Tue.Oct 13, 2020

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What Smart City Solutions Can Elevate the Human Experience?

IdeaScale

As sensors and data analysis tools drop in price, cities and towns are incorporating them into their innovation process for “smart cities,” leading to better public works, increased efficiency, and engaged citizens. Here are a few examples of projects that will lead to a smarter city. Purdue University’s Digital Farm As urban farming becomes more … Continued.

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How to Remove Roadblocks to Creativity

Idea to Value

The power of the mind is something we have only begun to grasp and understand with the help of science. However, creativity is an expansive expression of what the mind can envision, create, and conceptualize. The beauty of a fine painting. The elegance of a story that makes us think and emote. Even the email that gets everyone on board and fired up for the next meeting.

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The 5 biggest sustainability challenges our clients currently face

Board of Innovation

Sustainability goals and Circular Economy targets are a recurring theme in large corporates’ strategic priorities. But what are the most common pain points they face in the process? Read all about it. The post The 5 biggest sustainability challenges our clients currently face appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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A Decade of Action

IdeaSpies

The year 2020, with all its tribulations, brought forth the "Decade of Action". With just 10 years to go, an aspiring globa.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Book Excerpt: The Catalyst’s Guide to Working Well

Innovation Leader

The new book Move Fast. Break S**t. Burn Out. is about “Catalysts,” a subset of innovators with “a deep-rooted need to create positive change.

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#1,972 – Sponge Scrapers

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Skyscrapers are modern marvels. Feats of ingenuity that allow us to reach for the sky while living and working closely together inside of diverse, densely packed cities. Without them we would quickly run out of room, our talent and best ideas spread out among vast urban sprawl. A reality that would quickly stifle our ability to innovate. As important as they are, usual skyscraper innovation is reserved for unique designs or attempts to break the record for world’s tallest building.

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Owning the Innovation Agenda

Cris Beswick

When the going gets tough, where are you to be found? Or is that an unfair question? You might even see it as a knee-jerk reaction to current circumstances, born out of the twin challenges of COVID and the ever-looming end of the Brexit transition period. Indeed, we can all acknowledge that over the past … Continued. The post Owning the Innovation Agenda appeared first on Cris Beswick.

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#1,973 – Does AI Need a Body?!

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Despite our best efforts to create advanced AI that can mimic human behavior, pass a Turing Test, and be considered truly intelligent we have fallen short. Some people believe that we’ll never get there either. After all, we don’t even fully understand how our own brains work. Until we do how can we possibly think that we can recreate the process from scratch?!

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How are Artificial Intelligence (AI) Investments Doing in 2020?

Linda Bernardi

2020 has been a challenging year! While it seems the world has stopped while we deal with the pandemic, innovation in areas such as AI skyrocket. So, what is the AI investment landscape in 2020? As of June 1, 2020, about 800 VC AI deals have been conducted for a total of about $9B. Note we’re only at the ½ year mark and deal flows between June and Dec 2020, can catch up and exceed that of 2019.

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Can Airlines Survive the Worst Year in Airline History?

Linda Bernardi

Even with a COVID 19 vaccine looming in the future, it will be a long time before we will be traveling in masses for client meetings, go to large gatherings, or see millions of travelers take trips around the globe. I have taken five trips in the last month and flown mostly empty planes. The last time this happened was 9/11 but that lasted only a few weeks. 2020 has been a horrific year for the airline and hospitality industry and one which will go on for potentially another year, with so many m

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.