“This is one of those stories that shows the power of people coming together. The big takeaway from this is the science, the creativity, the passion of these people coming together and learning and teaching and helping each other. That’s what we need more of right now.” – JJ Snow of the MVM team
Why do stories matter to the innovation process? What values can be instilled in innovators who share stories? How do innovation leaders inspire creators to tell and share their success and failure stories?
We speak with Professor Fernando Ferroni, Dr. Art McDonald, Lieutenant Colonel Jennifer “JJ” Snow, and Professor Cristiano Galbiati about how they teamed up to create MVM – the Mechanical Ventilator Milano – in response to the COVID-19 crisis. By providing streamlined, collaborative innovation, the MVM team created a cheaper, more COVID-19 focused ventilator that was FDA approved within a historic time frame of six weeks. Learn how they accomplished such a feat with a ventilator that helps COVID-19 patients and hospitals. Listen in as the team shares how they effectively innovated together and their biggest takeaways for the future.
Professor Fernando Ferroni is a professor of Physics at the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) and former President of the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN). He also served as member of CERN Council and of the Governing Board of Science Europe. He has focused his scientific studies on experimental particle physics, starting his research at CERN. In the early nineties he joined the BABAR collaboration as a visiting scientist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre (SLAC). Since 2004 he has been searching for the neutrino-less double beta decay with an experiment at the underground Gran Sasso Laboratories and he is the author of several hundred articles in scientific journals.
Art McDonald CC, O. Ont, O. N.S., FRS, FRSC, P. Eng, is a native of Sydney, N.S. Canada. He has degrees in physics from Dalhousie University (BSc, MSc) and Caltech (PhD) and fifteen honorary degrees. From 1969-1982 he was a Research Officer at AECL Chalk River Laboratories; 1982-1989, Professor at Princeton University; 1989-2013 Professor at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, 2006-2013 Gordon and Patricia Gray Chair in Particle Astrophysics and 2013 became Gray Chair Emeritus. Since 1989 he has been Director of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) Scientific Collaboration. Among many awards, he is a Companion of the Order of Canada, Co-recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics and 2007 Benjamin Franklin Medal; the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics and the 2013 Cocconi Prize of the EPS with the SNO Collaboration. He continues to be active in basic research in Neutrinos and Dark Matter at the SNOLAB underground laboratory.
Lt Col Jennifer “JJ” Snow is the AFWERX Innovation Officer for the U.S. Air Force, SAF-A8I, the Pentagon. She serves as the military representative for technology outreach and engagement bridging the gap between government and various technology communities to improve collaboration and communications, identify smart solutions to wicked problems and guide the development of future technology policy to benefit the US Air Force, Department of Defense, Interagency and Allied partners.
Prior to her current assignment, Lt Col Snow was the Donovan Group Innovation Officer for US Special Operations Command and the SOFWERX Innovation Team. She is a Distinguished Graduate of the Naval Postgraduate School. Her work has been presented to members of the National Security Council, the White House and key seniors across the DoD, IC and Interagency to inform and highlight emergent risks and opportunities involving technology and technology influenced environments.
Cristiano Galbiati is Professor of Physics at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, and Professor of Astroparticle Physics at Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, Italy. He is also an APS Fellow and a scientific associate of Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy. He focused his research on solar neutrinos and direct dark matter searches at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy. He leads The Global Argon Dark Matter Collaboration in the development of its DarkSide-20k dark matter experiment.
Fonte: https://untoldcontent.com/pandemic-sparks-streamlined-life-saving-innovation/