Podcast appearances and mentions of Marcus Weldon

Marcus Weldon (13th President of Bell Labs, ex-Nokia) talks to Mike Carden about the impact of generative AI, the opportunities and challenges of LLM, how AI will augment human productivity, not replace it - and the potential of AI to lead to a more equitable world. “Generative AI is not a portent of doom, it's the portent of equality and equanimity that the world has been waiting for.” About Marcus Former Corporate CTO of Alcatel-Lucent. 13th President of Bell Labs. Corporate Chief Technology Officer of Nokia. Global Telecoms Business Power 100 2014. Global Telecoms Business 50 CTOs to watch 2014. Awarded the New Jersey Medal for Science and Technology 2016. https://www.nokia.com/blog/author/marcus-weldon/ https://twitter.com/MarcusWeldon https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-weldon-1266497/ Key moments Introduction to Marcus Weldon. (0:27) Marcus's origin story. (1:44) What does the president of Bell Labs do? (5:08) The transition to an open market for innovation. (7:23) The challenges of enterprises having similar tasks. (13:52) The psychology of autonomous vehicles. (16:54) The future of VC and innovation. (21:18) Why you should jump on the bandwagon of Ai. (25:44) Clustering. (32:08) The opportunity to outperform in the current environment. (36:26)

What is the nature of innovation? Is it overhearing a conversation as with Morse and the telegraph? Working with the deaf as with Bell? Divine inspiration? Necessity? Science fiction? Or given that the answer to all of these is yes, is it really more the intersectionality between them and multiple basic and applied sciences with deeper understandings in each domain? Or is it being given the freedom to research? Or being directed to research? Few have as storied a history of innovation as Bell Labs and few have had anything close to the impact. Bell Labs gave us 9 Nobel Prizes and 5 Turing awards. Their alumni have even more, but those were the ones earned while at Bell. And along the way they gave us 26,000 patents. They researched, automated, and built systems that connected practically every human around the world - moving us all into an era of instant communication. It's a rich history that goes back in time from the 2018 Ashkin Nobel for applied optical tweezers and 2018 Turing award for Deep Learning to an almost steampunk era of tophats and the dawn of the electrification of the world. Those late 1800s saw a flurry of applied and basic research. One reason was that governments were starting to fund that research. Alessandro Volta had come along and given us the battery and it was starting to change the world. So Napolean's nephew, Napoleon III, during the second French Empire gave us the Volta Prize in 1852. One of those great researchers to receive the Volta Prize was Alexander Graham Bell. He invented the telephone in 1876 and was awarded the Volta Prize, getting 50,000 francs. He used the money to establish the Volta Laboratory, which would evolve or be a precursor to a research lab that would be called Bell Labs. He also formed the Bell Patent Association in 1876. They would research sound. Recording, transmission, and analysis - so science. There was a flurry of business happening in preparation to put a phone in every home in the world. We got the Bell System, The Bell Telephone Company, American Bell Telephone Company patent disputes with Elisha Gray over the telephone (and so the acquisition of Western Electric), and finally American Telephone and Telegraph, or AT&T. Think of all this as Ma' Bell. Not Pa' Bell mind you - as Graham Bell gave all of his shares except 10 to his new wife when they were married in 1877. And her dad ended up helping build the company and later creating National Geographic, even going international with International Bell Telephone Company. Bell's assistant Thomas Watson sold his shares off to become a millionaire in the 1800s, and embarking on a life as a Shakespearean actor. But Bell wasn't done contributing. He still wanted to research all the things. Hackers gotta' hack. And the company needed him to - keep in mind, they were a cutting edge technology company (then as in now). That thirst for research would infuse AT&T - with Bell Labs paying homage to the founder's contribution to the modern day. Over the years they'd be on West Street in New York and expand to have locations around the US. Think about this: it was becoming clear that automation would be able to replace human efforts where electricity is concerned. The next few decades gave us the vacuum tube, flip flop circuits, mass deployment of radio. The world was becoming ever so slightly interconnected. And Bell Labs was researching all of it. From physics to the applied sciences. By the 1920s, they were doing sound synchronized with motion and shooting that over long distances and calculating the noise loss. They were researching encryption. Because people wanted their calls to be private. That began with things like one-time pad cyphers but would evolve into speech synthesizers and even SIGSALY, the first encrypted (or scrambled) speech transmission that led to the invention of the first computer modem. They had engineers like Harry Nyquist, whose name is on dozens of theories, frequencies, even noise. He arrived in 1917 and stayed until he retired in 1954. One of his most important contributions was to move beyond printing telegraph to paper tape and to helping transmit pictures over electricity - and Herbert Ives from there sent color photos, thus the fax was born (although it would be Xerox who commercialized the modern fax machine in the 1960s). Nyquist and others like Ralph Hartley worked on making audio better, able to transmit over longer lines, reducing feedback, or noise. While there, Hartley gave us the oscillator, developed radio receivers, parametric amplifiers, and then got into servomechanisms before retiring from Bell Labs in 1950. The scientists who'd been in their prime between the two world wars were titans and left behind commercializable products, even if they didn't necessarily always mean to. By the 40s a new generation was there and building on the shoulders of these giants. Nyquist's work was extended by Claude Shannon, who we devoted an entire episode to. He did a lot of mathematical analysis like writing “A Mathematical Theory of Communication” to birth Information Theory as a science. They were researching radio because secretly I think they all knew those leased lines would some day become 5G. But also because the tech giants of the era included radio and many could see a day coming when radio, telephony, and aThey were researching how electrons diffracted, leading to George Paget Thomson receiving the Nobel Prize and beginning the race for solid state storage. Much of the work being done was statistical in nature. And they had William Edwards Deming there, whose work on statistical analysis when he was in Japan following World War II inspired a global quality movement that continues to this day in the form of frameworks like Six Sigma and TQM. Imagine a time when Japanese manufacturing was of such low quality that he couldn't stay on a phone call for a few minutes or use a product for a time. His work in Japan's reconstruction paired with dedicated founders like Akio Morita, who co-founded Sony, led to one of the greatest productivity increases, without sacrificing quality, of any time in the world. Deming would change the way Ford worked, giving us the “quality culture.” Their scientists had built mechanical calculators going back to the 30s (Shannon had built a differential analyzer while still at MIT) - first for calculating the numbers they needed to science better then for ballistic trajectories, then with the Model V in 1946, general computing. But these were slow; electromechanical at best. Mary Torrey was another statistician of the era who along with Harold Hodge gave us the theory of acceptance sampling and thus quality control for electronics. And basic electronics research to do flip-flop circuits fast enough to establish a call across a number of different relays was where much of this was leading. We couldn't use mechanical computers for that, and tubes were too slow. And so in 1947 John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley invented the transistor at Bell