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The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT The people who build and maintain very large networks of displays, PCs, servers and other devices tend to have more to do than time to do it, and when some technical shit hits the operating fan, trying to work out what's happening and what to do about it takes experience, brainpower and what can be punishing downtime. So what if generative AI could be used by a network operations center team to comb through knowledge bases and trouble ticket archives to identify solutions in seconds, instead of minutes or hours? And what if a lot of meat and potato workflows done to deliver services and maintain uptimes could be automated, and handled by an AI bot? That's the premise of Netspeek, a start-up that formally came out of stealth mode this week - with an AI-driven SaaS solution aimed at integrators, solutions providers and enterprise-level companies that use a lot of AV gear. The Boston-based company is focused more at launch on unified communications, because of the scale and need out there. But Netspeek's toolset is also applicable to digital signage, and can bolt on to existing device management solutions. The guy driving this will be familiar in digital signage hardware circles. Erik DeGiorgi was running the specialty PC firm MediaVue, but sold that company about a year ago. Since then, he's been forehead-deep working with a small dev team on Netspeek. We caught up last week and he gave me the rundown. Subscribe from wherever you pick up new podcasts. TRANSCRIPT Erik, nice to chat once again. You sold your company about a year ago, and I don't want to say disappeared, but kind of went off the grid in terms of digital signage, and now you are launching a new company called Netspeek. What is that?  Erik DeGiorgi: Thanks for having me back, Dave. It's crazy. Time flies. I think it's well over two years at this point since our last conversation.  We launched Netspeek at the beginning of the year. At the same time, we sold out MediaVue. Netspeek is bringing to market the first generative AI platform focused on supporting the day-to-day operations of mixed vendor estates of pro AV networks. Digital signage is certainly a component of that. We're really focused on the totality of pro AV technologies. So it includes a lot of UCC unified collaborations and communications technologies as well as signage, and really targeting office spaces. So think about meeting rooms and conference rooms. You might have a Zoom or a Teams environment in there as well as a signage system or classroom environments, and what we've developed is a generative AI solution that can be embedded into those networks, that can work alongside human operators, network administrators, technicians to help them support them in their daily workflows, and then also bring a large amount of automation. So our platform can not only kind of observe what's going on in a network, kind of a 24/7-365 way, but then take action and use its own logic and reason and independent thinking to analyze situations the same way a human operator would and then structure and generate responses. So being able to directly address equipment and solve problems independently. We're pretty excited to bring that to market. We're launching to the industry here in a week, and then we'll be demoing at ISE at the beginning of February.  You'll have your own stand at ISE? Erik DeGiorgi: Yes, and I did pull up the booth number ahead of the call, but of course now it's on a different tab. It's in the Innovation Park, and the booth number is CS820, and it's actually centrally located there in the Innovation Park. So actually right outside the digital signage area.  Yeah, I think for people going to ISE, the Innovation Park is kind of along the main corridor in between halls.  Erik DeGiorgi: Yep, it's the central hallway.  Okay, so people should be able to find you there.  Erik DeGiorgi: Hopefully, yep.  Not a sprawling booth like a Samsung or LG or something, but…  Erik DeGiorgi: We measure in single meters. I think it's a 2x3 meter booth.  Startup life. Erik DeGiorgi: The price was right.  There are lots of device management platforms out there, either independent third-party platforms that you would subscribe to and bolt onto your system or a fair number of companies, whether they're integrators or CMS software companies in the context of digital signage have their own device management code written in, how is this different?  Erik DeGiorgi: Yeah, absolutely. Netspeek is not another monitoring platform. Monitoring is a necessary component, right? You need to know what you have on the network and know what it's doing as a foundation. But our value really lies in the intelligence that we're bringing into that. So it's taking that monitoring and observation, but then actually doing something with it in doing that either again to assist a human by bringing kind of an encyclopedic knowledge and institutional knowledge or whether it's through the automation, and so we're going to market with a total solution. We have a monitoring platform that we've developed as a necessary part of our total solution, but we actually are also partnering with existing remote monitoring and management platforms to essentially bolt on to them, and then bring that intelligence to their monitoring platform and actually at ISE, you'll be able to see that as well.  So they should happily run in parallel using APIs or…?  Erik DeGiorgi: Yep. So we hook into the existing monitoring platform and we essentially bolt on the, the reasoning and the intelligence, and then allow an existing user to leverage that front end, and that monitoring platform that they're already familiar with. Who do you think you're primarily going to be selling this into? Is it like integrators and service providers who have network operation centers or would it be end users?  Erik DeGiorgi: So it's a little bit of both, and candidly at an early stage, you tend to take a bit more of a scattershot approach, and test where the value emerges. It's a new technology, gen AI, everybody knows it's there and in a large part don't know what to do with it. But we've kind of honed in on three initial go to market opportunities. One is like a total solution directed towards the end user. One is more of a channel centric focus, whether it's a system integrator managed service provider. We're actually already engaged with a few, of each, that are interested in leveraging the platform in that capacity. And then also, like I said, with, an existing management. You could be a manufacturer. So think about even an independent manufacturer, or a platform provider, like an existing monitoring platform. So an existing tool is specific to a manufacturer or a tool for more broad-based management. Like I said, we can kind of bolt into those and go to market that way as well.  So in the scenario of a network operation center in the context of digital signage, an integrator that's doing the work to monitor a large QSR network for a restaurant chain that doesn't want to do that internally and they've got a whole bunch of screens up on a wall and they've got big curved desktop screens and the whole bit and they're watching what's going on.  Is the idea here in part that. As a problem develops and it's kind of weird and not familiar that if you had to go into a whole bunch of manuals and archived information, it would take many minutes, maybe even hours to do it versus if this is all on a learned model that the solution or at least ideas on a resolution could come up in seconds? Erik DeGiorgi: We really kind of lean into the personification of our platform. So our product is called Lena and Lena is an acronym that stands for Language Enabled Network Administrator. So we really have modeled the platform and the solution after the workflows that human operators perform every day. So imagine being in that knock and sitting there next to your colleague, Lena and Lena happens to be trained on every respective certification related to the deployment, and has been trained in every application software that's being used, has an encyclopedic knowledge of every technical document for every piece of equipment or technology that's in that deployment, has the ability to - at the speed of light - comb through any historical information like previous support tickets or anything like that that's been related.  So being confronted with a situation, whether that's a critical situation or whether it's looking at something that's preventative, or maintenance-oriented, just imagine having this kind of superhuman user that can just as a human operator analyze the situation, develop a logic flow, think critically about that situation, pull in outside information to help diagnose a potential issue, construct a resolution, and then either autonomously or along with a human companion and approval, go ahead and execute that action. One of the things that Lena can do out of the box is we've done all the integrations, and I say all we've done many, and we're continuing to do many more integrations with all the different devices and technologies that you see in these networks. So, as a generative AI, Lena can generate information for human consumption, but Lena can also generate structured information that translate down to device commands in various ways. So Lena can actually take action and do things on her own, and, we default to saying “her” because get used to personifying. Some people lean into that, some people don't. But you really kind of think about it as this if you had your next hire, your next employee that had all of this institutional knowledge and had the ability to take action in this way.  What would be the ROI on something like that? I assume that if there's a problem emerging that seems kind of weird, that can take quite a bit of time theoretically to come to a resolution, unless you have somebody on staff who is almost like Lena and has that encyclopedic knowledge, otherwise it's going to take many minutes, right?  Erik DeGiorgi: We quantify value in two ways, coming from two different directions. Again, think about the application. We're primarily focused on day one is kind of meeting spaces, conference rooms, classrooms, that type of stuff. So you have people, employees, workers going into those spaces, and your sales and marketing people having meetings every day and using those spaces. How much downtime is there in those rooms and what's the value of eliminating some of that downtime, right? So it's kind of a workforce efficiency quantification and we ran that as an exercise and based on our pricing models and some averages of salaries for typical people and took a stab at it and if we save one person in one room two minutes a day, it pays for itself. So imagine a meeting of four people. If you can shave 30 seconds off of that, it pays for itself. So that's kind of one way to look at it.  The other way is what you were talking about is kind of the operational side. What is the cost to operate these networks and to develop that skilled labor, to deploy that skilled labor? And even with that skilled labor, there's kind of the human component. It takes time to process information to think through things. Lena operates at a different pace. So being able to not only just problem solve, troubleshoot, and come to a resolution quicker, but our real objective is actually to mitigate most of those problems from occurring to begin with. We're going to be showing a couple of things at ISE. I'll just give you a tangible example. A room check is something that we're going to be demonstrating. So for those unaware, at most corporate spaces, there are people that go around and check the rooms on a daily and weekly basis. It's a high frequency. It's a very manual process. I'm going room to room running a test call, making sure things are working before the start of the day. It's a high labor, high cost process. So we're actually demonstrating an automated room check where Lena being embedded in the network can go and perform that activity autonomously at really any frequency.  So we're actually going to break the system and we'll be demoing Lena identifying that and actually resolving it. So something's logged out. I'm going to log back into that room's zoom account and run a test call and give it the green light. That's a very tangible thing. That's a real world thing that a lot of people do in these spaces that costs a lot of money and it's something that we're going to be able to help out with.  Is this the way AI works, is it kind of a continuous learning thing, where the more that Lena is applied to a system, the more it's learning about its quirks and things that happen, or is it kind of a preset load of information and it's just working off of that? Erik DeGiorgi: It's an interesting question. I would answer that by saying it's kind of a hybrid, because there's a couple things there. So first there's, I think, a data security and data integrity aspect, and that's something we take very seriously. So we were deploying and as we grow and many enterprises as we did in our previous company, of course, we're not going to be extracting any information or learning from that specific application and bringing that into the general knowledge. So none of our users' information related to this specific network gets brought into the general learning, right? So we take a very, data security approach. I mean, AI is exciting. It's going to change things, but it's also scary, right? It's new, and we want to make sure that we have a very clear focus. I'm in a very clear message around that, that as we deploy this, any state specific or enterprise specific information is retained by that and it's not brought back into the general knowledge. But, in a different way of answering that question, our platform is built to think critically about situations and develop its own logic flows and reasoning flows. So what it is not is pre programmed, in a sense. If this, then that, right? That's not what we've done. We've created a body of knowledge and we've created a set of contexts and parameters, and then we allow Lena to kind of think on her own in order to address and identify and work essentially, again, the way a person would. So there's kind of a big question we could go in a couple different directions, but I don't know if that helps at all.  Yeah, it does. I'm curious. The thing about AI, particularly in its early ages, and it's come a long way in the last year and a half, but one of the concerns was around hallucinations and AI models just making shit up. How do you kind of wall that in so that if you have a resource archive that when Lena is trying to troubleshoot something and it comes up with a resolution, how confident can you be that this it's absolutely working off of what's there and not just kind of imagineering some other solution? Erik DeGiorgi: Yeah, absolutely. So just as a human being would, if I ask you a question, you're going to want to have an answer, right? And if you don't really know the answer, you might kind of fudge it, right? These models are not too dissimilar in that respect. So it's a complicated answer. There are several, if not many things that can be done. There's a lot of context that's provided, so Lena is never reaching out to the internet and looking for information. Lena's on rails in that sense, there's a very kind of tight context, we have built in mechanisms within the platform to self audit and self check so when Lena is presenting something, you know like, here's an issue. I'm going to construct a potential resolution to that. There's actually mechanisms that we've built into the platform that will take that output and fact check it, if that makes sense, at a high level.  So you're absolutely right. It's absolutely a problem. But there are several mechanisms that we've put in place in order to mitigate hallucination, and quite seriously, we interact with this platform quite a bit as you can imagine, and it's really not an issue. So with automation, are there kind of guardrails around that? Because if anybody who's watched Hollywood movies thinks about Skynet and Terminator and everything in between. So if there's a problem, would Lena decide, okay, we're having a problem with overheating, so I'll just turn off all the power in the building. Erik DeGiorgi: No, I mean, again, Lena has very tight parameters, right? And it's actually not that hard to constrain a model in that way. We're not just letting this thing loose and it's multifold, right? So it's built into Lena's programming to not do that, but beyond that, automation is enabled as much as the human counterpart want to, right? So  are there non mission critical things that we're allowing when it's fully automated? Are there things that we need, human confirmation, it kind of just depends on the workflow. It depends on the application, how much you want to automate and how much you don't to be candid. You know, we're learning what the temperature of the early adopters is and seeing it. It's a brave new world for all of us. We're trying to figure out, it's all new, right. And it's not gonna be hell where it kills the crew to protect the mission. So it's far more benevolent, I think. I like to think about it more as the computer on the Starship Enterprise. Let's use, like, a good one, right? It's your friendly AI that's keeping track of all your critical systems and is there to help you work through problems. I'm guessing among potential customers, there's at least a couple of lines of thinking. One being that Lena would allow us to do more with the staff that we have in our knocks or whatever their operation they're thinking about for it, but the other one would be Lena can take the place of like five staffers and we can save half a million bucks or something  Erik DeGiorgi: Yeah, it's an interesting question. It's one we actually talk about quite a bit and you know, disruption disrupts in many ways, right? This technology is most certainly disruptive and that's not just in signage,it's going to be in every aspect of our life going forward. But I believe and it's just not my belief, but it's what I hear and observe, is that the teams, the humans that are actually tasked with doing the operational work every day are so overwhelmed, that it's going to be more of the former, right? At least at the outset, certainly, there's so much we were talking about it the other day. You know, we have an immense amount of data. How much data comes out of these networks use your, example network, you were talking about the retail installation, how much data comes back from that network, whether it's telemetry or whether it's telemetry coming back at the device level or whether it's information based on viewership. I mean, there's so much data that's coming from these systems. How much of it's actually used? You know, I don't know, if I take a stab at it, under 10%, 5%, I mean, probably very little of it's actually used. It's overload. So why don't you just put it on and now you have your data analyst and you can actually leverage that information. So there's a lot of work that's not being done in the spaces that Lena can step in and do that can support and work alongside human operators that are presently overtasked. For those people who are listening and thinking well, this sounds interesting. I wonder if this can apply to my business and my operation they would then be wondering How do I do this? Am I buying an enterprise license? Am I having to install a local server? Is it a SaaS model? How does all this work? Erik DeGiorgi: Yeah, so we are a pure SaaS model, and again there's a couple of different go to markets, whether it's your channel, but let's just say like the direct to end user. If I'm an enterprise and I want to adopt the platform, it's a SaaS model, it's largely a cloud based, all the magic goes on and in our cloud infrastructure.  There's an edge client that gets deployed into each of the local networks in the enterprise, and between the cloud infrastructure, between the edge client, which is typically virtualized in the network, we securely and safely can communicate with all of the connected devices and operate the network as we've been talking about. What kind of a learning curve is involved? I mean, I assume this is not the sort of thing that you just sign up for and get your activation code, plug it in and off you go to the races, like there would have to be quite a bit of onboarding, I would imagine.  Erik DeGiorgi: Right. Well, so there is onboarding. I would say, in comparison to maybe some of the other universal multi vendor monitoring and management tools, it's less. I'll explain why. The burden to onboard our platform, so of course we work very closely with the client to do all of this, but we essentially do an asset dump, right?  So every enterprise has a spectrum of asset management, let's just say, from enterprise to enterprise. So we bring that in, we clean it, we structure it so we know where everything is, there's a physical check to make sure that the right equipment is in the right place every. Again, we're focusing on rooms and meeting spaces and that kind of thing. So there's typically a specific vocabulary or nomenclature to those spaces that might be named after a sports team or something. I actually had an account of, believe it or not, that was named their rooms geographical places, but actually geographical places that they had other offices. So they had literally an office in Paris that had rooms called Milan and Berlin and everything. So imagine having to figure out how to train the model to not get screwed up with that. But nonetheless, that's our problem.  So there's a bit of specific learning to the application. You onboard the devices and then really you're off and running because there's two main things that we do. We've done all the integrations with the devices so you really don't have to do that and unlike existing platforms where you have to do a lot of programming, like let's say you wanted a single touch to reboot a room or something like that and there's three or four devices or log into something, right? Typically, you'd have to program those subroutines and create those command structures, but all that's generated in our platform. So it's really saying, this is what I have, this is where it is, and that's it. So yes, there's onboarding, but compared to existing platforms, it's actually quite light.  Is that onboarding part of the SaaS fee or am I paying like a number to get that part done? Erik DeGiorgi: We're still figuring that out. What the objective and what we've done thus far is: you sign a contract with us. We do that work for you. There's no upfront fees and you're just paying your, your typical SaaS.  But you're kind of learning on the fly and you may realize, Jesus, this is taking like two weeks of labor to onboard each our clients and need to do charge something to cover that  Erik DeGiorgi: Well, that's why I chose my words carefully because I might we're figuring it out as we go. But that's the objective, right? The objective is that we just want to make it really clean, really simple. Hey, you're a customer you're locked into a year or two or three a contract, it's fine. We're going to get you up and running and we're going to support you along the way, and we're not going to nickel and dime you.  So you talked to an integrator, I know you're kind of pre selling this to companies, at least making them aware. How are they responding?  Erik DeGiorgi: Well, very well. We had a UC, industry veteran join us several months ago, he has about 30 years in the industry, Polycom, Crestron, and almost every day, we're having lots of really high level conversations with end users, integrators, partners at all levels. We just kind of pinch ourselves. We're still batting a thousand, like every single conversation has led to more and everybody's very excited about it. You know, there's been this huge AI buzz. There really hasn't been a lot behind it, behind the buzz, and so we're super excited to show real world applications, bringing actual value to the industry and it's resonating, and we're very excited. We had a pre-call and I asked about the level of activity among particularly larger companies in AI, and I was surprised when you said that it's largely just a roadmap item still for most companies.  Erik DeGiorgi: Overwhelmingly, with a couple exceptions, the general feedback that we get is: we need to figure out how to do something with you. We know AI needs to be part of our strategy. You know, it's on paper and that's kind of about as far as we've gotten with it.  If people want to know more about this, they could find you online at Netspeek.com, right?  Erik DeGiorgi: That's right. Netspeek.com, and of course on LinkedIn, and for those going to the show we'd love to see you there.  All right. Thank you, Erik. Erik DeGiorgi: Great to catch up, Dave. Thanks so much.

