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Innovation Issue: Indy’s new ideas, new technology and more

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Biochemist Richard DiMarchi is ‘true entrepreneur’

Biochemist Richard DiMarchi is ‘true entrepreneur’

May 28, 2016 John Russell

Biochemist has founded or co-founded five startups since retiring from Eli Lilly and Co. as head of biotechnology research 13 years ago, at age 50.

Medical firms, universities drive increase in Indiana patents

May 28, 2016 Hayleigh Colombo

Indiana inventors secured 30 percent more patents in 2015 than they did four years earlier.
And at more than 2,000, last year’s number is double the patents granted to Hoosiers in 2008, a low point for patents in the past two decades.

PitchFeast helps grassroots entrepreneurs turn business ideas into reality

PitchFeast helps grassroots entrepreneurs turn business ideas into reality

May 28, 2016 Jared Council

The PitchFeast crowd votes on the best pitch, and the winner gets 75 percent of admission proceeds plus pro bono business services.

DINING: Chef Alan Sternberg’s Maple Leaf Duck Breast

DINING: Chef Alan Sternberg’s Maple Leaf Duck Breast

May 28, 2016 Lou Harry

Rising Star chef Alan Sternberg dissects a favorite Cerulean dish.

FUTURE Q&A

What’s one thing you think will be done very differently in 100 years?

“I think we’ll solve electricity problems. A lot of places don’t have electricity, don’t have lights. I think there are a lot of inventions coming out that can solve that.” Hayley Nord,
Noblesville High School sophomore

“Artificial intelligence will make our lives so much more simplified, but at what cost?” Don Wettrick,
innovation teacher at
Noblesville High School

“I don’t think we’ll be living in houses anymore. I think it will be smaller. I think we’ll be on the moon. I think it’ll be small and much more mobile.” Bradford Wolf, Noblesville High School senior

FUTURE Q&A

What do you hope the future holds in the next 25 years?

“I think if there’s one thing I would hope to achieve in my own work, it’s to develop a therapeutic that would allow one to reduce body weight with a drug as effectively as surgery is in providing a treatment for obesity.
In terms of what I might hope for science, I’d like to know what the molecular basis of a memory constitutes. How do we acquire information? How do we deposit information? How do we retrieve such information? It’s something that totally escapes us today and I believe will become known to us in this century of biology.”
Richard DiMarchi, site director at Novo Nordisk at Purdue Research Park

Bob Compton helped plant seeds of now-flourishing local tech community

Bob Compton helped plant seeds of now-flourishing local tech community

May 28, 2016 Jared Council

Bob Compton invests in documentary films today, but in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, he helped fund firms like Software Artistry, Interactive Intelligence, Aprimo, ExactTarget and TinderBox.

COLUMN

RAY: Let’s close the gap for women in tech

May 28, 2016 M. T. Ray

The root of the problem is the lack of computer science education in our schools.

COLUMN

JONES: ChaCha: A great idea that ran out of money

May 28, 2016 Scott Jones

I still believe my decade-old vision is sturdy and world-changing, because even the best computers and algorithms are still able to answer only about 60 percent of the random questions asked by on-the-go people, doing real life.

Duo disrupts Indy’s live music scene

Duo disrupts Indy’s live music scene

May 28, 2016 Mason King

Josh Baker and Craig “Dodge” Lile are considered among the most influential movers, shakers and tastemakers in the Indianapolis arts and culture community.

FUTURE Q&A

How will technology change life in the next 20 years?

“You may not have to leave your house to do anything. That’s the biggest thing that’s going to come out of technology in 20 years. You can think it and it will be in your hands in five minutes.”
Criss Clark-Gray, EmployIndy business solutions representative

FUTURE Q&A

What will technology change about our lives in the next 10 years?

“I think probably within the next 10 years we’re going to be doing so much virtually. Virtual reality and augmented reality, whether it’s going to school virtually or going to work virtually or doctors’ appointments. We won’t physically have to be in the place where historically we’ve been physically anymore. Distance is no longer going to matter and your presence is going to be a much more virtual factor.”

Bill Soards, AT&T Indiana president

LOPRESTI: Innovative in its time—and now

LOPRESTI: Innovative in its time—and now

May 28, 2016 Mike Lopresti

The arched steel trusses enabled the roof to cover a couple of acres without the need for beams, providing the vast and wide open spaces inside that would give the gazillion visitors to come in future years the sensation they had wandered into something that was part-gymnasium, part-national park.

Driverless future ahead for trucking?

Driverless future ahead for trucking?

May 28, 2016 Cory Schouten

Automated trucks initially will have drivers on board in case something goes wrong, a similar model to the one employed by airlines, where pilots’ role in the cockpit is mostly precautionary.

