Podcasts about Siemens

A brochure anyone can read out loud is not a sales asset, it is a crutch. In this episode of Content Amplified, Jason Gwilliam returns to explain why the conversation closes the deal and content exists to back it up. Jason walks through the "scrub sink story," the 30 seconds outside an operating room where a rep has to land three points and then leave something behind. He explains the difference between a rep who is comfortable and a rep who is ready, why he sends people back out the door if they cannot answer the how, the why, and the what from Simon Sinek's Start with Why, and how the 10,000 hour rule from Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers shows up in sales the same way it shows up in film study and rehearsal. He also gets specific about AI as game film: what he learned running video coaching back in 2018, how to program a tool to measure cadence and filler words, and why coaching only works when weakness is not punished. Listen if your team has plenty of collateral and still loses the room.About JasonJason Gwilliam has spent 21 years in the healthcare and medical device space and has been a sales enablement practitioner and architect since 2008. He has sold for large companies including Philips, Abbott, and Siemens, and he makes the point that real enablement in med tech requires carrying a bag yourself so you understand what the field actually faces. He lives in King of Prussia, outside Philadelphia, and writes a notebook series on LinkedIn built around one idea: selling in 2005 is not the same as selling in 2026. This is his second appearance on the show.Show NotesConnect with Jason on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgwilliam1974/Start with Why by Simon SinekOutliers by Malcolm Gladwell (the 10,000 hour rule)"The Art of the Elevator Pitch," Harvard Business ReviewThe Challenger Sale research on what customers want: insight and differentiationText us what you think about this episode!

In der heutigen Folge sprechen die Finanzjournalisten Daniel Eckert und Lea Oetjen über die Notizbuch-Offenbarung von Scott Bessent, das Jahreshoch von Berkshire Hathaway und einen Konkurrenten für Eli Lilly. Außerdem geht es um Amazon, Apple, Bank of America, Apnimed, Perimeter Solutions, Rosenbauer, MSA Safety, Drägerwerk, Bridger Aerospace, Aena, Fraport, CAF (Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles), Siemens, Alstom, BBVA, Deutsche Bank, SPDR S&P Global Dividend Aristocrats ETF (WKN: A1T8GD), VanEck Morningstar Developed Markets Dividend Leaders ETF (WKN: A2JAHJ) und iShares Stoxx Global Select Dividend 100 ETF (WKN: A0F5UH). Mit dem Code „AAAFRIENDS“ sparst du 50 Prozent auf dein Ticket – aber nur unter folgendem Link: https://veranstaltung.businessinsider.de/event/financesummit26/summary?rp=c6dc55d6-6f4f-4fb4-b75f-3f3501d84859 Wir freuen uns an Feedback über aaa@welt.de. Noch mehr "Alles auf Aktien" findet Ihr bei WELTplus und Apple Podcasts – inklusive aller Artikel der Hosts. Hier bei WELT: https://www.welt.de/podcasts/alles-auf-aktien/plus247399208/Boersen-Podcast-AAA-Bonus-Folgen-Jede-Woche-noch-mehr-Antworten-auf-Eure-Boersen-Fragen.html. Hier könnt ihr den AAA-Newsletter abonnieren: https://www.welt.de/newsletter/article232797673/Alles-auf-Aktien-Der-taegliche-Boersen-Newsletter-fuer-WELTplus-Abonnenten.html Und – ganz neu: AAA gibt es jetzt auch auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alles_auf_aktien/ Disclaimer: Die im Podcast besprochenen Aktien und Fonds stellen keine spezifischen Kauf- oder Anlage-Empfehlungen dar. Die Moderatoren und der Verlag haften nicht für etwaige Verluste, die aufgrund der Umsetzung der Gedanken oder Ideen entstehen. Hörtipps: Für alle, die noch mehr wissen wollen: Holger Zschäpitz können Sie jede Woche im Finanz- und Wirtschaftspodcast "Deffner&Zschäpitz" hören. +++ Werbung +++ Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte! https://linktr.ee/alles_auf_aktien Anzeige: Eight Sleep: Der Pod 5 reguliert die Temperatur im Bett automatisch, trackt Schlaf- und Gesundheitswerte ohne Wearable und kann so zu besserem Schlaf beitragen. Mit dem Code ALLESAUFAKTIEN erhaltet ihr auf https://www.eightsleep.com/allesaufaktien bis zu 350 Euro Rabatt. Impressum: https://www.welt.de/services/article7893735/Impressum.html Datenschutz: https://www.welt.de/services/article157550705/Datenschutzerklaerung-WELT-DIGITAL.html

Wer KI-Modelle bauen will, braucht leistungsstarke Chips und riesige Rechenzentren. Davon profitieren viele Firmen. Doch Entwickler wie Google, Anthropic, Google oder OpenAI haben selbst noch keinen stabilen Weg gefunden, um ihre Modelle zu Geld zu machen. Zwar versuchen sie es mittlerweile verstärkt über Nutzungsgebühren - aber je höher diese Kosten sind, desto mehr Kunden überlegen, wie sehr ihnen die Modelle wirklich nutzen – eine Zwickmühle. Wie und ob sich KI zu Geld machen lässt, klären Markus Plettendorff und Alex Drost in 10 Minuten Wirtschaft.Links:  Berauscht von KI - eine neue Blase an den Märkten? https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/finanzen/ki-blase-100.html Was KI kostet und wer das alles bezahlt https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/finanzen/kuenstliche-intelligenz-kosten-100.html Neue chinesische KI fordert US-Konkurrenz heraus https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/ki-konkurrenz-china-usa-100.html

Het is een beetje een saai, ouderwets en gedateerd techbedrijf, maar tóch moet je erop letten, zegt onze gast, Jos Versteeg van InsingerGillisen. Infineon! Een Duits techbedrijf, volgens Jos in de verste verte niet vergelijkbaar met bijvoorbeeld TSMC, daar is de techniek te oud voor. Tóch vindt hij de cijfers interessant, omdat ze chips leveren voor datacenters. Daar hoopt hij meer over te horen. We kijken vooruit op de cijfers, en ook een klein beetje op die van AMD. In Beurs in Zicht stomen we je klaar voor de beursweek die je tegemoet gaat. Want soms zie je door de beursbomen het beursbos niet meer. Dat is verleden tijd! Iedere week vertelt een vriend van de show waar jouw focus moet liggen. Te gast: Jos Versteeg van InsingerGillisen BNR Beurs is een journalistiek onafhankelijke productie, mede mogelijk gemaakt door Saxo. Over de makers: Jelle Maasbach is presentator van BNR Beurs en freelance financieel journalist. Zijn favoriete aandeel om over te praten is Disney, maar daar lijkt hij de enige in te zijn. Sinds de eerste uitzending van BNR Beurs is 'ie er bij. Maxim van Mil is presentator van BNR Beurs en journalist bij BNR, waar hij zich focust op de financiële markten en ontwikkelingen in de tech-wereld. Je krijgt hem het meest enthousiast als hij kan praten over ASML, of oer-Hollandse bedrijven zoals Ahold of ABN Amro. Jorik Simonides is presentator van BNR Beurs, economieredacteur en verslaggever bij BNR. Hij wordt er vooral blij van als het een keer níet over AI gaat. Je hoort hem ook in de BNR-podcast Moerdijk: dorp van de rekening. Milou Brand is presentator van BNR Beurs, freelance podcastmaker en columnist bij het Financieele Dagblad. Jochem Visser is presentator van BNR Beurs, maakt Beursnerd XL en is redacteur bij de podcast Onder Curatoren. Vraag hem naar obscure zaken op financiële markten en hij vertelt je waarom het eigenlijk nóg leuker is dan je al dacht. Over de podcast: Met BNR Beurs ga je altijd voorbereid de nieuwe beursdag in. We praten je in een kleine 25 minuten bij over alle laatste ontwikkelingen op de handelsvloer. We blijven niet alleen bij de AEX of Wall Street, maar vertellen je ook waar nog meer kansen liggen. En we houden het niet bij de cijfers, maar zoeken ook iedere dag voor je naar duiding van scherpe gasten en experts. Of je nu een ervaren belegger bent of net begint met je eerste stappen op de beurs, de podcast biedt waardevolle inzichten voor je beleggingsstrategie. Door de focus op zowel de korte termijn als de lange termijn, helpt BNR Beurs luisteraars om de ruis van de markt te scheiden van de essentie.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

KI verspricht den schnellen Erfolg. Warum bleibt dieser Weg für die meisten trotzdem unerreichbar? Für diese Folge von „How I met my money" hat sich Lena mit Jens Polomski unterhalten: Als LinkedIn Top Voice im Bereich KI und Mitgründer der KI-Enablement Company snipKI berät er Unternehmen wie BMW, Siemens und die Handelsblatt Media Group dabei, KI praktisch im Arbeitsalltag zu verankern. Seine zentrale These: KI ist keine Abkürzung, sondern ein Werkzeug, das erst im Zusammenspiel mit dem eigenen Urteilsvermögen wirklich effektiv wird. In der Folge spricht Jens unter anderem darüber, – warum kein Tool jemals darüber entschieden hat, ob ein Unternehmen erfolgreich wird, und was stattdessen zählt. – welche Rolle Geduld in einer Zeit spielt, in der scheinbar alles sofort verfügbar ist. Und: was das für den Umgang mit Geld bedeutet. – warum KI-Ergebnisse oft überzeugender wirken, als sie eigentlich sind. Und wie wir unser eigenes kritisches Denken schützen. Eine Folge über den Mythos vom schnellen KI-Erfolg. Und die Frage: Was bleibt wertvoll, wenn alle Zugang zu denselben KI-Tools haben?

Het is een beetje een saai, ouderwets en gedateerd techbedrijf, maar tóch moet je erop letten, zegt onze gast, Jos Versteeg van InsingerGillisen. Infineon! Een Duits techbedrijf, volgens Jos in de verste verte niet vergelijkbaar met bijvoorbeeld TSMC, daar is de techniek te oud voor. Tóch vindt hij de cijfers interessant, omdat ze chips leveren voor datacenters. Daar hoopt hij meer over te horen. We kijken vooruit op de cijfers, en ook een klein beetje op die van AMD. In Beurs in Zicht stomen we je klaar voor de beursweek die je tegemoet gaat. Want soms zie je door de beursbomen het beursbos niet meer. Dat is verleden tijd! Iedere week vertelt een vriend van de show waar jouw focus moet liggen. Te gast: Jos Versteeg van InsingerGillisen BNR Beurs is een journalistiek onafhankelijke productie, mede mogelijk gemaakt door Saxo. Over de makers: Jelle Maasbach is presentator van BNR Beurs en freelance financieel journalist. Zijn favoriete aandeel om over te praten is Disney, maar daar lijkt hij de enige in te zijn. Sinds de eerste uitzending van BNR Beurs is 'ie er bij. Maxim van Mil is presentator van BNR Beurs en journalist bij BNR, waar hij zich focust op de financiële markten en ontwikkelingen in de tech-wereld. Je krijgt hem het meest enthousiast als hij kan praten over ASML, of oer-Hollandse bedrijven zoals Ahold of ABN Amro. Jorik Simonides is presentator van BNR Beurs, economieredacteur en verslaggever bij BNR. Hij wordt er vooral blij van als het een keer níet over AI gaat. Je hoort hem ook in de BNR-podcast Moerdijk: dorp van de rekening. Milou Brand is presentator van BNR Beurs, freelance podcastmaker en columnist bij het Financieele Dagblad. Jochem Visser is presentator van BNR Beurs, maakt Beursnerd XL en is redacteur bij de podcast Onder Curatoren. Vraag hem naar obscure zaken op financiële markten en hij vertelt je waarom het eigenlijk nóg leuker is dan je al dacht. Over de podcast: Met BNR Beurs ga je altijd voorbereid de nieuwe beursdag in. We praten je in een kleine 25 minuten bij over alle laatste ontwikkelingen op de handelsvloer. We blijven niet alleen bij de AEX of Wall Street, maar vertellen je ook waar nog meer kansen liggen. En we houden het niet bij de cijfers, maar zoeken ook iedere dag voor je naar duiding van scherpe gasten en experts. Of je nu een ervaren belegger bent of net begint met je eerste stappen op de beurs, de podcast biedt waardevolle inzichten voor je beleggingsstrategie. Door de focus op zowel de korte termijn als de lange termijn, helpt BNR Beurs luisteraars om de ruis van de markt te scheiden van de essentie.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Step into the dazzling world of tap shoes, big laughs, and timeless Gershwin melodies as we welcome Paisley Siemens, director and choreographer of Aspire Theatre's upcoming production of Crazy for You, on stage August 6–9. In this episode, Paisley shares what makes this beloved musical such a joyful celebration of the golden age of Broadway. We talk about the magic of directing and choreographing a show packed with energetic dance numbers, classic comedy, and unforgettable songs by George and Ira Gershwin—the kind of tunes that audiences instantly recognize and can't help but hum along with. Whether you're a longtime musical theater fan or someone who simply loves great music and a feel-good night out, this conversation is a reminder of why Crazy for You continues to charm audiences decades after its debut. Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at the creativity, hard work, and sheer fun that goes into bringing this sparkling Aspire Theatre production to life. Show times are August 6-8 at 7:30 pm, matinee on August 8 and 9 at 2 pm. For tickets visit aspirecda.com.

In der heutigen Folge sprechen die Finanzjournalisten Lea Oetjen und Holger Zschäpitz über Freud und Leid bei Amazon und Apple, die enttäuschenden Zahlen von Coinbase und den historischen Fall von Adidas. Außerdem geht es um Microsoft, Roblox, Reddit, Monolithic Power Systems, AXT, Marvell Technology, Live Nation Entertainment, Western Union, Infineon, Siemens Energy, Siemens, Hochtief, Siltronic, Nemetschek, TeamViewer, SAP, IREN, Nebius, Sandisk, Micron Technology, SK Hynix, Bloom Energy, CoreWeave, Core Scientific, Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom, Adobe, Arm Holdings, Lam Research, Schneider Electric, Ahold Delhaize und Walmart. Mit dem Code „AAAFRIENDS“ sparst du 50 Prozent auf dein Ticket – aber nur unter folgendem Link. https://veranstaltung.businessinsider.de/event/financesummit26/summary?rp=c6dc55d6-6f4f-4fb4-b75f-3f3501d84859 Wir freuen uns an Feedback über aaa@welt.de. Noch mehr "Alles auf Aktien" findet Ihr bei WELTplus und Apple Podcasts – inklusive aller Artikel der Hosts. Hier bei WELT: https://www.welt.de/podcasts/alles-auf-aktien/plus247399208/Boersen-Podcast-AAA-Bonus-Folgen-Jede-Woche-noch-mehr-Antworten-auf-Eure-Boersen-Fragen.html. Hier könnt ihr den AAA-Newsletter abonnieren: https://www.welt.de/newsletter/article232797673/Alles-auf-Aktien-Der-taegliche-Boersen-Newsletter-fuer-WELTplus-Abonnenten.html Und – ganz neu: AAA gibt es jetzt auch auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alles_auf_aktien/ Disclaimer: Die im Podcast besprochenen Aktien und Fonds stellen keine spezifischen Kauf- oder Anlage-Empfehlungen dar. Die Moderatoren und der Verlag haften nicht für etwaige Verluste, die aufgrund der Umsetzung der Gedanken oder Ideen entstehen. Hörtipps: Für alle, die noch mehr wissen wollen: Holger Zschäpitz können Sie jede Woche im Finanz- und Wirtschaftspodcast "Deffner&Zschäpitz" hören. +++ Werbung +++ Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte! https://linktr.ee/alles_auf_aktien Anzeige: Eight Sleep: Der Pod 5 reguliert die Temperatur im Bett automatisch, trackt Schlaf- und Gesundheitswerte ohne Wearable und kann so zu besserem Schlaf beitragen. Mit dem Code ALLESAUFAKTIEN erhaltet ihr auf https://www.eightsleep.com/allesaufaktien bis zu 350 Euro Rabatt. Impressum: https://www.welt.de/services/article7893735/Impressum.html Datenschutz: https://www.welt.de/services/article157550705/Datenschutzerklaerung-WELT-DIGITAL.html

Schaeffler, Bosch und Siemens testen die Roboter von Europas jüngster Robotik-Milliardenfirma bereits. Im Podcast spricht der Humanoid-CEO über die Disruption der Fabriken.

