HP Innovation Journal Issue 09: Spring 2018 | Page 68

Community Voice
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In this issue’s Community Voice, we sat down with winners of the HP Reinventor Awards.
The internal awards serve as a way recognize the very best of HP innovations.
Question:
How are global
trends shaping
our future and
impacting
your job,
and how you
approach
innovation
and
reinvention?
Q
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As a security researcher, the Megatrend that
impacts how I approach security research is
Accelerated Innovation. As we build more
connected devices, especially cyber-physical sys-
tems that include actuators, cyber attacks have
an increasing power to potentially cause harm in
the physical world. Staying ahead of these chal-
lenges is a significant part of my research.
M AU GA N VI LL ATE L
Re se a rch Engin e e r
Today’s global trends are the future we are
living in, the jobs we are working, and the exact
reason we are innovating and reinventing like
no other. Our future is and will continue to
become more technologically friendly. These
technologies are enabling digital payment,
online shopping, and wearables. I, as the next
inventor, employee, and leader, will innovate
and reinvent to service these trends. The future
will encompass two approaches, one of which
will fail. One, try to change and stagnant to the
present ideas of “less” technology: or two, if you
can’t beat it, join it. And with this, join it as a
contributor. I think it’s very clear where we are
trending regardless of what generation. These
global trends are us.
H E LLY TO R R E S
O m e n S up e r viso r
A global technology trend that is important to
me is the move toward a circular economy that
focuses on designing and building products in
a way that uses fewer natural resources and
enables the continued recovery and reuse of
materials. A circular economy decouples busi-
ness growth from a reliance on increasingly
scarce raw materials, benefiting the environ-
ment while advancing business success. This will
continue to shape how I approach innovations
such as the use of closed-loop recycled content in
HP products, and achieve my personal mission
to inspire, motivate, and enable people to lead
more sustainable, healthy lives and run more
sustainable businesses.
JEAN GINGRAS
S ustain a bilit y Pro gra m M a na g e r
Two of the main focuses in today’s technology
are manageability and security, but balancing
the two can be tricky. There’s a direct correlation
between how manageable something is and the
number of possible attack vectors. So, there’s a
huge incentive for things that identify and pro-
tect against those attacks. My personal favorites
are unit and automated testing. I think a quick
and comprehensive test suite is vital to making
sure no new issues are introduced as a project
evolves, as well as exercising non-nominal cases.
RO B E RT C R AI G
Firmwa re Engin e e r
The global technology trend that has had the
most impact on my work is the replacement of
physical interfaces with virtual interfaces. The
abilities to communicate with my teammates, to
ask questions, and to share ideas and documents
from anywhere in the world, almost instanta-
neously, allow me to continue innovating and
developing through traditional barriers like nat-
ural disasters and geolocation. By leveraging the
technology trends of today, I am able to focus
on the problems of the future and accelerate the
pace of development and problem resolution. When you think about HP’s Megatrends work,
sustainability clearly shows up. For example, the
Rapid Urbanization that the world is facing will
bring new constraints to our daily lives and has
the potential to increase the demand for shared
services like printing. As my team thinks about
the future, we spend time focusing on the value
that HP’s products and services currently deliver
and how we could reinvent the impact they have
to be more efficient, using fewer materials and
less energy while driving social benefits to the
communities where we manufacture them and
where our customers use them.
M A SO N G U N Y UZLU
Firmwa re Engin e e r, C o m m e rcial P C R& D E LLE N JAC KOWS K I
S ustain a bilit y I n n ovatio n