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Allen, Joel, Rosemary, and Yolanda break down the TPI Composites bankruptcy fallout. Vestas is acquiring TPI’s Mexico and India operations while a UAE company picks up the Turkish factories. That leaves GE in a tough spot with no clear path to blade manufacturing. Plus the crew discusses blade scarcity, FSA availability floors, and whether a new blade manufacturer could emerge. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard’s StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes’ YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Allen Hall: [00:00:00] Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I’m your host, Allen Hall. I’ve got Yolanda Padron and Joel Saxum in Texas. And Rosemary Barnes is back from her long Vacation in Australia and TPI. Composites is big in the news this week, everybody, because they’re in bankruptcy hearings and they are selling off parts of the business. Vestas is, at least according to News Reports positioned to acquire. A couple of the LLCs down in Mexico. So there’s uh, two of them, TPI in Mexico, five LLC, and TPI in Mexico, six LLC. There are other LLCs, of course involved with this down in Mexico. So they’re buying, not sure exactly what the assets are, but probably a couple of the factories in which their blades were being manufactured in. Uh, this. Is occurring because Vestas stepped in. They were trying to have an auction and Vestas stepped forward and just ended up buying these two LLCs. [00:01:00] Other things that are happening here, Joel, is that, uh, TPI evidently sold their Turkish division. Do you recall to who they sold? That, uh, part of the Joel Saxum: business too, two companies involved in that, that were TPI Turkey, uh, and that was bought by a company called XCS composites. Uh, and they are out of the United Arab Emirates, so I believe they’re either going to be Abu Dhabi or Dubai based. Uh, but they took over the tube wind blade manufacturing plants in Isme, uh, also a field service and inspection repair business. And around 2,700 employees, uh, from the Turkish operation. So that happened just, just after, I mean, it was a couple weeks after the bankruptcy claim, uh, went through here in August, uh, in the States. So it went August bankruptcy for TPI, September, all the Turkish operations were bought and now we’ve got Vestas swooping in and uh, taking a bunch of the Mexican operations. Allen Hall: Right. And [00:02:00] Vestas is also taking TPI composites India. Which is a part of the business that is not in bankruptcy, uh, that’s a, a separate business, a separate, basically LLC incorporation Over in India, the Vestus is going to acquire, so they’re gonna acquire three separate things in this transaction. The question everybody’s asking today after seeing this Vestus move is, what is GE doing? Because, uh, GE Renova has a lot of blades manufactured by TPI down in Mexico. No word on that. And you would think if, if TPI is auctioning off assets that GE renova would be at the front of the line, but that’s not what we’re hearing on the ground. Joel Saxum: Yeah, I mean it’s, the interesting part of this thing is for Vestas, TPI was about 35% of their blade capacity for manufacturing in 2024. If their 30, if, if Vestas was 35%, then GE had to be 50%. There [00:03:00] demand 60. So Vesta is making a really smart move here by basically saying, uh, we’ve gotta lock down our supply chain for blades. We gotta do something. So we need to do this. GE is gonna be the odd man out because, I mean, I think it would be a, a cold day in Denmark if Vestas was gonna manufacture blades for ge. Allen Hall: Will the sale price that Vest has paid for this asset show up in the bankruptcy? Hearings or disclosures? I think that it would, I haven’t seen it yet, but eventually it’ll, it must show up, right? All, all the bankruptcy hearings and transactions are, they have an overseer essentially, what happens to, so TPI can’t purchase or sell anything without an, um, getting approved by the courts, so that’ll eventually be disclosed. Uh, the Turkish sale will be, I would assume, would be disclosed. Also really curious to see what the asset value. Was for those factories. Joel Saxum: So the Turkish sale is actually public knowledge right now, and [00:04:00] that is, lemme get the number here to make sure I get it right. 92.9 million Euros. Uh, but of, of course TPI laden with a bunch of non-convertible and convertible debt. So a ton of that money went right down to debt. Uh, but to be able to purchase that. They had to assu, uh, XCS composites in Turkey, had to assume debt as is, uh, under the bankruptcy kind of proceedings. So I would assume that Vestas is gonna have to do the same thing, is assume the debt as is to take these assets over and, uh, and assets. We don’t know what it is yet. We don’t know if it’s employees, if it’s operations, if it’s ip, if it’s just factories. We don’t know what’s all involved in it. Um, but like you said, because. TPI being a publicly traded company in the United States, they have to file all this stuff with SEC. Allen Hall: Well, they’ll, they’re be delisted off of. Was it, they were Joel Saxum: in Nasdaq? Is that where they were listed? The India stuff that could be private. You may ne we may not ever hear about what happened. Valuation there. Allen Hall: Okay, so what is the, the [00:05:00] future then for wind blade production? ’cause TPI was doing a substantial part of it for the world. I mean, outside of China, it’s TPI. And LM a little bit, right? LM didn’t have the capacity, I don’t think TPI that TPI does or did. It puts Joel Saxum: specifically GE in a tight spot, right? Because GEs, most of their blades were if it was built to spec or built to print. Built to spec was designed, uh, by LM and built by lm. But now LM as we have seen in the past months year, has basically relinquished themselves of all of their good engineering, uh, and ability to iterate going forward. So that’s kind of like dwindling to an end. TPI also a big side of who makes blades for ge if Vestas is gonna own the majority of their capacity, Vestas isn’t gonna make blades for ge. So GEs going to be looking at what can we, what can we still build with lm? And then you have the kind of the, the odd ducks there. You have the Aris, [00:06:00] you have the MFG, um, I mean Sonoma is out there. This XCS factory is there still in Turkey. Um, you may see some new players pop up. Uh, I don’t know. Um, we’ll see. I mean, uh, Rosemary, what’s, what’s your take? Uh, you guys are starting to really ramp up down in Australia right now and are gonna be in the need of blades in general with this kind of shakeup. Rosemary Barnes: What do we say? My main concern is. Around the service of the blades that we’ve already got. Um, and when I talk to people that I know at LM or XLM, my understanding is that those parts of the organization are still mostly intact. So I actually don’t expect any big changes there. Not to say that the status quo. Good enough. It’s not like, like every single OEM whose, um, FSAs that I work with, uh, support is never good enough. But, um, [00:07:00] it shouldn’t get any worse anyway. And then for upcoming projects, yeah, I, I don’t know. I mean, I guess it’s gonna be on a case by case basis. Uh, I mean, it always was when you got a new, a new project, you need a whole bunch of blades. It was always a matter of figuring out which factory they were going to come from and if they had capacity. It’ll be the same. It’s just that then instead of, you know, half a dozen factories to choose from, there’s like, what, like one or two. So, um, yeah, I, that’s, that’s my expectation of what’s gonna happen. I presumably ge aren’t selling turbines that they have no capability to make blades for. Um, so I, I guess they’re just gonna have a lot less sales. That’s the only real way I can make it work. Allen Hall: GE has never run a Blade factory by themselves. They’ve always had LM or somebody do it, uh, down in Brazil or TPI in Mexico or wherever. Uh, are we thinking that GE Renova is not gonna run a Blade Factory? Is that the thought, or, or is [00:08:00] that’s not in the cards either. Rosemary Barnes: I don’t think it’s that easy to just, just start running a Blade Factory. I mean, I know that GE had blade design capabilities. I used to design the blades that TPI would make. So, um, that part of it. Sure. Um, they can, they can still do that, but it’s not, yeah, it’s, it’s not like you just buy a Blade factory and like press start on the factory and then the, you know, production line just starts off and blades come out the other end. Like there is a lot of a, a lot of knowhow needed if that was something that they wanted to do. That should have been what they started doing from day one after they bought lm. You know, that was the opportunity that they had to become, you know, a Blade factory owner. They could have started to, you know, make, um, have GE. Take up full ownership of the, the blade factories and how that all worked. But instead, they kept on operating like pretty autonomously without that many [00:09:00] changes at the factory level. Like if they were to now say, oh, you know, hey, it’s, uh, we really want to. Have our own blade factories and make blades. It’s just like, what the hell were you doing for the last, was it like seven years or something? Like you, you could easily have done what? And now you haven’t made it as hard for yourselves as possible. So like I’m not ruling out that that’s what they’re gonna try and do, because like I said, I don’t think it’s been like executed well, but. My God, it’s like even stupid of the whole situation. If that’s where we end up with them now scrambling to build from scratch blade, um, manufacturing capability because there’s Yolanda Padron: already a blade scarcity, right? Like at least in the us I don’t know if you guys are seeing it in, in Australia as well, but there’s a blade scarcity for these GE blades, right? So you’re, they kind of put themselves in an even more tough spot by just now. You, you don’t have access to a lot of these TPI factories written in theory. From what we’re seeing. You mean to get like replacement blades? Yeah. So like for, for issues? Yeah. New [00:10:00] construction issues under FSA, that, Rosemary Barnes: yeah. I mean, we’ve always waited a, a long time for new blades. Like it’s never great. If you need a new blade, you’re always gonna be waiting six months, maybe 12 months. So that’s always been the case, but now we are seeing delays of that. Maybe, maybe sometimes longer, but also it’s like, oh well. We can’t replace, like, for like, you’re gonna be getting a, a different kind of blade. Um, that will work. Um, but you know, so that is fine, except for that, that means you can’t do a single blade replacement anymore. Now, what should have been a single blade replacement might be a full set replacement. And so it does start to really, um, yeah. Mess things up and like, yeah, it’s covered by the FSA, like that’s on them to buy the three blades instead of one, but. It does matter because, you know, if they’re losing money on, um, managing your wind farm, then it, it is gonna lead to worse outcomes for you because, you know, they’re gonna have to skimp and scrape where they [00:11:00] can to, you know, like, um, minimize their losses. So I, I don’t think it’s, it’s, it’s Yolanda Padron: not great. Yeah. And if you’re running a wind farm, you have other stakeholders too, right? It’s not like you’re running it just for yourself. So having all that downtime from towers down for a year. Because you can’t get blades on your site. Like it’s just really not great. Rosemary Barnes: Yeah, and I mean, there’s flaws on there. Like they’ve got an availability guarantee. Then, you know, below that they do have to, um, pay for that, those losses. But there’s a flaw on that. So once you know, you, you blast through the floor of your availability, then you know, that is on the owner. Now it’s not on the, um, service provider. So it’s definitely. Something that, yeah, there’s lots of things where you might think, oh, I don’t have to worry about my blades ’cause I’ve got an F, SA, but you know, that’s just one example where, okay, you will, you will start worrying if they, they yeah. Fall through the floor of their availability guarantee. Joel Saxum: Two questions that pop up in my mind from this one, the first one, the first one is [00:12:00] directly from Alan. You and I did a webinar, we do so many of ’em yesterday, and it was about, it was in the nor in North America, ferc, so. They have new icing readiness, uh, reporting you, so, so basically like if you’re on the, if you’re connected to the grid, you’re a wind farm or solar farm and you have an icing event, you need to explain to them why you had an outage, um, and why, what you’re doing about it. Or if you’re not doing something about it, you have to justify it. You have to do all these things to say. Hey, some electrons weren’t flowing into the grid. There’s certain levels. It’s much more complicated than this, but electrons weren’t flowing into the grid because of an issue. We now have to report to FERC about this. So is there a stage when a FERC or uh, some other regulatory agency starts stepping into the wind industry saying like, someone’s gotta secure a supply chain here. ’cause they’re already looking at things when electrons are on the grid. Someone’s got a secure supply chain here so we can ensure that [00:13:00]these electrons are gonna get on the grid. Could, can something like that happen or was, I mean, I mean, of course that’s, to me, in my opinion, that’s a lot of governmental overreach, but could we see that start to come down the line like, Hey, we see from an agency’s perspective, we see some problems here. What are you doing to shore this up? Allen Hall: Oh, totally. Right. I, I think the industry in general has an issue. This is not an OEM specific problem. At the minute, if this is a industry-wide problem, there seems to be more dispersed. Manufacturers are gonna be popping up. And when we were in Scotland, uh, we learned a lot more about that. Right, Joel? So the industry has more diversification. I, I, here’s, here’s my concern at the minute, so. For all these blade manufacturers that we would otherwise know off the top of our heads. Right. Uh, lm, TPI, uh, Aris down in Brazil. The Vestus manufacturing facilities, the Siemens manufacturing [00:14:00] facilities. Right. You, you’re, you’re in this place where. You know, everybody’s kind of connected up the chain, uh, to a large OEM and all this made sense. You know, who was rebuilding your blades next year and the year down, two years down the road. Today you don’t, so you don’t know who owns that company. You don’t know how the manager’s gonna respond. Are you negotiating with a company that you can trust’s? Gonna be there in two or three years because you