Deglobalization is rewriting where factories get built, and Ujjwal Kumar of Siemens explains what has to change on the plant floor before reshoring actually works.For thirty years the manufacturing playbook was labor arbitrage. Move high volume, low mix production to wherever disciplined labor was cheapest, then ship it back. Ujjwal Kumar, President of Automation for Siemens Digital Industries in the Americas, argues that model has quietly stopped making sense. Demand has fragmented into high mix, lower volume, regionally specific production, and the factories in Suzhou running on robots and autonomous systems no longer carry a cost advantage over the same operation in Chicago. When the labor content collapses, the business case for distance collapses with it. That single shift explains more about the current reshoring wave than any tariff headline.The trigger was not one event. Supply chain disruption after COVID proved that geographic proximity to supply was a profitability advantage, not a nice to have. Then came the political shock: vaccine access turned out to be governed by country of citizenship rather than global distribution, and leaders across every region started sorting industries into a folder marked critical. That folder now holds semiconductors, steel, power generation, defense, space, and life sciences. Ujjwal walks through where the money is actually landing right now, including AI data centers in remote locations that demand autonomous and remote operations, power generation across fossil, renewable, nuclear, and hydro, and a level of greenfield life sciences investment in the United States he has not seen in decades. The life sciences point is the sharpest one in the episode. Drug manufacturing left as mass produced batch operations and is returning as cell and gene therapy, personalized medicine, and precision biologics, which means lot sizes of one and R&D sitting physically next to production. The design it here, build it there model taught in business schools simply does not survive that.About Ujjwal KumarUjjwal Kumar is President of Automation for Siemens Digital Industries in the Americas. A mechanical engineer by training with an MBA from the Michigan Ross School of Business, he began his career at General Motors in Detroit and went on to spend ten years at GE and seven years at Honeywell Process Solutions before leading Teradyne Robotics, one of the largest physical AI based robotics platforms. He oversees the Siemens automation portfolio spanning discrete, process, and intralogistics automation, and he continues to mentor MBA students at Michigan Ross.Timestamps0:00 Introduction2:00 Career path from General Motors to Siemens6:10 What deglobalization means for manufacturing9:00 COVID, vaccine quotas, and the reshoring trigger13:05 Labor arbitrage versus automation arbitrage15:50 Attracting the next generation of factory workers19:35 Why semiconductor reshoring will take years23:00 Tribal knowledge and the documentation problem26:00 Where the investment is going right now32:30 Adaptive manufacturing and the AI hype question35:30 Platforms, ecosystems, and Siemens Xcelerator43:20 Careers, AI, and advice for engineersReferencesSiemens Xcelerator Marketplace: https://xcelerator.siemens.com/global/en.htmlThis episode is sponsored bySiemens is a technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, transport, and healthcare, and it supplies industrial automation hardware and industrial software to manufacturers worldwide. Its Digital Industries business covers discrete automation, process automation, intralogistics, and the Siemens Xcelerator platform.https://www.siemens.comAbout Your HostsVladimir Romanov is a co-host of The Manufacturing Hub Podcast and the founder of Joltek, an independent manufacturing and industrial automation consulting firm specializing in modernization strategy, digital transformation, and workforce development. Joltek works with manufacturers and investors to de-risk modernization and build the internal capability to sustain results.Connect with Vlad: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladromanov/Want to go deeper? Vlad and the team at Joltek have covered related topics here:Understanding Supply Chains: https://www.joltek.com/blog/understanding-supply-chainsManufacturing Challenges with New Machinery and Plants: https://www.joltek.com/blog/manufacturing-challenges-new-machinery-plantDave Griffith is a co-host of The Manufacturing Hub Podcast and founder of Capelin Solutions, an industrial automation firm helping manufacturers adopt smart manufacturing technology. He brings 15 years of experience in industrial automation and digital transformation.Connect with Dave: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davegriffith23/Subscribe to Manufacturing Hub: https://www.manufacturinghub.liveLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/manufacturing-hub-networkYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ManufacturingHub

Die Berichtssaison sorgt für massive Kursbewegungen: Meta enttäuscht trotz starkem Umsatzwachstum mit explodierenden KI-Investitionen und bricht zweistellig ein. Microsoft zeigt dagegen, wie profitables KI-Wachstum funktionieren kann – steigende Gewinne, starkes Azure-Wachstum und eine Verdopplung der Copilot-Abonnenten. Im DAX erlebt Adidas nach den Quartalszahlen einen Kurssturz von rund 18 Prozent. Warum reagiert der Markt trotz angehobener Prognose so negativ? Außerdem analysieren wir Siemens Energy: Ist der Rücksetzer eine attraktive Einstiegschance? Der Boom bei Rechenzentren, Gasturbinen und der Netzinfrastruktur spricht fundamental weiter für den Konzern. Wo liegt die entscheidende Unterstützungszone und warum könnte gerade jetzt ein antizyklischer Trade interessant werden? Zusätzlich: Die US-Notenbank (Fed) hält den Leitzins unverändert und verabschiedet sich zunehmend von ihrer bisherigen Forward Guidance. Was bedeutet das für Inflation, Anleiherenditen und die Aktienmärkte?

Darius Mirshahzadeh sits down with Raj Sisodia, Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Conscious Capitalism Inc. and New York Times bestselling author, to explore the origins of the conscious capitalism movement, the flawed assumptions embedded in modern business education, and Raj's powerful new book “Healing Leaders: 7 Steps to Recovery of Self”. Raj shares his extraordinary personal journey, from a small village in India without electricity to Columbia University and ultimately to co-founding a global movement alongside Whole Foods CEO John Mackey. The conversation spans the philosophy of human nature, the systemic forces working against conscious business, and the deeply personal inner work every leader must do to become truly effective and whole. In this episode, Darius and Raj will discuss: (00:00) Introduction and Guest Introduction (01:16) Raj Sisodia's Background and Journey (04:17) The Negative Consequences of Traditional Business Practices (05:42) The Pillars of Conscious Capitalism (06:54) The Origin of Conscious Capitalism and Its Founders (08:33) Challenges in Bringing Consciousness to Finance (10:35) Understanding Human Nature and Its Role in Business (13:47) The Wisdom Traditions and Conscious Capitalism (15:42) Egalitarian Roots and Capitalism's Evolution (17:01) Leadership and Systemic Change (18:23) Changing Education and Systemic Beliefs (22:23) The Current Moment and Future of Conscious Business (26:01) Power, Virtue, and Leadership at Scale (31:05) Scaling Conscious Business and Systemic Challenges (34:38) Personal Transformation and Leadership Healing (42:13) The Journey of Self-Healing and Inner Work (48:07) The Seven Steps to Self-Healing and Leadership Recovery (53:45) Where to Learn More and Final Thoughts Raj Sisodia is the FEMSA Distinguished University Professor of Conscious Enterprise at Tecnológico de Monterrey and Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Conscious Capitalism Inc. He holds a PhD in Business from Columbia University and is the author of sixteen books, including the New York Times bestseller Conscious Capitalism and Firms of Endearment. A globally recognized thought leader in conscious business and leadership, Raj has advised leading organizations such as IBM, Walmart, Whole Foods Market, Siemens, and AT&T. Connect with Raj: Website: https://rajsisodia.com/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajendrasisodia/  Connect with Darius: Website: https://therealdarius.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dariusmirshahzadeh/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imthedarius/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Thegreatnessmachine  Book: The Core Value Equation https://www.amazon.com/Core-Value-Equation-Framework-Limitless/dp/1544506708 Write a review for The Greatness Machine using this link: https://ratethispodcast.com/spreadinggreatness.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ray from Project Host joins Ingram Micro's AWS Partner Spotlight to discuss how their 20+ years supporting government and regulated cloud workloads has evolved into a fast, flexible path to FedRAMP and DoD authorization for ISVs. Ray shares how Project Host recently helped clients achieve full FedRAMP authorization in under four months — and what their growing AWS and Ingram Micro partnership unlocks for software vendors trying to break into the federal market.Key Takeaways

Ray from Project Host joins Ingram Micro's AWS Partner Spotlight to discuss how their 20+ years supporting government and regulated cloud workloads has evolved into a fast, flexible path to FedRAMP and DoD authorization for ISVs. Ray shares how Project Host recently helped clients achieve full FedRAMP authorization in under four months — and what their growing AWS and Ingram Micro partnership unlocks for software vendors trying to break into the federal market.Key Takeaways

Clayton Callander is the founder of FTL (Field Technologies), a diagnostic platform built to give commercial buildings something like a check-engine light, closing the service gap for the roughly 95% of properties that enterprise vendors like Honeywell and Siemens can't economically reach. Before founding FTL, Clayton spent seven years maintaining nuclear systems aboard a US Navy submarine, worked at SpaceX, and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School. He built FTL for the people fixing America's commercial buildings because he used to be one of them, and the tool he needed didn't exist yet. Clayton is based in San Francisco, CA.(00:00) - Intro: Why Six Million Commercial Buildings Have No Real-Time Data (01:10) - Meet Clayton Callander, Founder of Field Technologies(02:40) - The Telephone Game: What Happens When an HVAC Unit Breaks (05:50) - Zach's Take: Preventative Maintenance's 20-Year Elusive Goal (07:10) - It's an Access Problem, Not a Technology Problem (09:40) - Why Building Controls Stay Complicated and Expensive (13:10) - What FTL Does (16:50) - Pricing FTL at a Fraction of Traditional Controls (20:20) - Why It's Called Facilities Triage (22:20) - Which Asset Classes Are Ready for FTL (25:00) - What 60 Site Deployments Taught FTL (26:30) - Unlocking the Other Six Million Buildings (29:30) - LoRaWAN Explained: Why Not Wi-Fi (32:30) - Proprietary vs. Open Systems: A VC's View (36:00) - Collaboration Superpower: Immanuel Kant (Wikipedia) and Ding Huan (Wikipedia)

Een onbekende Chinese chipmaker was maandag in één keer het waardevolste beursbedrijf van China. CXMT maakte een spectaculair beursdebuut met een koerssprong van ruim 500%. Wat zit er achter die enorme waardering? En waarom is deze fabrikant van geheugenchips ineens zo belangrijk in de wereldwijde strijd om AI, technologie en economische macht? China-correspondent Roland Smid legt uit. Lees: Aandeel chipmaker CXMT 500% hoger na beursgang Shanghai De oprichters van softwarebedrijf Mendix kregen het na de verkoop van hun bedrijf aan Siemens aan de stok met de Belastingdienst, die aanslagen verstuurde die opliepen tot tientallen miljoenen euro’s. Nu oordeelt de rechter dat de fiscus daarbij ernstige fouten heeft gemaakt en zelfs ‘tegen beter weten in’ handelde. We bespreken de zaak met FD-redacteur Jan Braaksma. Lees: Fiscus gaat nat in miljoenenzaak tegen Rotterdamse softwareondernemer Een belastingconstructie die miljoenen moest besparen, eindigde in een nachtmerrie. Na de verkoop van hun familiebedrijf voor €45 mln, volgden drie Limburgse zussen een fiscaal advies dat hen uiteindelijk in strafrechtelijke problemen bracht in Spanje. De Nederlandse rechter spreekt van een schijnconstructie en is vernietigend over de rol van advieskantoor BDO. Onderzoeksjournalist Jasper Been vertelt wat er misging. Lees: Drie Nederlandse ‘supermarktzussen’ achtervolgd door Spaanse fiscus na dramatisch advies BDO Redactie & Montage: Jort Siemes en Floyd Bonder Presentatie: Floyd BonderSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Send us Fan MailElectricians are set to be caught in the crossfire AGAIN as the trade gears up for a fresh battle over plug-in batteries……the government acts over the branded light switch with a high risk of electric shock……and Siemens' circuit breaker from the future finally lands – at £600 a pop!Welcome to Electrical News Weekly in association with Shelly, helping electricians offer smarter buildings and better energy management======================Show Notes:Catch all the stories, links, and product info from this episode - it's all waiting for you in the show notes at

The aviation industry is grappling with an array of challenges, from a backlog of planes, to safety concerns, and widespread labor shortages. WSJ aviation reporter Ben Katz joins host Luke Vargas to discuss how the sector is thinking about AI, plus the latest technology on display at the Farnborough International Airshow in the U.K. Further Reading Aerospace Startup JetZero to Start Building Futuristic Planes in North Carolina Airbus Comes for Boeing in Battle Over World's Biggest Jets Boeing Chooses Palantir to Boost AI Adoption in Defense, Space Unit Honeywell Aerospace CEO Says AI Works for Blueprints but Isn't Ready for the Cockpit Sixteen Airbus A380s to Undergo Inspection After Cracks Found on Airplane Wings Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

+++ Alle Rabattcodes und Infos zu unseren Werbepartnern findet ihr hier: https://linktr.ee/wiederwasgelernt +++ Mit Hängen und Würgen einigt sich die EU am Donnerstag auf neue Russland-Sanktionen. Doch einen Bereich klammert die Staatengemeinschaft nach wie vor aus: die russische Atomindustrie. Das nutzt Frankreich aus. Im Emsland darf ein französisches Unternehmen ab sofort mit mutmaßlichen russischen Kriegsverbrechern Brennelemente fertigen. Russlands Präsident Wladimir Putin hat somit eine neue Einnahmequelle für die angeschlagene russische Kriegskasse. Gast? Sebastian Stier. Der Physiker und promovierte Informatiker hat viele Jahre für Siemens gearbeitet, ehe er die Seiten wechselte und als Patentanwalt einer Münchner Kanzlei Erfinder und Unternehmen vor dem Europäischen Patentamt vertrat. Seit seinem Ruhestand zeichnet Stier für den Weltnuklearbericht (WNISR) die Verflechtungen des französischen Atomkonzerns Framatome mit dem russischen Atomkonzern Rosatom in Lingen nach. Moderation? Christian Herrmann Sie haben Fragen? Schreiben Sie eine E-Mail an podcasts@ntv.de Sie möchten "Wieder was gelernt" unterstützen? Dann bewerten Sie den Podcast gerne bei Apple Podcasts oder Spotify. Dieser Podcast wird vermarktet von Julep Media: sales@julep.de Wir verarbeiten im Zusammenhang mit dem Angebot unserer Podcasts Daten. Wenn Sie der automatischen Übermittlung der Daten widersprechen wollen, melden Sie sich hier: datenschutz@julep.de