Labs, which be paired with Shannon's work to give us the early era of computers as we began to weave Boolean logic in ways that allowed us to skip moving parts and move to a purely transistorized world of computing. In fact, they all knew one day soon, everything that monster ENIAC and its bastard stepchild UNIVAC was doing would be done on a single wafer of silicon. But there was more basic research to get there. The types of wires we could use, the Marnaugh map from Maurice Karnaugh, zone melting so we could do level doping. And by 1959 Mohamed Atalla and Dawon Kahng gave us metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors, or MOSFETs - which was a step on the way to large-scale integration, or LSI chips. Oh, and they'd started selling those computer modems as the Bell 101 after perfecting the tech for the SAGE air-defense system. And the research to get there gave us the basic science for the solar cell, electronic music, and lasers - just in the 1950s. The 1960s saw further work work on microphones and communication satellites like Telstar, which saw Bell Labs outsource launching satellites to NASA. Those transistors were coming in handy, as were the solar panels. The 14 watts produced certainly couldn't have moved a mechanical computer wheel. Blaise Pascal and would be proud of the research his countries funds inspired and Volta would have been perfectly happy to have his name still on the lab I'm sure. Again, shoulders and giants. Telstar relayed its first television signal in 1962. The era of satellites was born later that year when Cronkite televised coverage of Kennedy manipulating world markets on this new medium for the first time and IBM 1401 computers encrypted and decrypted messages, ushering in an era of encrypted satellite communications. Sputnik may heave heated the US into orbit but the Telstar program has been an enduring system through to the Telstar 19V launched in 2018 - now outsourced to a Falcon 9 rocket from Space X. It might seem like Bell Labs had done enough for the world. But they still had a lot of the basic wireless research to bring us into the cellular age. In fact, they'd plotted out what the cellular age would look like all the way back in 1947! The increasing use of computers to do the all the acoustics and physics meant they were working closely with research universities during the rise of computing. They were involved in a failed experiment to create an operating system in the late 60s. Multics influenced so much but wasn't what we might consider a commercial success. It was the result of yet another of DARPA's J.C.R. Licklider's wild ideas in the form of Project MAC, which had Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy. Big names in the scientific community collided with cooperation and GE, Bell Labs and Multics would end up inspiring many a feature of a modern operating system. The crew at Bell Labs knew they could do better and so set out to take the best of Multics and implement a lighter, easier operating system. So they got to work on Uniplexed Information and Computing Service, or Unics, which was a pun on Multics. Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Doug McIllroy, Joe Assana, Brian Kernigan, and many others wrote Unix originally in assembly and then rewrote it in C once Dennis Ritchie wrote that to replace B. Along the way, Alfred Aho, Peter Weinber, and Kernighan gave us AWSK and with all this code they needed a way to keep the source under control so Marc Rochkind gave us the SCCS, or Course Code Control System, first written for an IBM S/3370 and then ported to C - which would be how most environments maintained source code until CVS came along in 1986. And Robert Fourer, David Gay, and Brian Kernighan wrote A Mathematical Programming Language, or AMPL, while there. Unix began as a bit of a shadow project but would eventually go to market as Research Unix when Don Gillies left Bell to go to the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. From there it spread and after it fragmented in System V led to the rise of IBM's AIX, HP-UX, SunOS/Solaris, BSD, and many other variants - including those that have evolved into the macOS through Darwin, and Android through Linux. But Unix wasn't all they worked on - it was a tool to enable other projects. They gave us the charge-coupled device, which resulted in yet another Nobel Prize. That is an image sensor built on the MOS technologies. While fiber optics goes back to the 1800s, they gave us attenuation over fiber and thus could stretch cables to only need repeaters every few dozen miles - again reducing the cost to run the ever-growing phone company. All of this electronics allowed them to finally start reducing their reliance on electromechanical and human-based relays to transistor-to-transistor logic and less mechanical meant less energy, less labor to repair, and faster service. Decades of innovation gave way to decades of profit - in part because of automation. The 5ESS was a switching system that went online in 1982 and some of what it did - its descendants still do today. Long distance billing, switching modules, digital line trunk units, line cards - the grid could run with less infrastructure because the computer managed distributed switching. The world was ready for packet switching. 5ESS was 100 million lines of code, mostly written in C. All that source was managed with SCCS. Bell continued with innovations. They produced that modem up into the 70s but allowed Hayes, Rockewell, and others to take it to a larger market - coming back in from time to time to help improve things like when Bell Labs, branded as Lucent after the breakup of AT&T, helped bring the 56k modem to market. The presidents of Bell Labs were as integral to the success and innovation as the researchers. Frank Baldwin Jewett from 1925 to 1940, Oliver Buckley from 40 to 51, the great Mervin Kelly from 51 to 59, James Fisk from 59 to 73, William Oliver Baker from 73 to 79, and a few others since gave people like Bishnu Atal the space to develop speech processing algorithms and predictive coding and thus codecs. And they let Bjarne Stroustrup create C++, and Eric Schmidt who would go on to become a CEO of Google and the list goes on. Nearly every aspect of technology today is touched by the work they did. All of this research. Jon Gerstner wrote a book called The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation. He chronicles the journey of multiple generations of adventurers from Germany, Ohio, Iowa, Japan, and all over the world to the Bell campuses. The growth and contraction of the basic and applied research and the amazing minds that walked the halls. It's a great book and a short episode like this couldn't touch the aspects he covers. He doesn't end the book as hopeful as I remain about the future of technology, though. But since he wrote the book, plenty has happened. After the hangover from the breakup of Ma Bell they're now back to being called Nokia Bell Labs - following a $16.6 billion acquisition by Nokia. I sometimes wonder if the world has the stomach for the same level of basic research. And then Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman from Bell end up sharing the Turing Award for their work on compilers. And other researchers hit a terabit a second speeds. A storied history that will be a challenge for Marcus Weldon's successor. He was there as a post-doc there in 1995 and rose to lead the labs and become the CTO of Nokia - he said the next regeneration of a Doctor Who doctor would come in after him. We hope they are as good of stewards as those who came before them. The world is looking around after these decades of getting used to the technology they helped give us. We're used to constant change. We're accustomed to speed increases from 110 bits a second to now terabits. The nature of innovation isn't likely to be something their scientists can uncover. My guess is Prometheus is guarding that secret - if only to keep others from suffering the same fate after giving us the fire that sparked our imaginations. For more on that, maybe check out Hesiod's Theogony. In the meantime, think about the places where various sciences and disciplines intersect and think about the wellspring of each and the vast supporting casts that gave us our modern life. It's pretty phenomenal when ya' think about it.

