JD Futures

👩🏻🏫 Wrapped up 3 Sprints last week - teaching at HETIC is learning xMillion times over! 1️⃣ Innovation Method Sprint with PGE 3rd years. We explored Europe’s health crises affecting young people: 🚶♂️ Only 28% of French 18-24 year-olds meet recommended activity levels 😔 21% of young people experienced depression in 2021 vs. 11.7% in 2017. 📱 Teens (15-17) spend 9+ hours/day on screens, causing major health issues. BUT do not despair! Our 4 teams crafted future visions, mapped trends (neuro fitness, AI trainers, wearables, health data ecosystems...), plotted reason-driven decision-making hypotheses maps, ideation (a lot) and developed + tested cool prototypes using Uizard by Miro Labs, Midjourney and Figma. 🧠 ARmotion chip for immersive sports training 🏋️♂️ Health bracelet data platform going further for precision 📱 Sports motivation app with IRL group training and competitions 🎮 Retractable AR headset for gamified workouts 2️⃣ UXR Sprint for first-years (10.5h Challenge) In my fastest student sprint ever, 4 teams (quickly) chewed over student lunchtime pain points: ⏱️ 3.5h - Interviews, surveys, personas & journey mapping 💡 3.5h - Ideation & prototyping of four solutions 🚀 3.5h - Testing, analysis & pitching It was a baptism by fire for these 1st years with the timer ticking and they definitely rose to the challenge!🔥 3️⃣ Product Sprint (5th Years) Using Supabase, Make, Frontly, these students built working MVPs for B2B challenges tapping into rich data sets and clever thinking solving HR, Commercial, CSR and employee wellness painpoints. While I focused on accelerated user research, problem definition, and guiding ideation, other expert teachers led the technical development. The result? Five impressive, functional projects that really worked! 🚀 Merci to all the students, huge thanks to Alexandre Sigoigne and Sara S. for the opportunity! 🙌

Meet Jason Duloquin from our France HUB! 🇫🇷 With 15 years of experience in driving sales and business development across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, Jason excels at building high-performing teams and coaching them to overachieve. He’s passionate about Digital Transformation and knows how to bring out the best in people — ensuring both success and enjoyment along the way. #GlobalGrowthNavigators

Last Thursday, at AI for Health organised by Artefact, we saw how AI in healthcare has transformed clinical diagnosis, extended longevity, personalised treatment and expanded medical knowledge. MCing the Corporate Masterclass Stage gave me a front-row seat to in-depth use cases and live demos shaping the future of healthcare! Collaboration is crucial as we work to structure vast datasets and share FAIR-compliant health information, bringing us closer to better, faster care. However, challenges are emerging just as quickly: 📚 Medical knowledge now doubles every 73 days (compared to every 3.5 years in 2010), yet doctors often have just one minute to make prescription decisions. Tools like Synapse Medicine Copilote are helping bridge this critical time gap. 🧠 But not all gaps are closing. As Alexis Génin from Brain&Mind remarked about mental health care: "GenAI helps fill gaps, but we still have canyons!" 🌱 Meanwhile, we must keep in mind that 60% of health outcomes depend on social determinants like lifestyle and environment. Congrats to the Artefact team esp Sébastien Marguerès and all the speakers for an excellent show! 📖 Discover how AI is accelerating clinical trials and shaping tomorrow's health solutions in Artefact’s latest report. (Link in comments) #AIForHealth #AIInHealthcare #HealthInnovation #HealthTech