may have to wait that long to get blades delivered. I don’t know. I think that it, it put a lot of investment, uh, companies in a real quandary of whether they wanna proceed or not based upon the, what they is, what they would perceive to be the stability of these blade companies. That’s what I would think. I, I, Vestas is probably the best suited at the minute, besides Siemens. You know, Vestas is probably best suited to have the most perceived reliability capability. Control, Joel Saxum: but they have their own [00:15:00] blade factories already, right? So if they buy the TPI ones, they’re just kind of like they can do some copy pasting to get the the things in place. And to be honest with you, Vesta right now makes the best blades out there, in my opinion, least amount of serial defects. Remove one, remove one big issue from the last couple Allen Hall: years. But I think all the OEMs have problems. It’s a question of how widely known those problems are. I, I don’t think it’s that. I think the, the, the. When you talk to operators and, and they do a lot of shopping on wind turbines, what they’ll tell you generally is vestus is about somewhere around 20% higher in terms of cost to purchase a turbine from them. And Vestus is gonna put on a, a full service agreement of some sort that’s gonna run roughly 30 years. So there’s a lot of overhead that comes with buying a, a Vestas turbine. Yes. You, you get the quality. Yes. You get the name. Yes, you get the full service agreement, which you may or [00:16:00] may not really want over time. Uh, that’s a huge decision. But as pieces are being removed from the board of what you can possibly do, there’s it, it’s getting narrow or narrow by the minute. So it, it’s either a vestus in, in today’s world, like right today, I think we should talk about this, but it’s either Vestus or Nordic. Those are the two that are being decided upon. Mostly by a lot of the operators today. Joel Saxum: That’s true. We’re, and we just saw Nordex, just inked a one gigawatt deal with Alliant Energy, uh, just last week. And that’s new because Alliant has traditionally been a GE buyer. Right. They have five or six ge, two X wind farms in the, in the middle of the United States, and now they’ve secured a deal with Nordex for a gigawatt. Same thing we saw up at Hydro Quebec. Right. Vestas and Nordex are the only ones that qualify for that big, and that’s supposed to be like a 10 gigawatt tender over time. Right. But the, so it brings me to my, I guess my other question, I was thinking about this be [00:17:00] after the FERC thing was, does do, will we see a new blade manufacturer Allen Hall: pop Joel Saxum: up? Allen Hall: No, I don’t think you see a new one. I think you see an acquisition, uh, a transfer of assets to somebody else to run it, but that is really insecure. I, I always think when you’re buying distressed assets and you think you’re gonna run it better than the next guy that. Is rare in industry to do that. Think about the times you’ve seen that happen and it doesn’t work out probably more than 75% of the time. It doesn’t work out. It lasts a year or two or three, and they had the same problems they had when the original company was there. You got the same people inside the same building, building the same product, what do you think is magically gonna change? Right? You have this culture problem or a a already established culture, you’re not likely to change that unless you’re willing to fire, you know, a third of the staff to, to make changes. I don’t see anybody here doing that at the minute because. Finding wind blade technicians, manufacturing people is [00:18:00] extremely hard to do, to find people that are qualified. So you don’t wanna lose them. Joel Saxum: So this is why I say, this is why I pose the question, because in my mind, in in recent wind history, the perfect storm for a new blade manufacturer is happening right now. And the, and the why I say this is there is good engineers on the streets available. Now washing them of their old bad habits and the cultures and those things, that’s a monumental task. That’s not possible. Allen Hall: Rosemary worked at a large blade manufacturer and it has a culture to it. That culture really didn’t change even after they were acquired by a large OEM. The culture basically Rosemary Barnes: remained, they bizarrely didn’t try and change that culture, like they didn’t try to make it a GE company so that it wasn’t dur, it was wasn’t durable. You know, they, they could have. Used that as a shortcut to gaining, um, blade manufacturing capabilities and they didn’t. And that was a, I think it was a choice. I don’t think it’s an inevitability. It’s never easy to go in and change a, a culture, [00:19:00] but it is possible to at least, you know, get parts of it. Um, the, the knowledge should, you should be able to transfer and then get rid of the old culture once you’ve done that, you know, like, uh. Yeah, like you, you bring it in and suck out all the good stuff and spit out the rest. They didn’t do that. Joel Saxum: The opportunity here is, is that you’ve got a, you’ve got people, there’s gonna be a shortage of blade capacity, right? So if you are, if you are going to start up a blade manufacturing facility, you, if you’re clever enough, you may be able to get the backlog of a bunch of orders to get running without having to try to figure it out as you go. Yolanda Padron: I feel like I’d almost make the case that like the blade repair versus replace gap or the business cases is getting larger and larger now, right? So I feel like there’s more of a market for like some sort of holistic maintenance team to come in and say, Hey, I know this OEM hasn’t been taking care of your blades really well, but here are these retrofits that have proven to be [00:20:00]to work on your blades and solve these issues and we’ll get you up and running. Rosemary Barnes: We are seeing more and more of of that. The thing that makes it hard for that to be a really great solution is that they don’t have the information that they need. They have to reverse engineer everything, and that is. Very challenging because like you can reverse engineer what a blade is, but it doesn’t mean that, you know, um, exactly like, because a, the blade that you end up with is not an optimized blade in every location, right? There’s some parts that are overbuilt and um, sometimes some parts that are underbuilt, which gives you, um, you know, serial issues. But, so reverse engineering isn’t necessarily gonna make it safe, and so that does mean that yeah, like anyone coming in with a really big, significant repair that doesn’t go through the OEM, it’s a, it’s a risk. It, it’s always a risk that they have, you know, like there’s certain repairs where you can reverse engineer enough to know that you’re safe. But any really big [00:21:00] one, um, or anything that involves multiple components, um, is. Is a bit of a gamble if it doesn’t go through the OEM. Joel Saxum: No, but so between, I guess between the comments there, Yolanda and Rosemary, are we then entering the the golden age of opportunity for in independent engineering experts? Rosemary Barnes: I believe so. I’m staking, staking my whole business on it. Allen Hall: I think you have to be careful here, everybody, because the problem is gonna be Chinese blade manufacturers. If you wanna try to establish yourself as a blade manufacturer and you’re taking an existing factory, say, say you bought a TPI factory in Turkey or somewhere, and you thought, okay, I, I know how to do this better than everybody else. That could be totally true. However, the OEMs are not committed to buying blades from you and your competition isn’t the Blade Factory in Denmark or in Colorado or North Dakota, or in Mexico or Canada, Spain, wherever your competition is when, [00:22:00] uh, the OEM says, I can buy these blades for 20 to 30% less money in China, and that’s what you’re gonna be held as, as a standard. That is what’s gonna kill most of these things with a 25% tariff on top. Right? Exactly. But still they’re still bringing Joel Saxum: blades in. That’s why I’m saying a local blade manufacturer, Rosemary Barnes: I think it’s less the case. That everyone thinks about China, although maybe a little bit unconventional opinion a about China, they certainly can manufacture blades with, uh, as good a quality as anyone. I mean, obviously all of the, um, Danish, uh, American manufacturers have factories in China that are putting out excellent quality blades. So I’m not trying to say that they dunno how to make a good blade, but with their. New designs, you know, and the really cheap ones. There’s a couple of, um, there’s a couple of reasons for that that mean that I don’t think that it just slots really well into just replacing all of the rest of the world’s, um, wind turbines. The first is that there are a lot of [00:23:00] subsidies in China. Surely there can only continue so long as their economy is strong. You know, like if their economy slows down, like to what extent are they gonna be able to continue to, um, continue with these subsidies? I would be a little bit nervous about buying an asset that I needed support for the next 30 years from a company like. That ecosystem. Then the other thing is that, um, that development, they move really fast because they take some shortcuts. There’s no judgment there. In fact, from a develop product development point of view, that is absolutely the best way to move really fast and get to a really good product fast. It will be pervasive all the way through every aspect of it. Um, non-Chinese companies are just working to a different standard, which slows them down. But also means that along the way, like I would be much happier with a half developed, um, product from a non-Chinese manufacturer than a half developed product from a Chinese manufacturer. The end point, like if China can keep on going long enough with this, [00:24:00] you know, like just really move fast, make bold decisions, learn everything you can. If they can continue with that long enough to get to a mature product, then absolutely they will just smash the rest of the world to pieces. So for me, it’s a matter of, um, does their economy stay strong enough to support that level of, uh, competition? Allen Hall: Well, no, that’s a really good take. It’s an engineering take, and I think the decision is made in the procurement offices of the OEMs and when they start looking at the numbers and trying to determine profitability. That extra 20% savings they can get on blades made in China comes into play quite often. This is why they’re having such a large discussion about Chinese manufacturers coming into the eu. More broadly is the the Vestas and the Siemens CAAs and even the GE Re Novas. No, it’s big time trouble because the cost structure is lower. It just is, and I. [00:25:00] As much as I would love to see Vestas and Siemens and GE Renova compete on a global stage, they can’t at the moment. That’s evident. I don’t think it’s a great time to be opening any new Blade Factory. If you’re not an already established company, it’s gonna be extremely difficult. Wind Energy O and M Australia is back February 17th and 18th at Melbourne’s Pullman on the park. Which is a great hotel. We built this year’s agenda directly from the conversations we’ve had in 2025 and tackling serial defects, insurance pressures, blade repairs, and the operational challenges that keeps everybody up at night around the world. So we have two days of technical sessions, interactive roundtables and networking that actually moves the industry for. Forward. And if you’re interested in attending this, you need to go to WMA 2020 six.com. It’s WOMA 2020 six.com. Rosemary, a lot of, uh, great events gonna happen at. W 2026. Why don’t [00:26:00] you give us a little highlight. Parlet iss gonna be there. Rosemary Barnes: Parlow is gonna be there. I mean, a highlight for me is always getting together with the, the group. And also, I mean, I just really love the size of the event that uh, every single person who’s there is interested in the same types of things that you are interested in. So the highlight for me is, uh, the conversations that I don’t know that I’m gonna have yet. So looking forward to that. But we are also. Making sure that we’ve got a really great program. We’ve got a good mix of Australian speakers and a few people bringing international experience as well. There’s also a few side events that are being organized, like there’s an operators only forum, which unfortunately none of us will be able to enter because we’re not operators, but that is gonna be really great for. For all of them to be able to get together and talk about issues that they have with no, nobody else in the room. So if, if you are an operator and you’re not aware of that, then get in touch and we’ll pass on your details to make sure you can join. Um, yeah, and people just, you know, [00:27:00] taking the opportunities to catch up with clients, you know, for paddle load. Most or all of our clients are, are gonna be there. So it is nice to get off Zoom and um, yeah, actually sit face to face and discuss things in person. So definitely encourage everyone to try and arrange those sorts of things while they’re there. Joel Saxum: You know, one of the things I think is really important about this event is that, uh, we’re, we’re continuing the conversation from last year, but a piece of feedback last year was. Fantastic job with the conversation and helping people with o and m issues and giving us things we can take back and actually integrate into our operations right away. But then a week or two or three weeks after the event, we had those things, but the conversation stopped. So this year we’re putting some things in place. One of ’em being like Rosemary was talking about the private operator forum. Where there’s a couple of operators that have actually taken the reins with this thing and they wanna put this, they wanna make this group a thing where they’re want to have quarterly meetings and they want to continue this conversation and knowledge share and boost that whole Australian market in the wind [00:28:00]side up right? Rising waters floats all boats, and we’re gonna really take that to the next level this year at Allen Hall: WMA down in Melbourne. That’s why I need a register now at Wilma 2020 six.com because the industry needs solutions. Speeches. That wraps up another episode of the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. Thanks for joining us. We appreciate all the feedback and support we received from the wind industry. If today’s discussion sparked any questions or ideas, we’d love to hear from you. Just reach out to us on LinkedIn and please don’t forget to subscribe so you’d never miss an episode. For Joel Rosemary and Yolanda, I’m Allen Hall. We’ll catch you next week on the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast.

