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The Techne Connect — 313 episodes

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Marek Plavcan, Co-founder & CBO at Airvolute

2

Paul Ziade, CEO at North Vector Dynamics

3

Amy Miller, Head of Talent & People Ops at Portal Space Systems

4

Kris Moell, Founder and CEO of Frost Unmanned

5

Ethan Barajas, Co-Founder & CEO at Icarus Robotics

6

Raumi Sidki, Director of Robotics at Robust AI

7

Jackson Moses, Founder & Managing Partner at Silent Ventures

8

Joakim Sjöblom, Co-Founder & CEO at Swebal

9

Jackie Teran, Vice President of Software Engineering at Forerunner

10

Kenneth Skorpen, CEO of BlinkTroll Robotics

11

Joshua Heebner, Co-Founder & Head of Growth, Bandelier Technologies

12

Felix Motzki, CTO of Reflex Aerospace

13

Sanal Kamal, Founder & CEO of Photon-IV

14

Madison Feehan, CEO & Founder of Space Copy

15

Pratish Shah, General manager at Aitech systems

16

Bryan Mabry, Partner at New North Ventures

17

Behind the Robot: Brandon Coats, Engineering Leader at Nomagic AI

18

Alex Fink, President & US CEO of Swarmer

19

Darko Filipi, Vice President of Space Systems at Overview Energy

20

Pietro Guerrieri, Chief Executive Officer at Impulso Space

21

Theophile Lagraulet, Co-Founder & CEO at SpaceLocker

22

Christian Eberhardt, Founder & CTO at ARIS Robotics

23

Kevin Lausten, CEO at Morpheus Space

24

The Techne Connect Special: Ampaire, Behind the Vision with Kevin Noertker

25

Tom Yeshurun Founder & CEO of Civ Robotics

26

Ben Williams, Chief Operating Officer / Chief Product Officer at Exyn Technologies

27

Lukas Werling, CEO & Co-Founder of ISP Tech

28

Sumant Sharma, Co-Founder & CEO at EraDrive

29

John Quinn, CEO at Exos Aerospace

30

The Techne Connect Special: Twin Track Ventures, Behind the Capital, with Nicola Sinclair.

31

Christine Matthews, Technology Programme Director at GKN Aerospace

32

The Techne Connect Special: Kraken Technology Group Behind the Mission

33

Ido Genosar, CEO & Co-founder at Verobotics

34

Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom, Co-Founder & CEO of SpaceBase