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If you are struggling to scale your B2B SaaS company beyond a certain point or feel like your growth has hit a ceiling despite your best efforts, you're not alone. Many businesses face similar challenges, but there is a way to break through and achieve exponential growth.In this episode, Julia Vorontsova, the founder of Innovation Park, shares a step-by-step case study on how they helped a 25-year-old B2B SaaS company scale from a mere $200,000 to an impressive $20 million in just four years. By focusing on customer journey optimization, audience targeting, and organic lead generation, they unlocked the secret to sustainable growth.If you're ready to take your B2B SaaS company beyond the plateau, listen to this episode and learn how to implement Julia's proven blueprint for success. Don't miss the opportunity to access Julia's step-by-step blueprint for scaling a SaaS B2B company from $200,000 to $20 million. Visit innovation-park.eu/revenue-blueprint for a detailed case study and actionable insights to propel your business forward.Key Takeaways:01:29 The challenge: Reviving a 25-year-old SaaS brand02:22 Identifying the target audience for the sister brand04:44 Scaling ads and uncovering organic lead generation opportunities10:34 Tracking ROI across revenue channels to maximize results15:23 Using customer language from sales calls to improve copy conversion16:18 Tailoring articles to address different customer profiles and concerns18:21 The importance of clearly communicating your offering to avoid confusion20:45 How to access the detailed case study and revenue optimization blueprintResources:Free Revenue Blueprint - https://innovation-park.eu/revenue-blueprintConnect with Julia VorontsovaWebsite - https://innovation-park.eu/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliavorontsova/ Be sure to subscribe to the podcast at: https://www.digitalmarketer.com/podcast/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/digitalmarketerInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalmarketer/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/digital-marketer/This Month's Sponsors:Conversion Fanatics - Conversion Rate Optimization AgencyGet 50% Off Monthly Blog Writing Service - BKA Content More Resources from Scalable[Free Guide & Assessment] 7 Levels of ScaleFREE EPIC Challenge More Shows You'll Love