Diplômé de l'École nationale de l'humour en 2013, David Beaucage a d'abord fait sa marque comme auteur et script-éditeur pour Katherine Levac, pour qui il a aussi assuré la première partie en tournée du spectacle Velours. Créateur et concepteur prolifique, il a initié et joué dans de nombreux spectacles-concepts lancés à Zoofest (Champagne Maywest, Un beau programme, La soirée du hockey). En 2016, il est finaliste du concours En Route vers mon premier gala Juste pour Rire et à l'été 2017, il présente Échapper le gâteau, un premier spectacle solo. Alliant stand-up, sketchs, chansons et variétés, il exploite sur scène ses multiples talents, qui permettent de découvrir son humour unique.David Beaucage produit et anime son propre balado, Drette sul' tape, dans lequel il mène de grandes entrevues avec des personnalités reliées de près ou de loin à l'univers du hockey. À l'écran, il a décroché des rôles dans des sketchs dans Like-moi, la websérie Le Killing et le court-métrage Tony Speed.Le ver d'oreille de confinement BFF à distance lui a fait remporter, avec son complice Pierre-Yves Roy-Desmarais, son premier Olivier dans la catégorie Capsule ou sketch web humoristique de l'année en 2021. Il a récemment ajouté une nouvelle statuette dans sa bibliothèque en remportant l'Olivier d'auteur de l'année/spectacle d'humour, aux côtés de Pierre-Yves Roy-Desmarais et Alexandre Forrest pour Jokes chapeau maman magie piano, de Pierre-Yves Roy-Desmarais.C'est à l'automne 2024 que David fait sa grande annonce publique: il présente son premier one-man show Super normal un peu partout au Québec.Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/laprescript...Facebook : / 100078674880976 Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