35

James Cooper, COO at Anatra

36

Ashton Meginnis, Head of Space Systems at AstroForge

37

Nicolas Gaume, Co-Founder & CEO of Space Cargo Unlimited

38

Stanislas Sabatier, R&D Offboard Software Director at Movu Robotics, France

39

Jesús Manuel Muñoz Tejeda, CEO & Co-Founder of PERSEI Space

40

Nicolas Moulin-Fournier, Chief Product Officer at Look Up

41

Benjamin Perez, CEO at Arachnid Systems

42

Brook Leonard, CEO at Rogue Space Systems Corporation

43

Avi Shabtai, CEO at Ramon Space

44

Chip Walter, Managing Director at Marlinspike Partners

45

Ben Cipperley, Chief Strategy Officer at Havoc

46

Rob Alford, Mission Operations & Navy Programs Lead at Havoc

47

Sanjay Ralhan, VP of Airtworthiness & Certification at Atropos Group

48

Enrique Oti, CSO at Second Front Systems

49

Kateryna Portmann, Women in Robotics, Co-Lead

50

Derek Austin, Head of Computer Vision at ZeroMark, Inc

51

Eloa Guillotin, CEO & Co-Founder of Beyond Aero

52

Ken Macken, CEO & Founder of Workr

53

Csaba Hartmann, Robotics Leader

54

Max Hjalmarsson, CEO at Airpelago

55

Pierre Bi, Founder & CEO at enshift

56

Brad King, CEO at Orbion Space Technology

57

Ben Gliwa, VP of Engineering & Asset Management at Bulk Infrastructure

58

Allen McAfee, CTO, VP of Engineering & Technology at Fuse Integration

59

David Liu, Director of Engineering, Robotics at AeroVironment

60

Deepak Jayaraj, VP of Hardware & Manufacturing at Four Growers

61

Xu She, Senior Director of Engineering at Lunar Energy

62

Woodie Neiss, General Managing Partner at D3VC.ai

63

Marie-Elisabeth Makohl, CEO & Founder of SEAL Robotics

64

The Techne Connect Special: Platform Aerospace, Behind the Flight

65

Julian Hoffmann, Co-Founder of Sitegeist

66

Soroush Karimzadeh, Co-Founder & CEO of Novarc Technologies

67

Martin Heriaud, Head of Racing Tech Development at Nissan Formula E Team

68

Bentzion Levinson, Founder & CEO of Heven Aerotech

69

Theo Nash, CEO at Mundane

70

Mark Bjornsgaard, Founder & Chief Innovation Officer of Deep Green

71

Mark Bjornsgaard, Founder & Chief Innovation Officer of Deep Green

72

Kraettli Epperson, CEO & Co-Founder of Vigilant Aerospace Systems

73

Tad Mielnicki, Founder & CEO at Larx

74

Roman Ilyushin, Technology Leader in Robotic Fleet Infrastructure

75

Willem-Jan Lamers, CEO & Founder of Ambyon

76

The Techne Connect Special: Tamarack Global, Behind the Capital

77

Tony Rios, Vice President of Navigation Engineering at ANELLO Photonics

78

Martin Turco, Senior AI Engineer at Affineon Health

79

John Malsbury, Co-Founder & CEO at AnySignal

80

Gabe Andrews, Vice President of Operations at Nautilus Data

81

Tom Beyerl, Director of Product at Chariot Defense

82

The Techne Connect Special: Space Forge, Behind the Orbit

83

Marc Ausman, VP of Sales & Support at Electra.aero

84

Kevin Noertker, CEO & Co-Founder of Ampaire

85

Cindy Comer, VP Certification Safety Management System and Quality at Wisk

86

Thomas Forner, CEO & Co-Founder of Focused Energy

87

Aleksey Matyushev, CEO & Co-Founder of Natilus

88

Hui Du, Co-Founder & CTO of Ampcera

89

Philip Hover-Smoot, CEO at Atlas Cup

90

Dustin Hicks, Head of Growth at Aurelius Systems

91

Henry Yu, Founding Software Engineer at Sunday

92

Fabien Lepoutre, VP of Engineering at NoFence

93

Julie Newman, Vice president of Engineering at Outpost

94

Alex Wust, Co-Founder & CEO of Wargdrones

95

Vinaey Kalyan, Director at Rivian

96

Kevin Stadnyk, Co-Founder & CEO of Obruta

97

Puneeth Kalavase, Technology Leader in the Clean Energy Transition

98

Stuart Landesberg, Founder and CEO of Seneca

99

Rob DeMillo, CEO & Co-Founder of Sophia Space

100

Daniel Li, Clean Technology Manufacturing Executive

101

Andy Blatchford, VP of Engineering at AV

102

Niall McGrath, CEO at Robocean

103

Zamiyad Dar, Senior Director Energy Storage at Pivot Energy

104

Andrew Rush, Co-Founder and CEO of Star Catcher

105

Andrew Chang, Junior Partner & COO at Rsquared

106

The Techne Connect Special: Soda Auto, Behind the Wheel

107

Erik Daehler, Senior VP Sierra Space Defense at Sierra Space

108

Nico Perrin, Founder of PERRINN 424

109

Tyler Bouchard, CEO and Co-Founder at Flexxbotics

110

Laurence Allen, CEO at Terranova

111

The Techne Connect Special: Williams Grand Prix Technologies, Behind the Wheel

112

Lucy Edge, Space Industry Executive

113

Lesya Hendrix, Founder and CEO of Spacer Robotics

114

Hossein Dehghani, Chief Technology Officer at Human in Motion Robotics Inc.

