HP Innovation Journal Issue 11: Winter 2018 | Page 63

healthcare diagnostics. Our precision microfluidic
devices can be used for precise control of reagents in
order to perform automated, high-speed healthcare
diagnostic tests—just in the lab for now, but the
potential is inspiring.
printed. Printing allows us to accessorize the world
around us, and that is never going away.
How do you see print technology changing manufacturing
in the future?
As society grows and industrializes at an
accelerated rate, people are raising their living
standards. In turn, they will consume more goods and
services. At HP, we provide digital printing services
that provide consumers with valuable information,
including tracking and customization. For example,
consider recent food recalls. With digital printing,
we can secure, track, and trace items in order to
communicate directly with a consumer who purchased
that product.
GLENN
What advice would you give to the next generation of
technologists?
Have fun while you get stuff done—you have
one of the best jobs in the history of the world! Work
on projects and ideas that you are passionate about,
and figure out how to connect that passion to value
creation for the company and, more broadly, to
making people’s lives better.
PAUL
What role does collaboration play in innovation?
It’s impossible to do anything of magnitude
without extensive collaboration inside and outside of
your organization. I am always impressed with how
HP innovators collaborate worldwide. They have a
special ability to work cross-team, cross-country, and
cross-culture.
GLENN
GLENN HOPKINS
C h i ef Te ch n o l o gis t , P rint B u sin e s s & G l o b a l H e a d of
P rint Te ch n o l o gy Re se a rch & D eve l o p m e nt , H P
Glen Hopkins serves as the Chief Technologist
for our Print business. When he’s not focused on
the future of print, you can find him backpacking
in the wilderness outside of Yosemite National Park
in California.
Why is printing important to the human experience?
It’s easy to think of print as something simple,
like ink on a piece of paper. At HP, we know print is
much more than that. Print enables us to experience
the world around us. Wherever you are, take a look
around you and think about the things that are
marked—a tag on your seat, the rug beneath your
feet, the items on the walls—all of those things were
GLENN
What advice would you give to the next generation of
technologists?
Innovators are blessed because they can see
the future before others, and innovators are cursed
because they can see the future before others. It takes
vision, patience, and perseverance to take the world
to a place where it needs to go but doesn’t know it
exists yet.
GLENN
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