SAMEDI 13 DÉCEMBRE 2025Lisa et Benjamin Gayraud - Château Lamartine (Sud-Ouest)Au cœur de l'appellation Cahors, le Château Lamartine est un domaine familial depuis quatre générations. Lise et Benjamin Gayraud y produisent des vins francs et équilibrés, fidèles à l'esprit du Malbec, sur 37 ha de vignes certifiées biologiques. Alliant tradition et modernité, le domaine s'impose comme une référence incontournable du terroir Cahors.Patrice de Bortoli - Château Moutte Blanc (Bordeaux)Niché à Macau, près de Margaux, le Château Moutte Blanc est un domaine familial où passion et patience façonnent chaque vigne. Patrice de Bortoli, guidé par l'expertise de l'œnologue Jacques Boissenot, fait du Petit Verdot l'un des piliers de l'identité du domaine.Sur 5,5 ha et quatre appellations, chaque parcelle est travaillée à la main pour révéler l'âme du vin dans le respect de la terre.Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

DIMANCHE 07 DÉCEMBRE 2025Francis Ingrand - Château Capion (Languedoc)Au cœur des Terrasses du Larzac, le Château Capion conjugue histoire, nature et passion du vin sur 49 ha de vignes certifiées biologiques. Sous la direction de Francis Ingrand et Sandrine Tannière, le domaine élabore des cuvées élégantes et expressives tout en offrant des visites et événements immersifs.Véronique Hombroekx - Baron Philippe de RothschildAu cœur de Pauillac, Baron Philippe de Rothschild incarne l'excellence bordelaise avec des domaines prestigieux comme le Château Mouton Rothschild et la marque Mouton Cadet. Alliant tradition familiale et innovation, la maison produit des vins emblématiques présents dans près de 120 pays.Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

What happens when your workplace values aren't just posted on the wall, but actually shape how people lead, teach, and show up every day?In this inspiring conversation, Cheryl Broom talks with Andy Vaughn, President & CEO of Alliant University, about what it takes to build a campus culture of authenticity, inclusion, and mental wellness from the inside out.Andy shares his personal journey as a leader in higher ed, how Alliant's impact values were created by faculty and staff, and why that grassroots approach matters. The discussion also explores the mental health challenges facing today's students, staff, and leaders, and how Alliant's community clinics and telehealth services are making care more accessible across California.What you'll learn:The surprising 100-year history behind Alliant's inclusivity rootsWhy codifying values with your team builds trust and accountabilityHow to support faculty and staff mental health without burning them outWhy vulnerability is one of the most underrated leadership traitsHow Alliant's low-cost clinics provide real-world experience and real supportIf you're in San Diego or LA County, visit alliantclinics.org for information on low-cost mental health services. Learn more about Alliant University at alliant.edu.Thanks for listening!Connect with GradComm:Instagram: @gradcommunicationsFacebook: @GradCommunicationsLinkedIn: @gradcommSend us a message: GradComm.com

Are humanoid robots going to decide which countries get rich and which fall behind?Probably yes.In this TechFirst, I talk with Dr. Robert Ambrose, former head of one of NASA's first humanoid robot teams and now chairman of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence at Alliant. We dig into the future of humanoids, how fast they are really advancing, and what it means if China wins the humanoid race before the United States and other western nations.We start with NASA's early humanoid work, including telepresence robots on the space station that people could literally “step into” with VR in the 1990s. Then we zoom out to what counts as a robot, why bipedal mobility matters so much, how humanoids will move from factories into homes, and why the critical photo of the robot revolution might be taken in Beijing instead of Times Square.Along the way, Ambrose shares how US policy once helped avoid losing robotics leadership to Japan, why the National Robotics Initiative mattered, what the drone war in Ukraine is doing to autonomy, and how small and medium businesses can survive and thrive in a humanoid and AI agent world.In this episode:• NASA's first generations of humanoid robots and “stepping into” a robot body• Why humanoids make sense in a world built for human hands, height, and motion• The design tension between purpose built machines and general purpose humanoids• How biped mobility went from blooper reels to marathon running in a decade• Why a humanoid should not cost more than a car, and what happens when it does not• Humanoids as the next car or PC, and when families will buy their own “Rosie”• China, the US, and where the defining photo of the robot century gets taken• How government investment, DARPA challenges, and wars shape robotics• Alliant's work with physical robots, soft bots, and AI agents for real businesses• Why robots are not future overlords and why “they will take all our jobs” is lazy thinkingIf you are interested in humanoid robots, AI agents, manufacturing, or the future of work and geopolitics, this one is for you.Subscribe for more deep dives on AI, robots, and the tech shaping our future!00:00 Intro, will China eat America's lunch in humanoid robotics01:18 NASA's early humanoids, generations of robots and VR telepresence03:00 “Stepping into the robot” moment and designing for astronaut tools05:10 Human built environments, half humanoids, and weird lower body experiments07:00 Safety, cobots, and working around people at NASA and General Motors12:15 What is a robot, really, and why Ambrose has a very big tent definition16:00 Single purpose machines vs general purpose robots, Roombas, elevators, and vending machines18:30 The next “lurch” in robotics, from industrial arms to Mars rovers to drones22:40 Biped mobility, from blooper reel to marathon runner, and why legs matter24:10 Cars, Roombas, and why most robots will never get in and out of a car25:20 Parking between cars, robot garages, and rethinking buildings for mobile vehicles28:00 Geopolitics 101, China's manufacturing backbone and humanoids as almost free labor31:05 Cars and PCs as precedents, when price and reliability unlock mass adoption34:00 When families buy their own “Rosie” and what value a home humanoid must deliver37:00 Times Square vs Beijing, who gets the iconic photo of the robot transition43:00 How the US almost lost robotics to Japan and what the National Robotics Initiative did48:00 DARPA, Mars rovers, the drone war in Ukraine, and why government investment matters52:00 Alliant, soft bots, AI agents, and helping small and medium businesses adapt54:00 Who is building humanoids in the US, China, and beyond right now56:00 What governments should do next and why robots are not our overlords

Hello, c'est Lauren. Aujourd'hui, je vous fais découvrir la rencontre entre la romancière Rose Vidal et le psychiatre et neuroscientifique Boris Chaumette pour le podcast Des Ailes aux Talents, notre partenaire.Médecin psychiatre à l'hôpital Sainte-Anne et chercheur à l'Institut de psychiatrie et de neurosciences de Paris, Boris Chaumette explore les bases génétiques de la schizophrénie. Alliant rigueur scientifique et humanité, il œuvre à déstigmatiser la maladie mentale et à replacer le patient au cœur du soin, faisant dialoguer science, éthique et poésie.Ceci est un épisode de la nouvelle saison du podcast "Des Ailes aux talents" que la Fondation Bettencourt Schueller consacre à la science : des échanges inédits entre auteurs et scientifiques pour penser autrement la recherche.Bonne écoute !

