Jonathan Rende is the chief research officer for Castlight Health, a company that aims to bring transparency to the U.S. healthcare market by giving employees of its client companies detailed information on what medical procedures cost at various local providers. We talk to Rende about how Castlight is trying to transform healthcare and build a platform for health data.

Plus, we tell you what to think about rumors of a new Apple Watch, children's toys getting hacked, and the continuing battle over ad-blocking software.

Innovation Engines:  Jonathan Rende, Castlight Health

Kakul Srivastava is the vice president of product management at Github, the collaborative service used by over 12 million developers to share software code. We caught up with her recently to talk about how Github has evolved into a platform (and what it means to be a platform), how the company figures out which new features and products to build, and the role of open source software in stimulating innovation.

Plus, we tell you what to think about what 2015 meant for Microsoft, virtual reality, and Silicon Valley "unicorns."

Innovation Engines  Kakul Srivastava, GitHub

David Wadhwani joined AppDynamics as its CEO and president in late 2015, after a storied career at Adobe. AppDynamics, which provides application monitoring services for developers and enterprises, recently raised $150 million in a round that reportedly valued the company at close to $2 billion. We talk with Wadhwani about the investment climate, application performance monitoring in general, DevOps, and about how he helped Adobe manage its transition from packaged software to cloud services. Plus, we tell you what to think about the possible bursting of the "unicorn" bubble in 2016, Apple abandoning its iAd platform, Google's AMP platform for faster mobile pages, and Jordan Novet's home-built Oculus Rift-compatible PC.

Innovation Engines  David Wadhwani, AppDynamics

John Purrier is a founder and board member of OpenStack, and is currently Chief Technology Officer for Automic. We talk with him about the transformation of enterprise IT architectures and about the need for automation and integration of services.

Plus, we tell you what to think about Twitter's crazy new algorithmic timeline (and its disappointing lack of growth), Zenefits firing its CEO, and Marc Andreessen trying to teach India about colonialism's benefits.

Innovation Engines:  John Purrier, Automic

Ambarish "Rish" Mitra is the CEO of Blippar, an augmented reality platform that dozens of brands are using to add interactivity to their products. Point the Blippar app at a logo, and you can unlock virtual games and extra content. But Blippar is also working on AI technology that can identify ordinary objects in the real world, like chairs, dogs, birds, and more.

Plus, we tell you what to think about the surge of virtual reality news at the Game Developers' Conference and at GDC, and we discuss the pros and cons of the algorithmic timelines coming to both Twitter and Instagram.

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