Mit Hängen und Würgen einigt sich die EU am Donnerstag auf neue Russland-Sanktionen. Doch einen Bereich klammert die Staatengemeinschaft nach wie vor aus: die russische Atomindustrie. Das nutzt Frankreich aus. Im Emsland darf ein französisches Unternehmen ab sofort mit mutmaßlichen russischen Kriegsverbrechern Brennelemente fertigen. Russlands Präsident Wladimir Putin hat somit eine neue Einnahmequelle für die angeschlagene russische Kriegskasse. Gast? Sebastian Stier. Der Physiker und promovierte Informatiker hat viele Jahre für Siemens gearbeitet, ehe er die Seiten wechselte und als Patentanwalt einer Münchner Kanzlei Erfinder und Unternehmen vor dem Europäischen Patentamt vertrat. Seit seinem Ruhestand zeichnet Stier für den Weltnuklearbericht (WNISR) die Verflechtungen des französischen Atomkonzerns Framatome mit dem russischen Atomkonzern Rosatom in Lingen nach. Moderation? Christian Herrmann Moderation: Clara Pfeffer und Christian Herrmann Wir freuen uns über Feedback und Zuschriften: klimalabor@ntv.de Ihr möchtet uns unterstützen? Dann bewertet das "Klima-Labor" bei Apple Podcasts oder Spotify Das Interview als Text? Einfach hier klicken. Dieser Podcast wird vermarktet von Julep Media: sales@julep.de Wir verarbeiten im Zusammenhang mit dem Angebot unserer Podcasts Daten. Wenn Sie der automatischen Übermittlung der Daten widersprechen wollen, melden Sie sich hier: datenschutz@julep.de

America is investing in the future of shipbuilding — but modern shipyards require more than docks and cranes. They require digital technologies that help engineers, planners and production teams build smarter, faster and more efficiently. This episode of In 5 explores Siemens' new partnership with HD Hyundai and how AI-powered digital shipyards could help strengthen U.S. maritime competitiveness, improve productivity and create a blueprint for the next generation of American shipbuilding. Show notes Press Release: Siemens, HD Hyundai Modernize U.S. Shipbuilding Blog post: Digital shipbuilding: America's maritime comeback, by Brittany Ng, Vice President, Siemens Digital Industries Software

How do you hold employees to high standards of performance while being a supportive leader? The answer is walking the accountability tightrope.In this episode of Boss Better Now, Joe Mull continues a special series adapted directly from his live leadership workshops on accountability in leadership. Listen in as he explains why driving results without adequate support kills team morale, undermines employee motivation, and exactly what you need to do to fix it.Many managers fall into an enforcer mindset where they expect immediate performance with minimal ramp up. Joe shares how these leaders often focus entirely on outcomes and ignore the journey required to get there. He details exactly how to shift away from a harsh management style where people end up feeling incompetent, and instead provide the meaningful support necessary for real employee performance management and leadership development.What to Expect in This Episode:The Accountability Tightrope: Joe continues the series focused on balancing high standards with supportive relationships.Recognizing the Enforcer Mindset at Work: What happens when impatient expectations meet an over-reliance on employee self-sufficiency.Why High Accountability Without Support Fails: The real costs of leaving employees to figure things out alone, resulting in fear, low energy, and a lack of creativity. This is also one of the fastest ways to damage workplace culture and hurt employee retention.The Problem with Fully Formed Expectations: Why expecting employees to walk through the door completely knowledgeable sets everyone up for failure.How to Build an On-Ramp for Success: Steps to use collaborative language and stand alongside your team to troubleshoot problems. This is the kind of practical manager training that actually changes behavior.Moving Beyond Pass or Fail Feedback: How to use performance feedback to praise progress and effort, normalize struggles, and build the psychological safety employees need to learn and grow.The Open Door Policy Trap: Why relying on an open door policy transfers responsibility to employees and fails to account for real workplace power dynamics.Shifting to a Go and Ask Mentality: How getting up from your desk to do rounding creates the specific conditions your team needs to thrive, and why this habit is central to lasting employee engagement and leadership coaching that actually sticks. To subscribe to Joe Mull's BossBetter Email newsletter, visit https://BossBetterNow.com For more info on working with Joe Mull, visit https://joemull.com For more info on Boss Hero School, visit https://bossheroschool.com To email the podcast, use bossbetternow@gmail.com #leadership #management #toxicworkculture #teambuilding #workplaceculture #conflictmanagement #employeeengagement #motivation Joe Mull is on a mission to help leaders and business owners create the conditions where commitment takes root and the entire workplace thrives. A dynamic and deeply relatable speaker, Joe combines compelling research, magnetic storytelling, and practical strategies to show exactly how to cultivate loyalty, ignite effort, and build people-first workplaces where both performance and morale flourish. His message is clear: when commitment is activated, engagement rises, teams gel, retention improves, and business outcomes soar. Joe is the founder of Boss Hero School™ and the creator of the acclaimed Employalty™ framework, a roadmap for creating thriving workplaces in a new era of work. He's the author of three books, including Employalty, named a top business book of the year by Publisher's Weekly, and his popular podcast, Boss Better Now, ranks in the top 1% of management shows globally. A former head of learning and development at one of the largest healthcare systems in the U.S., Joe has spent nearly two decades equipping leaders—from Fortune 500 companies like State Farm, Siemens, and Choice Hotels to hospitals, agencies, and small firms—with the tools to lead better, inspire commitment, and build more humane workplace cultures. His insights have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and more. In 2025, Joe was inducted into the Professional Speakers Hall of Fame (CPAE). This is the speaking profession's highest honor, a distinction granted to less than 1% of professional speakers worldwide. It's awarded to speakers who demonstrate exceptional talent, integrity, and influence in the speaking profession For more information visit joemull.com. Timestamps 0:00 The Leadership "Open Door Policy" Trap 0:18 The Accountability Tightrope Summer Series 1:33 Are You an "Enforcer" Boss? 2:22 Defining the Enforcer Mindset in Leadership 3:46 The Danger of Accountability Without Support 4:15 How to Add Meaningful Employee Support 5:13 Collaborative Language for Better Leadership 6:22 How an Open Door Policy Can Fail Your Team 7:34 Shifting to a "Go and Ask" Management Strategy

Two worlds that have never previously spoken the same language are now building the same machine.This week Chris sits down with David Nichols, CEO, Co-Founder and Engineer at Loupe, an alum of the show making his return. We are also joined by Kristen Quasey, Architecture & Portfolio Sales Manager, and Jan Bajorat, Senior Director of Software-Defined Automation, both at Siemens, for this special bonus episode of Manufacturing Happy Hour, live from Automate 2026.Together they get into software-defined automation, what that looks like on the shop floor, and why it's picking up momentum right now.David shares the story behind SASE, the Society of Automation Software Engineers, and what it felt like building a community around an idea before most of the industry had caught on. Kristen and Jan bring the perspective of a company adapting to a new generation of engineers and a shifting global workforce.In this episode, find out:What David means when he compares software-defined automation to a "chocolate and peanut butter" combination.Why David describes SASE as starting from a place of desperation rather than strategy.How Kristen and Jan see a new generation of engineers changing what companies need from automation.How building the software of a machine before its mechanics has changed what David's team was able to deliver.How a distributed team can fix a production issue without setting foot on the plant floor.Why Jan believes software-defined automation is what makes industrial AI possible at scale.Why global workforce shortages are pushing manufacturers toward a software-defined approach.Why software-defined automation is not the same thing as software automation.Enjoying the show? Please leave us a review here. Even one sentence helps. It's feedback from Manufacturing All-Stars like you that keeps us going!Tweetable Quotes:“If we can make it through this phase where we're kind of out in the wilderness, it's great. We're excited about what the next 10 years are going to look like, and I hope a lot of it looks like this.” - David Nichols, CEO, Co-Founder and Engineer at Loupe “When you have certain devices that are typically on the hardware side and you have a software-defined approach, you can now scale much quicker and be a lot more flexible.” - Kristen Quasey, Architecture & Portfolio Sales Manager at Siemens“With so many unfilled jobs that you need, you need a huge step. You need to drastically change, and this is what SCA is about. It's a big step up. It's not a small incremental thing.” - Jan Bajorat, Senior Director of Software-Defined Automation at SiemensLinks & mentions:Loupe is an engineering organization serving machine builders by providing control systems and developing software for automated equipment.Siemens is a leading technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, mobility, and healthcare. The company's purpose is to create technology to transform the everyday, for everyone.SASE is a community of engineers who are converging and completely revolutionizing software practices and automation.Make sure to visit http://manufacturinghappyhour.com for detailed show notes and a full list of resources mentioned in this episode. Stay Innovative, Stay Thirsty.

