Lotfi Belkhir
I am a physicist by training turned successively into an engineer, manager, then business man, and eventually an academic and scholar. In my current role, my teaching and research revolve around innovation, entrepreneurship and sustainability. The three are closely linked as I strongly believe that it is the entrepreneurs who will be able, through innovation, to create superior sustainable products and services that will disrupt the current unsustainable businesses. Our Master's degree in Entrepreneurship at McMaster University teaches our budding entrepreneurs on how to deeply embed sustainability into their nascent enterprise project as a source of disruptive and competitive edge.
In my past life, I have worked at Xerox in various roles of research scientist, product development manager and business development executive. I then left Xerox to start my own company in Silicon Valley, Kirtas Technologies. Kirtas developed the world's first and fasted automatic book scanner and was ranked by Inc. 500 Magazine as one of the fastest growing companies in America two years in a row. The Company also received in 2013 one of the most coveted innovation awards in the world; the Popular Science Best of What's New Award (the BoWN Award).
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What makes the MAGA misrule tragedy historic? Total foregone conclusion. Total knowability and avoidability.
Paying the corrupt MAGA piper is now a lead “investment” – with outcomes as predictable (and problematic) as all that voters repressed when empowering the Trump II horror show.
Maryland moves to ban grocery surveillance pricing as algorithmic price discrimination spreads
Maryland’s first-in-the-nation grocery pricing law targets the use of personal data to raise food costs, but consumer advocates warn industry-backed loopholes could limit its impact as algorithmic pricing spreads.
No-bid contracts and taxpayer funds fuel scrutiny of Trump’s White House ballroom
A Republican push to spend $400 million in taxpayer funds on Trump’s White House ballroom is colliding with allegations of inflated no-bid contracts, donor conflicts, and questions over whether a recent security scare is being used to justify a project critics say reflects presidential self-interest over public need.
On infinity: Or how long MAGA clown shows pander to cult derangement
When, pray tell, comes the knockout punch,/ Who and what gobbles Donald’s lunch? Come what, come may, let sleazebags boast:/ No miracle looms—this mob is toast.
Shooting at press dinner fuels conspiracy spiral as political distrust deepens
An attempted assassination charge outside the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner triggered urgent security questions, but the political aftershocks spread far wider, exposing how conspiracy culture, rising extremism, and collapsing trust are reshaping responses to violence in America.