If you're ready to unlock the blueprint for explosive growth and transformative leadership, this conversation is for you. Dhaval Jadav, CEO of alliantgroup, shares insights into adapting and scaling a business in today's fast-paced, disruptive world. From AI discovery and business innovations to talent and tax strategies, Dhaval has succeeded in building an integrated consultancy firm to help businesses overcome blind spots and thrive.  In this episode, Dhaval dives into the power of investing in people, cultivating a transparent culture, and staying ahead of the competition with cutting-edge technology. He also offers practical advice on navigating the challenges of growth and change, and how CEOs can lead their businesses into the future with resilience and innovation. Here are some highlights: -Scaling with a Focus on People: Dhaval discusses how investing in and empowering his team has been the key to alliantgroup's rapid growth from 2 to over 2,500 employees. -Building a Culture of Transparency: Learn how alliantgroup's roundtable approach allows for open communication, where the best ideas win, no matter the title. -Embracing Disruption: Dhaval explains why businesses must disrupt themselves to stay relevant and how alliant uses technology like AI to stay competitive. -Managing Change in Growth: Scaling a business requires a solid change management plan. Dhaval shares strategies for helping employees adapt as the company evolves. -Future-Proofing the Workforce: With AI and digital workers on the rise, Dhaval offers insights on how to balance human talent with technology for a thriving, adaptable workforce. About the guest: Dhaval Jadav is the co-founder and CEO of alliantgroup. Under Jadav's leadership, the firm has empowered 24,000+ companies in 70+ industries with actionable business solutions. Prior to founding alliant, Jadav developed his expertise in high-tech business deals as a member of a Mergers & Acquisitions/Private Equity/Strategic Buyer Services Group in San Francisco and honed his business operations acumen with Deloitte & Touche in its Washington National Office. Connect with Dhaval: Website: https://www.alliantgroup.com/  LinkedIn: Dhaval Jadav | LinkedIn Connect with Allison: Feedspot has named Disruptive CEO Nation as one of the Top 25 CEO Podcasts on the web, and it is ranked the number 6 CEO podcast to listen to in 2025! https://podcasts.feedspot.com/ceo_podcasts/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisonsummerschicago/  Website: https://www.disruptiveceonation.com/   #CEO #leadership #startup #founder #business #businesspodcast  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

durée : 00:00:50 - France Travail et l'ASTT de Terrasson, se mobilisent pour l'organisation d'un événement, alliant sport et recrutement. - Demain jeudi 9 octobre à Terrasson, le tennis de table se met au service des demandeurs d'emploi et des entreprises ! Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les autres épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France.

Suicide and mental health challenges remain critical yet often overlooked issues in the construction industry, with suicide rates significantly higher than in other professions. Join Eli Mendoza and John Murphy, Alliant Construction, as they discuss the factors driving this crisis, recent statistics and how to overcome the stigma surrounding mental health in construction. Their conversation explores prevention and post-prevention strategies, available resources and how Alliant works alongside clients to raise awareness and implement meaningful support programs.

Brian Friel, co-founder of BD Squared, joins Off the Shelf, for a wide-ranging discussion of the state of interagency contracting in the new federal market. Friel provides an update on the GWAC landscape, including updates on NASA SEWP, CIO-SP4, Alliant 3, and Polaris and he talks about the consolidation of procurement operations at the General Services Administration (GSA) including the update FAR Part 8 rewrite establishing a hierarchy of contract vehicles.Friel also addresses GSA's Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) program, giving his thoughts on the new ordering procedures, the role of Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs) and the prospects for accelerated growth in use of the program. Finally, Brian explains how companies can position themselves to compete in a rapidly changing federal market. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

durée : 00:01:50 - Les 80'' - par : Nicolas Demorand - Adam Rapp, scénariste et romancier états-unien, publie "À la table des loups", l'histoire de toute une vie des années 50 à 2010. Elle s'avère être une fiction autobiographique, y compris cette histoire de tueur. Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les autres épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France.

40% of California's licensed doctoral psychologists come from one university that nearly failed a decade ago. Their turnaround didn't come from diversifying programs or chasing enrollment—it came from making the hardest decision in higher ed: cutting what wasn't excellent. In this episode of the Changing Higher Ed® podcast, Dr. Drumm McNaughton speaks with Andy Vaughn, President and CEO of Alliant International University, about how institutional leaders can drive university transformation by making tough calls, realigning programs, and embedding scalable mental health support into their core operations. Drawing from Alliant's strategic shift, Vaughn explains why program focus and transparent leadership are more effective than traditional diversification models. He shares how embedding mental health services into academic programs created both a market advantage and a support system for students, faculty, and staff. Topics Covered: Why eliminating underperforming programs can drive institutional transformation How program realignment strengthens financial stability and market positioning Embedding scalable mental health services into academic programs and operations The leadership imperative: transparency, inclusion, and decisive action Codifying organizational values to guide behavior and decision-making Managing faculty-administration relations with professionalism and respect Preparing for unprecedented policy and legislative changes impacting higher ed Real-World Examples Discussed: Alliant International University's strategic focus on licensure-driven programs The integration of Alliant Clinics, providing community mental health services Leadership communication practices to maintain trust during operational changes Partnering with psychology schools for scalable mental health service delivery Three Key Takeaways for Leadership: Codify and normalize institutional values so that decision-making and behaviors align across all levels. Be transparent with stakeholders about challenges and solutions, fostering trust and shared ownership of outcomes. Involve the entire institution—including part-time staff—in transformation efforts to ensure unified execution during critical periods. This episode offers a practical framework for institutional leaders navigating transformation, operational challenges, and the rising demand for campus-wide mental health support. Recommended For: Presidents, trustees, provosts, CFOs, student affairs leaders, and higher education executives focused on institutional sustainability and student success. Read the transcript: https://changinghighered.com/university-transformation-program-focus-scalable-mental-health/   #UniversityTransformation #HigherEdLeadership #MentalHealthSupport #ProgramRealignment #HigherEducationPodcast

In this podcast episode, we'll talk about how Bilt is going cardless (but with more cards). We'll see how Etihad is making unfavorable decisions, vying for our Bonvoyed of the year "award", and we'll talk about which credit card is the best for all kinds of travel expenses (since the Chase Sapphire Reserve® Card might night make sense for non-flight, non-hotel travel expenses anymore.) Giant Mailbag(01:16) - "In a recent episode, Greg and Nick talked about checking flights you already have booked to see if the [award] price has gone down..."Find our free checked bags via credit card resource here.Card News(07:01) - Citi Strata Elite to be launched in the third quarter of 2025(08:14) - Bilt switching from Wells Fargo to Cardless next year; adding two premium cardsBonvoyed(11:06) - Alliant cashback card changes to flat 1.6% everywhere on 9/1(12:15) - Etihad makes award changes & cancellations even more confusing and punitiveRead more about Etihad adding award fare buckets and increasing change fees here.Awards, Points, and More(17:06) - Greg easily booked a Preferred Hotel with points transferred from CitiMain Event: Our next "all travel" card(21:11) - Chase Sapphire Reserve® Card 3x grandfathered until Oct 26. Airlines, hotels, motels, timeshares, car rental agencies, cruise lines, travel agencies, discount travel sites, campgrounds and operators of passenger trains, buses, taxis, limousines, ferries, toll bridges and highways, and parking lots and garages...(23:26) - So what should our broad travel card be now? Here's what we're looking for...(24:13) - What about Chase's other cards?(27:45) - Travel cards that didn't make the cut due to narrow definition of travel(29:35) - Travel cards that almost made the cut(31:49) - Broad "Travel" definition cards(42:36) - What's our pick?Question of the Week(48:32) - What's the best strategy to go about closing cards with the intention of opening new ones? This listener offers the Chase Ink Business Unlimited® Credit Card as an example. Read our complete guide to credit card application rules here.Subscribe and FollowVisit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don't forget to like and follow us on social media.Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder

The first half of 2025 marked a shift in the financial institutions' risk landscape, driven by regulatory rollbacks, growing digital asset exposures and a surge in claims activity. Join Ron Borys and Ryan Farnsworth, Alliant Financial Institutions, as they discuss how these changes are influencing market behavior, insurer appetite and underwriting strategy. They also outline key considerations for renewals and explain how Alliant supports clients with strategic planning, analytics and claims advocacy in a rapidly evolving environment.