COLUMN

ANING: Leveraging diversity to fuel innovation

May 28, 2016 Yaw Aning

If a team is homogenous, its members will more likely arrive at similar conclusions in thought. Conversely, dissenting opinions lead groups to look at problems and evaluate solutions differently.

IMS Productions racing beyond motorsports

IMS Productions racing beyond motorsports

May 28, 2016 Anthony Schoettle

The company created to broadcast the Indy 500 is using innovations to diversify its customer base and fuel double-digit percentage growth.

FUTURE Q&A

If you had the skills to invent anything in the world, what would it be?

“A robot that could do my homework for me and knew everything before old people [do].”

Lazarus Tipton, age 8

“A helmet that you put on your head and it knows everything in a snap.”

Lyndal Tipton, age 8
Sons of Angela Covell-Tipton,
Indianapolis Public Schools literacy coach

FUTURE Q&A

What’s your tech wish for the next 20 years?

“I would love to see an application that would track or peg the location of all the mobile food truck operations in the city and, like an Uber application, it would follow the trucks around. So you could literally go to a map, touch, and load where all the trucks are and then go to your favorite mobile operation.”

Justin Walker, restaurateur

COLUMN

BROWN: Don’t stand still as change whizzes by

May 28, 2016 Don Brown

Embracing change and disrupting yourself isn’t easy, and sometimes it’s not much fun. But it may be better to try to ride the tsunami than to outrun it.

Noblesville High instructor pushes to change the educational system

Noblesville High instructor pushes to change the educational system

May 28, 2016 Lindsey Erdody

If the 60 students in Don Wettrick’s innovations class at Noblesville High School aren’t willing to fail, they won’t succeed in his class.

Program aims to mend souls, create art

Program aims to mend souls, create art

May 28, 2016 Sam Stall

Purposeful Design’s high-end furniture is produced by a cadre of men who were formerly homeless, or substance abusers, or both.

COLUMN

WILLIAMS: Make your firm truly innovative

May 28, 2016 Jason Williams

One of the biggest barriers to innovation is aversion to risk. This starts at the top. Nothing stops innovation faster than the executive kill card.

FUTURE Q&A

How do you expect technology to change our future in the next 25 years?

“In the future, I think one of the biggest things we’re not prepared for that is going to happen for us is, technology is going to evolve to the point where it’s telling us what to do. We’re going to have a number of people that are going to be very much focused on the predictive analytics side but also putting people back in to solve the solution, not having technology solve it all for us.”

Shawn Herring, Torchlite marketing co-founder and CMO

FUTURE Q&A

What problem would you like to see technology solve in the next 10 years?

“I hope that technology will help make garage sales and what they’re selling more convenient to search and find. It would be cool to know who’s selling kids’ clothes and kids’ toys that are close to me and when so that I can buy kids’ stuff on discount.”

Melissa Larcom, engineer and stay-at-home mom

Sensory Technologies removes barriers to effective long-distance conferencing

Sensory Technologies removes barriers to effective long-distance conferencing

May 28, 2016 John Russell

The technology designer customizes software and hardware made by other companies, making it hands-on and user-friendly for clients.

COLUMN

BRENNER: How to innovate in a century-old medium

May 28, 2016 Paul Brenner

The growth of pure-play streaming providers disrupts our business on a daily basis. This is the wrong time for broadcast radio to believe its position will go unchallenged.

Purdue professor to place experiments aboard suborbital flights

Purdue professor to place experiments aboard suborbital flights

May 28, 2016 Sam Stal

Any day, Stephen H. Collicott is scheduled to fly an experiment on New Shepard, the suborbital system developed by Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

LOU’S VIEWS: Zack Neiditch and Zach Rosing playfully tweak local theater

LOU’S VIEWS: Zack Neiditch and Zach Rosing playfully tweak local theater

May 28, 2016 Lou Harry

The duo has built a reputation as innovative independent producers and a go-to, work-for-hire team that actors hunger to work with.

FUTURE Q&A

What problem do you hope technology solves soon?

“I really hope the future solves, in the next five to 10 years, perfect exact voice recognition. It would help me immensely because then I would not have to type into my Word documents for any letters or memos or policies I’m writing.”

James Meer, Appirio worldwide controller

INVESTING

SKARBECK: Blockchain might remake payment system

May 28, 2016 Ken Skarbeck

Originally developed as the record-keeping technology behind the digital currency bitcoin, blockchain’s open-ledger system is predicted to transform finance and many other industries.

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

BOHANON & STYRING: Uber is a model for new workplace

May 28, 2016 Cecil Bohanon & Bill Styring

The workplace of the future will not be a specific location. It will more and more be wherever people find ways to temporarily interact.

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