Fascinating interview by Rachel Robinson with Marcus Weldon Former President of Bell Labs, Corporate Chief Technology Officer, Nokia, who will be speaking at the Cork TechFest 21, taking place on 25 – 27 May 2021, see here itcork.ie for tickets. Prepare to join us on the 25-27 May for our annual Tech Conference to hear from legends, luminaries and thought leaders on everything tech and future forward. We are lining up a superb 3-day event of keynotes, panels and workshops for you to choose from. More about Marcus Weldon Technology and scientific leader with the ability to define and execute on a compelling vision of a better techno-economic future across an extraordinarily broad array of subjects and domains Biography Marcus is currently working on his “next big thing” and, in the meantime, helping a number of small, medium and large companies and institutes formulate their technical and innovation strategies for the next industrial revolution. Until March 2021, Marcus Weldon was the Corporate Chief Technology Officer for Nokia and was responsible for coordinating the technical strategy and driving technological and architectural innovations into Nokia's end-to-end networking systems and software portfolio. In addition, as President of Bell Labs, Marcus was responsible for defining and creating the next disruptive innovations and the pioneering research that will form the foundation of the future ICT industry. Marcus is considered one of the luminaries in the ICT industry in terms of the clarity, depth and breadth of his vision. He combines his vision with the power of Bell Labs, to create a unique innovation engine whose goal is to ‘invent the future' of the networking and communications industry. Marcus holds a Ph.D. (Physical Chemistry) degree from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science and Chemistry) joint degree from King's College in London, UK. But more than these formal academic credentials, Marcus has a relentless curiosity that, coupled with a very analytical mind, drives him to continuously learn and to understand any problem from a wide array of different angles, and in remarkable depth, across a diverse array of disciplines, including: Wireless and wired networking technologies, protocols and systems Artificial Intelligence systems and methodologies Novel computing systems (including quantum computing) Cloud infrastructure and web systems and platforms ‘Silicon' device technologies and materials Chemical and biochemical systems New materials and sensing technologies and systems Advanced machine and robotics technologies Next generation internet routing and transport networks and systems Emerging industrial and enterprise systems Cybersecurity technologies and end-to-end systems and networks Advanced communications and AR/VR technologies and systems Marcus has won numerous technical, scientific and engineering society awards for his work and technical vision and leadership throughout his career, but is arguably best known for his ability to distill complex, multi-dimensional problems into the essential ‘simple' answer or solution that should be pursued. For this reason, he is highly sought after as an advisor to governmental agencies and departments in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and around the world, as well as to industrial and enterprise CxOs, to venture capitalists and private equity funds, and the larger investment community.

