Episode 3: Ideas Become Reality

Erik Williams spent one of the wildest days of his early career on a North Slope landfill in negative temps with 30 mph winds, taking his gloves off to connect wires inside a panel box so a sensor could do its job. He tells that story in this episode, and the lesson he took from it is not the one you'd expect.Today, Erik is the CEO and co-founder of BeadedCloud, an Arctic infrastructure monitoring platform built in Anchorage. He's also a UAA grad, founder of the UAA robotics club, Alaska Angel Conference Audience Choice Award winner, and current G Beta Anchorage participant.In this episode of Breaking Frozen Ground, Shelly Thomas sits down with Erik to talk about what it actually looks like to deploy monitoring stations across the North Slope by helicopter, why he had to leave Alaska to start his career and what pulled him back, and the thing he said about ideas becoming reality that neither of us has been able to stop thinking about. 🎙️