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Dr. Ryan Janzen is a scientist, entrepreneur, and global innovator. Featured on the Discovery Channel, Wired magazine, and Through the Wormhole, Janzen's innovations have been featured in 110+ international lectures, media interviews, and scientific publications. Janzen is co-founder and CTO of TransPod, designing a next generation of ultra-high-speed aerospace vehicles, to move passengers and cargo between cities at over 1000 km/h. Janzen is the chief architect of the multi-billion-dollar future system: propulsion, aerodynamics, and transportation infrastructure. Janzen's innovations have led to entirely new fields of research, in physics, transportation, and cybernetics. He has directed teams of 400+ people in realizing his multidisciplinary innovations, including in Silicon Valley, Paris, and 23 other cities. He has established research programs in 9 countries, with universities, government agencies, and private enterprises. Janzen holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, and received a national 2018 Innovation of the Year Award. |
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Exotic physics, propulsion, Groundbreaking innovation 
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Speaking United Nations, the ASEAN Summit in Tokyo, Keynotes in London, New York, Milan, Rome.
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Government Advising Future Innovation Strategy, Economic Growth, Special Projects
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Janzen Research + TransPod lead projects with 17 universities in Europe, North America, Asia, and industrial partners in aerospace, construction, and tech sectors. |
Board and Executive Leadership Ryan Janzen has been chair and board member of 11 corporate boards, government committees, and nonprofit boards. Executive leadership of 4 companies. If you would like to get involved, please contact. |
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Art and Music by Ryan Janzen
Janzen's Projects
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FluxJet The FluxJet is a fully electric vehicle that is effectively a hybrid between an aircraft and a train. Janzen and team unveiled this new type of vehicle in a 2022 product launch announcement. It is based on groundbreaking innovations in propulsion and fossil-fuel-free clean energy systems. It operates on breakthroughs in plasma-based power transmission and a new field of physics called veillance flux. The FluxJet is designed to travel along a protected guideway at over 1000 km/h -- faster than a jet and three times as fast as a high-speed train. The FluxJet will operate exclusively on the TransPod Line, a network system with stations in key locations and major cities, featuring high-frequency departures designed to enable fast, affordable, and safe travel. Most recently, TransPod confirmed $550M US finance and announced the next phase of an $18B US infrastructure project to build the TransPod Line to connect the cities of Calgary and Edmonton in Alberta, Canada. Preliminary work, including the environmental impact assessment, has begun. This critical project will create up to 140,000 jobs and add $19.2B to the region's GDP throughout construction. Once the TransPod Line is in operation, it will cost passengers approximately 44 per cent less than a plane ticket to travel the corridor and reduce CO2 emissions by 636,000 tonnes per year. |
Impact: The FluxJet is being developed by TransPod Inc., with global industrial partners. 
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Intra-Aircraft Power Line Communication Janzen was the first to propose "Intra-Aircraft Power Line Communication" in a paper at the start of this emerging field. The aim is to reduce the mass of wiring on aircraft---often ranging in the tonnes on large jets---by sending communication signals over power wiring. This emerging field of research is a novel synthesis between the domain of avionics and the domain of power line communication --- two domains whose technologies have been mutually abhorrent out of necessity, until the technological developments from this research. Since then, subsequent papers have emerged from Boeing and Edwards Air Force Base. In 2008, Janzen published a book on this topic. |
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Extended Intelligence Sensing is a key part of human life, and also plays a key role in technological systems. Technology and humans share a need to sense the physical world accurately and precisely. With the rise of surveillance (institutional sensing) and sousveillance (individual grassroots sensing) --- or more generally, veillance --- in the world around us, these new discoveries and breakthroughs can help us enhance, control, measure, and understand the capacity-to-sense, to benefit humanity. Janzen presents new ways to extend the sensory capability of machines and humans. This includes sensory enhancement systems, user-interface devices that embody humanistic intelligence (HI), and a proposed new field of veillametrics. |
Read about Extended Intelligence in the
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IntelliSense AI IntelliSense AI has been developed as a distributed, embedded, intelligent system for critical infrastructure monitoring and health diagnostics. Applications are for early detection of atypical vibrations, tampering, sabotage, as well as natural aging of equipment and structures, to warn for predictive maintenance and save maintenance costs. IntelliSense AI provides advanced structural health assessment through continuous, real-time monitoring of acoustic signals. Unlike simple strain gauge sensors, which merely output a simple measurement, this system unlocks a rich dataset, by AI analysis and high-frequency signal analysis of complex wave propagation. |
