TRANSCRIPT:
Dave and Alanna have been invited to speak to the American Fidelity Women In Tech group in Oklahoma City. The team from Exaptive prepares all the tables for a special exercise that will explain the concept of a cognitive city.
Megan Clifford with American Fidelity says, "I am so pleased to have a chance to introduce our guests speakers, David King and Alanna Riederer."
First, Dave and Alanna talk about how Exaptive’s Cognitive Cities use algorithms to make suggestions for collaboration teams. The suggestions are based on artifacts from work individuals have done or are doing. The best teams have people with something in common, but not everything in common.
Dave King, Exaptive CEO, says, "The important thing in a cognitive network is being able to make suggestions for innovation that aren’t about maximizing similarity."
The audience is asked to characterize a project they’re working on in two ways. Each category is signified with a different color. When everyone’s ready, the audience scrambles to find the perfect match.. Not someone who has the same colors, and not someone who has completely different colors, but someone who has just one color in common.
Once they find a collaboration partner, they discuss similarities and differences of their projects. Notice this team high-fiving right here?!
The woman in the audience says, "We both learned something about each other that we didn’t know, and J.J. brought solutions to my challenge so I made some notes."
Dave rings the bell, saying "Ding ding!" and the crowd cheers.
A group of three found value in the exercise as well. Their group member says, "It was just interesting to me how we all kind of face similar challenges and duties in our jobs even though we’re in completely different departments. It kinda helps see how our functions all kinda fit together."
And that’s exactly why Exaptive developed Cognitive Cities. To make building a successful collaboration team less complicated. Because with successful collaboration, innovation is right around the corner.

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