Nordex USA has reopened its wind turbine plant in Iowa, while Alliant Energy plans to add up to one gigawatt of wind generation in the state. GE Vernova's 18 megawatt turbine has been approved for testing and the UK has greenlit the 1.5 gigawatt Mona Offshore Wind Farm. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Good news for Iowa's clean energy sector. Nordex USA celebrated the reopening of its wind turbine plant in West Branch, Iowa on Tuesday. The plant now employs more than one hundred workers. They're producing the company's first U.S.-made turbines. Manav Sharma is Nordex's North American C.E.O. He says the company is committed to Iowa for the long term. The plant had been closed since twenty thirteen. Nordex bought the facility in twenty sixteen and spent months retrofitting it. The plant will produce parts for five-megawatt turbines. Production capacity is planned to exceed two point five gigawatts annually. The reopening comes despite federal debates about renewable energy tax credits. Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds noted that sixty six percent of Iowa's power comes from renewable energy. That's the highest percentage in the US. Alliant Energy also has big plans for wind power in Iowa. The company filed a plan with the Iowa Utilities Commission to add up to one gigwatt of wind generation. Mayuri Farlinger is president of Alliant's Iowa energy company. She says expanding wind energy will help them deliver reliable and cost-effective power to customers. Alliant plans to own and operate the new wind projects. The company expects the projects to create construction jobs and provide payments to landowners. They'll also generate new tax revenue for counties where the turbines are built. The Iowa Utilities Commission is expected to make a decision in the first quarter of twenty twenty six. Norway is testing the one of world's biggest wind turbine. Norwegian regulator N.V.E. approved GE Vernova subsidiary Georgine Wind plans for an eighteen-megawatt turbine in the municipality of Gulen. NVE says this is the largest wind turbine ever approved in Norway. It's also the first to be licensed inside an existing industrial area. The turbine will have a rotor diameter of up to two hundred fifty meters. The maximum tip height will be two hundred seventy five meters. The turbine will undergo testing for five years before switching to standard commercial operation for another twenty five years. The United Kingdom has approved its largest Irish Sea wind farm. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband granted planning consent for the Mona offshore wind farm. The project is owned by B.P. and EnBW. It will feature ninety six turbines off northwest England. The one point five gigawatt project could power more than one million homes with clean energy. It's expected to begin production between twenty twenty eight and twenty twenty nine. Miliband says this shows the government is backing builders, not blockers. B.P. and EnBW are also waiting for approval of a neighboring wind farm called Morgan. That decision is due by September tenth. The developers have been paying option fees of one hundred fifty four thousand pounds per megawatt per year since January twenty twenty three. Richard Sandford is B.P.'s Vice President of Offshore Wind. He says this approval brings them closer to delivering large-scale, low-carbon energy critical to the U.K.'s net zero goals. That's this week's top news story. Join us tomorrow for the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast.

DIMANCHE 22 JUIN 2025Daniel-Etienne Defaix - Domaine Daniel-Etienne Defaix (Bourgogne)Depuis quatre siècles, la famille Defaix cultive avec passion 28 hectares de Chardonnay sur les terroirs kimméridgiens du Chablisien. Alliant héritage monastique et vinifications soignées, le domaine offre des vins profonds et racés, de la fraîcheur des Vieilles Vignes aux Grands Crus d'exception. Le Domaine Defaix incarne l'élégance et la puissance authentique de Chablis.Antoine Leccia - AdviniAdVini, maison viticole familiale depuis six générations, allie tradition et innovation au service d'une viticulture durable et respectueuse de l'environnement. Engagée pour la biodiversité et la santé des sols, elle cultive l'excellence avec des pratiques écologiques innovantes. Présente dans plus de 110 pays, AdVini incarne passion, exigence et modernité depuis 1872.Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Welcome to our 200th episode! Our guest in this episode is Dr Robert Ambrose, Texas A&M professor and Chairman of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence at Alliant. In this conversation, Dr. Rob Ambrose discusses his extensive experience in robotics and artificial intelligence, particularly during his time at NASA. He highlights the evolution of robotics in space exploration, the transition to commercial applications, and the importance of education in fostering the next generation of engineers. Dr. Ambrose emphasizes the need for the U.S. to regain its leadership in robotics amidst growing competition from countries like China, and he advocates for a proactive approach to innovation and automation in various industries. We take a walk down memory lane and recap some of our favorite moments on the show from the last five years. Steve Crowe, Gene Demaitre, and Mike Oitzman talk through some stats from the show over 200 episodes. We also want to thank our special guests on this episode who stopped by for a quick message, including Jonathan Hurst, Aaron Prather, Kevin Lawton, Victor Splittgerber, and Joe Wieciek. And thanks to all of our fans of the show. We love meeting you at shows. Please like, follow/subscribe, and leave a review. The best way to help us grow is to share the show with a colleague.

With cyber threats growing more sophisticated, NIST has overhauled its incident response guidance to help organizations better prepare, respond and recover. Join Jay Stampfl, David Finz and Grace Michael, Alliant Cyber, as they explore the NIST Special Publication 800-61 Revision 3 and its link to the updated Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0. They explore the expanded role of incident response, the new “govern” function and the shift toward continuous improvement. The team also explains how these changes affect cyber insurance underwriting and how Alliant helps clients stay ahead through planning, tabletop exercises and risk-focused engagement.

We're coming to you LIVE from Riskworld 2025! Join Jason Reichl on Risk Management: Brick by Brick as he sits down with David Finz, Senior Vice President at Alliant Insurance Services, to discuss the cyber threats costing businesses millions right now. From the $20 million voice phishing scam in Hong Kong to the everyday email that could drain your bank account, David reveals how criminals are using AI to impersonate executives and why your current defenses might not be enough. Don't miss this eye-opening conversation about the scams happening today and the practical steps that could save your company tomorrow!

Andrea Wells from Insurance Journal reports from RIMS RISKWORLD 2025, where she speaks with Pete Kranz, SVP, Director of Risk Finance (ART) and Strategic Solutions at Alliant. They … Read More » The post RIMS RISKWORLD 2025: Pete Kranz on ART Solutions, Construction Risk Financing, and Shifting from Traditional Transfer appeared first on Insurance Journal TV.

SAMEDI 03 MAI 2025Fréderic Mairesse - Champage Barons de Rothschild (Champagne)Fondée en 2005 par les Rothschild, la Maison de Champagne Barons de Rothschild incarne l'excellence et l'art de vivre raffiné. Avec plus de 70 % de Chardonnay provenant des meilleurs crus de la Côte des Blancs, ses cuvées, vieillies jusqu'à dix ans, révèlent une élégance rare. Alliant tradition et innovation, elle crée des champagnes d'exception, reflet d'un savoir-faire sans compromis.Amandine Fresneau - Domaine de Cézin (Val de Loire)Depuis près d'un siècle, le Domaine de Cézin, porté par Amandine et Xavier Fresneau, cultive l'âme du vignoble de la Vallée du Loir. Sur 17 ha en AOC Coteaux du Loir et Jasnières, le domaine produit des vins sincères et raffinés, certifiés Terra Vitis, reflet de leur terroir unique. Médaillées et saluées, ses cuvées incarnent la passion, la transmission et le respect de la nature.Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Un panier moyen à 550 euros. Le double dans certaines boutiques… Telle est la récompense de l'audace à la française.Depuis toujours, Lisa est passionnée de lingerie. Sa mère, déjà, accordait une grande importance aux pièces qu'elle portait. Très jeune, elle commence à dessiner et concevoir des modèles originaux, avec sa patte bien à elle : très française, très sexy.Dior, Kenzo, John Galliano… Elle débute auprès des plus grandes Maisons avant de rejoindre Etam pour participer au lancement d'Undiz en tant que directrice artistique.Lisa y découvre les secrets d'un lancement réussi dès 2007, à une époque où les réseaux sociaux n'existaient même pas encore.Elle casse les codes, crée un produit parfaitement positionné, simple, pensé notamment pour les ados — et parvient à vendre sans la moindre photo.“Sur une marque de teenage, c'était important pour nous de pouvoir dédramatiser ce côté sexy. Je me suis bien rattrapée sur Livy après.”En 2017, Livy voit le jour. Lisa réussit à convaincre son ancien employeur de l'accompagner financièrement, et réunit d'autres investisseurs pour lancer le projet. Alliant savoir-faire français et modernité, sa marque séduit rapidement une clientèle haut de gamme, grâce à une implantation stratégique des boutiques.Aujourd'hui, Livy c'est : 120 collaboratrices, 120 000 pièces produites par an, et une trentaine de points de vente, dont 18 en France.Dans cet épisode, elle nous dévoile les dessous d'une stratégie bien rodée, fondée sur l'authenticité et la rencontre avec le client.Une véritable masterclass du secteur du luxe, menée par une personnalité aussi inspirante que déterminée.Utilisez le code “DOIT” sur li-vy.com pour bénéficier (peut-être) d'une surprise…TIMELINE:00:00:00 : Ce que la lingerie représente : historiquement, socialement et personnellement00:12:38 : 1 cliente sur 3 a la poitrine refaite : comment la lingerie évolue00:16:49 : L'évolution des designs sur les 30 dernières années00:21:47 : La différence du luxe : processus de création et fabrication00:29:04 : Undiz : comment devenir leader en cassant les codes00:43:45 : Les secrets pour un lancement réussi, le cas Livy00:56:02 : Comment se développer vite à l'international01:03:21 : Transformer ses boutiques en aimants à clients : combiner les stratégies digitales et “in vivo”01:13:04 : Concurrence, shadow-ban et nudité01:20:12 : Définir la limite entre le sexy et le vulgaire01:27:43 : Comment Livy a su être agile tout en restant authentique01:42:48 : Avoir l'esprit sportif sans l'êtreLes anciens épisodes de GDIY mentionnés : #104 Clara Blocman - Ysé - Révolutionner le monde de la lingerie avec Instagram#423 - Guillaume Gibault - Le Slip français - Des slips de bobo à la grande conso, la croisade du Made in France#352 - Juliette Lévy - Oh My Cream ! - Se mesurer aux géants de la beauté, casser les codes des DNVB, et tout rafler#452 - Reid Hoffman - LinkedIn, Paypal - L'humanité 2.0 : Homo technicus plus qu'Homo sapiens#266 - Frédéric Plais - Platform.sh – Lever 140 millions avec 100% de télétravail#261 - Caroline Vigneaux - Humoriste et réalisatrice - Changer de vie : passer de la plaidoirie au stand-upNous avons parlé de :LIVYLes boutiques LivyUndizEtamL'Agence - l'épisode avec LisaJohn Galliano (styliste chez Dior)Antonio Marras (styliste chez Kenzo)KOL : key opinion leaders (personnes influentes)Laurent MilchiorGloballyVidéo promo pour la boutique à CourchevelBackflip : vidéo promo pour la boutique à CourchevelSkims (comparaison entre des hommes et les femmes)Les recommandations de lecture : Colette (recueil : La Maison de Claudine - La Naissance du jour - Sido)Vous pouvez contacter Lisa sur Linkedin ou Instagram.Un immense merci à Géraldine et Anne et toute la team Club Med pour cet enregistrement hors du temps en haut des montagnes.Vous souhaitez sponsoriser Génération Do It Yourself ou nous proposer un partenariat ?Contactez mon label Orso Media via ce formulaire.Distribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