115

Fabien Expert, Chief Technical Officer at Wandercraft

116

KC Kroll, Director of Civil Programs at EarthDaily

117

Armin Shahsavari, COO & Co-Founder of KELO Robotics GmbH

118

The Techne Connect Special: Ocado, Behind the Robot

119

Tracy Simek, Chief People Officer at Locus Robotics

120

David Fischel, Chairman & CEO at Stereotaxis

121

Aldus von der Burg, Founder and CEO at Meili Robots

122

Gary Paffett, Racing Director at CUPRA KIRO

123

Matt Trossen, Founder and CEO of Trossen Robotics

124

Jamie Palmer, CTO and Co-Founder of Icarus Robotics

125

Margherita Cardi, VP of Programs and Business Development at Tyvak International, Turin, Italy

126

Paolo Pino, Chief Technology Officer at Volta Space Technologies

127

Dominic Perez, Chief Technology Officer at Curtiss-Wright Corporation

128

Mike Lawton, Director & Co-Founder of Oxford Dynamics

129

Victor Mayoral Vilches, Chief Scientific Officer & Founder of Alias Robotics

130

Robert Blank, VP of Product and Growth at Lucid Bots

131

Quintin Jones, VP and Head of Spire North America at Spire

132

Todd Hughes, Chief Innovation Officer at Scientific Systems

133

Ewan Baldry, Chief Engineer at Czinger Vehicles

134

Ally Stone, Chief Strategy Officer at Reflect Orbital

135

Nathan Mintz, CEO and Co-Founder of CX2

136

Paolo Pucci, Head of Motion Control Systems and Software

137

The Techne Connect Special: Longbow, Behind the Speedster

138

Chris Savoia, Global Head of UR+ Ecosystem at Universal Robots

139

Jeremiah Pate, Founder and CTO at Lunasonde

140

Jeremy Fix, Chief Eningeer at ispace-U.S.

141

Eric Zaremski, Director of Technical Operations at Fort Robotics

142

Sid Shaikh, Chief Technology Officer at Fieldwork Robotics

143

Kevin Kleber, Co-Founder of SUIND

144

Deepa Ramaswamy, Chief Engineer at Ford

145

Dan Scheuer, Director of Engineering, Space at General Atomics

146

Chris Jannette, President and CEO at BlackStar Orbital

147

Jonathan Andree, Technical Director at Galvion

148

Werner Koestler, Executive Officer at Pioneer Electronics

149

Anshuman Kumar, Head of Hardware at Matic Robots

150

Rishabh Aggarwal, CTO at Raise Robotics

151

Youssef Demitri, VP of Engineering at Wingtra

152

Jim Castelaz, Founder and CEO of Arcticar

153

Paul Mikesell, Founder and CEO of Carbon Robotics

154

Parsa Bahktiari, Co-Founder of Feather Robotics

155

Brent Bradbury, VP of Software at Stoke Space

156

Carl Dietrich, Founder & President of Jump Aero

157

Morten Skov, Co-founder and CTO at Skypuzzler

158

Bibhrajit Halder, Founder of SafeAI Inc.

159

Jason Kline, Head of Design at Humanoid

160

Andreas Bihlmaier, Director of Solutions Engineering at Intrinsic

161

Sarah Walter & Tom Sloan

162

Dr. Hakan Sandquist, Director of Strategy and CEO Office at InfiMotion Technology

163

Chad McCoy, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Firestorm

164

Alex Clark, Head of Innovation at Allen Control Systems

165

Tom Einar Jensen, Co-Founder at Edge

166

Isabella Oksama, Head of People GIM Robotics

167

Firas Abi-Farraj, CTO of Robotic Manipulation at Enchanted Tools

168

Dr. Guglielmo Gemignani, Head of Robotic Integration at Magazino

169

James Roach, VP of Mission Engineering at Turion Space

170

The Techne Connect Special: Lotus, Behind the Evija

171

Arthur Erickson, CEO and co-founder of Hylio

172

Ahsan Qamar, Software Defined Vehicle Expert, Senior Manager Systems Engineering Integration and Test