Siemens Gamesa rebrands as Omterra, Goldwind questions ever-bigger turbines, and MIT revisits the century-old Betz limit. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly newsletter 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 YouTube, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary’s “Engineering with Rosie” YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! The Uptime Wind Energy podcast, brought to you by StrikeTape. Protecting thousands of wind turbines from lightning damage worldwide. Visit striketape.com. And now your hosts Allen Hall: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I’m your host, Allen Hall, and I’m here with Rosemary Barnes, who is recovering from a very serious illness, Matthew Stead, who has been healthy pretty much all the Australian winter, and Yolanda Padron in sunny, hot Austin, Texas. Welcome, Rosemary Rosemary Barnes: Thank you. I am recovering from man flu, and I say man flu because it’s just a cold, but I’m complaining a lot about it.  Allen Hall: there’s gonna be a new name for Siemens Gamesa. So it was Siemens and then Gamesa’s a separate company. They merged. Siemens Energy, uh, broke off from Siemens AG. So [00:01:00] that’s a very well-known name, Siemens. It’s– Everybody knows Siemens at this point around the world. And the, the one family had, as a company, had s- label on everything, right? So it’s, uh, Werner von Siemens started it 150 years ago. It’s been a long time since Siemens was started, but it’s everywhere. It’s on turbines, transformers, and power plants around the world, and now they’re changing their name, right? So when Siemens Energy broke off from Siemens AG, they, they had a limited time they could use that name, so they have rebranding themselves or are about to rebrand themselves, and I wanna pronounce this right, Omterra. O-M-T-E-R-R-A. Now, we did a little research on this, and I think it’s Latin for all of the world. It’s kind of a conjoined, uh, set of words, Latin words, kind of a, a schmear in a sense. So, uh, so the company that, you [00:02:00] know, that spun off in w- roughly 2020, if I remember this right, Matthew, does that sound right? It was roughly 2020 when Siemens Energy was established on its own. Uh, they’re gonna be changing their name to Omterra. So instead of seeing, seeing Siemens Gamesa publications or Siemens Gamesa wind turbines, I guess they’re gonna have this new name, Omterra. What do we all think? Matthew Stead: I think it’s great. I think, and if you go back to, you know, GE Vernova, um, I, I thought Vernova was a bit weird for a while, but now it just rolls off the tongue and easy. It just makes so much sense. Um, so I’m, I’m, I’m for it. I, I like it. I’ve already… You know, can already say it. It took a lot longer to say Vernova than it’s taking to say Terra.  Rosemary Barnes: I think that it– But it’s not Vernova, it’s GE Vernova, right? So everyone knows what it is. Whereas my understanding is it’s not Siemens Omtera, it’s just Omtera, which makes it sound like a new budget kind of [00:03:00] brandless, history-less, uh, company. So that’s… Yeah, I’m no  branding expert, but I think that, uh, like they, they must have not been able to use the word Siemens at all, um, because otherwise you surely would, because it has a very… Outside of, you know, their blade issues and bearing issues of a couple of years ago, they do have a, like a solid engineering reputation across many fields, so you wouldn’t probably intentionally divorce yourself entirely from that. So, um, yeah, I, I think it will take some getting used to for me Matthew Stead: but everyone remembers. I mean, it’s not like– The people in the wind industry know their heritage, they know their history, so I don’t think it matters. I mean, you know, you know, they, they purchase the Senvion, you know, technologies or, you know, licenses in Europe. You know, y- y- you don’t forget these things, so I don’t think it matters. I think it’s just a, it’s a color, it’s a, it’s a label Yolanda Padron: I think it’ll be fine. I just think that there will be a little [00:04:00] bit of confusion down the line as with everything, right? Like I’ve, I’ve been on the side of conversations where I have to explain like Siemens versus like SGRE on paper and it’s like, oh, it’s– this is why th- there was that paper trail, uh, because people would think it was an absolutely different thing. Um, so I, I can totally see those conversations coming, coming to play in the future where someone thinks that Ontier is a completely different entity that maybe they changed OEMs or something, um, for a site. But nothing a little history lesson won’t fix, I guess. Matthew Stead: You just want people talking about you Rosemary Barnes: Name change every year  Allen Hall: Change your name every year. Well, that’s, that’s one way to approach it. I w- always wonder what the boardroom looks like and sounds like when this discussion is going on, because Siemens, Siemens Energy is a big company, and there had to be outsourcing of this to probably several marketing firms, mostly [00:05:00] in Germany, I’m guessing. And they came back with a bunch of pitches, and eventually they picked one. But boardrooms are probably not the place to pick a name. And I always think like, “Oh, you just had such a opportunity to do something really cool or really impressive.” Allen Hall: Well, we’ll see how it goes with Omterra. The, it’s gonna be, I’m sure, a huge marketing effort, and you’ll probably see commercials for it during the Super Bowl. Developers are [00:06:00] eyeing Britain’s next big renewables auction and have been waiting to learn the rules and most importantly, the price. Well, this week the UK government delivered both. It confirmed a package of changes to the CFD scheme ahead of allocation round eight, aimed at simplifying the process and keeping good projects from being tripped up by some paperwork. So AR7 was super successful, and they’re hopefully gonna have a, a great allocation round eight. Uh, unchanged from last round, here are some pieces to it. AR7 brought in 15 gigawatts of, of new capacity, uh, well below the ceilings, and the government is betting that that’s stability from AR7’s gonna exist for AR8, so they’re keeping the pricing limits the same. And let me give you some of the numbers here. So everything’s in 2024 prices, just so we have a baseline here. It, 113 pounds per megawatt hour [00:07:00] for fixed bottom offshore wind, 271 pounds for floating offshore wind. That’s, uh, pounds per megawatt. And then 92 pounds per megawatt for onshore wind, and s- 75 pounds per megawatt for solar. So 271 pounds per megawatt hour in 2044 dollars is, you know, you’re probably talking, what, 290 pounds per megawatt hour. That’s a really good strike price or ceiling to allow, uh, some more floating wind into the UK waters Rosemary Barnes: Yeah. Well, the UK have this newly signed agreement with Japan, right, to, to progress development of that technology. I feel like I, I haven’t looked up any numbers to back this up, but I feel like the gap between fixed bottom and floating is narrowing. It’s barely more than double now, which, um, yeah, I think is not that bad considering how little development there has been for floating offshore wind compared to fixed bottom. So [00:08:00] yeah, I think that it is an interesting technology to develop. I, I know with the, um, auction rounds and ’cause it’s a government thing, it’s easy to think, “Oh, why are you spending any money on anything other than the cheapest one?” Because y- you know, like, it, it feels weird that the government would play, you know, when they’re purchasing power for their grid, that they would do any more than trying to just get, you know, bulk power at the cheapest price possible whilst ensuring, you know, reliability. Um, but in the previous or the previous, the one– last one or the one before that, they had quite a few tidal projects announced that certainly, you know, an expensive and not mature technology. But I think that you can’t say the same thing about floating offshore wind. I think that it is on a, like a good, a good development trajectory, and there are certainly places on Earth where floating offshore is one of the most appealing technologies. You know, if you think of through to 2030s, 2040s, there’s plenty of places where, um, you know, slightly higher [00:09:00] price paid for floating offshore wind will still be worth it because they have so few other options available. So it makes sense as an industry to in- invest in capabilities there.  Matthew Stead: think it’s a really interesting method. It seems to be really successful, the contract for di-difference approach. So, um, I’m, I’m surprised that it’s not adopted more widely, um, in other locations,  Rosemary Barnes: it is around a bit. I would like to see it, like, in, in Australia, we are, we are developing some new wind projects, but not as fast as we need to, to, you know, hit our upcoming targets. And I think, like, while the government is doing some things to help move or help incentivize developers, it’s not working that well, and maybe CFD would be a, you know, a bit of a better way to, like, just actually guarantee that these projects are gonna go ahead. ​ Allen Hall: Australia has a shipping problem. there’s been a concern at state-owned transport hubs are becoming less supportive of [00:10:00] wind energy projects with ACEN Renewables saying that they will now have to truck a large transformer from a wind project or for a wind project in northern New South Wales from the Port of Adelaide. That’s not necessarily close. And h- they also said that the Port of Brisbane has refused to accept passage of some big transformers for a solar farm. also there’s some, uh, something about blades not being able to be accepted in certain ports. Like some of the, uh, Australian state-managed or state-owned ports are not accepting renewables. Rosemary Barnes: I think  also that blades in Queensland can only be transported to site like one per day with a full police escort or something. It’s wild to me ’cause, you know, like I lived in, in Denmark for so long and there were blades going up and down just the normal highway every single day, multiple like, uh, and three– they would go in sets of threes for obvious reasons. Um, yeah, but the, the, the [00:11:00] Queensland government changed like a, a year ago or, or so, and it changed to a very anti-renewables government and they just threw all of the state’s renewable plans in the bin,  Allen Hall: such a recent change that when they, at least the news articles I’ve seen about it, I’ve only seen a handful, that they have, um, like last year some big transformers, like really difficult to move items have come through those ports and they’re just not letting them through now. How does that work? If you have a, a, a legal right to build a wind farm or a solar farm or, or substation or whatever’s going on there, how do they reconcile not allowing those components to come through a port? In what world does that make sense? Matthew Stead: I mean, most of the ports are– yeah, most of the ports are privatized, so it’s up to the individual commercial entity that’s running the port, I would, I would imagine. So it’s beyond the control of the government, would be my first guess.  Yolanda Padron: it seems like it’s an, a federal sort of thing that would give permits.  Matthew Stead: No, I mean, I’ve done a bit of work in the Port of Melbourne and, [00:12:00] um, it’s facilitated by the government, uh, state government, not federal, and but the ports are largely privatized.  Rosemary Barnes: I just pulled up an article and it says that it’s state-owned transport hubs are becoming  less supportive of wind energy projects. Um, yeah, and that’s the reason for why they’ll have to get that transformer in northern New South Wales, so very close to Queensland. They have to go from Adelaide, where you live, Matt, all the way through South Australia, maybe Victoria, New South Wales, and then, yeah, up to nearly the border. Allen Hall: Is that just a temporary blip that the next election cycle it’ll revert back or is this something that’s more long term? Rosemary Barnes: uh, it’s not obvious that it’s gonna flip straight back, that’s for sure Allen Hall: [00:13:00] for years, the race in wind has run mostly in one direction: bigger and bigger blades, bigger towers, bigger machines. And now a chief engineer f- at one of China’s largest turbine makers says it’s time to pump the brakes. Bo Juul Petersen, uh, Goldwind’s chief engineer in Denmark, argues that scaling turbines up no longer makes economic sense. So it’s not an engineering question, it’s an economic question. His reasoning rests on a simple rule of geometry, the square cube r- law, which says that as a turbine grows, its materials and costs climb faster than the rotor area that earns the revenue. Past a certain point, he says, bigger simply costs more than it makes. Have we crossed that threshold yet? Is 20 megawatts that, [00:14:00] uh, pivot point where it doesn’t make any more sense to make a larger turbine? Matthew Stead: didn’t we have problems when we went from three to six?  Allen Hall: One to two. Matthew Stead: I, I, I think, uh, I think it’s good that someone’s actually coming out and saying this Yolanda Padron: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Rosie’s on the podcast. Rosemary Barnes: yeah, ex-excuse me, this is one of my topics of obsession that I constantly carry on about. I made a whole, a whole video about it with, um, equations to back up my opinions about scaling, um, and a very nifty tug of war metaphor between economic factors that favor big wind turbines and economic fav- factors that favor small ones. And I think that we’re always a little bit ahead of, of what the right, the right balance is between those. So, you know, the benefits from having bigger turbines are that, um, you have fewer electrical connections, for offshore especially, that means less subsea cables and, um, yeah, just like much faster Faster construction of all that, you [00:15:00] know, less, uh, substructures and less, less of everything to install, less of everything to maintain as well. You know, it doesn’t take so much longer to get up and do your annual maintenance checks of a big turbine compared to a small one. Like, it takes longer, but not, not that much longer. Um, but then all of the structural factors favor smaller turbines over bigger ones. blades especially, as they get longer, you get so many more problems in O&M, but they don’t show up on the developer’s spreadsheet, you know. The spreadsheet that you’re using to decide, um, your f- your final investment decision, it, it doesn’t, it doesn’t know that you’re gonna have a whole bunch of blade issues. It doesn’t wanna know and so I think that that’s one factor that has pushed us past the economic point of where wind turbine size should be. And I think the other thing is prestige. I know that when I worked at LM, you know, we had the longest blade in the world. It was 88 meters, was our first, um, world record that we set while I was working there. They’d had many before that. We had– They [00:16:00] had a, like, one-to-one scale printout of it that they took to WindEurope or WindHamburg, um, that everyone stood in front of, and then they lost it to somebody, and then they got it back again with the blade for the Halieade-X. And we all know how well that went to, you know, have the world’s longest blade. Y- you know, it wasn’t so easy to make it, turned out. It’s very easy to announce and not so easy to make, um, with reliable quality. And now we’ve got all these Chinese companies, especially MingYang, is constantly announcing the world’s biggest something. Um, don’t sell so many of them, but it’s not the point, isn’t to sell them, it’s to have the prestige of making the world’s biggest something.  Allen Hall: Yeah, what would be the technology breakthrough that would allow it to be more stable at a 20 or 25 megawatt? Because right now I’m, I’m seeing 1% improvement here and there, not 5%, 10%. Rosemary Barnes: Yeah, I mean, 1% improvement will eventually add up to what, what you need. Maybe it’s in 20 years’ time, not 10 years’ time. But y- you know, like you can imagine anything. maybe [00:17:00] they start somehow, like aero and automotive manufacturing technologies get cheap enough that we can start making wind turbine blades with all prepregs instead of y- you know, um, you know, dry fabric and infusion. For example, maybe 3D printing gets cheap enough that you can make your whole, whole blade from an additive process. Like a- anything like that. But it can also be other things like maybe the cost of subsea cables in- increases like a whole lot, and then if, you know, like things on one side getting more expensive can make it more worthwhile to save hard problems somewhere else. So that’s why I say it’s like a, it’s a, a ve- it’s a multivariable optimization problem that changes every time you have a… Like for every project to project from year to year, it’s always gonna be slightly different. So I don’t think it’s wise to definitively say 20 megawatts is the threshold that we should never cross. Like I, I don’t agree with that.  Allen Hall: It’s one of those arguments, I think, about [00:18:00] any sort of technology about where the endpoint is. There’s too many variables to predict it. I always point to aviation in which older airplanes will hang around and hang around and hang around until the fuel price goes up enough where it doesn’t make sense to operate them. So they will fly an airplane un-until they can no longer structurally do it. But if the price of oil shoots up and the price of aviation fuel bumps up, those airplanes get parked, and then they’re buying the new airplane with a more efficient engine. It’s a similar thing, I think. There’s just– You can’t tell where the technology’s gonna go or what the economic impacts of any part of that business will force you to do something different. So it’s gonna be higher than 20 megawatts, guarantee you that.  Yolanda Padron: Well, it’s one of those things too, right? Where if we’re repeating the, the same blade type and we’re getting smarter about operating that same blade type, then the economic cost goes down, [00:19:00] right? Like, eventually. ‘Cause then you’re not just experimenting on every new thing or having to take all of the, the funding into tr- specializing techs or getting very specialized techs onto your site and finding a new– kind of the wheel every so often. [00:20:00] So speaking of larger wind turbines, evidently we’ve been doing this all wrong, that we’ve had the calculations for the, uh, Betz limit has been off, and, uh, a group of MIT engineers, I guess, uh, have, have made a breakthrough. Allen Hall: So basically every wind turbine that is spinning today is based on some fundamentals, uh, math, empirical data in, in some level, but on formulas that have led us to design the wind turbines and that core formula called the momentum theory. And if you hear blade designers who hang around blade designers, which I don’t necessarily recommend, but if you do hang around blade designers, they, they’ll say the momentum theory, momentum theory, like, “Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I got it.” It, it, the– MIT is saying it breaks down exactly at the operating point where modern turbines try to live. Um, so for a century the fix [00:21:00] was a patchwork of corrections and useful, but with no real theory behind them. Now, a team at MIT said it has rebuilt the math from first principles, creating what they call a unified momentum model. It even nudges at the famous Betz limit, the century-old ceiling on how much energy a rotor can capture, and it bumps it up by a few percentage points, and that would be the first uptick to the Betz limit in over 100 years. All right, Rosemary, as our official Betz limit expert, does this make any sense? Have the MIT folk something new?  Rosemary Barnes: a wind turbine blade, its aerodynamics are just the same aerodynamics as what keeps an airplane in the sky, right? It’s, it’s all the… It’s just an airfoil. It’s just facing a wind speed, um, you know, a local wind speed. It’s complicated by the fact that [00:22:00] a wind turbine blade is also rotating, so the wind speed is different along the whole span, and that’s, uh– and so is the flow angle, and that’s why blades are twisted and tapered. Um, but you know, essentially when you wanna figure out how much energy, uh, a wind turbine is gonna generate or you wanna design the blade so that it optimizes that amount, you’re just slicing it up into a whole bunch of little bits of 2D flow, exactly the same as an, an airplane. So if it doesn’t work for wind turbines, then it shouldn’t work for airplanes either. So that’s one fundamental thing. And also at Betz limit, it’s not like it’s not driving design. It’s more like if you, if your design exceeds the Betz limit for a, um, a horizontal axis wind turbine, then you– it’s like a sanity check that you’ve done something wrong. Uh, that’s, that’s what I would say you would mostly use it for. Um, but what I don’t understand, and maybe Alan, presumably you did read the, read the research or at least the press [00:23:00] release. Are they arguing that y- um, like the tips of a wind turbine blade are rotating, are moving fast enough that it’s approaching transonic flow? ‘  Allen Hall: Yeah, it’s a rental number thing. Rosemary Barnes: there’s different types of aerodynamic equations depending on how fast the, airfoil’s moving. And my understanding is transonic is like 0.8 Mach, um, 0.8, which is 274 meters a second, which is more than double what, um, the fastest tip speeds are currently. So I would think that you’re not quite approaching that yet. They’re– It’s not like a cutoff that, you know, all of a sudden at that exact, exact speed the air behaves totally differently. But, um, y- yeah, like it seems far enough away that it’s not that relevant. But is that what they’re getting at or, or is it something different?  Allen Hall: I like doing sanity checks when I read things from MIT. So what blade [00:24:00] manufacturers and/or wind turbine OEM has designed a set of blades and go, “Oh my gosh, we’re getting more energy than what we calculated,” and not thought to themselves, “Huh, maybe we should look into that”? It’s, it’s, it’s hilarious almost that all the engineers working in wind for 100 years wouldn’t have stumbled across this, where the turbine produces more power than the Betz limit would say it would. Y-  Rosemary Barnes: yeah, as many people have commented on, you know, any one of my YouTube videos about wind turbine aerodynamics, if they would just put more blades in there, then, you know, less wind would just fly through without ever being, um, y- without ever hitting a blade. So, you know, like obviously wind turbine, uh, blade aerodynamics people are stupid because if they weren’t, then they would see that you just put more blades in and you get more, twice as many blades, twice as much energy and w- What about three times as many blades? Three times as much energy. And I [00:25:00] didn’t even go to MIT and that’s just, you know, like just  brilliant  Allen Hall: Obvious  Rosemary Barnes: off the top of my head here.  Allen Hall: it’s sort of ludicrous, honestly, and I see these things in wind occasionally. I see it more often in other areas, particularly aerospace, where, where you just have to go, “What are we spending time on? Really? We’re working on this? On a fraction of a percentage point that we may have a slight error in?” Like, it does not matter. What are you gonna do with that?  Rosemary Barnes: there’s two issues. One is that the person writing up the press release is not the person that did the research, and they will always blow it up to be much more groundbreaking than the engineers who actually worked on it probably think it is. So, the, like, I think you have to, like, reserve your criticism of the work and try and criticize the press release. And then the second error that I commonly see is that people don’t have an un- good understanding of a status quo. So they think that they have smashed the status quo, but really it’s more to do with them not understanding the status quo than it is through [00:26:00] some legitimate, like, massive im- improvement. So it could well be that this is all very good and correct work, just with limited practical implication. That would be my most expected, um, from this.  Allen Hall: Rosemary, how many times a month do you get queries about wind turbine improvements that are just physically impossible? Rosemary Barnes: Oh, I mean, if I read all of the comments on my YouTube channel, then probably quite, quite frequently. But, um, yeah, the most common one is just people thinking you can just add more blades and get a proportional increase in, um, in energy, you won’t get more power from adding more blades if that’s the only thing that you do, because in a well-designed wind turbine, which modern ones are, every, e- every air molecule that goes through the rotor disc is gonna interact with the, um, with, with a blade. That’s how it’s, it’s designed. The blades are moving really fast, and so every molecule doesn’t get hit, but, you know, every, every molecule is affected and has some energy extracted from it. Um, then the other thing is people [00:27:00]who think if you reduce drag, like if you can come up with a lower drag airfoil or a higher lift airfoil, then you think, they think that that relates to more energy proportionally. So they’re like, “Oh, this airfoil has twice as much lift, so it’s gonna be twice as much power.” It’s like, actually, you know, wind turbine designers are aware of the full range of, you know, airfoils that are available, including high lift ones, and they’re not using it because, you know, the same reason the airplane wings aren’t just, you know, like the highest, highest lift airfoil. Y- you know, it’s more of a lift to drag ratio type thing, and that’s true for wind turbine blades as well, but also there’s structural considerations probably more so in a wind turbine blade than there are in, um, in airplane wings. So, you know, there’s some sacrifices made for that. Um, yeah, but those are the two, two main families of, of mistakes that I’d say people make. Allen Hall: So  Rosemary Barnes: Matt  Allen Hall: up to his hand up for  to MIT media representatives Matthew Stead: uh,  I had a couple of sort of quick and simple points. The first of all, uh, I’m actually a graduate of [00:28:00] MIT. I’ve graduated from, uh, from a course at MIT. Um, so that’s the first thing. Um, not in engineering. Um, the next one is like, so what? I mean, we can’t even reliably measure, um, you know, AEP the other one is all models are wrong.  Yolanda Padron: But not just wind Matthew Stead: the world is not perfect. All models are wrong, so trying to improve something that’s wrong, you know, might help a little bit, but does it really matter? Rosemary Barnes: But it is also the job of academics to improve these models. So there’s nothing wrong with MIT spending a lot of energy to, um, you know, improve on an incorrect model with another incorrect model. Uh, if it’s more useful, that’s great, and even if it’s not, like isn’t that the job of  Matthew Stead: yeah.  Matthew Stead: you should add to where it has the most impact on humanity. You should actually put the effort into areas that have a greater impact on pushing the boundary. You know, pushing small boundaries does not help the world  Allen Hall: Matthew is an MIT graduate, [00:29:00] the one thing that Matthew brings to the table is real-world experience. And that if you shelter yourself inside a laboratory at MIT, and I understand why you would do that, because I’m sure it’s a very pleasant place to work, and there’s a lot of benefits to that. However, the way that MIT used to work back in the day, and not everything was roses then, but oh, okay, y- that people had industry experience. They had a knowledge of what was going on on the ground, and they were engineers, and they realized that formulas and reality don’t always align. And maybe we lost that somewhere in the ’80s and, or ’90s, but it does continue to be a problem, where back to Matthew’s point, if you’re going to use that amount of brain energy, put it to something that can help the world. This isn’t necessarily helping the world That wraps up another episode of the Uptime: Wind Energy podcast. If today’s discussion sparked any questions or ideas, and I’m sure that it will, we’d love to hear from [00:30:00] you. Reach out to us on LinkedIn, and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. So for Yolonda, Rosemary, and Matthew, I’m Allen Hall, and we’ll see you here next week on the Uptime: Wind Energy podcast.

