SINAInnovation: Innovation and Data by Jeffrey Hammerbacher.
From the description:
Cloudera Co-founder Jeff Hammerbacher speaks about data and innovation in the biology and medicine fields.
Interesting presentation, particularly on creating structures for innovation.
One of his insights I would summarize as “break early, rebuild fast.” His term for it was “lower batch size.” Try new ideas and when they fail, try a new one.
I do wonder about his goal to : “Lower the cost of data storage and processing to zero.”
It may get to be “too cheap to meter” but that isn’t the same thing as being zero. Somewhere in the infrastructure, someone is paying bills for storage and processing.
I mention that because some political parties think that infrastructure can exist without ongoing maintenance and care.
Failing infrastructures don’t lead to innovation.
SINAInnovation description:
SINAInnovations was a three-day conference at The Mount Sinai Medical Center that examined all aspects of innovation and therapeutic discovery within academic medical centers, from how it can be taught and fostered within academia, to how it can accelerate drug discovery and the commercialization of emerging biotechnologies.