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LookDeep Health (lookdeep.health News & Insights)

Essay using the history of telephone-network openness (Carterfone, the dial tone) to argue hospitals should demand open, vendor-independent in-room video infrastructure; announces LookDeep's "Video Dial Tone" commitment that its video hardware stays usable with other software platforms.

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Raw notes from meeting about 10 robotics companies in China: hardware and supply chain are far ahead of the US, while the software on many robots lags; argues for understanding China rather than ignoring it, for an open robotics ecosystem, and that the humanoid form may not win most tasks.

Northern Ohio HIMSS

Northern Ohio HIMSS webinar with Dr. Akram Boutros (Nexus Bedside), Narinder Singh (LookDeep) and Steve Xu (Sibel Health) on the next generation of bedside care.

LookDeep Health (lookdeep.health News & Insights)

Short piece arguing that AI virtual monitoring in patient rooms can act as a force multiplier for thinly staffed rural hospitals.

STELLAR SUCCESS podcast with Dr. Tudor Francu

Podcast on his move from enterprise tech to healthcare after his mother's critical illness and on using AI cameras to help clinicians prevent falls, pressure injuries and deterioration.

Forbes (Forbes Technology Council)

Forbes Technology Council roundup in which members, apparently including him, each recommend a resource.

Medium

LinkedIn article version of his April 2024 essay (also on Medium) arguing generative AI will fuel an arms race between providers and insurers.

Healthcare IT News

Bill Siwicki interviews him on why virtual nursing matters, what computer vision AI is, how AI should nudge virtual nurses, and the financial case for hospitals.

Outcomes Rocket podcast (host Saul Marquez)

Podcast interview on LookDeep's mission (safety monitoring, virtual nursing, virtual medicine) and his mother's interstitial lung disease as inspiration.

The Medical AI Podcast

Podcast interview on using AI to monitor hospital patients.

Passionate Pioneers podcast

Podcast on LookDeep's affordable hospital-wide video with AI nudging, the virtual command center, and nurse feedback; notes his mother's healthcare journey as motivation.

Medium

Medium post contrasting a legacy tele-sitting vendor offering hardware trade-in credits with the faster innovation of cloud-native vendors, drawing on the Salesforce/Workday vs Siebel/PeopleSoft precedent he saw at Appirio.

Machine Learning for Healthcare (MLHC) 2022

Conference abstract on AI-generated minute-long video summaries of a patient's overnight period for use in morning rounds (LookDeep with Duke).

American Thoracic Society 2022 (AJRCCM 205:A5719)

Conference abstract (LookDeep with Duke) on computer-vision monitoring of patient activity in the Duke medical ICU, from 2,000+ hours of video.

Medium

Lesson #6: when a business depends on dominant platform partners (e.g. Salesforce, Google), serving customers honestly creates conflicts that must be acknowledged and managed.

Medium

Lesson #5: as startups grow they need process and management; face the transition directly to avoid losing culture.

Medium

Lesson #4: founder conflict is inevitable; disputes should be confronted but kept among the people needed to resolve them.

Medium

Lesson #3: Appirio, too small to outspend competitors, spent selectively and used social dynamics to build visibility in the cloud market.

Medium

Lesson #2: how Appirio's two Naval Academy co-founders brought discipline that let the company be disruptive while acting from well-established principles.

Medium

Lesson #1 of the series: why Appirio publicly taunted Accenture to draw a contrast with its cloud-native approach, and what it cost and gained.

Medium

Written after Wipro's acquisition of Appirio, this post lists ten lessons from Appirio's history (taunting Accenture, pirate and navy, partners vs. customers, selling the PSA product to FinancialForce, and others) and introduces a follow-on series.

The Aerogram (by Simran Jeet Singh)

Essay by fellow panelist Simran Jeet Singh on the Daily Show Sikh segment and the panel's stance.

Medium

His account of taking part in The Daily Show's April 2016 segment 'Confused Islamophobes Target American Sikhs', which the Sikh Coalition helped set up, and why Sikhs refuse to deflect Islamophobia onto Muslims.

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (Comedy Central)

Hasan Minhaj segment on Sikhs mistaken for Muslims, featuring Waris Ahluwalia and a panel of Sikh Americans including Narinder Singh, set up with the Sikh Coalition.

HuffPost Religion

HuffPost write-up of the Daily Show segment in which he appeared on the Sikh panel.

