Innovation Ahead by IRI
Innovation Ahead by IRI
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Go inside the minds of today’s top innovation leaders. In each episode, IRI spotlights boundary-pushing thinkers shaping the future of innovation. From operational breakthroughs to strategic foresight, get the insights you need to lead with confidence and stay ahead of change.
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The podcast explores themes around innovation leadership, sustainability, and regulatory challenges, with episodes covering topics such as generative AI in R&D processes, strategies for achieving water sustainability, and the implications of Extended Producer Responsibility regulations on manufacturing, highlighting actionable insights for industry professionals.

Go inside the minds of today’s top innovation leaders. In each episode, IRI spotlights boundary-pushing thinkers shaping the future of innovation. From operational breakthroughs to strategic foresight, get the insights you need to lead with confidence and stay ahead of change.
Join Saket Navlakha, Associate Professor at the Simons Center for Quantitative Biology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, for a fascinating discussion on how artificial intelligence is reshaping scientific research and innovation. From his pioneering work on “algorithms in nature” to co-founding Knose.AI—a start-up digitizing smell—Navlakha shares how AI has accelerated discovery, transformed the innovation process, and fostered new partnerships. Explore the opportunities, challenges, and long-term implications of AI for research institutions and the future of science.

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