In this episode, we explore Building a Scalable Foundation for Growth with Christa Schott, President of Alliant Consulting. Under Christa's leadership, Alliant Consulting has achieved significant growth, earning the No. 4,509 spot on the 2024 Inc. 5000 list. We discuss how establishing a Scalable Foundation for Growth has been pivotal in their success, enabling the company to adapt and thrive in a competitive market. Christa shares insights into the strategies and practices that have allowed Alliant Consulting to maintain excellence while expanding operations. Tune in to discover how Building a Scalable Foundation for Growth can drive sustainable success in your organization.

Bledion Dizdari welcomes Holly Ragsdale as she shares her journey into the insurance industry and the power of networking. They discuss how Holly was drawn to insurance as a way of combining her analytical skills with her passion for building relationships, which now plays a key role in her work with the Conserve-A-Nation program. Holly also shares how co-founding the Young Risk Professionals' (YRP) D.C. chapter has helped her expand her professional network and support the next generation of insurance professionals.

Bledion Dizdari welcomes Pam Frassineti, Alliant Public Entity, to discuss her career journey and what sets Alliant apart as a leader in insurance. Pam shares how her aspiration to become a high school guidance counselor provided her with the transferable skills needed to succeed in the insurance industry, emphasizing the value in understanding client needs, building trust and providing customized solutions. As a recent addition to the Alliant team, she highlights how the company's relationship-centered approach is essential to building a successful outcome.

Ron Borys and Ryan Farnsworth welcome CJ Dietzman and David Finz, Alliant Cyber, to discuss recent amendments to the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) cybersecurity regulations. The team breaks down the regulatory changes, their impact on financial institutions and best practices for compliance. Together, they emphasize how proactive cyber risk management goes beyond insurance, helping organizations strengthen security and enhance their overall insurability—an approach Alliant takes pride in delivering to clients.

Right now, there's not much growing in Iowa. But Nick Peterson, strategic partnerships manager for Alliant Energy, is already thinking about next summer's yields. He's spearheading a collaboration with Iowa State University, an Alliant customer, to evaluate a practice called agrivoltaics, which marries farming with solar energy generation.Across ten acres, the utility installed a 1.35 megawatt solar installation, using both fixed arrays and tracker panels. Along with a team from Iowa State University's agriculture and engineering schools, Alliant Energy is looking at the potential for growing high-value crops under the panels. One year into the four-year project supported by a $1.8 million Department of Energy grant,  early food and power generation results are promising.This week on With Great Power, Nick tells Brad what scientists are learning from the project, why it could change how utilities think about agrivoltaics, and why one of the hardest parts of his job is addressing the fears some farmers have about the practice.With Great Power is a co-production of GridX and Latitude Studios.  Subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or anywhere you get podcasts. For more reporting on the companies featured in this podcast, subscribe to Latitude Media's newsletter.Credits: Hosted by Brad Langley. Produced by Erin Hardick and Mary Catherine O'Connor. Edited by Anne Bailey. Original music and engineering by Sean Marquand. Stephen Lacey is executive editor. Sean Marquand composed the original theme song and mixed the show. The Grid X production team includes Jenni Barber, Samantha McCabe, and Brad Langley.

CJ Dietzman welcomes Jon Gilbert, Alliant M&A, and Michael White, Alliant Cyber, to discuss the critical role of cybersecurity and technology risk assessments in mergers and acquisitions for private equity firms. The team reviews key insights from 2024, including the growing importance of cyber due diligence and the complexities of managing cyber risk across PE portfolios. As one of the top five risk considerations, they highlight the necessity of integrating cyber risk into M&A strategies to ensure long-term success. They also share how Alliant equips firms with the expertise and solutions needed to navigate these evolving challenges and to better support our clients.

Moe Clark nous présente Waak Waak Djungi, un groupe de musique australien dont les membres font partie du peuple Yolngu, originaire du nord-est du pays. Alliant chants et instruments traditionnels à une musique moderne incorporant des synthétiseurs, Waak Waak Djungi a su réinterpréter dans les années 1990 des chansons cérémonielles du peuple Yolngu. Assistante à la recherche Geraldine Eguiluz. Photo : Waak Waak Djungi

Bledion Dizdari welcomes Kenny White, Alliant Healthcare, to discuss his unique career trajectory, transitioning from law to insurance, and highlight Alliant's collaborative company culture with the one P&L model fostering teamwork across the entire organization. Kenny also shares his advice for aspiring insurance professionals, emphasizing the value of expertise and specialization in a chosen field.

Dans cet épisode, découvrez l'histoire terrifiante d'un éloquent pasteur protestant qui s'est avéré être l'un des pires gourous. Alliant mysticisme et justice sociale, il a réussi à embrigader de nombreux fidèles dans sa secte, le Temple du Peuple. Il a surtout écrit l'une des pages les plus sanglantes de l'histoire américaine avec la tragédie de Jonestown, vaste suicide collectif de centaines de personnes. Son nom : Jim Jones. Derrière la figure du héros, découvrez son fabuleux destin; L'un des pires gourous de l'Histoire Les personnalités des grands gourous de l'Histoire se ressemblent. Si on devait en faire un portrait robot, on y trouverait toujours les mêmes caractéristiques : mégalomanie, manipulation, paranoïa. Avec un glissement toujours identique du charme vers la terreur. Tout d'abord le leader se présente sous une apparence de héros et de beau parleur, qui lui permet d'être considéré comme une idole aux yeux des autres. Ensuite se met en place, petit à petit, l'exploitation des adeptes, la déstabilisation psychologique, les mises en danger physiques et une vision totalement apocalyptique du monde. Ce guide spirituel censé révéler le sens de la vie s'empare en réalité des consciences et use d'un pouvoir coercitif et totalitaire. Écoutez nos autres épisodes : Sidney Reilly, l'espion qui a inspiré James Bond Une production Bababam Originals. Ecriture : Hélène Vézier Réalisation : Célia Brondeau, Antoine Berry Roger Voix : Andréa Brusque Première diffusion : 1 février 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Le studio montréalais Félix & Paul annonce Interstellar Arc, une expérience immersive de 20 000 pieds carrés qui ouvrira en octobre 2025 dans le District Area 15 à Las Vegas. Inspiré par le succès de Space Explorers, ce projet place les visiteurs au cœur d'une mission interstellaire dans un futur lointain, avec une exoplanète réelle. Alliant réalité virtuelle et décors grandeur nature, cette œuvre de science-fiction transportera les participants dans un vaisseau spatial six siècles dans le futur. Ce projet marque un tournant pour le studio, qui s'affranchit des collaborations avec les agences spatiales pour plonger dans la fiction, tout en restant ancré dans les réalités de l'exploration spatiale. Entrevue avec Stéphane Rituit PDG et cofondateur de Felix & Paul Studios.