If you are struggling to scale your B2B SaaS company beyond a certain point or feel like your growth has hit a ceiling despite your best efforts, you're not alone. Many businesses face similar challenges, but there is a way to break through and achieve exponential growth.In this episode, Julia Vorontsova, the founder of Innovation Park, shares a step-by-step case study on how they helped a 25-year-old B2B SaaS company scale from a mere $200,000 to an impressive $20 million in just four years. By focusing on customer journey optimization, audience targeting, and organic lead generation, they unlocked the secret to sustainable growth.If you're ready to take your B2B SaaS company beyond the plateau, listen to this episode and learn how to implement Julia's proven blueprint for success. Don't miss the opportunity to access Julia's step-by-step blueprint for scaling a SaaS B2B company from $200,000 to $20 million. Visit innovation-park.eu/revenue-blueprint for a detailed case study and actionable insights to propel your business forward.Key Takeaways:01:29 The challenge: Reviving a 25-year-old SaaS brand02:22 Identifying the target audience for the sister brand04:44 Scaling ads and uncovering organic lead generation opportunities10:34 Tracking ROI across revenue channels to maximize results15:23 Using customer language from sales calls to improve copy conversion16:18 Tailoring articles to address different customer profiles and concerns18:21 The importance of clearly communicating your offering to avoid confusion20:45 How to access the detailed case study and revenue optimization blueprintResources:Free Revenue Blueprint - https://innovation-park.eu/revenue-blueprintConnect with Julia VorontsovaWebsite - https://innovation-park.eu/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliavorontsova/ Be sure to subscribe to the podcast at: https://www.digitalmarketer.com/podcast/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/digitalmarketerInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalmarketer/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/digital-marketer/This Month's Sponsors:Conversion Fanatics - Conversion Rate Optimization AgencyGet 50% Off Monthly Blog Writing Service - BKA Content More Resources from Scalable[Free Guide & Assessment] 7 Levels of ScaleFREE EPIC Challenge More Shows You'll Love

Sacramento City Council moves forward on Innovation Park in Natomas. Also, a nonprofit donor 101 ahead on Big Day of Giving. Finally, a mother and daughter write a memoir about Lyme Disease.   Natomas Innovation Park The Sacramento City Council took a big step forward in transforming what once was the Sleep Train Arena in north Natomas. Yesterday they unanimously approved a non-binding term sheet for a new financing district that would support the redevelopment project Innovation Park. The project spans 183 acres and includes residential units, as well as a California Northstate University academic campus and teaching hospital. Sacramento District 1 Councilmember Lisa Kaplan joins Insight to discuss what the next steps will be. What to Know About Land Trusts If you've been out looking for wildflowers around the Sacramento region recently — maybe you took a tour of Jepson Prairie Preserve or are planning to go to the poetry workshop at Wildflower Ridge in Nevada County — there's a good chance you've had an experience with a land trust. But what is a land trust, you may be asking? Joining us to explain is Karin Winters, the California Onward Program Director for the California Council of Land Trusts.  Donating to Nonprofits 101 Tomorrow is literally a “big day” for hundreds of nonprofits across the Sacramento region. Big Day of Giving is an annual 24-hour event that raises funds for nonprofits across El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo counties. There are more than 800 this year - each with a variety of unique uses, and it can be overwhelming to sift through all of them when deciding which ones to donate to. Niva Flor is the Chief Impact & Strategy Officer at the Sacramento Region Community Foundation - the organization that leads Big Day of Giving.  Editor's note: CapRadio is a nonprofit participating in Big Day of Giving.  Teen's Journey Through Lyme Disease Lyme Disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States and can be difficult to diagnose. Most people don't remember having a tick bite, and the symptoms can be confused with other conditions and illnesses. A mother and daughter lived through this debilitating uncertainty and are sharing their story of hope and survival despite medical skepticism. Rachel Leland, is the author of Finding Resilience: A Teen's Journey Through Lyme Disease. Her mother Dorothy Leland is the President of the patient advocacy organization LymeDisease.org and is co-author of the book. 

Questo podcast è realizzato in collaborazione con PoliHub, l'Innovation Park & Startup Accelerator del Politecnico di Milano. Cosa fa PoliHub? Programmi di accelerazione e di incubazione per startup, ma anche progetti di Open Innovation in collaborazione con aziende, è tra i protagonisti dell'ecosistema deeptech europeo, collabora con investitori e business angel per individuare opportunità di investimento in startup Deep Tech, raccoglie una community di più di 2000 membri, e un sacco di altre cose. Nel corso delle prossime puntate parleremo insieme alle startup e allo staff di PoliHub di tecnologia, innovazione e imprenditorialità, approfondiremo temi legati a startup, community, mercato, fundraising, team, sostenibilità.

Questo podcast è realizzato in collaborazione con PoliHub, l'Innovation Park & Startup Accelerator del Politecnico di Milano. Cosa fa PoliHub? Programmi di accelerazione e di incubazione per startup, ma anche progetti di Open Innovation in collaborazione con aziende, è tra i protagonisti dell'ecosistema deeptech europeo, collabora con investitori e business angel per individuare opportunità di investimento in startup Deep Tech, raccoglie una community di più di 2000 membri, e un sacco di altre cose. Nel corso delle prossime puntate parleremo insieme alle startup e allo staff di PoliHub di tecnologia, innovazione e imprenditorialità, approfondiremo temi legati a startup, community, mercato, fundraising, team, sostenibilità.

The City of Hamilton has been rather tight-lipped in regards to the ransomware attack it's been hit with. In addition to this attack, a brazen daylight shooting also occurred near one of the city's busiest intersections leaving one man dead. How do these reflect the state of things in Hamilton? Guest: John Best, Publisher, The Bay Observer - McMaster Innovation Park is making a major partnership in an effort to promote and accelerate innovation into deep tech and commercialization. Guest: Leyla Soleymani, Associate Vice-president of Research, Commercialization & Entrepreneurship with McMaster University - Hamilton's cybersecurity incident isn't unlike ones that have been dealt with by other organizations. With that being said, why is the City of Hamilton having such a hard time recovering? Guest: Carmi Levy, Technology analyst & journalist - Just For Laughs has filed for creditor protection. What does this mean for Canadian comedians as one of the world's largest comedy festivals signals for help? Guest: Eric Johnston, Hamilton based stand up comedian and author of “Run With The Bull”

What is McMaster's Innovation Park and why is there a lawsuit underway with regards to the firing of its CEO and alleged financial mismanagement? Guest: Dave Carter, Executive Director of Innovation Factory - What is open banking how could it change the way you bank? Should you adopt it? How do Canadians view their banking establishment? Guest: Dr. Ian Lee, Associate Professor with the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University - Could we someday look back on our current relationship with smartphones kind of like how we look back at cigarettes? How can addiction now be addressed? Is it the same kind of addiction? Guest: Dr. Peter Bieling, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry And Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University and a Psychologist with St. Joseph's Hospital

A house on the Isle of Sheppey has become a bit of a local tourist attraction after the owner turned the back garden into a town from the Wild West.Stephen Smart has dedicated the last 25 years to building a saloon, jailhouse, bank and even undertakers at the property on Minster Road. Reporter Megan Carr has been to meet him.Also in today's podcast, work on a business park in Medway could be paused, as big name tenants like Netflix fail to commit.The council have spent more than £11 million getting Innovation Park off the ground but so far they haven't attracted any big business.The King's representative in Kent has told the podcast that everyone will have to step up as he has treatment for cancer.It was revealed on Monday his Majesty has a form of the disease meaning he's cancelled all planned engagements. Hear from the Lord Lieutenant, Lady Colgrain.The man who heads up the team at Kent Police tasked with tracking down child abuse suspects has revealed how they're using sophisticated technology.Officers have seen a 10-15% year-on-year increase in the hundreds of images they investigate. Chris Britcher has been speaking to DCI Shaun  Creed for a special report.You can also hear from the owner of a restaurant near Ashford who says he has nothing to hide, as he looks to turn around a zero-star hygiene rating.Inspectors found dirty fridges, rotten vegetables and insects in store rooms at Badsha Indian Cuisine in Tenterden. It's now been given three stars following another inspection.And in sport, Maidstone United now know who they'll be facing in the fifth round of the FA Cup.They'll travel to take on Championship side Coventry City who beat Sheffield Wednesday in a replay last night - we've got reaction from Stone's manager George Elokobi.