Most companies start off as innovative, because they invent and implement something novel and disruptive. Over time, although innovation typically continues, it gets harder to disruptively innovate, which is dangerous, because if you’re not disrupting your industry, someone else eventually will. It’s something Marcus Weldon works on day in and day out as CTO at Nokia and President of Bell Labs. He joins Cassidy in the latest episode of Leading with Data to share everything you need to know to be on the winning side of the disruptive innovation game. What we talked about: -What disruptive innovation is -Why your company should aim to disrupt -Why innovation is not just about invention but also implementation -Why a disruptive innovation needs to be 10x better than the incumbent solution -Why you should aim to spend 1% of your revenue on innovation -Why buy-in matters for innovation -How diversity of everything leads to the most disruptive innovation -The power of storytelling to shape innovation If you want to hear more, subscribe to Leading with Data on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or here. Listening on a desktop & can’t see the links? Just search for Leading with Data in your favorite podcast player.

Most companies start off as innovative, because they invent and implement something novel and disruptive. Over time, although innovation typically continues, it gets harder to disruptively innovate, which is dangerous, because if you’re not disrupting your industry, someone else eventually will. It’s something Marcus Weldon works on day in and day out as CTO at Nokia and President of Bell Labs. He joins Cassidy in the latest episode of Leading with Data to share everything you need to know to be on the winning side of the disruptive innovation game. What we talked about: -What disruptive innovation is -Why your company should aim to disrupt -Why innovation is not just about invention but also implementation -Why a disruptive innovation needs to be 10x better than the incumbent solution -Why you should aim to spend 1% of your revenue on innovation -Why buy-in matters for innovation -How diversity of everything leads to the most disruptive innovation -The power of storytelling to shape innovation If you want to hear more, subscribe to Leading with Data on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or here. Listening on a desktop & can’t see the links? Just search for Leading with Data in your favorite podcast player.

