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Sep 29, 2017

Recorded at Intelligent Automation in Chicago, Kelly Switt joins us as a native Chicagoan who was always a bit of an activist. She’s been told that her nickname is Mako Shark due to the fact that she’s always moving. Kelly was running the six sigma lean group for Citi of course consistently looking at how to improve...


Sep 29, 2017

Allan Martinson joins us and discusses customer driven robotics. Originally submitted into a NASA contest, a former Skype co-founder and a team of Estonian engineers built the original technology. After some initial trepidation, Allen, a venture capitalist at the time, came on to advise the project as he bought into the...


Sep 22, 2017

Frank Kuenel joins us and recalls his move from Germany to the US. His only knowledge of the US was from movies and television- In his words- Kojak for the east coast, John Wayne for everything in between and Streets of San Francisco for the west. He excelled in science and mathematics early on in his life which made...


Sep 22, 2017

Stig Peterson joins us and shares what he’s doing with automation. He notes that he started as most do- with a proof of concept. He took the initiative to do it and tested technology to understand how it could work in Topdanmark’s environment. Stig quickly saw success, so much so that he established a team which...


Sep 15, 2017

With a specialty in Business Process Re-egineering Alex Balbontin joins us from OPEX Financial Services. He notes that these are exciting times as myriad new technologies are introduced to support operational excellence moving to the next level. A GE alum, Alex became a master blackbelt in  six sigma in the mid 90s....