In der Mittagsfolge sprechen wir heute mit Claude Ritter, Co-Founder und Managing Partner von Cavalry Ventures, über die überzeichnete Series-B-Runde von Aleph Alpha, in der das KI-Unternehmen mehr als eine halbe Milliarde US-Dollar eingeworben hat.Cavalry Ventures ist ein europäischer Risikokapitalfonds mit Schwerpunkt auf Pre-Seed- und Seed-Runden. Der VC verwaltet ein Vermögen von über 260 Millionen Euro und gehört zu den Bestandsinvestoren von Aleph Alpha. Das Startup möchte ein transparentes Innovationsökosystem aufbauen, das auf reproduzierbarer Forschung und offenem Austausch basiert und sich stark für Open-Source-Communities und akademische Partnerschaften engagiert. Der Ansatz besteht darin, verallgemeinerbare KI-Grundmodelle zu entwickeln, die die menschlichen Fähigkeiten im Umgang mit Daten erweitern und verbessern. Ihre Large Language Models sollen komplexe Texte auf der Grundlage minimaler menschlicher Eingaben verstehen sowie erstellen und so als virtuelle Assistenten in der Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion fungieren. Zu den Anwendungsfällen gehören die Strukturierung von Wissen, die Beantwortung komplexer Aufgaben und die Umwandlung, Zusammenfassung und Strukturierung hochspezialisierter, bürokratischer oder juristischer Sprache in leicht verständliche Alltagssprache. Dies ist in mehreren europäischen Sprachen möglich, wobei sie gleichzeitig sprachlich sensibel für die verschiedenen europäischen Kulturen bleibt. Aleph Alpha wurde im Jahr 2019 von Jonas Andrulis und Samuel Weinbach in Heidelberg gegründet. Das Unternehmen hat sich insbesondere auf Anwendungsfälle für die öffentliche Verwaltung und die Industrie spezialisiert.In einer Series B hat das KI-Startup nun mehr als eine halbe Milliarde US-Dollar unter der Führung von Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence (Ipai), Bosch Ventures und den Unternehmen der Schwarz-Gruppe eingesammelt. Zu den weiteren neuen Kapitalgebern zählen Christ&Company Consulting, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, SAP und Burda Principal. Zusätzlich haben sich bestehende institutionelle Investoren an der überzeichneten Runde beteiligt. Zur Gesamtsumme zählen auch ein umfangreiches Investitionspaket für die angewandte Forschung mit Ipai und Verpflichtungen zur gemeinsamen Geschäftsentwicklung und engen Kooperation mit einigen der führenden Unternehmen in internationalen Schlüsselindustrien. Diese Investition soll die deutsche und europäische Position für die Entwicklung von souveräner KI weiter stärken. Mit dem frischen Kapital wird Aleph Alpha die eigene KI-Forschung vorantreiben und die Entwicklung sowie Kommerzialisierung von generativer KI für die komplexesten und kritischsten Anwendungen in datenkritischen Branchen wie Gesundheitswesen, Finanzen, Recht, Regierung und Sicherheit beschleunigen.

Wie würde AI die Menschheit angreifen? Wenn es nach Dieter Schwarz geht, wird Heilbronn zum AI Hub. Eine interessante interne Mail von Google ist geleakt und es gibt viele Earnings, u.a. von Cloudflare und Airbnb. Werbung: Höre jetzt das Inside IONOS Podcast Interview mit Philipp Klöckner über Künstliche Intelligenz Aktuelle Werbepartner des Doppelgänger Tech Talk Podcasts Philipp Glöckler und Philipp Klöckner sprechen heute über: (00:00:00) AI Hub in Heilbronn und die Gefahren von AI  (00:22:30) SBF (00:25:45) WeWork Insolvenz (00:32:30) Google Antitrust (00:36:50) PayPal, Block Earnings (00:38:55) Airbnb Earnings (00:46:30) Esty, Shopify Earnings (00:55:10) Palantir Earnings (00:58:00) Apple Earnings (01:00:55) Coinbase Earnings (01:03:30) Cloudflare Earnings Shownotes: AI Hub in Heilbronn: Sifted WeBroke: Reuters Google interne Mail: Twitter WeFox: CNBC

It's no secret that Baton Rouge and the surrounding parishes are home to some of the largest petrochemical plants in the world. We're also a hub of activity when it comes to climate and resilience because of our sinking coastline and rising seas in an era of climate change. The intersection of these vast and important fields create some interesting opportunities for companies that also are based here and training young people to work in those companies in the future.  Mark Fallon is CEO of APTIM, a Baton Rouge-based company that provides engineering, program management, environmental services, disaster recovery, complex facility maintenance, and construction services to clients in in the energy sector, as well as governments and the military. APTIM was spun off several years ago from CB&I, which, many in Baton Rouge may remember, bought The Shaw Group in 2013. Mark has been at the helm of the company since April 2020, which was, no doubt, an interesting time to start a new big challenge. But he came armed with a wealth of knowledge and experience. Prior to joining APTIM, Mark was president and CEO of sister companies – Envirocon, a national remediation and deocmmisioning contractor, and Modern Machinery, a distributor of heavy construction and minig equipment. He also worked at CH2M and started his career in the US Department of Energy under President Bill Clinton.  Fran Harvey is Director of the Global Geospatial Institute, a nonprofit organization based in Innovation Park at LSU that teaches students to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage and display all kinds of spatial or geographical data using the only GIS Industry based certification program in the country. Are you wondering, "What exactly is GIS?" Well, you're not alone. Most people  - and that certainly includes most highschool students - don't realize they are using GIS data every time they pick up their smart phone and open the map app or check the location of the Uber they're waiting on to pick them up or the Door Dash guy who is delivering their order. But GIS is everywhere and the Global Geospatial Institute believes that if young people can learn the skills that go into GIS they will be better prepared to enter today's workforce. Fran was introduced to GIS technology while working as an environmental scientist. She spent several years in disaster response and recovery as a senior GIS analyst and decided to go back to school for an advanced degree in the technology. She spent more than a decade at the La Dept of Environmental Quality as an environmental scientist and GIS analyst and went on to use her expertise in as a GIS specialist in the aftermaths of several gulf coast hurricanes. In 2014, Fran and her husband founded the Global Geospatial Institute.  Out to Lunch is recorded live over lunch at Mansurs on the Boulevard. You can photos from this show by Brian Pavlich  at itsbatonrouge.la. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In der Mittagsfolge sprechen wir heute mit Moritz Gräter, CEO von Ipai, über das Innovationsprojekt für die Abbildung Künstlicher Intelligenz.Ipai steht für Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence und soll ein Zentrum für KI mit internationalem Format werden. Dort soll die gesamte KI-Wertschöpfungskette von der Qualifizierung von Fachkräften über die Forschung bis hin zur Entwicklung, Anwendung und Kommerzialisierung von ethisch verantwortungsbewusster KI abgebildet werden. In einem innovationsfördernden Ökosystem werden zukünftig unterschiedlichste Unternehmen, Startups, Forschende sowie Akteure aus dem öffentlichen Sektor zusammenkommen. Im Zukunftspark Wohlgelegen entsteht derzeit ein erster Teil des Ipai. Der erste Abschnitt ist seit September 2022 in Betrieb und der zweite Abschnitt soll zu Beginn des Jahres 2024 fertiggestellt werden. Im Norden von Heilbronn wird zudem innerhalb der nächsten Jahre ein internationaler KI-Campus realisiert. Hierfür wird ein etwa 23 Hektar großes Plangebiet neu entworfen und in Abschnitten realisiert. Der Baustart soll im Jahr 2024 erfolgen und das erste Gebäude wird voraussichtlich bereits ab 2026 bezugsfertig sein.Um dem Qualitätssiegel „Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) – made in Baden-Württemberg“ national und international gerecht zu werden, fasste die Landesregierung Baden-Württemberg im Dezember 2020 den Beschluss, eine Landesförderung von bis zu 50 Millionen Euro für die Verwirklichung des Innovationsparks zur Verfügung zu stellen. Das Konsortium Innovationspark KI Baden-Württemberg setzt sich aus der Stadt Heilbronn, der Stadtsiedlung Heilbronn, der KI Management GmbH sowie der Dieter Schwarz Stiftung zusammen. Im Jahr 2023 soll erstmals der AI Enterprise Award verliehen werden, der auf die weltweit besten Forschungsgruppen im Bereich der angewandten KI-Forschung abzielt.

Fala Carlão Especial de Sábado passeia pelo Innovation Park, a super instalação montada durante o Syngenta One Agro em Campinas. E além de mostrar também conversou com muita gente da prateleira de cima do agronegócio. Acompanhe aí!

Het is de week waarin Ruud en Richard bij de ingang van het Sharjah Research Technology and Innovation Park struikelen over een echte Lightyear zonneauto en ze in gesprek gaan met de man die hem naar Dubai heeft gehaald en tevens de CEO van  Sharjah Research Technology and Innovation Park: Hussain Al Mahmoudi. Wat de toekomst de emiraten op het gebied van innovatie nog meer gaat brengen volgens Hussain? Kom erachter in deze 3e - en tevens laatste aflevering van Doorzetters Crossing Borders Dubai. Want opgeven, is geen optie!

