Building Better with Brandon Bartneck

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**Building Better with Brandon Bartneck**

Focused on the people, products, and companies that are creating a better tomorrow, often in the transportation and manufacturing sectors. This show was previously called the Future of Mobility podcast.

I aim to have real, human conversations to explore what these leaders and innovators are doing, why and how they’re doing it, and what we can learn from their experiences. If you care about making an impact then this show might be for you.

Topics include manufacturing, production, assembly, autonomous driving, electric vehicles, hydrogen and fuel cells, impact, leadership, and more.

Latest Episodes:

Special Episode - Realistic Applications for Automated Driving Aug 10, 2020

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In this special episode, I pull insights from Santosh Sankar, Ed Olson, and Chris Borroni-Bird.

Music credit: Slow Burn Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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#13 - Will Creighton | Ford - Early Career Decisions in a Rapidly Changing Industry Aug 03, 2020

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Will Creighton is a Research Engineer for Driver Assist Technologies at Ford Motor Company.

Music credit: Slow Burn Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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#12 - Frantz Saintellemy | LeddarTech - LiDAR Solutions for Automated Driving Jul 27, 2020

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Frantz Saintellemy is President and Chief Operating Officer at LeddarTech, a leader in Solid State LiDAR solutions with its unique and innovative Leddar Engine which comprised of a high performance compatible suite of SoCs and LeddarSP Signal Processing Software technology to enable OEMs and Tiered automotive customers to develop their own high performance, low-cost solid state LiDAR solutions

Music credit: Slow Burn Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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#11 - Santosh Sankar | Dynamo - Seed-stage Investment in Supply Chain & Mobility Jul 20, 2020

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Santosh Sankar is a Founding Partner of Dynamo Ventures, a seed-stage fund focused on founders building startups in supply chain and mobility.

Music credit: Slow Burn Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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#10 - Jackie Birdsall | Fuel Cells! (Toyota) Jul 13, 2020

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Jackie Birdsall is a Senior Engineer in the Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle group of Toyota Motor North America Research and Development, specializing in hydrogen infrastructure, high-pressure hydrogen systems, and associated codes, standards, and regulations.

#9 - Paul Comfort | Future of Public Transportation Jul 06, 2020

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Paul Comfort is a veteran in the transportation industry, previously serving as CEO of the Maryland Transit Administration. He is currently VP of Business Development for the Trapeze Group, host of the Transit Unplugged podcast, and author of “The Future of Public Transportation”

This conversation is quite a change from my typical episodes. We spend some time talking about public transportation and the technology trends impacting the industry, but Paul also supplements that with nuggets from his own life on leadership, communication, and the likes.

Music credit: Slow Burn Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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#8 - Ed Olson | May Mobility - Enabling Better Transportation through Automation Jun 29, 2020

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Ed Olson is Chief Executive Officer and Founder of May Mobility, a mobility startup striving to transform cities through autonomous technology. Ed's involvement in autonomous vehicles started with the original DARPA challenge back in 2007, and he remains a top robotics professor at the University of Michigan.

Ed and I talk about his motivation for starting May Mobility, their unique business model, their role and value proposition for both government and commercial customers, the role of automation in public transportation, and much more.

Music credit: Slow Burn Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Special Episode - Innovation Jun 22, 2020

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In this special episode focused on Innovation, I pull insights from Chris Borroni-Bird, Phil Gott, Brian Van Batavia, and Chris Cowland regarding different aspects of innovation.

Music credit: Slow Burn Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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#7 - Michelle Mueller | Michigan's Connected & Automated Mobility Commitment Jun 15, 2020

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Michele Mueller has spent over 25 years with the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) and currently is Senior Project Manager for Connected and Automated Vehicles at MDOT Michele and I talk about the role of connectivity on future mobility solutions, the ways in which the state of Michigan is thinking about building transportation infrastructure for connected and automated vehicles, the importance of working with cutting edge industry partners to define future technology roadmaps, and much more. Music credit: Slow Burn Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

#6 - Phil Gott | New Technology Introduction & Consumer Behavior Jun 08, 2020

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Phil Gott is an industry veteran who has spent much of his career focused on technology trends and new technology introduction, both from a developmental standpoint as well as a society-driven technology pull perspective. He spent over two decades with IHS.

Phil and I talk about the unique situation we're currently in thanks to the combination of the COVID crisis and accelerated technology growth, Phil's passion for racing, ways in which past technologies have been packaged to improve consumer adoption, and much more.

Music credit: Slow Burn Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License