The Vendee Globe – an around-the-world, solo sailing competition – is considered one of the most grueling sporting events of the modern age. As such, it presents an intriguing opportunity to solve one of the most vexing challenges facing technological innovation: the “remote problem.” AI, advanced sensing and automation are becoming commonplace in industrial environments, leading to huge boosts in productivity and efficiency. But moving those complex systems off of the factory floor and onto a solitary boat sailing in the middle of the ocean creates an entirely new set of challenges. Listen in as champion racer Alex Thomson and Marcus Weldon, President of Nokia Bell Labs and Corporate CTO of Nokia, discuss the potential of their unique collaboration. Future Human is a presentation of Nokia Bell Labs, produced by Audiation.fm.

Marcus Weldon, Corporate Chief Technology Officer at Nokia, Virginie Maillard, Head of Technology Field Simulation at Siemens, and Joe Miletich, Senior Vice President of R&D at Merck discuss the future of work from the campus of New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, NJ. Hosts: Carol Massar and Jason Kelly. Producer: Paul Brennan Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Marcus Weldon, Corporate Chief Technology Officer at Nokia, Virginie Maillard, Head of Technology Field Simulation at Siemens, and Joe Miletich, Senior Vice President of R&D at Merck discuss the future of work from the campus of New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, NJ. Hosts: Carol Massar and Jason Kelly. Producer: Paul Brennan

One of the biggest technological leaps is expected to come into its own in 2020. 5G wireless saw early adopter nations roll-out the high-speed cellular service in 2019 and they offer a glimpse of what's to come. Industry analyst Stefan Pongratz gazes into his crystal ball on adoption and consumption rates, what the roadblocks are to mass deployment, and why telecoms will see their greatest growth rates out of private networks and network slicing in Industry 4.0. Waves of Innovation with Marcus Weldon: https://ftr.bz/podcast13/pod  Looking back (and ahead) after South Korea's first six months of 5G: https://ftr.bz/SK5G/pod

Innovation comes in waves, but the head of the technology lab that brought us the transistor, the laser, and cellphones sees things differently this time. Bell Labs President Marcus Weldon says the wave that's swelling today isn't driven by consumers — but by industry. And the man charged with charting the future of 5G wireless says he sees five key ways the world is about to change forever.   From futuristic to fact: Sci-fi gadgets and technology that became real https://ftr.bz/futuristic/pod  The smart cities forecast https://ftr.bz/ATTcities/pod

Aaron is the president & CEO of the NJ Tech Council and founder of Propelify---the Propelify Innovation Festival.Propelify empowers the community of innovators who act. He launched Propelify in 2016 to inspire the tech and innovation community and those who act---who propel. Propelify welcomed over 8000 attendees in 2016 and over 10,000 in 2017, making it one of the largest tech events ever, earning a headline from Forbes calling the Propelify Innovation Festival the SXSW of the Northeast.Past speakers include Gary Vaynerchuk, Arianna Huffington, Joanne Wilson, Gerard Adams, Marcus Weldon, Peter Shankman, and CEOs/founders of livestream, MakeSpace, media.net, Enigma, Gimlet Media, FullContact, Bionic, Andela, and more. Its media partners include Entrepreneur Magazine and Cheddar. Past sponsors include Bell Labs, Google, Jet, ADP, Samsung NEXT, Staples, and more.As Propelify's motto states: idle ideas don't fly.New Jersey Tech Meetup is the state's largest and fastest growing technology community with over 6500 members.Aaron has been invited to speak at the White House and has been covered by Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal, BetaBeat, Entrepreneur Magazine, NJ.com, and more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Marcus Weldon, CTO of Nokia and President of Bell Labs, sat down with us during the 2016 Innovation Roundtable Summit to discuss Bell Labs’ innovation approach. Weldon shares his view on the future and explains how to approach disruptive and technological innovation.

