Artificial Intelligence

Designing the Future

A crystal ball for the future of innovation

GetFocus co-founder and CEO Jard van Ingen on using AI to predict who will succeed in the innovation race.

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This episode of Designing the Future is brought to you by GetFocus.

Technology has been the critical driver in social and economic development worldwide since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, but critical advances in key enablers such as quantum computing and AI suggest that we may be living, right now in an age more profound than for the age of steam, or electricity, or even nuclear technology.

But there is one critical difference between past generations and today: inventors, developers, and investors in new technologies could not predict success or failure, either in the engineering art, or in market acceptance of an innovation. What if that could be different?

Jard van Ingen thinks so, and as CEO and co-founder of the world’s first technology forecasting platform, GetFocus, he intends to turn AI into a digital crystal ball to look into the future of innovation. It’s an intriguing idea, which he describes in conversation with engineering.com’s Jim Anderton. 

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GetFocus is the world’s first AI-powered technology forecasting platform. We empower R&D leaders to eliminate guesswork and predict which innovations will dominate long before it is obvious by measuring improvement rates from global innovation data. With GetFocus, you get actionable insights in days —helping you move faster, reduce investment risk, and outpace competitors.

Learn more about GetFocus.

Written by

James Anderton

Jim Anderton is the Director of Content for ENGINEERING.com. Mr. Anderton was formerly editor of Canadian Metalworking Magazine and has contributed to a wide range of print and on-line publications, including Design Engineering, Canadian Plastics, Service Station and Garage Management, Autovision, and the National Post. He also brings prior industry experience in quality and part design for a Tier One automotive supplier.