Contribuții Cercetare

Articole

• 2024: AI’s Role in Story Rediscovery: Shifting Shapes, Expanding Audiences
• 2024: From Numbness to Narrative: A Filmmaker’s AI-Augmented Journey to Emotional Resonance in Storytelling. Unveiling the Potential of a Structured Vocabulary of Emotions. A case study of rapid emotional decoding for enhanced creative communication.

Capitole Cărți

• 2025: A Million Silent Rooms: Ageing Alone in Romania (în curs de publicare)

Prezentări în Conferințe

• 2024: Echoes in the Machine: Unveiling Hidden Depths through the Lens of Established Genius
• 2024: The Weight of 2 Million Walls: A Filmmaker’s Challenge to Hear Romania’s Elderly Behind the Silence of Concrete
• 2024: From Numbness to Narrative: Unveiling the Potential of a Structured Vocabulary of Emotions.

Problem Solving
Soluții la Probleme din Inovația Deschisă

My journey in filmmaking and film studies has been a long and winding road, driven by a passion for expressing my ideas through films and democratizing indie cinema online. I’ve focused on information systems and architectures for film production, exploring ‘machine-readable films’ to enhance human-machine communication in the creative processes and make indie films more discoverable. This path unexpectedly led me through the world of open innovation, where I spent nearly a decade solving problems on platforms like InnoCentive and HeroX.

Back then, we problem-solvers were the ‘AI,’ tackling challenges and providing solutions in a way that prefigured the capabilities of today’s artificial intelligence. You can read more about this perspective in my post, ‘I Was the AI Before AI Was Cool.’ Here’s a selection of over 20 prominent solutions from my portfolio of 60+, which I may update in the future.

Key Award-Winning Solutions to Open Innovation Challenges

User Experience (UX) Design, Strategy, Operations

• 2017: Peace & Security: Innovative approaches to preventing the proliferation of dual-use technologies: an information exchange platform between industry and government launched by N Square and Stimson Center – A collaborative effort between five of the largest peace and security funders in the United States.

• 2017: Banking/FinTech: Humanizing the digital consumer experience. Designed a scalable mobile application to foster emotional connections between users and mobile payment terminals (ATM, POS, Internet Banking).
• 2011: Healthcare & Nutrition: Models for sourcing food databases for patients suffering of various medical conditions. Architected a global, scalable online platform to bridge the gap between medications and nutrition, improving patient care globally.

Leadership, Entrepreneurship

• 2017: Leadership: Patterns for Success, a leadership training program to empower the succes of small business owners, which won the „Organizational Culture” category – launched on HeroX by a group of companies from Canada and the U.S.A.
• 2010: Social Entrepreneurship: Creative business models for integrating and growing vulnerable communities through the social business economic model of Nobel Prize winner Muhamad Yunus – launched by Social Business Competition Tour 2010 in Central and Eastern Europe.

Key Solution Designs to Various Challenges

User Experience (UX) Design, Information Architecture, Information Flows and Strategy

• Mobile Entertaintment: Increasing Brand Preference in Mobile Market (LG). My proposed solution: A World With a View – Creating a visual storytelling challenge-focused curator platform focused on LG brand’s journey from GoldStar to Lucky-GoldStar to Life’s Good.
• Digital Television: Novel Strategies for Increasing TV Everywhere Use. A data-driven solution focused on a multi-dimensional intervention on more parts of the business process simultaneously.
• Open Innovation: Envision the Innocentive model applied to uplift decision-making process at leadership level to fast exit COVID-19 pandemic crisis today and other crises tomorrow. My solution: Dillema App.
• Healthcare: Collaborative Activist Network for Better Health Care – KFF PLATFORM. My solution: Virtual Clinic, linking best diagnosis with best research, treatment, medicine, food, follow up (EHRius).
• Healthcare: Disrupting Innovation. My solution, Humanizator, focused on bridging the gap between real and virtual by creating a platform able to solve any kind of problem coming from anywhere – now; an inspiring and effective management and communication resource of increasing performance, creativity and innovation in business, economy, social and political areas from all over the world.
• Healthcare: Healthcare Information/Data Economy Challenge. My solution: to bridge the gap between social and medical services relied on the basic beneficiaries’ needs and on all data and HIT-systems available today (2010-2011) – acting as both prevention and responding instrument at the same time.
• Jobs and Education: New Approaches to Improve Employment Outcomes Career and Technical Education. My solution proposal: Identify, Define and Match Unique Value Propositions: improve employment outcomes by sharping precision through capturing and integrating lost and invisible data.
• Pharma: Increasing People’s Ability to Start and Stay on Task. The solution based its design on the data that showed: healthcare system loses billions of dollars annually because 30% of people have this problem of not starting and staying to a task and because 50% of people drop off before their 1st refill.
• Healthcare: Identifying Best-in-Class Support Services for Patients with Diabetes. My solution was a self-management support-system design.

Common Good

• Climate Change Crisis: Communication Platform to Connect Vulnerable Communities with Climate Change Solutions.
• Social/Health: Educating About the Importance and Acceptance of Purifying Drinking Water. A solution focused on creating the need and experiencing the story.

Strategy

• Social Change Strategy: Drive to End Hunger – Elimination of Food Deserts. My solution: A low-cost alternative distribution supply chain.
• Policy Regulations Strategy – Pharma: European Business Model for Customer-Driven Regulated Markets. I proposed a quadruple bottom lines business model and information structure.
• Resilience Strategy: The Economist-InnoCentive Human Potential Index Challenge. My solution: introducing a new resilience-focused metrics Goal Changing Ability (GCA)
• Communication Strategy – Healthcare: Empowering People with Epilepsy. My solution I know somebody focused on video production and filmmaking – short films following 2 parallel tracks: epilepsy in history and epilepsy today, with the message One seizure is too many.
• Business Development Strategy – Pharma and Medical Devices: Market Access Models for India – Medical Device. My solution proposed a market penetration through the grassroots NGOs, 3,3 million active NGOs at the time (2010), meaning 1 NGO to each 400 Indians, in some regions meaning more NGOs than the number of primary schools and primary health centers in India.
• Communication Strategy – Nuclear Weapons: Increasing Civil Society’s Influence on Nuclear Weapons Policy. My solution One goal. One petition. One coalition. focused on the available data that showed at the time that almost 50% of the world’s population or 18% of world’s nations hosts nuclear weapons, while the vote for nuclear weapons elimination among world’s nations is almost unanimous.
• Anticorruption Strategy – Politics: Systems to Monitor Institutional Corruption. My solution challenged this challenge by asking „Why monitor?” and proposed a media-tech solution to make corruption self-destroy.
• Business Development Strategy – Open Innovation: Mechanisms to Enhance Solver Collaboration & Teamwork. My solution, as a veteran problem solver by that time was focused on a multidimensional set of strategies.

Storytelling, Digital Art and Events

• Storytelling: Writing a story about how the future looks like 20 years fast forward (2030). Mine was STARK.
• Digital Art, Events Design: The Next Great Science Exhibition Museum of Science, Boston. My exhibition HUMANIZATOR, TransGlobal Yourself – Humans as the Ultimate High Technology. Vision: To break any mental, space and time human’s own limitations, to get the visitors out of their own singular present time by creating an environment where the visitors can experience, learn and link themselves to a diversity of modern civilisations around the globe and at the same time experience the benefits of their own creation- technology. Ultimately, each visitor will become a human of all his present eras he lives NOW.