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On the eve of the first major exhibition of NEW INC's artists' collaboration with Bell Labs researchers, Marcus Weldon, President of Bell Labs and CTO of Nokia, gives us a sneak peek at what to expect, and how you can view and participate. "Only Human," featuring works and performances by Sougwen Chung, Lisa Park and HAMMERSTEP, opens April 29 at 1PM, kicking off the Spring Open Season at Mana Contemporary arts center in Jersey City, New Jersey. It's Bell Labs' first public-facing event of its kind since the historic "9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering" in 1966. The exhibit also includes two galleries full of audio-visual documents from that seminal event. On Saturday May 12, Mana will host a very special symposium entitled "Experiments in Art & Technology—Then & Now." To reserve your free tickets and get more information, go to: http://manacontemporary.com/onlyhuman Future Human is a presentation of Nokia Bell Labs, produced by audiation.fm.

“The Disgruntled Millennial” fills in for Kevin Jackson: FOX News Contributor, bestselling author, syndicated radio show host, nationally known speaker and a rising star in political circles. Marcus Weldon is the Santa Shooter: Guilty Until Proven innocent.  To learn more and to support his legal team, click the link, Marcus Weldon.   Send All Hate Mail To The Disgruntled Millennial shackgeneral@yahoo.com Facebook YouTube Twitter Soundcloud GAB Patreon Radio Show and Podcast  ITunes RSS

This is a short show but hits on concealed carry advice for the new person. Book recommendations, event calendar, Advice from Marcus Weldon on the justice system, Michael J Woodland on training vs competition, Respect Yourself Want inspiration, subscribe to the SpeakLifePodcast.com Need graphics, go to KennBlanchard.com

Welcome to a new episode of black man with a gun show podcast, this week  I’m still trying to get on the schedules of some of the leaders of the gun community to share what they are doing with you.  Its a work in progress, folks don’t know what to do with me.  Thank you for understanding.     Phil Smith on The future of National AA Gun Association, goals and visions Marcus Weldon starts his series with advice on what really happens after you defend yourself Intro to our focus next month History takes us back to a Nat Turner and 10 things you might not have known about him. his solar eclipse event Michael j. woodland on shooting with one hand

On this episode of Riding Shotgun, we visit Marcus Allen Weldon in Detroit, Michigan. We talk with Marcus about his lawful self defense story, how it affected his personal life and his impending legal battle.    http://www.marcusweldon.com/ is where you can get more info & buy his book. 

This week on Armed Lutheran Radio we are joined by Marcus Weldon, the “Santa Shooter,” to talk about his self-defense shooting, the legal nightmare that followed, and his new book “The Santa Shooter: Guilty Until Proven Innocent.” Plus a tip from Sgt. Bill and thoughts on the Eighth Commandment, or “justice” system and the fight for our rights. Ballistic Minute with Sergeant Bill Sgt. Bill gives you thoughts about an annoying cliche about being fast and smooth. Special Guest: Marcus Weldon After a long night working at a Christmas party, still wearing a Santa suit, he had an encounter with two men at a gas station that changed his life completely. After being shot at by two men, Marcus was forced to use deadly force in self-defense, and even though he was legally licensed to carry a gun, he was treated like a criminal and called “The Santa Shooter.” www.armedlutheran.us/alr-episode-71/ www.CooksHolsters.com      

How do we bridge design thinking with the thinking of an entrepreneur? Host Dave Robertson's first guest is Shana Dressler, Executive Director of Google's 30 Weeks, who works with designers on conceiving ideas to efficient prototyping, and talks about what it could mean for not only the next phase in design but also the evolution of business. Dave's second guest is Marcus Weldon, President of Bell Labs and Corporate Chief Technology Officer for Nokia, who discusses the future of technology. Is it a high R&D budget or a startup mentality that will bring us into the new era?

This week a conversation with Marcus Weldon, a good looking brother I met for the first time in Tampa, FL at the 2016 GRPC who had a brush with death and the criminal justice system, which is almost the same thing when he used his pistol defensively while wearing a Santa Claus outfit back in 2014. Talking clothing line with my High Capacity Magazine reporter, Ray Price who interviews http://incognitowearix.com And staff trainer for the show, Michael J. Woodland talks about how he dresses when carrying concealed. support and share.   http://highcapacitymagazine.us Title of this weeks show comes from the phrase comes from the UK which means dressed very elaborately. sharp dressed man cause everybody’s crazy bout a sharp dressed man….

Marcus Weldon (aka "The Santa Claus Shooter") recently sat down with Chris Massey for an exclusive interview to discuss how he was facing a 15 year prison sentence for a Self-Defense shooting, how his faith in God led him to reject a plea deal to reduce the 15 year prison sentence, the importance of being Self-Educated about your rights as an American Citizen and more!!! Background Music By: Doc Illingsworth Song: "Live Forever" By Rob Hayes