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39 slides where a page of type problem statement falls in the 65–70% range of its deck.
2025 Bond Cap Artificial Intelligence AI 2025
“Horizontal Enterprise Platform = SaaS Incumbents Or Large Language Model Challengers?”
2025 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2025
“Foundational AI Research is a government priority, but where's the money?”
The AI Action Plan mentions the need to fund “basic science” in AI, but “core” AI R&D is far below the $32B that experts have recommended the US invest by ’26.
$3.3B · Federal AI R&D Funding
2025 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2025
“The State of State AI Regulation is a “patchwork” problem”
The Trump administration pushed for a state AI moratorium in part because it believed that state AI legislation was too uneven and confusing to be effective.
2025 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2025
“The “AI-Washing” problem: the year in federal enforcement”
SEC and DOJ Warm Up to Enforcement over AI Washing
2024 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2024
“...but is this a marriage of convenience?”
Given Apple is publishing work on foundation models that will power Apple Intelligence features, it's reasonable to ask how long-lasting or deep any OpenAI partnership is likely to be.
2025 The AI Dossier
“Collaborating across data types to improve diagnostic accuracy”
Agentic AI systems can act as a clinical co-pilot, with specialized agents analyzing different data sources—such as imaging, lab results, and patient records—and then combining insights to support mor
2025 The AI Dossier
“Delivering tailored, continuous care through multi-agent collaboration”
Agentic AI systems can act as a 24/7 virtual care team, with specialized agents monitoring patient data, providing personalized coaching, and coordinating interventions to deliver hyper-personalized h
2025 The AI Dossier
Automated customer service
Agentic AI systems can handle a wide variety of customer service tasks—such as benefit inquiries, claims status updates, and enrollment support—seamlessly escalating complex cases to human representat
2025 The AI Dossier
“Improving trial design, recruitment, and monitoring with multi-agent systems”
Agentic AI systems can optimize clinical trials by designing protocols, selecting sites, identifying participants, and monitoring progress in real time, helping trials run faster, safer, and more effi
Infrastructure beyond COVID-19
“COVID-19 has exposed deficiencies in the network for suburban and regional areas as more people work remotely”
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen an increase in internet demand in suburban areas. While the impact on Australia’s infrastructure was manageable, some cities and areas fared less well when demand surged
2020 Benedict Evans 2020 January Shoulders of Giants
“Which problem are you trying to fix?”
Few of the issues that make people worry about 'big tech' relate to anti-trust
Southeast Asia’s Green Economy 2022 Report
“SEA's path to 1.5°C: A material gap remains between reality and aspirations”
$3 trillion · Investment gap
Southeast Asia’s Green Economy 2022 Report
“Three critical disconnects impede greater investment and action across SEA”
Reshaping NYCHA support functions
Community Programs & Development
NYCHA is not operating these centers efficiently (e.g., 37% overhead cost vs. 15% overhead cost at best-in-class organizations).
37% · overhead cost
Reshaping NYCHA support functions
Section 8 (I/II)
NYCHA's Section 8 program was experiencing significant operational challenges from the recent NICE implementation, exposing the agency to a variety of regulatory, legal and public relations risks.
$8-10M · HAP savings
Socio-economic case for deepening solar PV deployment in Nig
“... and households contributing ~20% to total fuel generator emissions because 40% of electricity demand is met through fuel generators due to limited grid supply”
Unmet demand as a result of Nigeria's electrification deficit of 45%
20% · GHG emissions
2025 Accel Race for compute
“Capital likely won't be the constraint, but will the 36 GW US electricity shortfall be the bottleneck?”
It would take 1,530 square kilometers of solar panel coverage to cover this shortfall (i.e., an area bigger than Los Angeles) - or 35 nuclear reactors (+37% more than the current US nuclear reactor ca
36 GW · Gigawatts
INVESTING AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Rationale for Selling Investments During Pandemic
Among the 22% of Canadian investors who sold at least part of their investments, the primary reason for selling was to pay for expenses (29%), a proportion that rose to 42% among those who were net se
29% · Primary reason for sale
Ipsos Health Service Report 2024 Global Charts
Overall, which of the following, if any, do you see as the biggest problems facing the healthcare system in your country?