173

Vesna Casalotti, co-founder of Proxima Consulting

174

Julian Fletcher, Technological Development Manager at Great Western Railway

175

Rafael Hostettler, Founder & CEO at Devanthro - the Robody Company

176

Kevin Smith, Chief Engineer at Orbit Fab

177

Nicolas Rabault, CTO & Co-Founder at General Robotics

178

Bernat Carreras, Founder & CEO of BOLD

179

Sebastian Clauss, VP Software at STARK

180

Jens Groot, Chief Engineer Battery System at Polestar

181

Salimzhan Gafurov, Director of Advanced Research & Technology at Verne

182

Brennand Pierce, Founder & CEO of Kinisi Robotics

183

Dr. Robert Mackenzie, Deep Tech Executive

184

Sean Ackley, VP of Energy & Infrastructure at Einride

185

Ricardo Garcia, Software Manager at Continental Automotive (soon to be AUMOVIO)

186

Sebastian Moitzheim, CTO at Powall

187

Prateek Mehta, Acceleration Lead at Mitra Chem

188

Richard LeCain, CTO at UKBIC

189

Andre Gronke, Head of Global Engineering at Farasis Energy

190

Jason Coon, Founder & Principal Consultant

191

Gorazd Gotovac, CTO of Elaphe

192

Yateendra Deshpande, Co-Founder at Conifer

193

Dennis Yu, Director of Hardware & Systems Engineering at Liminal Insights Inc.

194

Daniel Evans, Former Senior Manager of Research and Development

195

Ninni Hed, Senior Manager, Software & Electronics at BorgWarner Inc.

196

Aamir Iqbal Waidha, Head of Research & Development at theion

197

Xavier Kohll, CTO & Co-Founder at Circu Li-ion

198

Thomas Maull, Principal Product Manager - Innovation & Enabling Tech at Elysia

199

Dan Whittaker, Director of WBE Consulting Ltd.

200

Paolo Bargiacchi, Director of Electrification at Motion Applied (formerly McLaren Applied)

201

Thomas Blazak, Chief Engineer at Proterra

202

Behind the Entrepreneur: Niclas Lehnert, Co Founder at PULSETRAIN

203

Behind the Power: Neeta Khare, Battery and Fuel cell Product Executive

204

Behind the Power: Timothy O'sullivan, Head of Development at Petalite

205

Behind the Power: Adam Schulz, Senior Manager of Energy Storage Engineering at Clearway Energy

206

Behind the Power: Didier Manning, CTO Power Systems at Rheinmetall

207

Behind the Power: Jan Richter, CEO and Co Founder at Batemo

208

Behind the Power: Ben Gully, Chief Technologist at SPOC Grid Inverter Technologies

209

Behind the Wheel: Vance Strader, Former CTO at LiveWire | Former Chief Engineer at Harley-Davidson

210

Behind the Power: Filip Hes, Co-founder and CEO of Delta Capacity

211

Behind the Power: John Alper, Principal Technologist at VoltStorage

212

Behind the Power: Chris Hauxwell, General Manager at EEvolution Battery Systems

213

Behind the Power: Jeffrey Glasson, Chief Technology Officer at TWAICE

214

Behind the Power: Sarath Nair, Chief Engineer - Head of Powertrain Electrification and Software at Changan

215

Behind the Power: Lisa Åkerlund, CTO and Technical Strategist at Rivus Batteries

216

Behind the Power: Nick Grundish, VP of Battery Technology at Energy X

217

Behind the Power: Fredrik Fürst, Manager for ESS Functions and BMS at Volvo Group

218

Behind the Wheel: Matrishvan Raval, Head of Product at Turntide Technologies

219

Behind the Wheel: Ahmed AbuTabl, Engineering Director and Head of Global Software Engineering for Body Control at Forvia Hella

220

Behind the Wheel: Karim Mansour, Autonomous Driving Expert and Technical Director at NXP Semiconductors

221

Behind the Wheel: Luca Stronati, Head of Software Release, Integration, Safety Whole Vehicle at Automobili Lamborghini

222

Behind the Power: Maithri Venkat, Manager for Battery Cell Engineering at Lucid Motors

223

Behind the Wheel: Christine Thelesklaf, Vice President of Engineering at Bosch USA

224

Behind the Wheel: Sugandar Swetharanyam, Senior Director of Engineering at DXC Technology

225

Behind the Yoke: Tahsin Kart, the CTO at CycloTech

226

Behind the Wheel: Dominique Van Baelen, Cluster Leader for Functional Design at Stellantis e-Transmissions.