Araceli de Frutos, asesora del fondo Alhaja Inversiones, pone el foco sobre Airbus, Siemens, Novartis, Swatch y Volkwagen.

In this episode of The Intelligence Report, Dylan Welch sits down with Peng Cau, Director of Siemens for Startups Americas, entrepreneur, investor, and longtime advocate for deep technology innovation.After building and scaling her own automation company over more than two decades before a successful exit, Peng now helps the next generation of founders navigate one of the most difficult challenges in business: transforming breakthrough technology into commercially successful companies.The conversation explores why many startups fail despite having exceptional technology, the importance of commercialization strategy, how digital engineering is reducing development costs, and why today's investment landscape is becoming increasingly favorable for hard tech innovators.Whether you're building a startup, investing in emerging technologies, or simply interested in the future of innovation, this episode provides practical insights from someone who has experienced every stage of the entrepreneurial journey.Topics include: Why commercialization matters more than technology alone  The biggest mistakes technical founders make  How Siemens supports hard tech startups  Digital twins and the future of product development  Raising capital in deep tech industries  Building the right founding team  Aerospace, energy, defense, and medical technology innovation  The future of hard tech investingSupport the show

After several weeks away from the podcast, Dave Griffith and Vladimir Romanov return to Manufacturing Hub to unpack their experiences at Automate 2026 and discuss what the event revealed about the current state of industrial automation.Automate showcased an enormous range of robotics, industrial AI, machine vision, software, cloud connectivity, and emerging automation technology. However, some of the most revealing conversations were not about futuristic factories. They were about PLC 5 migrations, aging SLC systems, obsolete PanelView terminals, industrial networks, basic data collection, and how platforms such as Ignition actually connect to plant floor equipment.Vlad shares what he learned from demonstrating a complete packaging line environment built around a CompactLogix PLC, an industrial computer, Ignition, and production performance data. The demonstration was designed to show how manufacturers can use OEE, downtime information, and machine states to identify production bottlenecks and determine where capital investment could deliver the greatest return. Instead, many attendees wanted to understand the underlying architecture, where Ignition runs, how it connects to PLCs, what protocols are required, and whether it can replace traditional HMI and SCADA platforms.Dave discusses his experience inside the Ignition ecosystem booth, the FactoryStack cloud demonstration, the advantages of MQTT in a difficult trade show network environment, and his Automate panel on software defined automation and the factory of the future. He also introduces Elephant, an industrial log analysis and contextualization tool being developed to help users identify meaningful patterns across Ignition gateways, reduce system noise, compare facilities, and diagnose intermittent problems.The conversation then moves across the industrial automation stack. Dave and Vlad examine virtual PLCs from Siemens, Phoenix Contact, and other vendors, including where software based control may provide value and where it may add unnecessary organizational complexity. They discuss AI generated PLC code, the limitations of translating functional specifications into reliable control applications, and why tools that produce 80 or 90 percent of an automation solution still require experienced engineers to validate the final result.They also explore AI assisted HMI and SCADA development, Ignition 8.3, MCP servers, high performance HMI design, and the risks of providing AI agents with uncontrolled access to production systems. At the MES layer, they question whether manufacturers should build custom applications through vibe coding or focus instead on creating clean, contextualized, well governed data that can support many future applications.The central conclusion is that AI tools, virtual controllers, cloud platforms, and dynamically generated applications will continue to improve. However, manufacturers still need reliable controls, secure networks, maintainable architectures, experienced people, and ownership of their operational data. The companies that establish those foundations today will have the greatest freedom to adopt whatever technologies emerge next.Dave and Vlad also preview the 2026 Ignition Community Conference in Sacramento, upcoming Manufacturing Hub conversations, new demonstrations, and several projects the community will see throughout the remainder of the year.Join us for a detailed and candid discussion about Automate 2026, Ignition, industrial AI, virtual PLCs, HMI and SCADA development, MES, MQTT, data architecture, and what manufacturers should prioritize next.

As the Farnborough Airshow approaches, editors discuss how engine-makers are making headway with nagging durability problems while positioning for the all-important next-gen single aisle competition—and explain how the two play into each other.  Thank you to our sponsor, Siemens. When aerospace leaders need trusted engineering and design solutions, they turn to Siemens comprehensive solutions. From design to delivery, our solutions support you throughout the entire product lifecycle.  Learn more at siemens.com

Dank des KI-Booms wurde Siemens Energy zum Börsenstar. Nun benennt sich der Energietechnik-Konzern um und richtet sich neu aus. Was CEO Christian Bruch plant und worum es beim Geheimprojekt „Voyager“ geht, darüber sprechen in diesem Podcast Host Sarah Heuberger und Franz Anko-Hubik, Redakteur des manager magazins. Weiterführende Links: Wer folgt auf CEO Roland Busch?: Wie Siemens sich „Optionen“ für Busch-Nachfolge schafft Umbau beim Dax-Überflieger: Rendite oder Trennung? Wie Siemens Energy den Druck auf seine Sparten erhöht „Project Voyager“ betrifft 17.000 Mitarbeiter: Siemens Energy bereitet Mega-Abspaltung vor Sechs Jahre nach der Abspaltung: Siemens Energy will mit neuem Namen Millionen sparen Zum manager magazin Abo Der Tag – Die Wirtschaftsnachrichten als Newsletter Das manager magazin fasst den Tag für Sie zusammen: Die wichtigsten Wirtschaftsnachrichten im Überblick. Täglich ab 18:00 Uhr. Hier geht es zur Anmeldung! Host: Sarah Heuberger (Redakteurin manager magazin)Gast: Franz Anko-Hubik (Redakteur manager magazin)Schnitt, Mixing/Mastering: Felix KleinProduktion: Nele Geiger, Sven Bergmann+++ Alle Infos zu unseren Werbepartnern finden Sie hier. Die manager-Gruppe ist nicht für den Inhalt dieser Seite verantwortlich. +++ Alle Podcasts der manager Gruppe finden Sie hier. Mehr Hintergründe zum Thema erhalten Sie bei manager+. Jetzt drei Monate für nur € 10,- mtl. lesen und 50% sparen manager-magazin.de/abonnieren Informationen zu unserer Datenschutzerklärung.

Patch Tuesday. SonicWall urges immediate patching of actively exploited vulnerabilities.  The White House launches an AI-backed vulnerability clearinghouse. The Air Force contends with widespread cybersecurity quarantines. The UK and EU blame Russia for last year's cyberattack on Poland's power grid. Meta faces accusations of AI-assisted layoffs. NATO allies collaborate in space. The Pentagon offers paid cyber apprenticeships. Spanish police dismantle a cybercrime and money-laundering network. Our guest is Clark Frogley, Global Head of Fraud at Quantexa and former FBI agent, discussing the fraud-as-a-service economy and what banks are missing. Grok Build users data is cloudy with a chance of uploads.  Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn. CyberWire Guest Today we are joined by Clark Frogley, Global Head of Fraud at Quantexa and former FBI agent, as he is discussing the fraud-as-a-service economy and what banks are missing. Selected Reading Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws (Krebs on Security) Adobe Patches Critical ColdFusion Vulnerabilities (SecurityWeek) Vulnerabilities Patched by Fortinet, Ivanti, ServiceNow (SecurityWeek) ICS Patch Tuesday: Vulnerabilities Fixed by Siemens, Schneider, Rockwell (SecurityWeek) Critical Vulnerabilities Patched With Fresh Chrome 150, Firefox 152 Updates (SecurityWeek) SonicWall warns of SMA1000 flaws exploited in zero-day attacks, patch now (Bleeping Computer) White House announces ‘Gold Eagle' AI clearinghouse for cyber vulnerabilities (Nextgov/FCW) Air Force network lockouts hit troops and civilians (Federal News Network) NATO Allies join forces to develop high-end space capabilities (NATO) EU and UK officially blame Russian spies for cyberattack on Poland's power grid (The Register) Meta used AI to target workers with medical conditions for layoffs, lawsuit claims (Reuters) Pentagon opens application window for paid cyber apprenticeships (DefenseScoop) Spanish Police take down €140 million cyber fraud ring, arrest four (Bleeping Computer) Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud (The Register) Share your feedback. What do you think about CyberWire Daily? Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us by completing our brief listener survey. Thank you for helping us continue to improve our show. Want to hear your company in the show? N2K CyberWire helps you reach the industry's most influential leaders and operators, while building visibility, authority, and connectivity across the cybersecurity community. Learn more at sponsor.thecyberwire.com. The CyberWire is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Sustainability Matters podcast, host Christian Orth explores how Siemens is using sustainability reporting as a powerful management tool to help steer business performance. As new regulatory frameworks such as CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive) roll out, he explores whether ESG disclosure is simply an administrative burden or a tool to drive real value.  Christian is joined by Thomas Knobloch from Siemens AG and Caroline Pfaff, Partner at EY Germany to break down the practical reality of ESG reporting. Together, they look at the challenge of complex global data, tracking how organizations can move past chasing "perfect" real-time metrics and instead prioritize immediate progress over perfection.  They discuss the real-world operational challenges, how Siemens successfully built a 360-degree target framework directly into its board-level decisions and how focusing on material KPIs, like carbon intensity and product carbon footprints, can simultaneously mitigate long-term risk while unlocking competitive advantages.  Through it all, Thomas and Caroline highlight that building a strong company culture is what can drive true organizational transformation as well as the opportunities to unlock real business value. @2026 Ernst & Young LLP

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Too many global strategies are written for boardrooms, not the markets they're meant to serve and it's a mistake that's costing companies real growth. Janice B Gordon dives deep with Jane Egerton-Idehen on the high price of ignoring local nuance in international sales. Together, they unpack how adaptive strategies and authentic stakeholder engagement are defining the next generation of winning CEOs. What you'll learn: a) Why treating Africa as a single market sabotages growth b) The business case for local presence and on-the-ground leadership c) How listening to the market reveals new revenue opportunities Jane Egerton-Idehen is the MD and CEO of Nigeria Communications Satellite Limited, an experienced tech executive and author, who has led commercial growth for over 15 years across Africa's telecom sector. She's held senior leadership roles at Meta, Ericsson, Avani Communications, Nokia, and Siemens, and is the author of Be Fearless.   Timestamps: 05:39 Localizing products for diverse markets 07:45 Understanding B2B and client relationships 10:49 Understanding Local Market Needs 15:48 Understanding Market Needs 19:09 Adapting to Market Disruptions 22:38 Finding opportunity in a crisis 23:49 Building Trust with Stakeholders 32:11 Listening to client needs 35:14 Evaluating and aligning team competencies 37:20 Challenges of Pivoting in Business   Connect with Jane Egerton-Idehen LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jane-egerton-idehen-6716a39/   Connect with Janice Book Janice to speak at your next sales or leadership event: https://janicebgordon.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/janice-b-gordon/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/janicebgordon Scale Your Sales Podcast: https://scaleyoursales.co.uk/podcast Enjoy the episode? Share your takeaway in the comments and leave a review on Apple Podcasts to help more leaders discover the show.