Have you heard this sentence lately? “Please listen carefully, our menu has changed.” I bet you have. It seems like every place you call, from a giant multinational company to a local small business, has a phone system that for some mysterious reason has to constantly be updated. Why exactly does the menu have to change? What was wrong with the last time I called when I had to press 1 for sales and 2 for tech support? If it seems like even making a simple phone call has gotten complicated these days, well, actually, the commercial phone business has never been simple. Back in 1980, here in Baton Rouge, Mark Toney started up a phone business, for other businesses. He called it Preferred Telephone Systems. He was supplying phones that, in those days, you couldn't even buy. Believe it or not, you had to lease a telephone – even for your home – from the – count them - one phone company, Southwestern Bell. We've moved on from those monopoly days to a very different world of business phones. Today we require a phone to do a lot more than just connect us to a receptionist. Echoing that demand for greater sophistication, Mark Toney's Preferred Telephone Systems is now called Preferred Data Voice Network. The President of the company is Mark Toney's daughter, Melissa Asevedo. Your phone these days is more than just something you talk on. In fact, talking is  probably what you do least on your phone. Most of the time we're using our phone to access something online. Whether it's social media, a news outlet, or making a restaurant reservation, we're mostly using one of the many apps on our phone. If you have a business and you want people to find you online, you need an app of your own. Or a website that works equally well on a phone, a tablet, and a computer. If you've thought about building your own app, or customizing your own website so it works seamlessly on every device, and you've actually pulled that off, you deserve a medal. Most of us are simply incapable of doing that. And that's why, here in Baton Rouge, we turn to app and web developers like Breach Software. Breach Software have built apps and web tools for LSU, state and local governments, and a bunch of small businesses. The company is headquartered at LSU's business center, Innovation Park, and they're probably the only business in Baton Rouge to have gotten business advice from Family Feud host, Steve Harvey! The co-founder of Breach Software is Colin Hebert. Press 1 For More Options There aren't many things you can bet on and be guaranteed to be right. But I'd be willing to bet that if you don't currently have a phone in your hand, you recently put it down, or you'll soon be picking it up. There's no getting away from it, our phones have become an integral part of our everyday lives. And if you have a business, they're an integral part of your business too. Melissa Asevedo and Colin Hebert's companies that fuel our business phones are equally integral parts of the local Baton Rouge business community. This episode of Out to Lunch is hosted by Olivia Stewart, CEO of Oxbow Rum Distillery. The show was recorded live over lunch at Mansurs on the Boulevard. You can find photos from this show by Erik Otts at itsbatonrouge.laSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sharjah International Traditional Crafts Forum was held at the Sharjah Research Technology and Innovation Park until January 19, under the slogan "Carpet and Textile". We hear from Sharjah Institute of Heritage and the exhibitors about the importance of preserving culture.

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Oleg Zaretskiy, chief executive of uSky Transport joined the show to discuss the future of transport in the UAE. The Ucont system, under development by uSky Transport at the Sharjah Research, Technology and Innovation Park, is expected to be up and running as a test site by December. Passenger pods are already in operation at the site's $14 million uSkyTest and Certification Centre as a proof-of-concept of how the technology works. Once operational, visitors will be able to see how shipping containers can be moved at high speed on electric cables, as a greener alternative to the thousands of heavy goods vehicles currently used to transport goods. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One of the first rules in business is to come up with something that solves a problem your target market didn't know it had. It sounds so simple, right? But how do you know what those problems are? And, where do those ideas come from in the first place?. Well, in Baton Rouge, one place to look is LSU's Innovation Park and a company called Iventherm. Inventherm's latest innovation is a new startup company called Cremmjoy. Jason Hugenroth is President of Inventherm and Cremmjoy. You may recall Jason's earlier appearance on Out to Lunch when Jason told us about products Inventherm had made for space exploration. Products that found their way into NASA's equipment. At that time Inventherm was the owner of 50 patents. Now they have 60. And their new business, Cremmjoy, is a million miles way from their previous aerospace, automotive and medical devices. Cremmjoy revolutionizes soft serve ice cream and frozen drinks like daiquiris. The revolution is in the technology that drives the way products are made and dispensed. It basically eliminates the time-consuming and expensive process of disassembling, cleaning, and sanitizing the equipment. Jason has been designing things for decades. He is an engineer, with a PhD in the field and a really cool lab at LSU's Innovation Park.  You may not have known soft serve ice cream needed revolutionizing. And you may think the same about retail shopping. Claire Aillet has other ideas. Claire is the creator of Shop The Area, an app that allows customers to shop at local boutiques and retail shops and get same-day delivery within 10 miles of their location. The app brings together the convenience of online shopping while at the same time supporting local shop and boutique owners, who have been hammered by  competition from online retailers. Claire is a hair stylist by day, who began working on the app in 2018 and launched it in early 2020. Since then it's started to take off in Baton Rouge with a bunch of local retailers jumping on board and users beginning to discover the combined hybrid power of local retail, online shopping, and speedy delivery.   Out to Lunch is recorded live over lunch at Mansurs on the Boulevard. You can find photos from this show by Erik Otts at itsbatonrouge.la. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's Friday July 22nd, I'm Karim Mosna with your daily news brief. Sunny and hot today, the high 30, Right now it's 21.  In the news…   MP Mark Gerretsen was at Innovation Park yesterday to announce a 2.5 million dollar investment from the Government of Canada to support GreenCentre Canada The funding for Green […]

A student at SoiLab at the Sharjah Research, Technology and Innovation Park is currently working on project called HYAG which consists of a hydroponic vertical farm that could be used in indoor and outdoor spaces to grow one's own edible plants. In this episode of Future Talk, Sheikha joins us to discuss the benefits of hydroponics and what the future of farming looks like. Watch the full episode to learn more about it!

Abdul Karim Hanif and Rania Saadi discuss the the Sharjah Advanced Industry Accelerator 2.0 program, which is organized by the Sharjah Research Technology and Innovation Park, and how it aims to present start-ups and their products and innovations to global markets. Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio

The Sharjah Research Technology and Innovation Park is holding an innovative and first-of-its-kind tech summer camp for students aged between 12–17 years old. In this episode, Head of SoiLAB Ismail Touq joins us to discuss the different classes that they're offering in robotics, 3D printing and much more. We also talk about UAE astronaut, Sultan Al Neyadi, completing Nasa's supersonic jet training and a researcher finding out that certain network names can disable Wi-Fi on iPhones. Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio

Have you checked out what happens when you Google Cure For Cancer? You get a lot of information about cancer treatment, but there's not a lot of information about who is working on an actual cure for cancer. On this edition of Out to Lunch Baton Rouge, Stephanie Riegel dives into a cure for cancer, and what's up with Google search. Cure for Cancer We often hear stories from successful entrepreneurs that contain the sentence, "Everybody told me I was crazy when I started out." The reason we only hear from a handful of successful entrepreneurs is because a lot of people's ideas for a new business are in fact crazy. If you're an entrepreneur with an idea that has no clear predecessor, when nobody knows what you're talking about, where there is no proven pathway to making money, how do you know if you're a genius, or just misguided? In the case of Paige Miller, if she's right about her crazy idea, she's going to change the world. She's going to cure cancer. From right here in Baton Rouge. Paige is President of Oleander Medical Technologies, a company based at LSU's Innovation Park that is truly a pioneer in developing a treatment for advanced stage cancer that not only appears to be effective, but it's quick, easy to administer and doesn't ravage the body in the process, like Chemo. The process is called Targeted Osmotic Lysis and it basically destroys cancer cells by causing them to explode while preserving the healthy cells in your body.  Google When he started out 28 years ago building websites - for a living! - everybody thought Bo White was crazy. Back then, "the internet" was at best too futuristic to be relevant, or regarded as a fun fad, like cassette tapes. Oh, and there wasn't a search engine that worked, so even if you could get on the internet, good luck finding what you're looking for. Today, as you don't need to be told seeing you are probably reading this on your phone and doing 13 other things online at the same time, the internet is integrated into our lives, and Bo White is one of those guys who can look back from the President's office of his successful digital marketing company, Click Here Digital, with the satisfaction of knowing he was right all along. Click Here Digital is one of the 100 most important Google partners worldwide and a part of Google product development.  So what's it like to be a pioneer in the middle of the fray, like Paige? Can Bo give her any sage advice? The biggest question of all though is, Is Paige crazy or is she going to cure cancer?  See photos from this show by Jill Lafleur at our website. Here's more talk over lunch about curing cancer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, while many of us were working remotely through 2020 and perhaps felt like we were putting our lives on pause, ambitious entrepreneurs were plowing ahead with their hopes, dreams and business plans. In the case of Stephanie's two guests on this edition of Out to Lunch Baton Rouge, this perseverance has turned out extremely well. Cool Heads Jack Karavich is owner of Tigeraire, a sports technology start-up founded at LSU's Innovation Park that has developed an in-helmet airflow system for use in sports helmets, construction hardhats, and military helmets. This high tech head wear utilizes a small device that leverages the air vents in a helmet using a small battery, a couple of tubes and a tiny fan. It enables air circulation that keeps athletes and other wearers cooler, drier, safer, and better able to perform. Jack developed the helmet-cooling technology in partnership with LSU which has since licensed the product for its football team. Several other universities, including Albama, Auburn, Clemson, and Texas A&M have since followed suit. Tigeraire is now designing batting helmets that incorporate the technology and has plans to tackle lacrosse helmets and ice hockey helmets after that. Tigeraire has opened new offices in Richmond Virginia, which will serve as its corporate headquarters. Prior to founding the company, Jack served as chief digital architect of Honeywell, GlaxoSmithKline, Walmart Labs, and Capital One.  Hot Bodies While Jack's technology is designed to keep its wearers cool, April Hill is focused on making them hot. April is owner of Yoga Studio 90, a health and wellness studio offering high intensity interval training, yoga and Pilates in one complete, full body workout that is intended to be done in a steamy 90-degree-room. April has owned the studio for more than a decade, but one month into the pandemic in 2020, when everyone was under lockdown and no one could go to the gym, April rebranded her studios and launched an online platform of virtual workouts available on a subscription basis that has enabled her to reach a much broader clientele from anywhere in the country.  This show was recorded over lunch at Mansurs on the Boulevard. You can find photos by Erick Otts at our website. And check out more lunch-table Tiger entrepreneur talk with Matt Flynn. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sharjah Innovation park is launching a global virtual hackathon towards smarter, more efficient, and more sustainable energy for university students and professors around the world. In this episode, Ali Hussain Sajwani, Director of Technology Transfer and Projects, joins us to discuss the different categories of innovative ideas that are part of this hackathon. We also talk about a smart finger ring with RFID chip that could soon replace your key and wallet cards. Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio

