2026 Innovation Issue: Two executives going all-in on AI
A real estate leader and pharmaceutical executive explain the practical and surprising ways they’re using AI in their fields and what the future might look like for AI and their industries..
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A real estate leader and pharmaceutical executive explain the practical and surprising ways they’re using AI in their fields and what the future might look like for AI and their industries..
Low commodity prices and high costs for fertilizer and diesel means that many Indiana corn farmers do not expect to break even this year. But demand in the ethanol market could help improve that situation.
More than half of employed American adults surveyed in February by Gallup said they use artificial intelligence in their jobs at least a few times a year.
The company’s dispute with Corteva Agriscience highlights the tension between Inari’s model and an industry long dominated by a small number of global companies.
In February, Beck’s publicly launched SeedIQ, a free online product management platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide data and management recommendations to help farmers unlock the potential of their corn and soybean hybrids.
Eleven years later, IBJ checks back in with some of those innovators to see what they’re up to — and where they are — now.
Technology giant Intel once predicted that by 2020, the number of smart device would grow to 200 billion or about 26 smart devices for every person on Earth. But the number today is quite a bit lower.
Seventeen companies and organizations are members with room left for only a few more.
In Indiana, gone are Eleven Fifty Academy and Kenzie Academy. National coding bootcamps like Bloom Institute of Technology, Hack Reactor and Triology have significantly scaled back or totally restructured in recent years.
At IMPD’s real-time crime center, analysts have access to live feeds, updates and search options from more than 300 license plate readers, 160 IMPD-owned cameras, about 150 cameras outside of businesses.
The company has developed a type of high-performance battery for specialty uses, including drones.
Mayor Tyler Moore said the project is progressing more slowly than initially expected, but Samsung’s involvement has allowed the first battery plant to pivot production to other applications and industries that rely on lithium-ion batteries.
When IBJ’s Innovation Issue surveyed the NFT landscape in 2022, NFT collectibles had accounted for $41 billion in spending a year earlier.
The 20 companies IBJ featured in last year’s Innovation Issue all appear to still be in business, and some have introduced new products, raised money or made other moves.
In the first Innovation Issue in 2015, IBJ featured several Indiana innovations. We’re revisiting some of those and introducing a few more worth mentioning.
We like the approach. While there’s no doubt AI is causing disruption in many industries and in employment, we still believe AI will create new jobs and new markets.
Central Indiana has a real opportunity not only to compete in the biosciences but to become the next great American hub on the scale of North Carolina’s Research Triangle.
So what would a clear division of labor look like? Generally, it would mean each sector being rightsized for the challenges it is best positioned to address.
Most youth I evaluate are not “hardened criminals.” They are developmentally compromised adolescents navigating environments where aggression is normalized and identity is fragile.
Wars, terrorist attacks and pandemics strike without warning — making preparation, not prediction, essential.