Most shop owners think about relationships as a soft skill; something you're either naturally good at or you're not. David Nour thinks that's exactly the kind of thinking that keeps small businesses stuck. Relationships are a system, and like any system in your shop, they can be built, measured, and optimized. This episode makes that case convincingly.In this episode of Maximum Octane, Kim Hickey and Jason Patel sit down with David Nour, founder and CEO of Avenir and author of a dozen books on relationship economics. His clients include Disney, Siemens, and KPMG, but a big part of his work is with small and medium-sized businesses that often have the relationship instincts but lack the systems to back them up.The discussion covers a lot of ground: why internal relationships have to come before external ones, why small businesses default to hiring "projects" instead of peers and what that costs them, and his Human Capital Value Pyramid; a framework to figure out who's pushing your business to the next level and who AI will turn redundant. They dig into how Avnir's AI platform works, including the "while you were sleeping" dashboard that surfaces relationship opportunities overnight, and a story about a $20 coffee mug that turned into a $150,000 project.Tune in to episode 142 of Maximum Octane if you've ever felt like you're too busy to think about the bigger picture, or you're wondering why the best people seem to work everywhere except your shop. David gives shop owners a practical, no-fluff lens for thinking about people — internal and external — as the actual engine of a profitable business.Episode Takeaways:02:12 Why internal relationships have to come before external ones; and what happens when that's backwards05:07 The mindset gap between small and large businesses, and why "I can't afford that" is the most expensive thing you can say06:06 Why hiring "projects" instead of peers keeps owners trapped in the day-to-day08:09 The Human Capital Value Pyramid: how to categorize your team from liabilities to superstars, and what AI is about to do to each tier12:30 What Disney's trash test reveals about initiative, and why you can train skills but you can't train that13:00 The CFO vs. CEO debate on training: what if we invest in people and they leave vs. what if we don't and they stay17:44 How Avenir's AI platform works: scanning contacts across every platform and surfacing what matters while you sleep22:10 The $20 coffee mug story: how a small relationship gesture turned into a $150,000 project28:51 "Remember information for people, not about them.” The mindset shift that separates useful customer data from spam31:00 The mobile service opportunity most shops haven't tested yet — and why your most valuable customers would pay a premium for itConnect with David Nour:LinkedInAvnirLet's connect:WebsiteLinkedInFacebookEmail: info@maximumoctane.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What if the part you approved in five minutes ends up costing your company ten million dollars down the line? What you'll learn… (00:12) Why the Bill of Materials is quietly one of the biggest risk factors in electronics engineering (02:23) Eric Rimkeit's path from semiconductor procurement to HP commodity management to SupplyFrame (03:15) Ryan Chan's 20 years in supply chain strategy — and how SupplyFrame joined Siemens (04:24) A day in the life of an engineer buried under vintage charts, build checkpoints, and redesign requests (09:06) The real cost curve of a bad part: $1,000 to swap it on paper vs. $10 million once it's in the field (16:24) Why engineering and procurement don't talk — and who ends up "picking up the tab" (20:29) The unauthorized-parts-swap story from an overseas contract manufacturer (22:46) The lead-fishing-weight-and-ivy stunt Eric used to shake a team out of denial (29:43) Real results: 14,000 engineering hours saved a month, and $14 million recovered on tail-end parts (38:20) The three AI shifts reshaping BOM analysis: AI fabric, AI as a design partner, and agentic automation (43:40) The crawl-walk-run approach to actually getting a resiliency program off the ground More about the episode… In this episode of the Printed Circuit Podcast, host Steph Chavez sits down with Eric Rimkeit, Director of Marketing at SupplyFrame, and Ryan Chan, Vice President of Solutions Consulting at SupplyFrame — a Siemens company focused on Bill of Materials risk. Eric spent his career in procurement, from a semiconductor fab through commodity management at HP; Ryan spent two decades guiding companies through supply chain strategy before joining SupplyFrame. The conversation traces what happens when a design gets released without accounting for what's coming downstream: part proliferation, geopolitical disruption, tariffs, and shifting compliance standards that can turn a thousand-dollar swap into a ten-million-dollar redesign. Eric and Ryan unpack why engineering and procurement talk past each other, and share real stories — from an unauthorized parts swap caught on a factory floor to a homemade stunt involving a lead fishing weight and fake ivy — that show what's at stake when teams don't share visibility into risk. They close on where AI is headed next: not replacing engineers, but becoming a design partner that folds supply chain context directly into part selection. Connect with Steph Chavez: LinkedIn Website Connect with Eric Rimkeit: LinkedIn Supplyframe Website Connect with Ryan Chan: LinkedIn

Jeff Siemens speaks from 1 Thessalonians 2:1-16 as we continue our summer series titled, "Strength for Today, Hope for Tomorrow."

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Dan Fesenmeyer, Managing Partner at WindQuest Advisors, joins to discuss the repowering rush and the FAA permitting stall, rising O&M costs on larger turbines, tariff pass-throughs, and AI data center demand. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly newsletter 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 YouTube, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary’s “Engineering with Rosie” YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Welcome to Uptime Spotlight, shining light on wind energy’s brightest innovators. This is the progress powering tomorrow Allen Hall: Dan, welcome back to the podcast.  Dan Fesenmeyer: It’s great to be here. Great to see you again.  Allen Hall: There is so much happening in your particular area. Your name pops up quite a bit within Weather Guard because, uh, we’re dealing with a lot of operators and- A number of times we’ll ask them, “Have you read your turbine supply agreement?” “No.” “Have you read your full service agreement?” “No.” “Well, maybe you should do that.” And then we say, “Have you talked to Dan? You should call Dan, ’cause he can help you understand what you have signed.” Mm-hmm. “Oh, that’s probably a good idea.” So now that you’re here, WindQuest Advisors, of course, obviously is your company. Mm-hmm. And you’re talking to a number of operators. The, the big hurdle at the minute, the nearest short-term hurdle, is repowering. There’s just a lot of [00:01:00] repowering efforts going on- Mm-hmm … trying to get turbines in, start a project. There’s a July 4th deadline and an end of the year deadline. There’s a couple deadlines after that. What are you seeing right now from operators i- in terms of repowering? What’s the effort happening?  Dan Fesenmeyer: Well, there was a ton of effort to start physical work. That window’s obviously closing-  Allen Hall: Yes …  Dan Fesenmeyer: very quickly, but it’s still open. Uh, and then once you’re past that window, my understanding is if you get your repower completed by the end of ’27, you didn’t really need to have started physical work. But I think most folks, start physical work is kind of the insurance piece of it-  Allen Hall: Sure …  Dan Fesenmeyer: if things take longer. Uh, another thing that’s popped up is obviously FAA and other permitting.  Allen Hall: On the permitting side, from the federal’s, uh, standpoint, is that stopped? Or, or are projects able to continue putting turbines in the ground, or what’s the status? Dan Fesenmeyer: My- From what I’ve seen, I think on the opening session here at [00:02:00] ACP, it was said, they said that there’s, like, 130 projects that are-  Allen Hall: At least …  Dan Fesenmeyer: caught. Yes. And I’m, I’m involved with some of them, and I have a fairly small shop, and there’s just no FAA variances or permits or- They’re not issuing- … mitigation studies. Everything seems to have stopped.  Allen Hall: So they’re not even reviewing the documentation that’s been submitted by the operators at all?  Dan Fesenmeyer: That’s what it seems, yes. Yeah.  Allen Hall: Is that legal? Uh, uh, usually those federal requirements have a timeline which they’re able to review those permits and get them approved or disapproved them. You’re s- Right … I think what I’m hearing is, what you’re saying is they’re not even looking at them.  Dan Fesenmeyer: That’s correct. That’s what I’ve heard and seen.  Allen Hall: Okay.  Dan Fesenmeyer: Yeah. Yeah.  Allen Hall: So what is an operator to do then? How does this, how do they meet some of these deadlines if they can’t get the permit?  Dan Fesenmeyer: Well, I mean, it stalled a lot of projects ’cause of the associated risk with it. Although I’ve seen some, uh, you know, some repower folks think, “Well, you know, I’m just repair- repowering like for like, or I’m not changing much.” [00:03:00] But if your, if your rotor’s changing or pad location’s changing, you need to update those permits.  Allen Hall: So the, the groups and the operators that are repowering the existing turbines are putting basically the same turbine in the same hole. Dan Fesenmeyer: Well,  Allen Hall: I- Would that be okay?  Dan Fesenmeyer: I would say originally- The initial push on repower was kind of your larger rotors- Sure … new drivetrain, et cetera. Yes. The market seemed to shift more towards, “Hey, let’s do smaller upgrades, component exchanges.”  Allen Hall: Okay.  Dan Fesenmeyer: Getting more towards the minimal investment, so to speak.  Allen Hall: The 80% investment portion. Dan Fesenmeyer: Yes.  Allen Hall: Right.  Dan Fesenmeyer: Yeah. And less about, you know, a big new machine head, for example.  Allen Hall: Well, if that gets you through and gets you the, the, uh, tax credit started back up again, which is the whole point- Right … there would be a reason to do that.  Dan Fesenmeyer: That’s right.  Allen Hall: Is there a marketplace then for those components if you’re gonna repower a GE 1.5 machine, which there’s a lot of them- Mm-hmm in the United States? Are you seeing a big emphasis to go get a new gearbox, [00:04:00] to upgrade the blades- Yeah, and, and- … kind of  Dan Fesenmeyer: thing? Or just do maybe a drivetrain and s- Okay … and leave the rotor or, or-  Allen Hall: So do a gearbox and-  Dan Fesenmeyer: Yeah. Gear or just full drivetrain- Or generator … or yeah, s- things like that. And, um- Wow people are comfortable doing it, and then it’s e- it’s easier, obviously.  Allen Hall: Sure. It’s faster.  Dan Fesenmeyer: And faster, and you don’t necessarily have to touch permits or, yeah.  Allen Hall: And is part of that repowering, I know one of the questions- Mm-hmm … that’s been bandied about quite a bit is, do I have to buy a, a new generator or a new gearbox, or is a refurbished gearbox enough to check the box in terms of upgrading or putting 80% of the value back into the turbine to qualify for those tax credits? Dan Fesenmeyer: I’m not a tax expert, but I’ve seen people do both.  Allen Hall: Okay. Well, that’ll tell you.  Dan Fesenmeyer: Yeah. Yeah.  Allen Hall: They’ve obviously talked to- Right … tax advisors about that.  Dan Fesenmeyer: It’s, it’s their level of risk and whether they have outside tax money or whether- … they’re kind of balance sheet or taking it themselves. It’s, it’s- Yeah … more of a risk profile that [00:05:00] everybody’s different on. Allen Hall: Okay. So that has changed the landscape quite a bit. So now it’s, once this window of opportunity passes by, we’re into brave new world. Mm-hmm. And operating turbines now not really 10 years, operating till end of life, which could be 20, 25 years. Have operators started thinking about that and starting to address some of the, the, especially the contracts around that? Are they starting to rethink contracts? Are they starting to approach full service agreements differently? Is, is the marketplace changing in the US?  Dan Fesenmeyer: Yeah, I think so. I mean, it, it, depending what you have and what you’re doing, whether you have an existing agreement or you need a new one, and whether it’s a renewal or if you’re doing, let’s say, a drivetrain or new machine head, then there’s usually a service contract that’s going to come with it- Sure ’cause it’s essentially a new machine. Largely a new machine. Largely,  Allen Hall: yeah.  Dan Fesenmeyer: But in the case of a gearbox, right, you’re probably out of your longterm O&M agreement anyway, and, uh, whether you’re… And you probably [00:06:00] have, you don’t have the unplanned coverage anymore. Right. So it’s really, you’re on, you’re kind of on your own risk. Allen Hall: Okay, so that’s the repower scenario. Mm-hmm. What’s happening new turbine-wise? It seems like the, a lot of the operators are choosing six megawatt, seven megawatt, eight megawatt machines tends to be the, the, the band of opportunity for a lot of operators. What are they working on right now in terms of, uh, TSAs, full service agreements? What are you seeing out on the landscape US-wise?  Dan Fesenmeyer: Well, I think, um, the TSAs haven’t changed much.  Allen Hall: Okay.  Dan Fesenmeyer: But the- The, the scope and the risk has changed a bit, and the, the OEMs are, you know, holding their cards closer, and it’s hard to get to certain terms that– harder than it used to be.  Allen Hall: So let’s, let’s talk about that for a minute because, uh, there’s been some recent reports speaking to the O&M costs for larger machines. And so the, the goal was if I went from a [00:07:00] two-megawatt machine to a six-megawatt machine, my O&M cost may be 3x because of the size of the turbine, but ideally they drop. That, uh, the same amount of effort into a larger, m- newer machine, uh, so, uh, my spend wouldn’t go up that much. In, in some places on the planet that I’ve seen feedback about that is that the O&M costs are not 3x, they’re 5x. So the, the cost to operate the turbine, the six and eight megawatt machines, is higher than it would be proportionally to a two-megawatt machine. I think operators are just trying to start to figure that out. Are the OEMs already knowledgeable of that fact and are s- trying- I, in, in- … to phrase the conversation I  Dan Fesenmeyer: mean, in the pricing that you get from the OEMs for the full scope agreements, that’s largely in there already.  Allen Hall: Yes.  Dan Fesenmeyer: And I always tell people look at it on a dollar per kWh or dollar per megawatt hour- Ah … basis versus a dollar per turbine, and you- Sure … you’ll see a different number.  Allen Hall: Different calculation done. Dan Fesenmeyer: Right. But [00:08:00] these, these larger machines, they need larger cranes. They need tall– Yeah, they have taller towers, so a different crane setup, and these components become very, very large. So- Everything gets harder … everything gets d- more difficult. In a basic sense, it’s still oil and gearbox and, you know, tho- tho- Right that kind of basic service. But when you get into major components and more major maintenance items, then it’s bigger, it can be harder.  Allen Hall: So what does a operator think about that now that they have a little bit of experience? Obviously SunZia, which is a huge project, three and a half gigawatts, uh, a l- several hun- like around 900 turbines, all of them bigger turbines. It’s a r- for, uh, really the first real taste in America of larger turbines. What are the operators thinking about that, and how are they thinking about what sizes to go with in the future? Or, or, or do they not really have a choice? Like, GE offers six, Vestas offers six, Siemens will offer a six or a seven, [00:09:00] so those are your choices. They’re– You’re not able to get a two megawatt machine anymore.  Dan Fesenmeyer: I mean, I think, uh, it really comes down to your, your site. Okay. And the larger machines are generally better when you have land constraints or, uh, y- your, your wind resource varies very differently. Think of a ridgeline, and you only have a certain number of pads. But generally, it’s kind of a pad constraint to push you to the larger, and then your smaller, “smaller,” four and four to four and a half- … megawatt machines, those are still kind of the workhorses of, of the US, in my opinion. Their NCS better, they’re e- they’re lower cost, but you need more pads. So it’s always that trade-off of pads versus space, spacing, uh, and in the end, you just want to get the most AEP out of that site. Allen Hall: In terms of marketplace, are you seeing prices generally rise dollars per megawatt on [00:10:00] new turbines? ‘Cause the, at least the market indication is that, uh, some of the OEMs have- Real strength in the marketplace today. This is an, an OEM-strong market. They can set- Mm-hmm … prices now. There’s fewer players. China has been eliminated from a lot of lo- locales. Mm. So they don’t have the competition. That allows them to raise prices. Are you starting to see that flow down in some of the contracts, that, hey, the prices are going up? But, but i- inflation has been a big part of that, too. Well,  Dan Fesenmeyer: yeah, yeah. I mean, there’s… And tariffs, right? The, uh, that, that’s the most interesting one right now, and you have to kind of peel apart what’s my pre-tariff price versus my post, and then what’s the exposure if these tariffs change? And-  Allen Hall: Is that in the contracts now? Are they able to write contracts that tie them to what the tariffs could be, so your final price really depends on what the tariffs are today or tomorrow?  Dan Fesenmeyer: It’s generally… Well, things have changed and, and things are always fluid, but, [00:11:00] but most recently it’s, “Well, here’s what the tariffs are today,” and when we either bring in the component or when the OEM’s actually paying that tariff, it’s kind of a pass-through  Allen Hall: in essence. So they’re just handing you the, the bill for the tariff- Yeah … in a sense.  Dan Fesenmeyer: I mean, that- that’s it. And then you can maybe negotiate and do some things around that to share risk a little bit. Mm-hmm. But the basic premise is, you know, there’s transparency on here’s the countries and the tariff rates. If these change, that’s on the buyer. Allen Hall: So the OEMs are trying to address that in, in some form w- by moving production into the United States. Vestas has a large blade facility in Colorado. They’ve been expanding that over the last several months. They’ve been hiring quite a bit. Uh, GE with LM up in North Dakota and TPI, and all the discussions around TPI at the minute is to really bolster their supply chain. Uh, they’re trying to get away from the tariffs as much as they can. Are, [00:12:00] are you… You think you’re still gonna see more of that where a Siemens, a GE, a Vestas are gonna be investing more in the United States to avoid that tariff, or is it just impossible?  Dan Fesenmeyer: I, I mean, I think you… What they’ve done, I… It seems to me, I’m not obviously an expert on that, but it- they’ve moved things where they can And to capture- Mm you know, where you already have capacity. But starting, yeah, building a new plant somewhere, I’m not sure how wise that is in the environment that we’re in.  Allen Hall: Yeah, you saw a lot of plants that were proposed two, three years ago that have, were never built. It does seem like existing plants that were on site that were closed got reopened. Kansas, Iowa- Mm-hmm … some of those plants got- Mm-hmm … started over again, which is easier to do, which makes a lot of sense. So they’re going after the, the easiest things first still. We’re in that phase of we’re not gonna put a lot of money into the United States however. We’re gonna utilize what we have and maybe grow what we have. Dan Fesenmeyer: Right. Or, or similarly, you can move from, if you have more of a… All these supply [00:13:00] chains are global at this point.  Allen Hall: Sure.  Dan Fesenmeyer: But if you happen to have a factory in a country with a lower tariff and versus one that’s higher, maybe you move that. You’re not bringing it over to the US, but you’re moving from, let’s say, India to the UK. Allen Hall: Sure. So, so- Okay, so there, there’s a lot of sh- card shuffling going on- Yeah … to avoid tariffs.  Dan Fesenmeyer: Yeah, and unfortunately then the tariffs change and- … perhaps you have to change back. And, and the other one, uh, that’s out there, obviously the Supreme Court had their ruling on tariffs, so folks are waiting for a Section 232, which is  Allen Hall: still- Untouchable, in a sense? Uh-  Dan Fesenmeyer: Well, it- people are just waiting for what, what will Section 232 be. And it’s been looming for months now.  Allen Hall: Over a year.  Dan Fesenmeyer: Yes. So, and, you know, we’re waiting, I guess.  Allen Hall: Is the feeling about that in the industry, uh… I’ll, well, I’ll use a couple of good examples, I think, which, uh, offshore wind being a real stress point United States, and a lot of [00:14:00] the administration’s work to limit offshore development got stopped in the courts. So anything that was sort of building turbines, putting, had ships out, putting- Mm … uh, monopiles in, they never got stopped. They were delayed a couple of weeks, but they were never really stopped, and it feels like from the outside looking in, is that the courts are not gonna allow some of these, uh, movements by the administration to take effect. Is the industry in the United States seeing the tariffs and some of the more extreme things that are happening as temporary or, or are they being a little more cautious, saying, “Yes, offshore wind has won a, a number of lawsuits”? But we may not. And th- with the Department of War and 232 and all those events that are happening, what is the outcome there, and w- how are operators thinking about that? Dan Fesenmeyer: Well, I think we’re in a, in a market where if you have a project that can get built within this window-  Allen Hall: Yeah …  Dan Fesenmeyer: and [00:15:00] you’ve safe har- Like, those projects- And you’re, you’re just in … are desperately moving forward.  Allen Hall: Okay.  Dan Fesenmeyer: Then- ‘ Allen Hall: Cause the trend has been, if you can get it in the ground, they’re gonna let it be developed. They haven’t been able- Right … to stop anything halfway through. Well,  Dan Fesenmeyer: other, like, the FA is a good example of it-  Allen Hall: Sure …  Dan Fesenmeyer: being stopped. But- Yeah … if you have a project that’s being built, you’re moving forward, and then projects that are outside the window, it’s more of a greenfield development view of, of life. And seems like some folks are selling p- assets, some folks are buying- A  Allen Hall: lot of that …  Dan Fesenmeyer: development assets.  Allen Hall: Let’s go down that pathway for a minute because I did think- Yeah … that’s a very interesting piece to what’s happening in the United States at the minute. There’s a lot of transactions, big dollar transactions happening for wind- Mm-hmm on buying, selling portfolios, not just farms. It used to be farms. Right. We’ll sell a farm. Yeah. It was. We’ll swap farms, that kind of thing. Now it’s like, uh, would you like our whole portfolio, wind, solar, battery?  Dan Fesenmeyer: Mm-hmm.  Allen Hall: Is that playing into a lot of the decisions that are [00:16:00]happening on the ground right now, that a, a developer or an operator that has assets is saying, this is a prime time to sell. There’s a l- I have my tax credits already locked in. We’re golden here- Mm-hmm … for several years. The value is never gonna get higher. I need to get out. I- is that the marketplace today, is-  Dan Fesenmeyer: I think for some. I mean- Yeah … everybody’s got different, uh, motivations, whether they wanna get into wind, get out of wind, greenfield versus repower. Uh, it, it’s, it’s really their view of the world and their risk profile moving forward, and whether this is a short-term play, long-term. Do we wanna get out of wind? Some people are essentially doing that. Uh, it’s, it’s across the board.  Allen Hall: How’s AI data centers playing into this? What are you hearing?  Dan Fesenmeyer: Oh, I mean, that’s what everybody talks about, AI and data centers, and the demand for power is there. And- The [00:17:00] issue that, that a lot of us see is wind and solar and battery can all help with that.  Allen Hall: Sure.  Dan Fesenmeyer: And if you want a gas turbine, that’s great, but my former colleagues at GE are gonna tell you it’s 2030- Yes … or later to get one, so what do you do between now and then? And you’re seeing prices go up, which makes these wind farms look pretty good. Power profile’s nice. Yes. Uh, but you still have hurdles to get, like the FAA, US Fish and Wildlife, all these other hurdles to, you know, that are slowing down wind and solar for that matter too.  Allen Hall: Solar’s been slowed down for sure.  Dan Fesenmeyer: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.  Allen Hall: Does that change, though, with the demand for power in AI data centers? And it does seem to be a priority in the United States to, to win this AI race. Mm-hmm. Does that loosen some of the reins on renewables to let them go, like just look the other way for a while, while they put a new solar field or wind farm in?  Dan Fesenmeyer: It stands to reason that will happen. Haven’t really seen [00:18:00] it, unfortunately. But I wo- But I think it will, right? I mean, it, it, it, it almost has to at some point.  Allen Hall: There’s a lot of pressure on Washington DC to let data centers start being developed and, and go.  Dan Fesenmeyer: Mm-hmm.  Allen Hall: But a- as you pointed out, gas turbines are hard to get, and they can’t scale up at the rate at which the demand is. Right. So your alternative is something really simple, quick and efficient, which would be wind and solar and a little bit of battery. Yeah. I- is that change in the thinking of operators and how they’re thinking about their assets, one, and two, what they’re thinking about in the future? Or are they trying to hook up with an- a- I mean- a Google, a Facebook, a- Yeah, I  Dan Fesenmeyer: mean, the offtake’s- … SpaceX … there, and that’s generally, you know, it used to be utility PPAs. Then it turned- Right. … into hedge things and C&I. Yeah. And now it’s more, you have this, the data center offtake.  Allen Hall: Is the data center offtake, thinking about it from a, a financial standpoint, which they’re probably not being tied to the grid. At [00:19:00] least a lot of these, or at least the talk is right now, is the not being connected to the grid to be sort of standalone, feeding a data center, and maybe a piece of fiber optic coming out of the data center. But that’s essentially it. Maybe some backup power on the grid just in case things go horribly wrong, but standalone power for data centers does make sense. It would, it would seem to lessen the requirements on wind and solar in terms of interacting with the federal government or the, the power company in a sense. Does that make wind and solar a little more viable because it’s not connected to the grid?  Dan Fesenmeyer: Well, I mean, it will be connected to the grid because when the wind stops blowing, the utility will usually, you know, or, and the sun stops sh- shining- Sure uh, the utility will kind of provide that power. That w- Or the gas turbines that they have would- Gas turbine will kick  Allen Hall: in, right.  Dan Fesenmeyer: Yes. Yeah. But, but generally speaking, you’re never truly off the grid, but it does speed things up with interconnection and, and, you know, your T&D [00:20:00] line is much shorter.  Allen Hall: Right.  Dan Fesenmeyer: Or not, you know- Much much, much shorter. Yeah. Depending where the, the resource is and versus the plant or the, the data center.  Allen Hall: So what are the things that we don’t know in the industry that you’re in touch with that we should know? ‘Cause there, there must be a lot happening behind the scenes that we don’t hear out in public or in the common spaces of some of these conferences that are happening behind the scenes. What is, what is the status right now? What do you think the status is of wind?  Dan Fesenmeyer: I mean, it’s, I, I, I’m a big sailor, and sometimes the wind’s blowing hard- … you’re going fast, and sometimes you sail into what we call a hole- Yeah … and it’s just dead quiet. We’re not quite there yet, but, um, it, it’s kind of we’re going through a bit of a lull right now. And I think, I think what people don’t realize is the multiple roadblocks that the industry’s facing. In the past, we’ve had PTCs lapse, and the question is when and if it [00:21:00] will be renewed. Yeah. Now you have other roadblocks, you know, whether it’s, again, FAA, Fish and Wildlife, permitting, different localities. Some… And this goes back to the data center. A lot of local, you know, communities don’t want a data center.  Allen Hall: Right. There’s a lot of-  Dan Fesenmeyer: Right? And they’re like, “Well, wait a minute. My power prices as a citizen are gonna go up- True … because of it.”  Allen Hall: Yeah, it’s true. We’ve already seen it.  Dan Fesenmeyer: Yeah. Yeah. So, so there’s a lot of just new barriers that have come up. Allen Hall: Okay. That-  Dan Fesenmeyer: But wind developers are an extremely resilient bunch, and-  Allen Hall: This isn’t the first rodeo-  Dan Fesenmeyer: Right …  Allen Hall: where they’ve had these issues pop up- Yeah … and PTCs stop and other world forces affect the industry. What’s the outlook over the next three to five years, do you think? Different administration in a couple years, maybe different outlook, more demand on… for power, AI data centers. Is- it just gonna [00:22:00] overwhelm any resistance to wind and solar and battery?  Dan Fesenmeyer: I mean, it, it, that’s kind of a crystal ball, but I think if these data centers start getting built out like people think they will, there’ll be demand for power. And, now we’re talking basic economics, Supply, demand. People need power, then power plants will get built and, whether it’s gas, wind, solar-  Allen Hall: All of the above  Dan Fesenmeyer: All of the above, right? And, and I think it will ultimately follow that. I think the, administration will let you know if there’s not enough power or power gets too expensive, something has to break and fill that gap  Allen Hall: because- So let the economics play out a little bit. Dan Fesenmeyer: Yeah, right? Yeah. ‘Cause we’re, we’re voters, right? And- Sure … and, um, people vote often with their pocketbooks.  Allen Hall: And wind and solar are cheap sources of energy, and they’re gonna come to the top of the list almost every time.  Dan Fesenmeyer: Yeah.  Allen Hall: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I, I agree with you. Uh, it’s good to see you again. We saw you a few months [00:23:00] ago at WOMA in Australia, and that was wonderful. And I tell a lot of the operators we talk to, “You better be talking to Dan and WindQuest Advisors because you really need to understand what your contracts say and the contract you’re signing, and you need to have a better sense of what’s happening, a little more broader speak in the United States and elsewhere- Mm-hmm and they should be talking to you.” So how do they call or how do they contact WindQuest Advisors to get started?  Dan Fesenmeyer: Well, www.windquestadvisors.com or reach out to Allen and his team. You’re on LinkedIn. I’m on LinkedIn as well- … both personally and my firm. And, um, ask a friend ’cause I have a, we have- … big networks that everybody… You know, it’s, it’s a small community here. It  Allen Hall: is.  Dan Fesenmeyer: Right?  Allen Hall: It is.  Dan Fesenmeyer: And, and people bounce around different firms and, but people stay connected, so, um, that’s a great way to find each other as well.  Allen Hall: Yeah. Great to see you, Dan. Likewise. Thank you. Thanks for being on the podcast. And yeah, we’ll hopefully see you in Australia in a couple months. Dan Fesenmeyer: Looking forward to  [00:24:00] it.