Brokers initially feared losing control of the market due to downward pricing trends, increased insurer capacity and a heightened volume of claims. However, 2024 proved to be a year of opportunity for financial institutions. Join Ron Borys, Ryan Farnsworth and Steve Shappell as they reflect on the trends and challenges that shaped the financial institutions marketplace during the past 12 months. Assessing a firm's risk profile, developing tailored solutions, selecting an effective counterparty/insurer and creating manageable insurance programs have established a pattern for success that Alliant expects to continue into 2025.

On today's Daily, Dot discusses: Viant's acquisition of IRIS.TV; The Guardian abandoning X; Inverness Graham buying Alliant.

Bledion Dizdari welcomes Steve Pierce, Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Alliant Construction. The two look back on Steve's career and discuss the value of choosing an organization that's right for you as well as advice for the next generation of insurance professionals. Steve highlights how the Alliant company culture empowers brokers, leaders and managers to make decisions.

Bledion Dizdari welcomes Rosy Ku, Executive Vice President, Alliant M&A, to discuss her career path in the insurance industry and what led her to Alliant. She highlights the Alliant One P&L model as well as the company culture of unlimited support and resources as the key factors of success.

Épisode 1 : Une adolescence françaiseSérie culte née au Japon en 1987, Final Fantasy n'est arrivée en France que dix ans plus tard, avec la sortie de son septième épisode sur PlayStation. Depuis, cette saga, qui en est aujourd'hui à son seizième opus, ne cesse de captiver. Alliant esthétiques japonaises et occidentales, grandes épopées et anecdotes absurdes, science-fiction et fantasy, Final Fantasy s'impose avant tout comme un véritable marqueur de son époque.Pierre-William Fregonese, aux côté de ses invité·es, retrace les débuts de cette série en France, des années 90 au début des années 2000.Avec Julie le Baron, Gautoz, Moguri et Thierry Falcoz.Programme B est un podcast de Binge Audio présenté par Thomas Rozec. Réalisation : Paul Bertiax. Production et édition : Charlotte Baix. Générique : François Clos et Thibault Lefranc. Identité sonore Binge Audio : Jean-Benoît Dunckel (musique) et Bonnie El Bokeili (voix). Identité graphique : Sébastien Brothier et Thomas Steffen (Upian). Direction des programmes : Joël Ronez. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

durée : 00:12:38 - Le Disque classique du jour du mardi 15 octobre 2024 - Alliant la musique classique à l'univers immersif des jeux vidéo, l'album comprend un éventail de thèmes passionnants tirés de la télévision, d'animes et de films, notamment The Legend of Zelda : Tears of the Kingdom, Pokémon et Squid Game.

durée : 00:12:38 - Le Disque classique du jour du mardi 15 octobre 2024 - Alliant la musique classique à l'univers immersif des jeux vidéo, l'album comprend un éventail de thèmes passionnants tirés de la télévision, d'animes et de films, notamment The Legend of Zelda : Tears of the Kingdom, Pokémon et Squid Game.

Send us a textThe Fed just cut its interest rate by half a point and Happy Money CEO Ben Potere is on the show to tell what a credit union needs to do to optimize its performance in an environment of lower interest rates - and those  cuts will impact everything from home mortgages to car loans to the personal loans that are Happy Money's mainstay. The show starts on a different topic however.  The question is why did you join Happy Money - Potere is just three weeks on the job when this show was recorded.His answer is rich, detailed.And at bottom he simply is very confident that more credit unions will want to become Happy Money  customers because Happy Money delivers a new member, with good credit, who typically wants to refinance credit card debt at a better rate and Happy Money's credit unions can deliver on that promise.Happy Money credit union partners include First Tech, Alliant, Teachers Federal Credit Union and more. But Happy Money definitely wants more credit unions.Listen up.Like what you are hearing? Find out how you can help sponsor this podcast here. Very affordable sponsorship packages are available. Email rjmcgarvey@gmail.com  And like this podcast on whatever service you use to stream it. That matters.  Find out more about CU2.0 and the digital transformation of credit unions here. It's a journey every credit union needs to take. Pronto

Federal News Network Executive Editor Jason Miller joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf for “Procurement Potpourri,” a wide-ranging discussion of key procurement policy and program developments across the federal market.They tackle the state of interagency contracting focusing on the status of the four major interagency procurements: OASIS+, CIO-SP4, NASA SEWP, and Alliant 3.  The discussion highlighted the role of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy has played in establishing and overseeing the IT GWACs and whether enough is currently being done. Miller also shares his thoughts on the ever-growing cybersecurity regulatory regime, including CMMC, and the need for cyber harmonization.  Finally Miller talks about a new SBA report on the mentor-protégé program.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Federal News Network Executive Editor Jason Miller joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf for “Procurement Potpourri,” a wide-ranging discussion of key procurement policy and program developments across the federal market. They tackle the state of interagency contracting focusing on the status of the four major interagency procurements: OASIS+, CIO-SP4, NASA SEWP, and Alliant 3.  The discussion highlighted the role of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy has played in establishing and overseeing the IT GWACs and whether enough is currently being done.  Miller also shares his thoughts on the ever-growing cybersecurity regulatory regime, including CMMC, and the need for cyber harmonization.   Finally Miller talks about a new SBA report on the mentor-protégé program. 

Join Tim Crowley, Travis Barnett, Matt Green and Sara Heller, Alliant, as they review key trends and challenges that have surfaced for public and private companies in the first half of 2024. The team provides an analysis of current market conditions, coverage trends and implications for policyholders.

Bledion Dizdari connects with Tim Carlson, Alliant Construction, to discuss his transition to Alliant and the benefits of the one P&L structure. Tim highlights his decision to join Alliant was based on his commitment to taking care of his clients and how the Alliant platform allows him the flexibility to do what's best for the client, every step of the way.

Bledion Dizdari welcomes Peter Carpenter, Chief Operating Officer, Alliant, to discuss the company culture, employee experience, and commitment to client satisfaction which earned Alliant the highest net inflow of industry-leading broker talent among the nation's leading P&C insurance brokerages in 2024. They also dive into Peter's personal experience in the insurance industry, including the 2008 acquisition of the Seattle-based employee benefits consulting firm that he co-founded and where he started his career in insurance.

The Department of Commerce's Tech Hubs program, a key initiative supported by the CHIPS and Science Act, aims to bolster federal research and innovation in emerging technologies, especially in areas outside major cities. Senior Biden administration officials discussed the program's impact during a call announcing 12 new initiatives that will receive funding. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo emphasized the need to decentralize the tech ecosystem, noting that 90% of new tech jobs have been concentrated in just five cities over the past two decades. Key focus areas for these Tech Hubs include uncrewed aerial systems, IT, semiconductors, high-performance materials, and grid resilience systems. Among the recent grant recipients are the Elevate Quantum TechFund in Colorado and the Wisconsin Biohealth TechHub. In other news, the General Services Administration (GSA) has announced a request for proposals for the Alliant 3 Governmentwide Acquisition Contract, notable for its unprecedented no-ceiling dollar amount. This contract seeks to cover a broad range of IT services, including AI, biometrics, quantum computing, and more, with a focus on emerging technologies. Greg Godbout and Noah Kunin, former leaders of the GSA's 18F digital team, join The Daily Scoop Podcast host Billy Mitchell to discuss their new initiative, info2insight. This open-source community aims to foster data-driven decision-making in government and accelerate the adoption of data analytics. They highlight the progress in government digital services and the need to pivot towards data analytics to manage the increasing information from AI and ML technologies. They share their vision for info2insight as a collaborative platform for civil servants, private-sector technologists, and academics to drive better governance through data insights.

In this episode of the Banking Transformed podcast, recorded live at the Financial Brand Forum, we're thrilled to have Dennis Devine, the CEO and President of Alliant Credit Union. On this show, we discuss how a digital-only financial institution, with a purpose-driven approach, can revolutionize the banking industry and generate unprecedented growth and revenues. Dennis discusses the strategies behind Alliant's purpose-driven approach, from fostering a culture of innovation to delivering superior rates and service through operational efficiency. He also shares his thoughts on the challenges and opportunities facing credit unions in the digital age, and offers advice for all financial institutions looking to adopt a more purpose-driven approach. This episode of Banking Transformed is sponsored by Microsoft: Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. More at Microsoft.com/financialservices

How will the SEC's new data privacy rules under Regulation S-P impact financial entities? David Finz and Steve Levine unpack the regulations for enhanced client data protection, quick breach notifications and incident response plans, effective July 15. They discuss the vital role of third-party risk management and explore the insurance implications, highlighting coverage areas in cyber and D&O policies. Alliant offers specialized services to help clients ensure their compliance with these regulations and strengthen their incident response strategies.