Toward the end of every year, Time magazine highlights inventions “making the world better, smarter and even a bit more fun.” This year GE made the cut — twice.
As a small boy in the 1920s, Winston Shelton spent much of his time fashioning whimsical contraptions, like an underwater exploration helmet, from junk collected at his father’s West Virginia gas station. When he wasn’t tinkering, the boy worked alongside his mother at the roadhouse diner she ran next door. Little did his parents realize they had created the perfect laboratory to mold their son’s career.
In 2015, the National Geographic Channel launched a new television series called “Breakthrough,” focusing on scientific discovery. The series was developed by the channel and GE, and produced by Oscar winners Ron Howard and Brian Grazer.
GE is no stranger to innovation. From the first incandescent light bulb through to the latest renewable energy technologies, this is a company built on driving innovation. It seems fitting then that Zubin Postwalla, Marketing Leader, China, East Asia Pacific, Grid Solutions, GE Power, was able to offer his insights as part of the keynote session on Electricity Supply Industry (ESI) Innovations and Smart Solutions at CEPSI.
Helsinki in early December can be a dark and chilly place, but Timo Heikkinen had a bounce in his step walking through Slush, Europe’s largest startup gathering, earlier this month. The conclave, named for the Finnish capital's ubiquitous winter feature, was started in 2011 by a group of entrepreneurial engineering students keen on finding kindred spirits. "Our whole point was not to play pretty, but focus on content," a former organizer said.
Artificial intelligence is figuring out how to see through walls, predict human IQ, and clean up grainy pictures — with the help and input, of course, of some extremely savvy researchers. In this week’s coolest things, AI is advancing by leaps and bounds.
SunBiz sat down with General Electric Malaysia CEO Datuk Mark Rozario to get his thoughts and views on what leadership means to him.
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