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Building the Future has quickly become one of the fastest rising nationally syndicated programs. With a focus on interviewing startups, entrepreneurs, investors, CEOs, and more, the show showcases individuals who are realizing their dreams and helping to make our world a better place through technology and innovation.
Redefining the future of transportation while combating climate change, Delfast e-bikes have disrupted the global e-bike market. Guinness World Record for greatest distance (228 miles) traveled on a single charge. Featured in Forbes, Mashable, TechCrunch, Business Insider, and more.
Alan Bovik received the 2022 IEEE Edison Medal “for pioneering high-impact scientific and engineering contributions leading to the perceptually optimized global streaming and sharing of visual media” at the 2022 IEEE Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit (IEEE VIC Summit) and Honors Ceremony on Friday 6 May in San Diego.
Professor Al Bovik (HonFRPS) holds the Cockrell Family Endowed Regents Chair in Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, where he is Director of the Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering (LIVE). He is a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Wireless Networking and Communication Group (WNCG), and the Institute for Neuroscience. His research interests include digital television, digital photography, visual perception, social media, and image and video processing.
His work broadly focuses on creating new theories and algorithms that allow for the perceptually optimized streaming and sharing of visual media. The outcomes of his work have the benefits of ensuring the visual satisfaction of billions of viewers worldwide, while substantially reducing global bandwidth consumption.
He has published over 1,000 technical articles in these areas and holds several U.S. patents. His publications have been cited more than 120,000 times in the literature, his H-index is above 120, and he is listed as a Highly-Cited Researcher by The Web of Science Group. His several books include the The Handbook of Image and Video Processing (Academic Press, 2000, 2005), Modern Image Quality Assessment (2006), and the companion volumes The Essential Guides to Image and Video Processing (Academic Press, 2009).
http://www.ece.utexas.edu/people/faculty/alan-bovik
http://live.ece.utexas.edu/
QualSights is an immersive market research platform that provides brands, agencies and consulting firms the ability to generate deeper and more authentic insights from consumers anywhere in the world, in a dramatically faster and cost-effective way. Using proprietary technology, companies can collect real-time consumer insights by remotely observing and interacting with consumers as they shop for, use or consume products in their natural environment.
QualSights is the first and only truly integrated solution that seamlessly supports mixed methods research studies, blending the advantages of qualitative and quantitative research to provide clients depth, authenticity, speed and agility within their studies. In addition to offering a variety of options to capture data, QualSights helps expedite analysis by providing a powerful suite of AI tools that make it easy to find and present the insights that matter.
Whether you need to collect product insights or shopper insights; evaluate your brand perception or general perception on an ad; or are looking to understand a new product innovation at any stage in the product development process, QualSights can help you gain the insights you need. Schedule a demo today to learn more about how we can help you with all your insights needs.
In 2016, Dr. Kennedy created AEDIT (pronounced ‘ed-it’) to improve the aesthetic experience for patients through technology. AEDIT iOS app and its revolutionary technology “the AEDITOR,” is disrupting the plastic surgery industry and transforming the doctor/patient experience.
The AEDITOR,” allows you “try on” different cosmetic procedures and treatments in the comfort of your own home for under $10. Before the AEDIT app existed, you would have to book an appointment with a plastic surgeon to have access to this level of accuracy. The app includes procedures from Botox and filler, rhinoplasty, as well as facial masculinization and feminization and more. In addition, AEDIT has a network of highly vetted and experienced doctors that you can book appointments with.
Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) liberates business and IT professionals to do amazing things with their data by ensuring the integrity of their business. Its industry-leading Intelligent Data Services Platform empowers professionals to store, protect, optimize, and use their data, wherever it lives. Delivering the ultimate in simplicity and flexibility to customers, its Intelligent Data Services Platform is available as software subscription, an integrated appliance, partner-managed, and software as a service (SaaS)—a differentiator in the market. For 25 years, more than 100,000 organizations have relied on Commvault, and today, Metallic, a Commvault venture, is accelerating customer adoption to modernize their environments as they look to SaaS for the future. Driven by its values—Connect, Inspire, Care, and Deliver—Commvault employs more than 2,700 individuals around the world.