Harvard LISH / NBER Innovation Policy and the Economy vol. 16

Academic paper on the NASA Tournament Lab that credits Singh, as TopCoder president, with platform access, experimental support and advice on community relations.

SiliconANGLE theCUBE

theCUBE interview with Jeff Frick at the Topcoder Open 2014 (TCO14).

HuffPost (Melissa Jun Rowley)

Article on crowdsourced data science featuring Singh as president of TopCoder, describing the NASA medical-kit optimization challenge and asteroid-detection challenges.

The New York Times (Corner Office)

New York Times 'Corner Office' leadership interview with Singh as president of Topcoder, covering growing up in Cincinnati, teaching taekwondo classes as a teenager, and his lessons on leadership and accountability.

Forbes / diamandis.com (Peter Diamandis)

Peter Diamandis describes meeting Topcoder president Narinder Singh when he presented to Diamandis's Abundance 360 CEOs, and walks through Topcoder's crowd process for building an app.

NYU Stern

Q&A with Narinder Singh (Appirio), Natalia Levina (NYU Stern) and Karim Lakhani (Harvard Business School), moderated by Anindya Ghose.

MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Videos

Executive leadership keynote panel on what CEOs, boards and CIOs expect of each other in leading the digital enterprise; panelists included Narinder Singh (Appirio), moderated by Michael Hickins (WSJ).

NYU Stern CBA & Magnet Media

Livestream of NYU Stern's Crowds 2.0 conference; speaker list includes 'Narinder Singh, Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder, Appirio. President, [topcoder]'.

VentureBeat

Article on how PaaS providers would respond to Amazon and Google IaaS price cuts, quoting Singh's answer in a Quora discussion.

YouTube (U.S. House hearing)

His oral testimony to the House Subcommittee on Research and Technology on crowdsourcing and prize competitions, as president of topcoder.

House Science Committee - Democrats

Testimony before the Subcommittee on Research and Technology hearing 'Prizes to Spur Innovation and Technology Breakthroughs'; witness listed as Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Appirio and President, TopCoder.

Topcoder

15 minutes of his testimony and Q&A before Congress on April 9, 2014.

James Governor (Monki Gras / RedMonk)

Conference talk on the topcoder community of designers, developers and data scientists, drawing on Harvard and MIT research and real-world examples of sharing and cooperation.

diginomica (Phil Wainewright)

Interview-based article: eight years after co-founding Appirio to bring cloud apps to the enterprise, Singh argues crowdsourced community development will have an equally dramatic impact on enterprise IT, and that enterprise fears about confidentiality are misplaced.

Wired (Innovation Insights)

Guest column on crowdsourcing's growing power and the responsibilities that come with it, published on Wired's sponsored 'Insights' section while he was president of Topcoder.

Topcoder

Co-Founder, President of Community & Technology, Appirio, Narinder Singh talks about bringing the best of the best to TCO, the competition and challenges.

HuffPost (Vala Afshar)

Vala Afshar's list of the top 100 cloud computing experts on Twitter includes Narinder Singh (@singhns).

San Francisco Business Times (via Sikh Entrepreneur)

Singh, co-founder and chief strategy officer of Appirio, named to the San Francisco Business Times' 2013 40 Under 40 list.

The Washington Post (On Faith) / State of Formation, by Valarie Kaur

Valarie Kaur's essay after the Oak Creek shooting on young Sikh Americans speaking out; it notes Narinder Singh of the Sikh Coalition appearing on CNN to help audiences understand the Sikh faith.

World Economic Forum

WEF people page describes him as co-founder and chief strategy officer of Appirio, a 2012 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer; his bios say he represented Appirio at the WEF as a Technology Pioneer.

Sramana Mitra

Profile of Appirio as a 'cloud integrator' founded in October 2006 by Narinder Singh and Glenn Weinstein (per the article), partnered with Google and Salesforce.com and running its own business with no on-premise servers.

Manoj Jasra (YouTube)

Appirio founder Narinder Singh talks about a new integration of Salesforce with Google Gadget.

LookDeep Health

Video in which he interviews LookDeep's AI agent aimee about proactive safety, bedside empathy and red lines (no staff surveillance, no clinical judgments).

Chicago Booth Review

Article by Naila Dharani, Sendhil Mullainathan and Jens Ludwig using LookDeep as an example that for AI companies strategy and technology choices are the same; discusses his disciplined approach and the value of LookDeep's data set.