One of the keys to successful entrepreneurship is figuring out how to build a better mousetrap. It's not so much about inventing something new or different but just doing it in a new or different or better way. The impetus for this kind of ingenuity and creativity is finding a novel way to exploit a known market, but how do you (a) do that exactly and (b) convince people who already have an established purchasing preference that they ought to dump their old habit and switch to your product?  Meet Erin White Landry and Ben Nguyen. Erin White Landry is a microbiologist and owner of Thomas Therapeutics, a Baton Rouge based brand of all-natural, skincare products designed to help those with sensitive skin conditions. Erin founded the company in 2016, after years of frustration dealing with eczema, a condition both she and her sister suffer from. Through trial and error, she has learned to use herbs, teas, essential oils and other plant-derived ingredients to make gentle soaps, body butters, moisturizers, toners, cleansers and bath salts. But Erin isn't just an entrepreneur. Thomas Therapeutics is a black-owned small business and over the past year, Erin has created a growing online community for Black women to talk about wellness, trauma, financial literacy and mental health. Ben Nguyen is owner of Louisiana Revival Apparel, a Baton Rouge-based startup that specializes in print on demand services. The company's model is a little different from your typical screen printing company. In this better mousetrap model,  customers with existing online stores can integrate directly with its system, allowing La Revival Apparel to print and ship directly to their customers without ever having to carry any inventory themselves. LRA does all the work while its customers focus on marketing and advertising their products. Ben founded the company when he was just 18 years old when he was a senior in high school. Today, he is a 21-year-old junior at LSU majoring in ISDS and though his company headquarters is located in LSU's Innovation Park, he has built the business entirely by himself. And there you go, or in this case "geaux" - two examples of Baton Rouge entrepreneurs building a better mousetrap, and by all accounts succeeding. You can see photos from this show by Jill Lafleur at our website. Here's more lunchtime conversation with imaginative Baton Rouge entrepreneurs working in the healthcare space.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

HE Hussain Al Mahmoudi, CEO of Sharjah Research Technology and Innovation Park, joined the Morning Majlis to discuss plans for the MEA Energy Innovation Hub, which aims to accelerate opportunities in the energy, low carbon, and oil and gas sectors. Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio

Istruzione, innovazione e ricerca scientifica in un unico hub. È lo Sharjah Research Technology and Innovation Park, istituito nel 2016 a Dubai con l'obiettivo di puntare sulla città di Sharjah: un agglomerato di un milione e mezzo di abitanti, - terzo per popolazione negli Emirati Arabi Uniti – e che ambisce a diventare un punto di riferimento nello sviluppo e nell’innovazione

The future of transportation has become a reality in Sharjah. The emirate has recently launched the UAE’s first high-speed electric sky pod network. In this episode, Oleg Zaretskiy, SkyWay Green Tech’s chief executive, joins us to discuss the brand new innovation at Sharjah Research, Technology and Innovation Park. We discuss the number of passengers that every suspended pod can carry and the interior design of every pod. We also talk about the tracks that are currently built and the speed of the pods. Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio

Lisa's guests on this episode of Tech Transfer IP are Richard Cox and Steven Asiala from the Innovation, De-Risking and Enterprise Acceleration (IDEA) Center at the University of Notre Dame. Dick is the Director of Licensing & Business Development at the IDEA Center. His primary responsibilities are marketing new technologies to potential licensees, negotiating licensing terms, and constructing workable licenses and other commercialization agreements. Steven is the Faculty Engagement Associate with the IDEA Center. In this role, Steven partners with Notre Dame faculty to identify research discoveries and innovations which serve as the basis for Invention Disclosures and commercial opportunities. Dick and Steven discuss how the IDEA Center came about, their vision, mission, and values, and the types of activities they provide. Steven talks about the four key stakeholders they serve and what is going on at Innovation Park. They also chat about the McCloskey New Venture Competition, what it is, and how much revenue it generates. Listen, as Steven and Dick share the three-step process their office uses when evaluating inventions and commercial opportunities, how the risk assessment scorecard informs them of the next steps for an individual technology and the enterprise acceleration step of the process.  Dick and Steve speak about some of their offices' biggest success stories in technology and startups, what they are doing to assist women entrepreneurs, and what value they see organizations like AUTM bring to tech transfer. They finish up with their visions for the IDEA Center to become self-endowed and recognized as a world leader in entrepreneurship, education, and global impact. In This Episode: [04:32] Welcome to the show, Dick and Steven! [04:54] Dick shares his background and his journey to Tech Transfer. [07:45] Dick speaks about being recruited to South Carolina and then being transferred to Hawaii, leading to Notre Dame. [08:47] Steven discusses his journey to his role at the IDEA Center. [11:08] Dick gives a quick overview of how the IDEA Center came about. [14:06] Dick shares how two working groups came together. [15:24] Steven speaks about the vision, mission, and values of the IDEA Center. [16:44] What types of activities does the IDEA Center provide? [19:44] Steven chats about the four key stakeholders that they see themselves serving. [20:10] Dick discusses what is going on at Innovation Park. [22:12] What is the McCloskey New Venture Competition, and how much money is generally generated? [23:35] Steven shares the three-step process the IDEA Center uses when evaluating inventions and commercial opportunities. [26:44] Their risk assessment scorecard informs them of the next steps for individual technology. [29:11] Dick explains the enterprise acceleration step of the process. [32:19] Steven talks about his role with the Notre Dame faculty to identify research discoveries and innovations which become invention disclosures and commercialization opportunities. [35:01] Steven speaks about how he has been intentional about building one-to-one relationships. [37:52] Steven shares how the pandemic has affected his office and one-on-one relationships. [39:15] How is your office structured? [40:28] Dick gives his opinion on what is most important when managing innovations to have the greatest opportunity for success? [41:33] Steven describes some university's biggest success stories in terms of successful technologies and startups. [42:35] Steven shares that the IDEA Center is in the process of developing strategies to assist women and under-represented inventors and entrepreneurs. [44:27] What organizations like AUTM are you involved in, and what value do you believe they add? [47:42] Dick says that he would love for the IDEA Center to become self-endowed, recognized as a world leader in entrepreneurship education and impactful. [49:30] Thank you so much for being on the show! Find Richard Cox: Email Find Steven Asiala: Email  

Hauppauge Industrial Association has been helping Long Island businesses prosper for more than thirty years. President and CEO Terri Alessi-Miceli and Board Chairman Joe Campolo join Al Levine to discuss the Innovation Park, Long Island's answer to Silicone Valley.

Managing Partner, Louis Frapporti, sits down with Chief Executive Officer of McMaster Innovation Park, Ty Shattuck, to discuss Canada's premier research park, how it connects Hamilton's innovation ecosystem and the future vision of the park.

Since it first opened in the early 1980s, Leon County's Innovation Park has had moderate success in attracting major tenants, such as the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Danfoss Turbocor. That goal is still part of its mission, but the Park and its partners have expanded that role to support new homegrown enterprises. To talk about it are: Ron Miller, Innovation Park executive director; Michael Tentnowski, director of entrepreneurship; and Board Chair Kim Moore.

Have you checked out what happens when you Google Cure For Cancer? You get a lot of information about cancer treatment, but there's not a lot of information about who is working on an actual cure for cancer. On this edition of Out to Lunch Baton Rouge, Stephanie Riegel dives into a cure for cancer, and what's up with Google search. Cure for Cancer We often hear stories from successful entrepreneurs that contain the sentence, "Everybody told me I was crazy when I started out." The reason we only hear from a handful of successful entrepreneurs is because a lot of people's ideas for a new business are in fact crazy. If you're an entrepreneur with an idea that has no clear predecessor, when nobody knows what you're talking about, where there is no proven pathway to making money, how do you know if you're a genius, or just misguided? In the case of Paige Miller, if she's right about her crazy idea, she's going to change the world. She's going to cure cancer. From right here in Baton Rouge. Paige is President of Oleander Medical Technologies, a company based at LSU's Innovation Park that is truly a pioneer in developing a treatment for advanced stage cancer that not only appears to be effective, but it's quick, easy to administer and doesn't ravage the body in the process, like Chemo. The process is called Targeted Osmotic Lysis and it basically destroys cancer cells by causing them to explode while preserving the healthy cells in your body.  Google When he started out 27 years ago building websites - for a living! - everybody thought Bo White was crazy. Back then, "the internet" was at best too futuristic to be relevant, or regarded as a fun fad, like cassette tapes. Oh, and there wasn't a search engine that worked, so even if you could get on the internet, good luck finding what you're looking for. Today, as you don't need to be told seeing you are probably reading this on your phone and doing 13 other things online at the same time, the internet is integrated into our lives, and Bo White is one of those guys who can look back from the President's office of his successful digital marketing company, Click Here Digital, with the satisfaction of knowing he was right all along. Click Here Digital is one of the 100 most important Google partners worldwide and a part of Google product development.  So what's it like to be a pioneer in the middle of the fray, like Paige? Can Bo give her any sage advice? The biggest question of all though is, Is Paige crazy or is she going to cure cancer?  See photos from this show by Jill Lafleur at our website. Here's more talk over lunch about curing cancer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sharjah Research Technology and Innovation Park is organizing the first edition of the MENA Innovation Technology Transfer Summit connecting Sharjah, Paris and New York and spanning 14 hours of discussions on innovation, technology transfer and sustainability. In this episode, the CEO of SRTIP, Hussain Al Mahmoudi, joins us to share the topics that the summit will discuss. He also discusses the first-ever MENA Innovation Technology Transfer Summit Awards. Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio

The first house in the UAE to be built with the Emirati heritage architecture using 3D printing is located in Sharjah. In this episode, Haidar Al Haidary, project executive at Middle East Engineering Technology who partnered with Sharjah Research, Technology and Innovation Park joins us to tell us more about the benefits of 3D printing and how the robots operate. Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio

