RALEIGH, NC, October 8, 2024 – InnovationForce, the world’s first AI-powered Ecosystem Relationship Management (ERM) platform to democratize innovation, is proud to announce the addition of renowned AI expert Siddhartha Dalal as a strategic advisor. Dalal’s decades of experience in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and decision sciences will significantly bolster InnovationForce’s mission to democratize innovation with cutting-edge software-based technology to scale collaborative ecosystem innovation.
Currently a Professor of Practice at Columbia University, his illustrious career includes leadership roles as Chief Data Scientist at AIG, CTO at the RAND Corporation, and senior executive positions at Xerox and Bell Labs. With over 100 peer-reviewed publications and patents, Dalal is a recognized force in AI, machine learning, and decision sciences. His groundbreaking work spans diverse, high-impact projects such as risk analysis for the Space Shuttle Challenger and advanced cybersecurity strategies to combat ransomware.
"Sid’s leadership and groundbreaking work in AI will strengthen our mission to democratize innovation by reaching any knowledge worker wanting to collaborate across an ecosystem,” said Havard Business School professor Dr. Linda Hill, co-founder of InnovationForce. “His unique blend of expertise in AI, and decision-sciences, makes him an invaluable asset to scale the genius that happens when innovators come together and collaborate to solve key industry and global challenges on our InnovationWorks platform."
"InnovationForce is at the forefront of transforming industries through the power of AI and collaborative ecosystems. As a lifelong innovator, I am excited to help shape the future of a platform that has the potential to use AI to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges, from climate change to infrastructure resilience,” said professor Dr. Siddhartha Dalal. “I am excited to join Dr. Hill and the InnovationForce team to combine my passion of innovation and knowledge of AI with the mission-driven purpose of the company.”
“Sid’s credentials are unparalleled. Now, with his guidance, InnovationForce is set to further disrupt the project management and innovation management industries by leveraging the ‘wisdom of crowds’ made up of human innovators and AI-based Agents to reduce the costs of innovation,” said Kim Getgen, CEO and co-founder of InnovationForce. “We’re poised to make InnovationForce an indispensable cloud-based solution for anyone looking to get out of their spreadsheets and scale innovation across their workforce and partner ecosystem.”
Dalal’s addition signals a powerful inflection point for InnovationForce’s growth trajectory. The company’s award-winning SaaS platform was recognized by Fast Company as a top 10 Workforce solution in 2024, for its ability to scale innovation across entire industry ecosystems helping customers make decisions up to 85% faster and was selected as one of 22 businesses to join a “first-of-its-kind” Presidential Trade Mission to Southeast Asia to drive industry transformation through innovation.
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About InnovationForce
InnovationForce is on a mission to create technology that enables innovators to drive innovation faster. InnovationForce builds AI-enabled workforce and ecosystem collaboration software that measures, automates, scales, and democratizes the innovation process so that anyone can participate in scaling innovation rapidly. Through the use of its patent-pending Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology platform, innovator ecosystems can leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning to "Innovate for Good '' to drive industry-wide transformation and solve the world's most complex climate and infrastructure problems. InnovationForce was named a "Most Innovative Company" in 2023 and 2024 by Fast Company.
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