I dont work on a single "Next Big Idea" .. I have several small projects that I am advancing, all of which use A.I. somehow, because that's what I'm interested in, that's what I love.

Some projects are: Optimal restaurant placement in large cities (based on demand and existing restaurants)

Prediction of mechanical failures in industrial systems (sorry I cant be more specific on this point) .. basically I predict mechanical failures based on MASSIVE amounts of sensor data so a technician can perform preventative maintenance on the equipment. This gives my client a huge competitive advantage because their equipment appears to never break down.

I wrote a sales prediction software for a large food company in Australia that predicts sales based on some important external factors (cant specifically mention them) but it gives them much better inventory management.

Interesting. Are you connected to the remote monitoring/diagnostics industry at all? I have tech. background in remote data collection and someone at my day job has been trying to get me interested in starting a business with him doing that. Data-driven maintenance is a rapidly growing field, but not very well known since there is very little in terms of consumer visibility.

If you ever want to bounce ideas off someone, I'd be happy to talk.

hey Malux can you e-mail me, details on my profile. I'm London based, i think we've got some similar interests and there's some stuff i'd like to talk about. Cheers.