Meet The Disruptors: NEC’s Chris White On The Five Things You Need To Shake Up Your Industry | Authority Magazine

August 12, 2023||inMedia|tagschris white, chris white media

Read this fantastic interview with our President, Christopher White, who was recently profiled on Authority Magazine’s Meet the Disruptors series, providing an in-depth view of NEC Labs’ approach to creating disruption and leading markets. Chris shares five things you need to shake up your industry based on his experience pushing the envelope in the fields of chemistry, computer science, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence.

Meet The Disruptors NEC’s Chris White On The Five Things You Need To Shake Up Your Industry - Authority Magazine

As an industrial lab, our focus is centered on disruptive research. Opening new markets. Creating new products. Finding an entirely new way of doing something that no one has been able to do before. Chris leads our team to conduct disruptive research rather than just incremental research. Going for the 10x rather than the 10%. 🚀

Meet The Disruptors: NEC’s Chris White On The Five Things You Need To Shake Up Your Industry

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