227

Behind the Power: Henrik Lundgren, Chief Technology Officer at Capture Energy

228

Behind the Wheel: Prasanth Gowravajhala, Senior Manager for Software Defined Vehicles at MHP – A Porsche Company

229

Behind the Wheel: Gabriel Manole, the Delivery Director and Country Manager at Endego

230

Behind the Wheel: Constantin Popoiu, Requirements Engineer at emotion3D

231

Behind the Wheel: Hans-Lothar Pasch, the CTO at IPETRONIK

232

Behind the Power: Mina Naguib, Battery Systems Team Lead at Electra Vehicles

233

Behind the Power: Ulrika Tornerefelt, Founder, CEO, and Board Member of STELLA Futura

234

Behind the Wheel: Roberto Diesel, Vice President of Energy Systems and Drivetrain at EDAG Group

235

Behind the Wheel: Plato Pathrose, the founder of PTS Creative

236

Behind the Yoke: Olaf Otto, the President of Rolls-Royce Electrical

237

Behind the Wheel: Ziad Moussa, the Engineering Manager for eBike Systems at Brompton Bicycles

238

Behind the Wheel: Calin Herciu, Founder & Expert Consultant at Xpertrack Engineering Solutions

239

Behind the wheel: Frank Einig, the Technical Director for Global Brake Control Design at ZF Group

240

Behind the Wheel: Sergio Scabar the Product Cybersecurity Manager at ZF Race Engineering

241

Behind the Wheel: Annika Gerk, the Head of Safety at Kopernikus Automotive

242

Behind the Power: Barbara Panella, Global Division Technology Manager Distribution Solutions at ABB

243

Behind the Wheel: Eduardo Buján Team Coordinator at Audi AG

244

Behind the Wheel: Matt Lewis the Head of Architecture & Diagnostics at Aston Martin Lagonda

245

Behind the Battery: Florian Turke the Head of Cell Test, System, and Simulation at Skeleton Technologies

246

Behind the wheel: Dr Alkiviadis Boulos the Director of Engineering for BRUSA Elektronik

247

Behind the Wheel: Frank Kindermann, the Head of Battery Systems at the Europe branch of NIO

248

Behind the Power: Tudi Le Bleis, the Battery Management System Team leader at INVENOX

249

Behind the Power: Alfred Engler, the Head of Chief Engineering at Liebherr-Electronics and Drives GmbH

250

Behind the Power: Mike Kireev, the Engineering Manager for Smart Charging at EVBox

251

Behind the Wheel: Stefano Marconi, the Head of Powertrain Controls at Bugatti-Rimac

252

Behind the Wheel: Joachim Fox, the director of Safety and Cybersecurity at ZF Group

253

Behind the Wheel: Andrew Johnston, Director of Quality, Functional Safety and Cybersecurity (Acting) at Imagination Technologies

254

Behind the Wheel: Yike Fang, the Vehicle Cybersecurity Manager at Verne

255

Behind the Yoke: Eray Canli, the Engineering Manager at Volocopter GmbH

256

Behind the wheel: Matus Rakoci, the ePowerTrain Senior Manager at GarrettMotion

257

Behind the Wheel: Stephan Prufling, the Product Manager at AVL Software and Functions GmbH.