Najla Ahmed Al-Midfa, Vice-Chairwoman of Young Arab Leaders, is the Chief Executive Officer of the Sharjah Entrepreneurship Center (Sheraa), a government-supported entity launched in January 2016, with a mandate to build the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Sharjah, and support entrepreneurs as they build and grow innovative startups that will contribute positively to the region’s economy. To date, Sheraa has built a portfolio of over 100 startups, which have raised over $50m in investment, created over 600 jobs, and generated over $35m in cumulative revenue. Sheraa also hosts the annual Sharjah Entrepreneurship Festival (SharjahEF), a gathering of over 3000 entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, and ecosystem supporters.In her previous role as Senior Manager at Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development, Najla led a team of business counselors through the due diligence process of selecting ventures for financing. She also set up and operated the Northern Emirate branch of Khalifa Fund, covering Ajman, Dubai, and Sharjah.Najla holds an MBA from Stanford University. Prior to joining Khalifa Fund, Najla was a senior associate at McKinsey and Company’s New York office, primarily serving clients across the financial institutions sector. Her experience also includes roles within PricewaterhouseCoopers and Shell.Najla is also founder of Khayarat, a platform that empowers young, high-potential Emiratis to make informed career choices, and enables them to succeed in the private sector. With a community of over one thousand young Emiratis, and over 100 placements in leading international private sector companies, the platform is influencing the next generation of Emiratis to raise their ambitions and fulfill their potential.Najla is a board member of United Arab Bank, where she chairs the Board Audit Committee, and a board member of Endeavor UAE. She is also a fellow of the Aspen Institute’s Middle East Leadership Initiative. In 2019, she was selected to be an Eisenhower Global Fellow.Enjoy the show!Show Notes:01:30 - Najla’s beginnings and travels.02:45 - Describing her first job at PWC.05:45 - The genesis of Sheraa, born from an idea.07:45 - Continuous cohort improvement at Sheraa.08:45 - Her entrepreneurial venture with Khayarat.12:30 - The bridge for Emirati graduates and the private sector.14:15 - Her McKinsey story and what happened at her first interview.17:00 - Endeavor’s UAE Chapter and supporting scale-ups of the region.19:00 - Sheraa’s iterations, from seed to grants20:30 - Access Sharjah program and thematic competitions21:30 - On disbursing over$700k, Equity-free, non-dilutive grant funding22:45 - Different tracks with multiple corporate partnerships for startups.24:00 - Three ways you can support entrepreneurs as an entity25:00 - On being the only female board member of a bank26:30 - Being a part of the Aspen Institute, beyond reflection it inspires leaders to act.27:30 - The regional focus of Middle East Leadership Initiative of the Aspen Institute29:00 - The network effect of the Aspen Institute, the Resnick Action Forum31:15 - How she manages her time with so many initiatives and organizations on her team // the importance of building a team you can trust33:15 - “The first step on your entrepreneurial journey”37:00 - Entrepreneurship is inter-disciplinary and Sheraa is democratizing access to entrepreneurship.38:15 - On the false narratives around entrepreneurship.40:45 - The COVID-19 solidarity fund.41:45 - Revealing Sheraa’s yet to-be-announced initiative!43:30 - The move of Sheraa’s HQ to SRTIP (Sharjah Research Technology and Innovation Park)44:00 - What is Young Arab Leaders, in the Vice-Chairwoman’s words45:15 - Supporting young Arabs to become the next generation of leaders45:45 - Disheartened entrepreneurs, remember as all previous crises, it will eventually pass.47:30 - “With every crisis comes new opportunities” and how 3Dinova, a Sheraa supported startup, pivoted during pandemic.49:45 - “Don’t die with your music still in you”51:15 - Rarely gifting business books, but instead of novels and stories that will resonate with the recipient.55:45 - The UAE itself is an incubator for dreams, whether those are dreams and hopes of individuals, or organizations or even nations.57:30 - The COVID19 situation and remembering that life is short and we are all interdependent. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hur skapas innovation? Varför är det en överlevnadsfråga för företag och organisationer idag? Lise Bergqvist och Stefan Skoglund intervjuar Fredrik Lindroos på Karlstad Innovation Park. Lise Bergqvist och Stefan Skoglund intervjuar Fredrik Lindroos, VD för Karlstad Innovation Park om spännande innovationer och konkreta exempel på vardagsproblem som lösts med hjälp av innovation – en överlevnadsfråga för företag och organisationer idag enligt Fredrik. Så vad är innovation och hur får vi våra idéer att bli verklighet? Vi diskuterar Fredriks syn på innovation och vikten av omvärldsbevakning, ämnen som han brinner för och jobbar med, tillsammans med företag och organisationer på Karlstad Innovation Park. Detta – och mycket mer – får du reda på i den här intervjun med Lise och Stefan tillsammans med Fredrik Lindroos. Be digital-podden är en podd för dig som är människa, ledare eller företagare i en allt mer digital tid, som presenteras av Compare i Värmland.

Hub Culture presents: The Chronicle Discussions, Episode 22 - Japan In Focus: Shonan Health Innovation Park with Dr. Toshio Fujimoto, General Manager of Shonan Health Innovation Park, and Rajeev Dutt, President, CEO and Co-founder of AI Dynamics Inc. Stan Stalnaker hosts virtually from Hub Culture Emerald City. June 9, 2020.

3D printing is known to be cost-effective. However, in the age of coronavirus, this technology is saving lives. In this episode, CEO of Sharjah Research & Development, Technology and Innovation Park, Hussain Al Mahmoudi joins us to discuss how Immensa lab is 3D-printing 25,000 face shields every week. We also talk about how the lab has successfully innovated its business to support doctors, nurses and first responders, who are exposed to the virus. Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio

How is Sharjah growing as a global innovation hub? In this episode, we talk about the SRTI park that is positioning Sharjah as a global innovation, testing and research hub with its Chief Executive Officer, Hussain Al Mahmoudi. We also discuss the process of building Sharjah's first 3D printed house and green homes. Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio

Padma Vatsavai is founder and CEO of Vinformatix. Vinformatix is a software development company that specializes in designing and maintaining web-based applications, websites, and portals for public and private sector clients. Vinformatix designed the web-based system that 90,000 victims of Hurricane Harvey in Texas used in 2017 to apply for disaster aid. The firm also designed two web-based portals for Louisiana Economic Development, including Louisiana Job Connection, which helps businesses find potential employees. John Morello is a 14-year veteran of Microsoft who is now Chief Technology Officer of Twistlock, a Portland, Oregon-based firm that is changing the face of cybersecurity. Twistlock opened a Baton Rouge location in the psring of 2018 at LSU's Innovation Park and is continuing to grow with clients nationwide that include GridSpace, Aetna and Workiva. What makes Twistlock unique in its approach to developing cybersecurity solutions is it's cloud-native approach that is much faster and more effective than what most of the competition is doing. Photos over lunch at Mansurs on the Boulevard by karry Hosford. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ricardo Schneider, President of Danfoss Turbocor, joins us sharing the innovative work they do as a global company with their main facility and an Application Development Center right here in Tallahassee, Florida. Ricardo talks about why the company and his employees choose and love this community. The research conducted at the MagLab, Florida State University and Florida A&M University, as well as other groups in Innovation Park, allows Danfoss to have a unique partnership and collaboration unlike any other city in the world. Danfoss Turbocor: https://www.danfoss.com/en-us/ Danfoss Application Development Center - Tallahassee, Florida: https://bit.ly/2TmXtEs Think TLH 11: The World’s Premier Magnetic Laboratory, Director Greg Boebinger: https://bit.ly/2DMmErU

Thirty years ago, a young, high energy entrepreneur left his private sector job to create the Louisiana Business and Technology Center on the LSU campus, a business incubator for small startups. In the three decades since, the LBTC has helped launch hundreds of businesses and has spawned the creation of the much larger LSU Innovation Park, a 13 year old facility on its own south campus dedicated to research commercialization. This edition of Out to Lunch Baton Rouge is a special tribute to that man, Charlie D Agostino, who is retiring at the end of the 2018. Few people in Louisiana know more about business incubation and economic development than Charlie, who himself is a 1972 LSU graduate with degrees in chemistry in business. He started his career with NASA. In 1988, LSU recruited him to develop the LBTC, which today is the flagship entity on the 200 acre Innovation Park, which is about five miles downriver from the main LSU campus and today includes not only the LBTC but also the LSU Student Incubator, LSU Ag Center Food Incubator, Pennington Biotech Initiative, ProtoStripes Center, and the Louisiana Emerging Technology Center. It s an incredible ecosystem that really seeks to connect the dots in a market that hasn t typically been an easy place for entrepreneurs and small businesses to get a start. Charlie, thanks for being here today on Out to Lunch. Joining host Stephanie Riegel and Charlie is the man who will succeed him, Dave Winwood. Currently Dave divides his time between LSU s Innovation Park, where he is Assistant eEecutive Director, and the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, where he serves as Associate Executive Director. Photos over lunch at Mansurs on the Boulevard. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One positive thing we can say about social media is, it s a great leveler. Even CEO s and celebrities reveal that, although their giant homes and incomes may be far removed from ours, their daily lives and fears are not that different. Nonetheless, even in a world with no secrets, you d probably still be surprised if a celebrity went on Instagram with photos of their kid s head lice. Christina Womack says there is still a social stigma against admitting you re infested with lice. And Christina ought to know she s the owner of Nitpicking in NOLA, a company that will come to your home or school and get rid of nits. On the whole other end of the spectrum of human science, there s Dave Winwood. Dave is a serious over achiever who is visiting Out to Lunch from from Baton Rouge where he s Associate Director of Pennington Biomedical Research Center as well as Assistant Executive Director of LSU s Innovation Park. Pennington Biomedical Research Center has over 450 employees. They work in 43 laboratories, on a 200 acre campus, focused primarily on researching causes and cures for chronic diseases. Innovation Park is an incredibly successful business incubator and technology transfer office. In the last 20 years it has generated 22m and created 134 full time jobs in Baton Rouge. In New Orleans we re familiar with conversation about finding ways for business and the arts to come together. We re less familiar with the relationship between business and science. Or business and head lice. Photos over lunch at Commander s Palace by Jill Lafleur. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ottawa has approved the first roadside testing device to screen drivers for whether they're driving high. Is it going to be easier for cops with this route? Guest - Claus Wagner, Constable, Traffic Specialist with Hamilton Police Services The closer we get to the municipal election, the more the mayoral candidates are making their stances known on big issues, such as LRT. How divisive will the issue of LRT be for the upcoming election? Guest - John Best. President of the Bay Observer A new CEO has been chosen for McMaster's Innovation Park. He joins Bill in studio to discuss his career and the park. Guest - Ty Shattuck, formerly of Trivaris Inc, now appointed CEO of McMaster Innovation Park

