Roundtable Discussion: July 21, 2025
David Van Siclen, Project Operations Director
Special Presentation: ICIC’s Manufacturing Accelerator Program
ASME’s MET Apprenticeship Program Overview
Special Presentation: North Central Appalachia’s Manufacturing Future Story Map
Thanks to ReImagine Appalachia’s Wendy Patton and Bikash Gupta for joining this past Monday National Call to describe their excellent work investigating and visualizing North Central Appalachia’s current industrial strengths, and how that ecosystem of support might leverage existing capabilities…
Roundtable Discussion: June 23, 2025
Roundtable Discussion June 16th, 2025
Episode 33: Trust, Place, and the Future of Regional Manufacturing Growth with Chuck Shoopman
In this episode, I sit down with my old friend and longtime collaborator Chuck Shoopman, president of Growth Innovations Group and a leader in Tennessee. We take a trip down memory lane back to our days with E3 and the…
Roundtable Discussion May 19, 2025
Episode 32: Rewiring Investment for Manufacturing and Regional Resilience with Bert Feuss
I had the chance to sit down with Bert Feuss, a longtime leader in mission-driven capital deployment, to unpack what capital access actually means for regional manufacturing communities. Bert helped us understand how philanthropic dollars can go far beyond traditional…
Special Presentation: Live and On-Location with Colorado Manufacturing Stakeholders
We had an excellent visit in Denver this week thanks to our many friends and partners who helped bring the week’s events together. A cadre of Colorado manufacturing leaders hosted us at MSU Denver’s Advanced Manufacturing Sciences Institute for the…