258

Behind the wheel: Lorena Ugarte, the Chief System Engineer at eVersum

259

Behind the wheel: Alexander Gechis, Head of perception at Kopernikus Automotive

260

Behind the Wheel: Hector Montemayor Ayala the Head of ADAS and AD at Iveco Group

261

Behind the Wheel: Davide Montosi the Director of Software & Electronics Technology at Aston Martin

262

Behind the wheel: Andrea Croce the Electrical Engineering Manager at Rimac Energy

263

Behind the wheel: Alexander Freiburg the Chief Engineer for System Capability at GKN Automotive

264

Behind the wheel: Narcisa Madaras the head of global software house at Forvia Hella Timisoara

265

Behind the Wheel: Andreas Heim the VP of Engineering - Automotive at Flex

266

Behind the Wheel: Aj Verma the Deputy Head of Powertrain & Advanced Systems at Lilium

267

Behind the Wheel: Graham Martin, Development Director at Delta Cosworth

268

Behind the Wheel: Victor Moynot, team leader in power electronic design at SEG Automotive

269

Behind the Wheel: Camilla Johannesson, Engineering Manager at Sigma Connectivity

270

Behind the Wheel: Kiran Devlukia, Global Head Electrical & Electronic Integration CoE at Tata Technologies

271

Behind the Wheel: Nitish Sundarasan, Head of Connected Cockpit, Automobili Pininfarina

272

Behind the Wheel: Dr Fabio Dohr, On-site Head of Platform Portfolio Electric Vehicle Drives, ZF Group

273

Behind the Wheel: Axel Bååthe, Head of the Rainforest

274

Behind the Wheel: Robert Nash, Chief Technology Officer, Petalite

275

Behind the Wheel: Paul Exley, ETAS

276

Behind the Wheel: Fredrik Haag, Head of Business Development eMobility, hofer powertrain

277

Behind the Wheel: Mike Soumelidis, Director Advanced Engineering, GKN Automotive

278

Behind the Wheel: Andrea Mariotti, VP Engineering, Faction Technology Inc.

279

Behind the Wheel: Fredrik Haag, Hofer Powertrain

280

Behind the Wheel: Rafal Dorociak, FORVIA Hella

281

Behind the Wheel: Bogdan Racotea, SMART Engineering & Development

282

Behind the Yoke: Stéphane Viala, Ascendance Flight Technologies

283

Behind the Wheel: Raúl Bartolomé, Harman International

284

Behind the Wheel: Arshan Khan, CNH Industrial

285

Behind the Wheel: Murat Erdogan, Magna Electronics

286

Behind the Wheel: Sebastian Sheppard, Alphine F1

287

Behind the Wheel: Steffen Irmscher, Bosch

288

Behind the Wheel: Marin Vidas, RIMAC

289

Behind the Wheel: Irmtraut Meister, Magna

290

Behind the Wheel: Raghavendra Satyanarayan, Nikola

291

Behind the Wheel: Boris Baskevitch, Audi Formula Racing GmbH

292

Behind the Wheel: Dr. Hariharan Venkitachalam, Iveco

293

Behind the Wheel: Andy Williamson, Helix

294

Behind the Wheel: Hans-Leo Ross, Vay

295

Behind the Wheel: Wilfried Horn, GKN Automotive

296

Behind the Wheel: Jerome Dern, Valeo

297

Behind the Chip: Darren Galpin, SiFive

298

Behind the Wheel: Martin Rosler, LEONI

299

Behind the Wheel: Shantanu Sarkar, Aptiv

300

Behind the Wheel: Paul Newton, Tata Technologies

301

Behind the Wheel: Selin Tur, CNH Industrial

302

Behind the Wheel: Roberto Silva, Delta Electronics

303

Behind the Wheel: Simon Duke, Saietta

304

Behind the Wheel: Ronnie Aquino, APTIV

305

Behind the Wheel: Stephen Lambert, McLaren Applied

306

Behind the Wheel: Dario Bignamini, REE

307

Behind the Wheel: Vishal Lalwani, INEOS

308

Behind the Wheel: Wolfgang Freese, APTIV

309

Behind the Wheel: Grant Smith, Volta Trucks

310

Behind the Wheel: Luca Martinengo, Triumph Motorcycles

311

Behind the Wheel: Ruaraidh McDonald-Walker, McLaren Applied

312

Behind the Wheel: Jamie Wardlaw, Lucid Motors

313

Behind the Wheel: David Romić, Rimac