“La digitalisation, c’est aussi un moyen de pouvoir régater avec les grands." Michaël Monney, directeur commercial pour Laurastar Dans le 14e épisode d’Airccelerate podcast, Marco Brienza évoque 3 événements à ne pas manquer en avril avec 3 invités: Michaël Monney (Laurastar), Jérémie Wagner (Business&Decision) & Elsa Berthault (Axium). FORWARD est le Forum de l'innovation pour les PME, qui se déroulera le 19 avril 2018 au Rolex Learning Center de l’EPFL. “La digitalisation, c’est mon affaire” tel sera la thème de cette journée qui accueillera des personnalités issues du monde économique, politique ou académique pour aborder la transformation digitale des entreprises. Parmi elles, Michaël Monney, directeur commercial international pour l’entreprise Laurastar et co-créateur de Niptech podcast: il racontera pour Airccelerate les enjeux de la transformation digitale dans le monde prisé du retail et des biens de grande consommation. Bottish est la plus grande conférence gratuite sur les robots, l'intelligence artificielle, les chatbots et l'apprentissage machine. Un Suisse basé à Barcelone l’a fondé: Thomas Schulz. Ce format digital, anglophone et ouvert à tous se déploie en meetups locaux, soit 11 événements sur 3 continents dont celui qui aura lieu le 26 avril 2018 à l’Innovation Park de l’EPFL, organisé par la startup Innoboost et son CTO Lionel Clavien. Le temps d’un week-end, du 27 au 29 avril 2018, HACK THE HR donne le pouvoir de transformer les choses au coeur des entreprises et veut proposer les innovations qui bousculeront nos collègues et dépoussiéreront les ressources humaines. La 1ère édition du hackathon est co-organisée par TheSharedBrain (interview de Hichame Metatla dans le 8e épisode d’Airccelerate podcast) et Axium, dont Elsa Berthault est la fondatrice. Il aura lieu dans le coworking Voisins à Genève. Retrouvez les notes complètes de l'émission, ainsi que tous nos podcasts sur www.airccelerate.com

Life does not always unfold in a straight line. Sometimes we have to make turns that we didn t expect or that require major adjustments. One such turning point comes for military veterans when they leave the service and have to find their way in the civilan world. Another point comes when we realize we need to transiotion form an independent life to one that might require a little more TLC. Charlie D Agostino is executive director of LSU s Innovation Park, a dedicated complex for research commercialization that consists of five business incubators and a host of business and technological resources to help budding entrepreneurs get off the ground. Charlie is Stephanie s guest on Out to LUnch today to talk about a new program he recently launched with the Office of Veterans Affairs, Louisiana Economic Development, and Gov John Bel Edwards s office. It s a program to help military veterans learn how to start their own businesses, consisting of online training and a day and a half long bootcamp. Regina Hatcher is director of The Blake at The Grove, one of Baton Rouge s newest and most cutting edge elder communities with independent living, assisted living and memory care. A shining example of a high demand residence in a rapidly growing sector of the economy, The Blake at The Grove is situated within the 118 acre neighborhood development located just off I 10 behind the Mall of Louisiana. It offers upscale retail stores, restaurants, multiple housing, and options, and a full service hotel, not to mention pedestrian and bike paths. This is not your grandmother s old folks home. Regina rings years of experience to The Blake at The Grove. She previous was executive director at Sunrise assisted living. Photos by Ken Stewart at Mansurs on the Boulevard. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

http://wright.edu/news Wright State University dedicated the Vishal Soin Innovation Park, which will create new opportunities for research and innovation in the Dayton region. The Vishal Soin Innovation Park, which is supported by a gift from the Soin Family Foundation, is located on the south side of Colonel Glenn Highway, directly across from Wright State University’s Dayton Campus. Comprised of five office buildings along or adjacent to Presidential Drive, the park provides more than 220,000 square feet of space. Some of the park's occupants include Nucleus Fairborn, a co-working facility for entrepreneurs and startups, Aerospace Business Development Associates, Aptima, Design Knowledge Company, the Wright State University Foundation and Double Bowler Properties, the university’s real estate acquisition company. The park honors Vishal Soin, a former chair of the Wright State University Board of Trustees. Soin, who is president of Soin LLC, served on the university’s Board of Trustees from 2006 to 2015, including two years as board chair from 2010 to 2012. More at http://webapp2.wright.edu/web1/newsroom/2017/02/17/vishal-soin-innovation-park-provides-opportunities-for-business-industry-collaborations/

  2015 Ph.D. grad Andressa Lacerda is in mid-career stride, despite being only 26.  She’s a founding partner and the CFO in Noble Inc., a company that will manufacture and distribute filtration systems to remove nanosilvers from wastewater as well as introduce pharmaceuticals that will cure cancer and diseases that are caused by virus’.  Her partner in this is Adam Noble, a whiz-kid who has set both the Trent community and world on fire with research that he accomplished in the labs at the university when he was just a high school student.    Andessa helped mentor Adam into becoming one of Canada’s “20 Under 20” in 2014.  Together they have just signed on as cornerstone tenants of Trent University’s new Research and Innovation Park, with a $20 million, 50,000-square-foot production facility to be built soon.   Andressa’s own research has shed new light onto neurological disorders – in particular how mutations of LITAF protein cause the genetic Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.    It’s a fascinating discussion – and one where another of Andressa’s talents shine: the ability to take complex ideas and make them relatable to students and laypeople.

When it comes to entrepreneurship, you won t find many people who know more than John Elstrott. Recently retired as professor of entrepreneurship and director of the Levy Rosenblum Institute for Entrepreneurship at Tulane, John is chairman of the board of directors of Whole Foods, originator of Celestial Seasonings, and runs Elstrott, Maurer and Hunnewell, a consulting practice that advises start up businesses. John also serves on the boards of several public and private corporations as well as nonprofit community service organizations. In the entrepreneurial world, John Elstrott is a superstar. Charlie D Agostino knows a thing or two about entrepreneurship. He also knows John Elstrott they re old friends dating back to their days at LSU. Maybe it was something in the water back then. Charlie heads LSU s Innovation Park a technology based research park the LSU Business and Technology Center, a business incubator which is within innovation park, and three other incubators one for biomedical based start ups, one for student ventures and one for food companies. Charlie has been recognized for his expertise in entrepreneurship and economic development. Gaye Sandoz is director of the LSU Ag Center Food Incubator, a division of Charlie s Innovation Park. Gaye is a chef, a cookbook author and for the past six years has worked with startup food businesses to help them get off the ground. And she s not talking from a textbook, Gaye has a super successful product of her own on QVC. Photos at Mansur s on the Boulevard by Ken Stewart. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Innovation Park, located adjacent to George Mason University’s Prince William Campus, is continuing to grow and bring in high-tech companies and jobs to the area. Innovation Park, a business and technology park space, first started back in 1998. It now has more than 26 companies and 2,300 employees working within its scope, according to Jeff Kaczmarek, Executive Director of the Prince William County Department of Economic Development. “To date, the [economic development] department has directly assisted in attracting approximately $720 million in capital investment by Innovation Park tenants, and the creation of over 2,000 jobs,” said Kaczmarek. The Virginia Department of Forensic Science, the National Institute of Health’s Biomedical Research Laboratory, the FBI’s NOVA Resident Agency, Mediatech, ISOThrive, and Microvax are among the companies that utilize the Innovation Park space. According to Kaczmarek, one of the fastest growing components of Innovation Park is the Prince William Science Accelerator. The Prince William Science Accelerator allows small technological companies to come in and utilize their lab and office spaces for an affordable cost, to help them grow. The county's economic development department has partnered with George Mason University to help Innovation Park grow. Dr. Angel Cabrera, President of George Mason University, spoke with Potomac Local to announce that the university’s Prince William Campus is being rebranded as the science and technology campus. Kaczmarek stated that their partnership with the University and the upcoming rebranding would help further their cause to develop Innovation Park and the Prince William Science Accelerator. https://potomaclocal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/PW-DED.mp4 “From our perspective, the rebranding exercise signals exciting developments for Prince William County as it will heighten public awareness surrounding the campus…[it] is another step towards Prince William County being known as the science and technology hub of the region,” Kaczmarek said. Kaczmarek commented that instead of having to drive out of the area for a good job, the continued development of Innovation Park would benefit the county, and grow the jobs where people live. Kaczmarek also stated that the university would be able to further create a workforce that will be equipped with the tools and knowledge to go into these types of high-tech jobs. In addition to the businesses in Innovation Park, and the Prince William Science Accelerator, another project the county’s economic development department, and George Mason University are working on is the Virginia Serious Game Institute. According to Kaczmarek, one of the fastest growing majors at the university is their game development and design program. “The Virginia Serious Game Institute, a public-private IR start-up [is an] incubator for entrepreneurs in simulation, modeling, and gaming,” Kaczmarek said. The county’s economic development department will continue to work on bringing in new businesses to both Innovation Park and the Prince William Science Accelerator, hopefully bringing more high paying jobs to Prince William County.