Inspiring Minds Justin Starbird

Materials supplier SABIC collaborated with its value chain partners to create an industry-first EV battery cover with plastic that can contain heat and fire, addressing a key industry challenge. This solution delivers enhanced fire protection for a pHEV battery pack cover and meets China’s fire safety requirements, among the world's most stringent.

SymphonyAI Sensa outperforms conventional monitoring systems in the detection of financial crime. Using the most-advanced combination of AI and machine learning, Sensa provides enhanced discovery of unknown risks, a drastic reduction in false positives, plus predictive insights using the customer’s current data set.

Listen in to learn how Bluestone Analytics, a CACI Company is providing safe access to critical information on the dark web. By shining light on potential threats of terrorism, ISIS and even the 2022 supermarket shooting in Buffalo, NY, law enforcement can have time to react and potentially offer quicker assistance.

What do winter jackets, smart screens and moisturizing face masks have in common? Innovations to create these three products all earned 2022 Edison Awards. And they all came from the same organization, NAMI, The Nano and Advanced Materials Institute. Learn more about these innovations in the latest Inspiring Minds Podcast.

Take a look out your window right now. Can you spot any power lines? We rely on this infrastructure to provide energy for our homes and offices. America's power grid needs a major update to the toon of 323 billion dollars over the next ten years. But what if, instead of creating new transmission lines, we could make the ones we have more efficient? Listen in to learn more about the E3X® Robot System created by Prysmian Group to upgrade over 600,000 miles of existing transmission lines, helping utilities to increase capacity and enable more power to be delivered.

Plastic in our world's oceans - studies estimate 8 to 10 million metric tons of plastic enter our oceans every year. And by 2050, plastic will likely outweigh fish in the sea. Addressing this is a key factor in sustainability. Companies like Microsoft are taking action. They put the challenge of harvesting ocean plastic and creating useful recycled material that can be used in new products to SABIC, one of the world's largest petrochemical manufacturers. Listen in to learn how SABIC met that challenge and brought home a 2022 Edison Award.