Open the UVCeed app. Turn on your Bluetooth and the app will detect the sanitizing device in seconds; simply follow the on-screen instructions to operate. Point your phone at any surface and press and hold the “Press and Hold” button at the bottom of your screen. You disinfect what your camera sees.
Bonutti Technologies was founded in 1990 by Dr. Peter Bonutti, an orthopedic reconstructive surgeon. The facility is 37,000 square foot and houses a machine shop, production floor, customer service offices, a mechanical lab and an electronics lab.
Bonutti Technologies is an incubator for new ideas in surgical instrumentation, implants, procedures, and rehabilitation. The team consists of Mechanical, Electrical and Biomedical Engineers, Regulatory and Quality Affairs, IP Counsel, and Business Development personnel. The multi-disciplined team works together to develop prototypes, perform mechanical and electrical testing, and manufacture medical devices.
Bonutti Technologies has a FDA Establishment Registration, several FDA Premarket 510(k)s, and a Quality System that follows good manufacturing practices.
Bonutti Technologies has 338 Issued Patents, 144 US Applications, 70 PCT and Foreign Applications and 284 Licensed Patents and Applications (additional 455 cross licenses).
CRV is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage tech startups. Since 1970, the firm has invested in more than 500 startups at their most crucial stages, including Airtable, DoorDash and Iterable. Founders need more than capital to build a great company. It takes a partner who understands the entrepreneurial journey and knows what it takes to win. From founding to IPO and beyond, CRV is there every step of the way. Founders rely on CRV to be trusted, long-term, committed partners, which has helped make CRV into one of the longest-running venture capital firms in the world.
I host my own podcast, Wake Me Up, which uses meditation, mindfulness, and motivation to help listeners start their day with a positive mindset.
An accomplished P&L leader with experience overseeing organizations as large as 30,000 with $18 billion in revenue and P&L responsibility.
Ability to inspire large teams to achieve excellence and surpass goals.
Expert in developing business plans that include comprehensive analysis of the Customer, competition and economic landscape; Revitalizing stagnant businesses through both new products and marketing & sales programs that capitalize on consumer buying motivations while driving cost-improvement and productivity programs that culminate in significant savings without negatively affecting sales.
Predictable Success® was founded and is managed by international keynote speaker and bestselling author Les McKeown.
Les has over 25 years of global business experience, including starting 42 companies in his own right. He was the founding partner of an incubation consulting company that launched hundreds of businesses with thousands of employees.
A native of Ireland, Les was awarded the Samuel Smyth Memorial Prize as a Chartered Accountant (CPA) in the UK and was, at that time, the youngest qualified Chartered Accountant in the UK. After a brief period with Price Waterhouse (now PwC), Les became Ireland's youngest ever accounting firm partner.
After a long career in advising individuals and organizations on growth and development, Les started his own training and development business; when he sold his share in that practice to his business partner in 1998, it had grown to a 13-office, worldwide training and consulting business. In 1999, Les relocated to the US, from where he writes, teaches and consults in high-performance organizational development.
Les' clients include Harvard University, US Army, Pella, Chiron Corporation, Microsoft, United Technologies, Overture Services (a Yahoo! company), Canadian Defence Department, MI-SWACO, St Vincent Health, Verisign American Express, and many others.
Les is an internationally-renowned keynote speaker, with experience speaking to groups at Google, DO Lectures and numerous Fortune 500 companies.
He is the author of national best-seller 'Predictable Success: Getting Your Organization on the Growth Track, and Keeping It There', 'The Synergist: Leading Your Team to Predictable Success', and 'Do Lead: Share your vision. Inspire others. Work towards a common goal.' His next book, ‘Do Scale’ will be released in Spring 2019.
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