Joint venture between Janzen Research and TransPod Inc. For more info → IntelliSense |
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TransPod System The TransPod System is a 1000 km/h+ transportation system being designed for cities around the world. Similar to the New York JFK airport train and the Vancouver Skytrain, it has an elevated guideway with linear motors, and can also be built underground depending on terrain. TransPod stations are designed for key locations in major cities, featuring high-frequency departures to enable fast, affordable, and safe travel. Most recently, TransPod Inc. confirmed $550M US finance and announced the next phase of an $18B US infrastructure project to build the TransPod Line to connect the cities of Calgary and Edmonton in Alberta, Canada. Preliminary work, including the environmental impact assessment, has begun. This critical project will create up to 140,000 jobs and add $19.2B to the region's GDP throughout construction. Once the TransPod Line is in operation, it will cost passengers approximately 44 per cent less than a plane ticket to travel the corridor and reduce CO2 emissions by 636,000 tonnes per year. | Agreement signed with the Government of Alberta, for a future $20B TransPod project connecting the cities of Calgary and Edmonton. Terms signed for a $550M USD private sector investment for Phase 1 of construction. Additional negotiations ongoing with other governments and jusisdictions. | |||
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Quantum Power Plasma technology, awarded a € 31 Million grant from the EU and the Italian Government, for development by the Italian Space Industry with TransPod. Janzen is the inventor of this IP, fully owned in Canada and patented worldwide. | Being developed at TransPod Inc., and will be used in the $20B FluxJet transportation project. Patented worldwide. | |||
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JetGlide technology Vehicle stability control, for aircraft, automotive, rail, and FluxJet. The invention of Predictive Suspension for vehicles. | Being developed at TransPod Inc., and will be used in the $20B FluxJet transportation project. Patented worldwide. | |||
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Extended Reality Janzen developed the first XR night-vision and veillametrics apps for the Meta 2 headset, before product launch. BBC article Forbes article He spent time in Silicon Valley developing this project with company founders, and liasing with visionaries Ray Kurzweil, Peter Thiel, Marvin Minsky, Steve Mann, Ori Inbar leading the growing AI and XR industry in Silicon Valley and worldwide. |
3000 units sold worldwide, for the Meta 2 glasses. Later the IP was acquired by Meta View, a company led by Qualcomm vet Jay Wright (former Vuforia lead). They continued support for Meta 2 users and developed the technology further. Janzen was featured on the Discovery Channel, unveiling the Meta veillametrics. |
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Ontario Science Centre installation A giant new centerpiece in front of a science museum: towering water+air organ pipes, as a giant outdoor water organ that can be played by the general public, 24-hours a day, with continuous pressurized water powering 57 pipes. It is a musical instrument that can be played by up to 8 people, played by touching your fingers to small water jets. After the opening ceremony and the media had left, for the first few weeks there was usually a lineup of people until approx. 2am each night waiting to play the instrument. Developed by Steve Mann, Chris Aimone, Ryan Janzen. | Construction complete; delivered to the science museum, for their public opening ceremony of the Telescape Plaza in 2006/7. | |||
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Hydraulophone The hydraulophone is a new musical instrument that creates sound by playing on water jets. Janzen collaborated with Steve Mann, C.Aimone, K.Simmons, K.Yang, developing this new invention. 
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H2Orchestra performed concerts around the world (New York, Copenhagen, Toronto...) where Janzen composed music for an array of orchestral and vocal performers. The physics of this instrument lets us hear "the voice of water" for the first time in history. Products commercially sold to clients, and through two distribution companies. |
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Pollution Sensing (government contract) Janzen Research was contracted by the Government of Canada (Environment Canada agency). Technology was successfully delivered to the government, and is supporting the design of new pollution control systems. | Deployed in environmental sensing stations by federal government | |||
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Advanced R&D in France In collaboration with the EU and Government of France, this project was selected for funding with TransPod, and is contributing to regional development and technological growth in France. Work is taking place with universities and industries in Paris, Marseille, Limoges, Toulouse. This project is bringing new research collaborations between France and Canada. |
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