46% · Percentage of respondents
Fresenius SE 2023 06 13 14 Goldman Sachs 44th Annual Global
“FY/23 – A year of structural progression”
Melbourne as a Global Cultural Destination
“Information on "what's on" in Melbourne is highly fragmented”
A visitor may need six different sources of information to plan an (example) day
8 ·
The Future of Food Challenges & opportunities
Responsible production: top challenges faced by companies (# votes)
To achieve their responsible production and food management ambitions over the next five years, companies foresee cost pressure and efficiency (65%) joining ecological footprint and emissions (69%) as
69% · votes
Global Health Partnerships Stop TB
“The high-level objectives are related to 3 areas – raising awareness about TB, engaging TB networks and supporting the Secretariat”
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“Include potential long-term care costs into your plan”
About 33% of 65-year-old couples will spend more than USD 500,000 on LTC during their lifetime
33% · Probability of LTC spending
ey e book the green transition
“How can we create a global carbon price framework?”
Key criteria to ensure fair and effective design of carbon frameworks will include: Pricing carbon as a commodity that reflects negative externalities.
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What it takes to unlock flexibility potential
By 2030, we will have 2.1 million EVs in Belgium. Imagine if just 100,000 of these EVs, with bidirectional capabilities, connected to the grid, each delivering 40 kW flexibility. You’re talking nuclea
2.1 million ·
The Future of Procurement: Why is Technology Lagging Behind?
“The radical insufficiency of P2P”
Deeper functionality required for strategic services suppliers
state of workplace study
“Employees Are Experiencing Financial Issues in Their Personal Life”
85% of employees have dealt with financial issues in their personal life – same in 2022
85% · Employees experiencing financial issues
Women @ Work 2022: A Global Outlook
“Women in ethnic-minority groups and LGBT+ women are more likely to have experienced microaggressions”
Our survey shows LGBT+ women are 7% more likely to cite being addressed in an unprofessional or disrespectful way than women who are not LGBT+, and more than 10% likelier to have felt patronized or un
18% · Percentage of respondents experiencing microaggressions
Generative AI: A boost for Operations
“GenAI can help overcome many of the current limitations and constraints for coaching and training frontline colleagues”
10-15% · agent performance
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“The majority of marketers struggle with elements of audience data”
Difficulty is greatest in LATAM across topics, while marketers in APAC & North Amercia have lowest levels of difficulty.
36% · Difficulty level
The Canadian Venture Opportunity
“Canadian investors and corporates are missing an opportunity to play a bigger role in Canadian climate tech”
Over half of investment into Canadian climate tech comes from abroad
55% · Private climate tech investment
Mental health today A deep dive based on the 2023 Gen Z and
“Non-inclusive behaviors are still widespread”
An alarming six in 10 Gen Zs (61%) and nearly half of millennials (49%) say they have experienced harassment or microaggressions at work in the year leading to the survey.
61% · Percentage of respondents experiencing harassment
Automated Trucks The next big disruptor in the automotive in
“To realize the potential of automated driving several ecosystem challenges need to be solved”
Customer loyalty and Convenience
“The definition of convenience is non-existent, sloppy, or self-serving.”
Convenience is addressed broadly as a need without being defined, a nebulous concept around ease or based on inferences of the reader.
High-end Tourism – a strong driver for Europe
“However, European high-end tourism is facing serious challenges: COVID-19 has brought major disruptions...”
When considering only missed international flights, loss in high-end tourism surpasses ~>€70B...
€70B · International arrivals
The Growing Challenge of Semiconductor Design Leadership
“The US design workforce is estimated to face a 35% gap between supply and demand by 2030 creating a shortfall of 23,000 workers”
Meaning that demand for design workers will exceed supply by nearly 35% in 2030
23,000 · Workforce shortfall
Constraints to growth: supply chain risks facing renewables
“Transformer lead times are a critical issue today and beginning to impact marginal projects”
Buyers have cited that current lead time quotes over 100 weeks are not unheard of today
12 · Months
Semiconductor shortage: A different kind of trouble ahead
“The European chips act is not sufficient in terms of volume to support the required growth”
Therefore, the budget of EUR 43 bn is too stringent to build an ecosystem, secure the supply chain and operate a crisis mechanism while achieving 20% market share by 2030
43 · USD bn