How do you hold employees to high standards of performance while being a compassionate leader? The answer is walking the accountability tightrope. In this episode of Boss Better Now, Joe Mull kicks off a special four-part series adapted directly from his live leadership workshops on accountability in leadership. Listen in as he explains why equating caring with leniency leaves teams frustrated and exactly what you need to do to fix it. Many managers fall into a protector mindset where they prioritize comfort and underestimate employee capability. Joe shares real stories from his own career about being overly delicate and nervous about giving feedback to employees because he wanted to be liked. He details exactly how to shift away from rescuing struggling employees and instead provide the productive struggle necessary for growth. What to Expect in This Episode: Why Feedback is the Most Important Leadership Skill: Why vague, subjective language triggers defensiveness and how to avoid it. What is the Accountability Tightrope?: Joe introduces the summer series focused on balancing high standards with supportive relationships. Why "Soft" Leadership Causes Employee Frustration: The real costs of avoiding uncomfortable conversations and letting employees coast. Recognizing the Protector Mindset at Work: How avoiding meaningful work and lowering expectations prevents teams from reaching peak performance, and what the mentor mindset looks like instead. Overcoming the Need to be Liked as a Manager: Joe's personal story about walking on eggshells and how it harms team development. How to Raise Standards When You Already Offer High Support: Steps to articulate clear expectations rooted in culture and values. The Viral Teacher Hack for Correcting Behavior: Stop targeting the person and start naming the standard. Using the Feedback Stack Framework: How to give feedback to employees using objective, behavior-based language that lands without triggering defensiveness. To subscribe to Joe Mull's BossBetter Email newsletter, visit https://BossBetterNow.com For more info on working with Joe Mull, visit https://joemull.com For more info on Boss Hero School, visit https://bossheroschool.com To email the podcast, use bossbetternow@gmail.com #leadership #management #toxicworkculture #teambuilding #workplaceculture #conflictmanagement #employeeengagement #motivation Joe Mull is on a mission to help leaders and business owners create the conditions where commitment takes root and the entire workplace thrives. A dynamic and deeply relatable speaker, Joe combines compelling research, magnetic storytelling, and practical strategies to show exactly how to cultivate loyalty, ignite effort, and build people-first workplaces where both performance and morale flourish. His message is clear: when commitment is activated, engagement rises, teams gel, retention improves, and business outcomes soar. Joe is the founder of Boss Hero School™ and the creator of the acclaimed Employalty™ framework, a roadmap for creating thriving workplaces in a new era of work. He's the author of three books, including Employalty, named a top business book of the year by Publisher's Weekly, and his popular podcast, Boss Better Now, ranks in the top 1% of management shows globally. A former head of learning and development at one of the largest healthcare systems in the U.S., Joe has spent nearly two decades equipping leaders—from Fortune 500 companies like State Farm, Siemens, and Choice Hotels to hospitals, agencies, and small firms—with the tools to lead better, inspire commitment, and build more humane workplace cultures. His insights have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and more. In 2025, Joe was inducted into the Professional Speakers Hall of Fame (CPAE). This is the speaking profession's highest honor, a distinction granted to less than 1% of professional speakers worldwide. It's awarded to speakers who demonstrate exceptional talent, integrity, and influence in the speaking profession For more information visit joemull.com. Timestamps 0:00 Why do vague performance reviews trigger defensiveness? 0:30 How do you navigate the accountability tightrope? 1:54 Why does a soft leadership style backfire? 3:01 What is the protector mindset in management? 4:06 How to stop rescuing your struggling employees 5:39 Overcoming the manager's need to be liked 6:30 How do highly supportive leaders raise standards? 9:14 How to correct behavior by naming expectations 10:28 How to use the feedback stack methodology 11:36 How to bring accountability training to your team

