takes to grow in this market.0:00:00 - Private Equity Buying Businesses 0:03:57 - Tampa Bay Wave0:15:35 - Pulse Charter Connect0:19:27 - Is Tampa Becoming an Innovation Hub? 0:29:43 - 3D Printed Seawall Company0:33:01 - Tampa Bay Wave Success Stories0:42:45 - Transportation 0:50:52 - Tampa Compared to Major U.S. Cities1:10:24 - Economic Instability 1:19:17 - Tech Companies 

Today, we are releasing another episode in our series entitled Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, sponsored by the City of Dubai. Dubai is the new global center of gravity, connecting the world in a way few places can. As a hub for trade, tourism, innovation, and finance, Dubai offers the ideal environment for startups and scale-ups to thrive. Entrepreneurs find a home here, whether in health-tech, fintech, AI, or renewable energy, supported by SME-focused programs that empower high-potential companies to scale globally. From flexible regulations to tax incentives, world-class infrastructure to access to global investors managing $1 trillion, Dubai understands what businesses need to scale fast. For today's episode, we are speaking with Mohammad Albalooshi, CEO of the DIFC Innovation Hub, a driving force behind Dubai's innovation ecosystem and a key player in empowering startups and scaleups across the MEASA region.Questions: Tell me and my audience a little bit about you.What is the DIFC Innovation Hub, and what role does it play in driving innovation in Dubai and the broader region? How did it come to be, and what vision does it fulfill?Can you tell us more about the Dubai AI Campus? What is its mission, and how does it support the development of AI-driven innovation?So I'm an entrepreneur looking to build the next big thing in fintech — how does the DIFC Innovation Hub support startups and scaleups in this space? Can you share some examples of companies that have benefited from your ecosystem?Dubai is positioning itself as a global hub for fintech and innovation. How does the DIFC contribute to making this vision a reality?Is it necessary for entrepreneurs to be physically located in Dubai or the MEASA region to join the DIFC Innovation Hub and its programs, or can global innovators participate from anywhere in the world?What are the Dubai AI License and the DIFC License? How do these frameworks support entrepreneurs and businesses within the innovation ecosystem?How is DIFC planning to expand its role in the innovation ecosystem over the next 5-10 years?What new programs or initiatives can we expect to see from the DIFC Innovation Hub to attract global talent and businesses?What advice would you give to startups and entrepreneurs, particularly those from outside the UAE, who are considering Dubai as a base for their operations?Linkshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammad-alblooshi-2499b54a/https://blockchaincenter.ae/https://dubaiaicampus.com/https://www.difc.ae/ https://www.investindubai.gov.ae/en/why-dubai/d33-agendaOur Sponsors:* Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com* Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORYSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We are here at PegaWorld iNspire at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada we've been seeing some amazing things, including how AI can transform the enterprise and I've had the opportunity to be hands-on at the Innovation Hub. A study unveiled today at PegaWorld, conducted by research firm Savanta, surveyed more than 500 business decision makers across enterprises worldwide on their understanding and use of AI, as well as the challenges and opportunities they see in successfully implementing the technology. Joining us today is Peter van der Putten, Director AI Lab at Pega, to discuss the meaningful AI in the enterprise and this recently-announced research on the rise of creative and analytical AI within global businesses. RESOURCES Pega website: https://www.pega.com Listen to The Agile Brand without the ads. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/3ymf7hd Headed to MAICON 24 - the premier marketing and AI conference? Use our discount code AGILE150 for $150 off your registration code. Register here: http://tinyurl.com/5jpwhycv Don't miss a thing: get the latest episodes, sign up for our newsletter and more: https://www.theagilebrand.show Check out The Agile Brand Guide website with articles, insights, and Martechipedia, the wiki for marketing technology: https://www.agilebrandguide.com The Agile Brand podcast is brought to you by TEKsystems. Learn more here: https://www.teksystems.com/versionnextnow The Agile Brand is produced by Missing Link—a Latina-owned strategy-driven, creatively fueled production co-op. From ideation to creation, they craft human connections through intelligent, engaging and informative content. https://www.missinglink.company Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are here at PegaWorld iNspire at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada we've been seeing some amazing things, including how AI can transform the enterprise, and been hands on at the Innovation Hub. Church Mutual recently partnered with P3Fusion and Pega to build a unified CRM and Underwriting solution that transformed their enterprise operations with a streamlined approach that significantly reduced implementation time and cost. Today we're going to talk about this and see what it takes to successfully deliver incremental value, reusability, and automation in the enterprise. To help me discuss this topic, I'd like to welcome Rick Meheean, Director of Workflow Management, Church Mutual Insurance Company. RESOURCES Listen to The Agile Brand without the ads. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/3ymf7hd Headed to MAICON 24 - the premier marketing and AI conference? Use our discount code AGILE150 for $150 off your registration code. Register here: http://tinyurl.com/5jpwhycv Don't miss a thing: get the latest episodes, sign up for our newsletter and more: https://www.theagilebrand.show Check out The Agile Brand Guide website with articles, insights, and Martechipedia, the wiki for marketing technology: https://www.agilebrandguide.com The Agile Brand podcast is brought to you by TEKsystems. Learn more here: https://www.teksystems.com/versionnextnow The Agile Brand is produced by Missing Link—a Latina-owned strategy-driven, creatively fueled production co-op. From ideation to creation, they craft human connections through intelligent, engaging and informative content. https://www.missinglink.company Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices