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Fast, Frugal, Scrappy: How to Find the White Space and Disrupt Established Markets - Rod Copes, Slate Auto

2026-10-2701:02:37

Established companies have scale, capital, infrastructure and decades of experience. Startups have the benefit of fresh thinking and fewer constraints. But disruption and winning in 2026 and beyond doesn't belong to either one. The advantage goes to organizations willing to question assumptions, eliminate complexity and move fast. Slate Auto is disrupting an established market. They're challenging the price and complexity of buying a car. They're redesigning vehicles to be a blank slate (pun ...

Funding, Teachers and Technical Careers: A Conversation About Wisconsin Education - Tom Tiffany, U.S. Congressman

2026-10-2056:16

School funding, teacher pay, CTE, Workforce Pell, competency-based education, technical careers, automation and industry credentials are all part of a changing conversation about education in Wisconsin. In this episode, host Matt Kirchner sits down with Tom Tiffany, U.S. Congressman and candidate for governor of Wisconsin, to discuss how he would approach education and workforce policy at the state level. Tiffany shares his views on education funding and accountability, teacher compensation, ...

Lighter, Stronger Materials are Changing How We Build Everything - Chad Duty, CEO of IACMI

2026-10-1334:43

At IACMI, aerospace companies, material suppliers, startups, universities, and national laboratories gather around the same table, often with the same goal: finding the next composites breakthrough. In this episode of The TechEd Podcast, Matt Kirchner sits down with Chad Duty, CEO of IACMI - The Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation, to explore the materials, technologies, and partnerships shaping the future of advanced manufacturing. Chad explains how composites are bein...

In an Age of Infinite Content, Who Earns Your Trust? - Kerry Gumas, CEO of Gardner Business Media

2026-10-0855:36

In an age where anyone can create content, how do manufacturers (and people in any sector, really) know who to trust? In this episode of The TechEd Podcast, Kerry Gumas, CEO and Executive Vice Chairman of Gardner Business Media, joins Matt Kirchner for a fascinating conversation about trust, expertise, and the future of information in American manufacturing. As content becomes easier to create and AI transforms how people discover information, Kerry argues that trusted expertise is becoming m...

The Making of Artemis II and the Generation That Will the Build Moon Base - Dr. Sharon Cobb, NASA Space Launch System

2026-09-3058:09

For the first time in more than half a century, NASA is preparing to send humans around the Moon, laying the foundation for a sustained lunar presence and the eventual journey to Mars. Just months after the successful completion of Artemis II, Sharon Cobb, Associate Program Manager for NASA's Space Launch System, returns to The TechEd Podcast with a behind-the-scenes look at the engineering, manufacturing, testing, data and emotions that went into the successful Artemis II mission. Sharon sha...

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