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Optimistic Outlook — 121 episodes

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AI, Jobs and American Competitiveness: A Senator's Optimistic Outlook

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The Transatlantic Cable That Changed America

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When Sustainability Becomes Strategy: How AI, Decarbonization, and Resilience Are Good for Business

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Fleet Electrification at Scale: What the EV Slowdown Debate Gets Wrong

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In Five: Microgrids Explained - How Siemens Turned One Factory Carbon Neutral

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AI in Healthcare and Manufacturing: Why Adoption Is the Real Problem

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In Five: Inside Siemens' $1 Billion Investment in U.S. Manufacturing

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In Five: The Hidden Health Challenge Inside Buildings

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From Rockets to Affordable Housing: The Startup Leader Disrupting Construction

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From Refugee Camp to Eight-Figure Founder

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In Five: Powering AI and the $165 Million Investment In American Manufacturing

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The Sustainability Trap: Why Investment Is Rising but Impact Isn't

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In Five: The Missing Piece of the AI Future - And Where It's Being Built Today

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From Risk to Readiness: How Climate Resilience Is Reshaping Business Decisions

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In Five: The Electrician Shortage—and a Coalition to Close the Gap

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Full Speed Ahead: How High-Speed Rail and AI Are Transforming America's Infrastructure

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In Five: Solving AI’s Energy Problem

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The Industrial AI Revolution: How AI Becomes a Force in the Physical World

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AI for the Physical World: The Industrial Sector’s 2026 Tech Outlook

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Are We Ready for the AI Boom? Deploying Trustworthy AI Across the Economy

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Powering Opportunity: Expanding Access to Electrical Careers

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Retooling the American Dream

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An Accidental Manufacturing Leader

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Women Leading the Future of Manufacturing

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An Optimistic Farewell: Barbara Humpton on Podcasting and Serving as Siemens USA CEO

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From Shipyards to Smart Homes: Hyperscaling Sustainability

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Transforming Workforce Potential: Reskilling for the Jobs of Tomorrow

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A Balanced Vision for Regulating AI and the Path Ahead for American Manufacturing

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Real-World Readiness: How This University Is Reimagining Higher Education

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AI Can’t Replace This One Skill

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The Halfway Point: Checking in on America’s Industrial AI Revolution

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Megatrends Shaping Tech: How a Futurist Sees the World

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The Overlooked Key to Revitalizing American Manufacturing

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The Tech Partnerships Transforming Manufacturing

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Starting America’s Engines: Keys to a Golden Age of Manufacturing

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AI for Real: Empowering American Workers, Transforming Manufacturing

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AI at Work: Rebuilding America’s Manufacturing Edge

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Powering the Future: Why Electricians are More In-Demand Than Ever Before

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Unlocking Tomorrow’s Talent: Why Youth Apprenticeships Matter Now

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Laddering Up: The Secrets to Success for Building a Skilled Workforce

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Little Grid, Big Impact: The Clean Energy Shift Changing Factories

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Copilots for Running Machines? GenAI Mindset and New Industrial Tech Jobs

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Fizzing Forward: Michelle DeFeo on Laurent-Perrier’s Sustainable Champagne Revolution

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Pioneering the Industrial Tech Sector: Insights from CES 2025

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Year-End Predictions: The Tech Trends Shaping 2025

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Techlanta 2024: Mayor Dickens on Building a Top Tech City

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The Hidden Truth About Renewable Energy

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America's Clean Tech Revolution? Bill Gates Says It's Already Here

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From Smartphones to Smart Factories

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The State of Sustainability: Insights from Climate Week NYC 2024

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Smart People Podcast: Guy Kawasaki on How Steve Jobs Taught Remarkable Thinking

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Busting Myths About Manufacturing Careers

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Navigating the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Transforming American Manufacturing

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Encore: Brewing Innovations - Tapping Into Sustainable Beer Production

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Net-Zero Now: Making Sustainability Good for Business

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Insights: The Search for Big Ideas in Sustainability

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Encore: Charting a Path to Decline Greenhouse Gasses

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The overlooked solution to scaling clean power

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From Alternative to Mainstream: How Renewables Support Energy Sustainability and Security

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What I Learned from the Worst Day of My Career

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Encore: Navigating Tomorrow - Glocalization and the Future of Technology

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How Do Companies Successfully Transform? Lessons Learned from Building a More Sustainable, Innovative Company

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Cultivating Courage: Building Resilient Teams for Innovative Futures

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Cracking the Code: AI's Double-Edged Sword in Cybersecurity

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Powering Up: Surprising Ways AI and Clean Energy Are Supercharging Our Grid's Makeover

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How Is Industrial AI Expanding Human Capabilities?

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3D Printing Unleashed: Digital Threads of an Industrial Future

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Level Up: The Video Game Ideas Fueling Your Next Breakthrough

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What's Driving the New Industrial Revolution?

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Optimistic Insights: The Unexpected Resurgence of American Manufacturing

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Gen Z and the power of multigenerational teams

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COP28 and the keys to accelerating climate solutions

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ARPA-I and the path to greener, safer transportation

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Green Radiology and decarbonizing healthcare

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Sustainable beer brewing and scaling climate solutions

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The real purpose of industrial automation

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How to optimize for change

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Cracking the code: How to transform industry and infrastructure

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A turning point for the electric grid

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Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: What’s next?

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The power of psychological safety

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A model microgrid in Bronzeville

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Climate action: how to achieve ‘drawdown’

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Accelerating America’s electric future

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Platform Revolution

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Reversing infrastructure’s legacy of inequality

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United Airlines CEO on sustainable aviation

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Barbara with President Biden

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Inside a new EV charging breakthrough

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Supply Chain Part 2: What is trusted traceability?

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Supply Chain Part 1: Solving the chips shortage

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The brainwaves behind better leadership

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Intro to 2022 season

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Growth Mindset with TED Speaker Eduardo Briceño

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Inside COP26 and Infrastructure Bill Signing

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359,000+ open cybersecurity jobs: How to build a workforce

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Reimagining the supply chain

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How to start a manufacturing career: Factory leader shares his experience

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Why are there 800,000+ open manufacturing jobs?

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Additive manufacturing and its world-changing potential

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Congresswoman Blunt Rochester on opening back better

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What falling ill during COVID-19 taught me about leadership

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The Case for Clean Air

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Part 3: The technology to reopen education

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Part 2: The technology to reopen education

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Why the pandemic has changed how we build things

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Part 1: The technology to reopen education

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Moving even faster to the cloud

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How do we reopen America?

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Keep Moving: An interview with Maggie Smith

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The infrastructure cities need

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Why we shouldn’t be afraid of crisis

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How will we move in 2045?

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Looking Back at United for Infrastructure 2020

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How to reinvent the power grid

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Leading a resilience shift

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The next big thing for America’s infrastructure

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How do we scale electric mobility?

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Can indoor spaces adapt to COVID-19?

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The factory of the future

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A connected world we can trust