✊ What an incredible experience facilitating the AI & Democracy Hackathon in Mexico City 🇲🇽! In just 7 hours, eight talented teams tackled complex challenges using machine learning, and creative solutions to address issues like misinformation, boosting contextualisation and digital literacy. Their mission: to protect and promote democratic values in the AI era, ensuring technology empowers rather than undermines society. Thanks to German Marshall Fund of the United States and IPADE Business School for organising the event, the knowledgable mentors, and to our incredible Judging Panel including Maria Alejandra Molina (pictured), Isabella C., Cristina Martinez Pinto and Diego Halffter. A sneak peek at the solutions created: 🦆 DuckIt! – A viral meme decoder with verified sources for 18-24 year olds. 🤖 Isitbot – A tool to detect bot-driven content, giving journalists faster insights for accurate reporting. ✔️ TrustMark – The first AI-powered fact-checking support tool for breaking news. 💪 Valiente Platform – Prevents and supports victims of digital gender violence with verified resources, chatbot support, and community building. 🎮 Ollie True – An educational critical thinking and media literacy game for teens 📌 ContextIA – A one-click Chrome extension for contextualizing political posts with AI fact-checking. 🛡️ Olimpia – Real-time support and monitoring for digital violence response and reputation management. 🌐 SQ2 – A webapp helping newly digital communities defend against AI-generated misinformation. The energy and teamwork were inspiring, and the sheer volume of work achieved was remarkable. Each team: 👥 Developed a user persona 🗺️ Mapped out a journey to find key opportunities 💡 Brainstormed and selected ideas 💻 Designed and built a prototype 📊 Defined data sources, solution architecture and DMP 💰Crafted a solid business case  🎤 Delivered a very compelling pitch Congratulations to the winners and to all the teams who worked so hard. 💙  Special thanks to Caitlin Goldenberg, Adrienne Goldstein and Sharinee L. Jagtiani (PhD) for bringing us all together! 👏 I'm so proud of what these teams accomplished in such a short time, tackling real-world challenges with impactful AI solutions. So many incredible conversations between these talented individuals. The future of democracy and responsible tech has never looked brighter! ✊ ¡Adelante, por la democracia y el poder de la tecnología responsable! #AIDemocracyHack #Innovation #MachineLearning #Teamwork #Hackathon #Facilitator #Hacker #Democracy #Mexico

🚀 We're beyond excited to launch the Hello Intelligent Transcriptions Service officially! 🎉 After months of hard work and dedication, our groundbreaking AI technology is here to revolutionize your call center — and not only — needs. By leveraging advanced AI routines, experience unmatched accuracy, robust privacy, and top-tier security. Our service is built for seamless integration, scalability, and so much more. 👉 Discover the whole story and see how we can transform your workflow: Read More https://lnkd.in/diZ5MGb5 #HelloWorldPC #TechInnovation #AI #TranscriptionServices #ProductivityBoost #AIRevolution #TechSolutions #ASRTechnology #EffortlessTranscriptions #OfficialRelease #Excitement

📢 Exciting news! Hello Intelligent Transcriptions Service (HITS) is now available in both German and French! 🌍 With over 430 million German and French speakers globally, HITS is ideal for call centers and organizations in German- and French-speaking regions looking to leverage AI to improve efficiency, enhance customer service, and unlock new insights from their data. 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 Our Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system already supports German and French. Expanding our platform to serve these languages isn’t just about translation - it’s about creating a truly local experience for call centers, customer service teams, and organizations aiming to digitally transform their workflows and engage with customers in their native language. Ready to elevate your business with multilingual AI-driven transcription? Book a demo today! 👉 https://lnkd.in/gppmT3hj #french #german #ai #callcenter #insights #analytics #innovation #bigdata #digitaltransformation

✨Feel lucky to have dived deep into reason-driven decision-making with Brian Evergreen during “Future Solving Fundamentals” unpacking multiple strategic innovation processes. 🔮 This key framework taught us to define our ‘bold and achievable’ future vision for an organization, then consider “What would have to be true?” to achieve it - working back in rows of hypothesis until we can start proving/disproving them. A practical approach combining deductive and inductive reasoning for more strategic outcomes. 💡 Brian suggested this can also help reduce quiet quitting and boost employee retention by sharing actionable purpose “This is the future we need to solve for” and “This is where we need your help to solve this hypothesis” or new hires potentially asking - “I’d love to work towards proving this hypothesis two steps down the line”. Our close-knit cohort dug into applying this and other valuable frameworks to complex, real-world problems. 👌 Thank you! #FutureSolving #DecisionMaking #InnovationFrameworks #StrategicThinking #innovation

We’re keeping the momentum going with Innogate’s always-on support for startups across key global hubs! 🌍 Last week, Tao Bauer and Christoph R. Giese from our Germany Hub 🇩🇪, Jason Duloquin from our France Hub 🇫🇷, and Vinit Shah from our UK Hub 🇬🇧 delivered insightful sessions on essential strategies for market entry, marketing, growth, sales, and business development across their respective markets. Innogate always on sessions will continue to dive deep into critical areas, providing startups with the tools they need to accelerate their journey toward global expansion. 🚀 Ready to take your startup to the next level? Applications are also ‘always on’. Apply now at: https://lnkd.in/dybpY97t Innogate | İTÜ ARI Teknokent

I truly enjoyed hosting this online workshop today about " Essential Sales & Business Development Strategies for the French Market "...it was fun! Thanks to NBT (Next Big Thing) for organizing it (special thanks to my cohost Burak Yaman), and the participants attending from inspiring startups Newky, NuManufacturing IoT & AI Technologies AS, Remotetechwork, Marsea, RentnConnect looking to expand into "La France"! 🌍 🗼 🥐

#climathon #hackathon #ouagadougou