Crowd Powered Space Exploration: Open Innovation at NASA & Beyond

🚀 "Innovation Heroes" launches its highly-anticipated Season 4 with an inspiring episode featuring Kal K. Sahota, the CEO of HeroX, and Steve Rader, Program Manager, NASA Tournament Lab and the CoECI (Center for Excellence and Collaborative Innovation).

NASA and HeroX have been working in crowdsourcing-based innovation together for years now. Get a direct view into the world of open innovation and crowdsourcing and its immense transformative power in driving innovation and solving complex challenges at large Federal organizations, such as NASA. Discover how Steve tackled resistance to crowdsourcing at NASA by demonstrating its value as an innovation starting point and showing repeated success through case studies.

Understand the future of innovation strategy for organizations in the ever-evolving technological landscape and how crowdsourcing offers a gift of "massive failure" to meet the concept of failing fast to prove product relevance, affirmed by the best minds in any industry.

In this episode of Innovation Heroes Adam, Steve & Kal explore the role of open innovation and crowdsourcing in the world of federal organizations, punctuating the importance of adopting this highly adaptive tool to ideate rapidly, fail fast, and keep ahead of the tech curve.

Host: Adam Olsen, Podcast Host - HeroX
Guest: Steve Rader, Program Manager - NTL and CoECI
Guest: Kal K. Sahota, President & CEO - HeroX

About Steve Rader
Steve is the Program Manager of NASA's Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) and NASA Tournament Lab (NTL), leading innovative challenges and crowdsourcing projects for NASA and the US government.

About CoECI
CoECI collaborates with innovators across NASA and the Federal Government to generate ideas and solve important problems by working with global communities via the NASA Tournament Lab. This challenge-based approach readily increases NASA’s creative capacity and has proven to be an effective method to find truly innovative solutions.   

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🔉 About the Innovation Heroes podcast

The Innovation Heroes series covers all things open innovation, crowdsourcing, and remote work. It’s time to open up the airways, share strategies, engage partners, and leverage the power of crowd intelligence to expedite solutions to the pressing problems facing every level of organization, individuals, and the world. The key word here is OPEN.

We're bringing our partners in innovation, organizations who have run their own crowdsourcing projects, innovator powerhouses, and remote work legends into the spotlight. There is a global network ready to contribute time, energy and intelligence to just about any challenge that comes their way. All we need to do is provide the opportunity. Thank you for being a part of the solution. Discover the Power of the Crowd.

Adam is your Podcast Host at HeroX, connecting with innovation leaders from around the world to gain insights on how they approach innovation, the technologies they're most excited about, and how these innovations impact their industries. HeroX is a platform and open marketplace for crowdsourcing innovation that allows anyone, anywhere, to solve everyday business and world challenges using the power of the crowd.

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