GE Vernova pumps $1 billion into LM Wind Power, and KKR buys EDF’s US and Canada renewables arm. Plus CIP sweeps South Korea’s offshore auction and the CME plans wind derivatives across three continents. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly newsletter 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 YouTube, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary’s “Engineering with Rosie” YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! The Uptime Wind Energy podcast, brought to you by StrikeTape. Protecting thousands of wind turbines from lightning damage worldwide. Visit striketape.com. And now, your hosts. Allen Hall: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy podcast. I’m your host, Allen Hall, and I’m here with Matthew Stead and Yolanda Padron. Rosemary is at GWO training this week. And we have an announcement about Wind Energy O&M Australia 2027. Matthew, you wanna give all the details?  Matthew Stead: Drum roll Um, very pleased to announce that WOMA 2027 will be at the East Pullman Hotel in Melbourne’s east, uh, not the other one, and, uh, 3rd to 5th of March. Um, the first two days will be two days of wind O&M, uh, conferences, [00:01:00] uh, and then the Friday will be a half-day, uh, training session. More information to come.  Allen Hall: Well, she’s not here, so we can probably just announce it, that Rosemary will be giving a terrific four-hour-long seminar on blades and blade repair, so you sign up now. Matthew, where do you go if you wanna just check out what’s happening at WOMA  Matthew Stead: 2027? Uh, well, actually, it’s woma2027.com.  Allen Hall: Uh, over at GE Vernova and LM Wind Power, there’s been a whole bunch of turmoil over the last couple of years if you haven’t been paying attention. Well, GE Vernova just injected about a billion dollars into that company. So although LM recently has shown very little in terms of revenue, it definitely had needed some capital injection in, uh, at least according to the Danish press, the number of employees at the Danish site is about 20 to 30. So it’s really a fraction of what it once was. But [00:02:00] it does seem like GE is paying off all its existing debt and then giving it a little bit of a cash infusion to keep it rolling. The question really is, is what is GE Vernova gonna do with that business now? Are they planning on keeping it? Are they trying to get s- to get it back to health where they can service the other, uh, OEMs that they manufacture blades for? Or is there a larger action that will happen in the near future? What do we think?  Matthew Stead: Yeah, I’m really confused by this one. I mean, a cash injection just so that you’re not bankrupt on paper is, um, that’s just playing with money as far as I’m concerned. Or I’m not sure if it’s a US term, but, you know, shuffling deckchairs on the Titanic. It doesn’t– Does it change anything? Allen Hall: Well, uh, th- they made no announcements about closing facilities. The LM blade facility in North Dakota still appears to be making blades. There’s the TPI factories, which are going through a transition r- right now, appear to be making GE [00:03:00] blades. I, I assume Gaspé up in Canada is still making blades, at least that’s the story. If GE’s gonna rely upon LM to make blades, they’re gonna need to keep them open. Is, is this more of just keeping the factories open with a skeleton engineering crew and possibly moving the blade design group into the States? Is that– Or India or, or somewhere?  Yolanda Padron: And they’re still selling, right? They’re still selling blades. It seems like they’re still planning on manufacturing blades. Do we think that maybe- They’re just trying to avoid that whole TPI bankruptcy deal to not have to kind of scrap for parts?  Allen Hall: Yeah, it’s a great question. I think TPI has been producing parts at high quantity, and some of the Things I’ve heard from the industry folk is that TPI is really busy in producing quality blades, and it’s like the bankruptcy transaction is not happening, which is great to hear because the [00:04:00]industry needs blades, and there’s a lot of repowering going on in the United States and a lot of activity in general, so they need blades. But does LM continue to be a part of that?  Matthew Stead: Yeah, I mean, presumably the TPI, um, whole story only makes LM more important, you know, more important to have, uh, an additional manufacturer and, you know, providing, you know, options for the OEMs.  Allen Hall: It does seem like, though, the GE offshore, GE Vernova offshore is not a thing. Although I’ve heard a couple of rumors that, yeah, GE Vernova is offering some products for offshore, it doesn’t seem like their heart is in it. I can see that happening. So are they just trying to focus on onshore business, and that’s it for the time being? Just let it play out and, uh, wait until the elections in 2028? I know that’s gonna get me blocked on YouTube, but that, that does feel like what’s happening at the moment.  Matthew Stead: Yeah, I reckon it looks completely like that.  Yolanda Padron: I mean, it also looks like they’re [00:05:00] just kind of trying to play everything a little bit more safe, right? So they are scaling up, but not as fast as they used to, so scaling the blade sizes. And then they’re– it seems like they’re, they’re having their FSAs cut quite a bit shorter than they used to, right? So are they maybe just trying to focus on, like, cash up front and just trying to play it safe until they can get their, their footing right again?  Allen Hall: Or is it focus on key customers? I could see GE Vernova actually doing that, that they have a history with certain operators worldwide, and they’re just gonna focus on producing and delivering for those customers. Because you don’t see a lot of announced orders for GE turbines. Vestas is announcing things practically every week. Nordex is doing something similar. Siemens once in a while. But what you really don’t hear anything from in any quantity at [00:06:00] all at the moment is from GE Vernova. When a company needs cash badly enough, even the crown jewels go on the block. And EDF, the French state-owned utility, has to fund the upkeep of 57 aging nuclear reactors and build six new ones, so it is selling. EDF has agreed to hand its US and Canada renewables business, EDF Power Solutions, to the private equity firm KKR. The business runs 5.6 gigawatts of renewable assets across the two countries. Late last year, EDF’s chief executive floated selling anywhere from half to all of the unit in a deal that could be, well, it’s reported to be about $4.2 billion. That’s the latest news I’ve heard. This is a big transaction. KKR is Canadian, right? And is a massive investment firm Uh, which I, I don’t think have a lot of wind at the moment. Uh, what is the [00:07:00] KKR play here?  Matthew Stead: I, I love this because this is, uh… So obviously I’m Australian, and Macquarie is a big Australian. So, um, Macquarie own a whole lot of wind farm, a whole lot of wind infrastructure. So I just see this as a wonderful g- you know, fight between KKR and Macquarie. And so KKR has a whole lot of, um, they o- they’ve got some, you know, stake in Australian wind farms. They’ve got some work, you know, through Europe with wind farms. So I, I, I think this is a good thing, just a bit more global competition and a bit more global growth. And I think it’s all coming from the data centers and, you know, the future increase in growth of, um, demand.  Allen Hall: Yolanda, EDF’s wind fleet is a variety of turbines, right? They have some GE, some Siemens. Anything else in their portfolio?  Yolanda Padron: I think they have a bit of Vestas there too, right? Is it something that we were saying? It’s– I think this is really interesting. Um, I know that there’s not– I mean, of course EDF is the latest, but there’s some [00:08:00] operators that seem to be, um, consolidating into a bit more of those just higher private equity firms, and it’s– Do we think that maybe this is the way that the US is going to lean towards? I know we talked a lot about leaning towards funding the data centers and maybe a bit more the behind the meter things. Uh, but do we think that maybe that’s the future of the US? There’s a couple of companies that kind of just own all the major infrastructures and then- A  Allen Hall: couple Canadian companies.  Yolanda Padron: And what does it mean for, like, asset management and stuff, like, that’s really, really different from what they’re seeing in their desks in New York and stuff, and just the larger financial models versus what’s happening on the ground, and how will they connect everything? Allen Hall: It’s a great question.  Matthew Stead: NextEra and Dominion, you know, things are only getting bigger. Scale’s, scale’s coming.  Allen Hall: Yeah. I wonder how much, uh, this transaction will have to go through regulators in the US, uh, because it scares me when you have a, a– such a [00:09:00] large foreign national company. There’s actually two involved in here, right? So you, you have a, a French company and a Canadian company trying to transact on, in the United States on a lot of assets. Uh, it probably won’t be that quick if there’s any oversight at all. I, I’m guessing that we’ll hear noise about it. So we’re, we’ll have to keep listening to all the news sources about it and, and telling our valued listeners what’s going on. Because there’s, uh, we know a whole bunch of people that work at EDF and like, love those people and are really concerned about what the future holds for them. I, at least it sounds like upfront that KKR is just gonna continue with operations, but I know, uh, uh, it’s a turbulent time, and if you work there, you, you hopefully things continue the way they’re, they’re supposed to because One of the things about EDF historically has been is that they’re really talented people, that they have hired well over time and that they know what they’re doing. And every time we, Weather Guard and [00:10:00] Yolanda and I’m sure Matthew have dealt with EDF quite a bit They are on top of what they’re operating. They know how their assets work, and they know how to manage them, and so you’d hate to lose those people in a transaction like this. It would decrease the value of the assets, I would say. Very interesting transaction.  Matthew Stead: Yeah. But, I mean, what if the counter, what if, um, this is all part of a, a growth strategy? You know, a growth strategy with wind, solar, and battery, you know, providing more power. So it might actually be an opportunity. So, you know, opportunity to do more and some more exciting work across all three disciplines. Allen Hall: Definitely so. Uh, but it’s a little early. The ink hasn’t dried yet on the contract. So while offshore market pulls back in general, in a lot of places like the United States, another one is racing ahead. In, in South Korea’s latest offshore wind auction, one name walked away with the lion’s share, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, CIP. The Danish fund [00:11:00] secured more than one gigawatt of the 1.8 gigawatts on offer, including the single largest project and the only floating wind winner. And the appetite was record-breaking. They had a whole bunch of developers trying to bid on this. You had about 3.7 gigawatts being bid in, more than twice of the capacity available. So for a country that only began competitive offshore bidding in 2022, that’s a few short years ago, that market is coming of age. This is a huge announcement by CIP, right? That, uh, they have bid into the system. They’re, they’re winning, and they’re bringing Siemens Gamesa to the table, which we haven’t heard a lot of Siemens Gamesa’s turbines being selected, but this is a massive order and really gonna help secure at least some portion of, of the Siemens Gamesa business. Matthew, you’re closer to it. In, in South Korea, are you seeing the South Korean industry being built within [00:12:00] the country, or are you seeing, uh, partnerships with surrounding countries like Japan? ‘Cause it doesn’t seem like when– and I’ve looked at some of the South Korea, uh, efforts. It does seem like they’re trying to stand up their own offshore built-in country plan. Is, is that the goal? You think Siemens is gonna end up building a, a factory in, in South Korea for some of these projects?  Matthew Stead: Maybe a couple of things. First of all, I have to apologize. I think, uh, we were talking the other week, and I, I, I sort of implied that floating offshore wind was dead, and I think we copped a bit of flack from that. But, uh, anyway, wrong, wrong on, uh,  Allen Hall: floating offshore is dead.  Matthew Stead: Um, but um, you know, I’ve had a fair bit of interaction with, uh, South Korean, um, you know, Philippines, Japan, obviously. I think they’re all trying to get their industries up, but I, I don’t think they’ve got the scale So, you know, I think they, they really need like the Siemens Gamesas, the Vestas’s, um, to come in and, and partner with them. I just don’t think they’ve got the scale, you know, the, the [00:13:00] installed fleet, the industry to really promote it. And, you know, to get the economies of scale, they’re gonna have to pull in the big existing incumbents. So, you know, good on CIP for, for pulling this off.  Allen Hall: In terms of South Korea industry, I think steel is one of their strongest, uh, industries at the moment, and obviously shipbuilding. Those are the, that go hand in hand, so to speak. There’s a lot of steel in wind turbines, and particularly in floating offshore wind turbines. It would seem ripe for South Korea to get into that marketplace.  Matthew Stead: I’m not sure the intellectual property is in steel tubes. Um, I, I guess what I’m trying to say is the intellectual property is in the turbine nacelle and the blades and, um, you know, I, you know, correct what I said that, you know, obviously the steel and the steel manufacturing in South Korea is, is pretty amazing. Um, but yeah, they’re clarifying what I said before.  Allen Hall: So is this gonna turn into the leading floating project in the world? You know, Greenvolt’s gonna happen in the [00:14:00] UK. There’s some talk of things up in Scandinavia. But in terms of speed, will this be one of the leading candidates in t- in getting things in the water just because of the capability of South Korea to, to build at scale? I  Matthew Stead: think it’s really exciting. Yeah, I, I’m, I’m gonna watch very closely.  Allen Hall: I think this is gonna be amazing. I really do.  Yolanda Padron: I was gonna say, could you imagine, like, a, a turbine and a blade where everything is just perfectly manufactured or close to perfectly manufactured? I g- I went to one farm last week, and there were… I mean, it was in the States, and there were so many patches on new blades. I was just talking to the people in operations like, “What’s, what’s going on here?” You know? Uh, so it’s just really… I don’t know. This is exciting.  Matthew Stead: Do you think, um, they’ll build a blade factory, Yolanda? Do you think they’ll actually take on the blades? Yolanda Padron: I don’t know. Uh, I, I mean, it’d, it’d be great for them, I think, right? It’s a new area of business that they’re diving [00:15:00] into.  Allen Hall: If they don’t have to build the building at the port, I think Siemens would be willing to erect something near the shoreline. And in Korea, there’s a lot of major industry right on the shoreline. It would be relatively easy, I think. You know, ev- it sounds easy now because you’re not actually doing it. But in terms of, you know, building a blade factory on the coastline of United States versus doing it in South Korea, South Korea’s gonna be way easier to do that and at scale quickly. That, that one seems like a win-win. I d- if there’s any place on the planet that could do it quick besides the UK or, you know, Denmark, someone like Netherlands, someplace like that, Germany, it’s gonna be South Korea.  Matthew Stead: Maybe that’s a bet, you know. So prove me wrong again. My money at the moment is that Nacelles blades won’t be coming from South Korea. Allen Hall: Well, if they don’t come from South Korea, they’re gonna be on a South Korea-built ship. We’ll be bringing th- those [00:16:00] blades in country. That’s what will happen. So wind is getting its own set of financial instruments, which sounds weird, right? Wind is wind. It’s in a very legacy style industry. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is planning to launch wind derivatives across three continents, which are contracts that are tied to the grid in Texas, the markets in the UK and Germany, and just the Victoria state in Australia. So today, most weather hedging happens through one-off over-the-counter deals that are sort of hard to trade and thin on liquidity, so it’s not a commodity you can pass around. A standardized exchange-listed contract changes all that. A utility or a wind farm owner could lock in a hedge in about 15 minutes. The contracts would settle against independent data that models how much power the wind should have produced in a given place, likely supplied by [00:17:00] the Finnish firm, drum roll, Vaisala. Plans are not final, but they could go live within months. So they’re hedging on the wind. Does this sound like a smart move, or w- what are some of the consequences of this? Matthew Stead: I think it goes back to that volatility. W- when there’s volatility, people can make money. Um, you know, and a side note, that’s where, that’s where offshore wind comes in because it’s much more predictable. Um, you don’t get the same lulls with offshore wind. Yeah. So I, I, I love all these, these creative ways of, um, generating, generating demand, financial demand. Allen Hall: It can be played though, right? I mean, that’s one of the things about wind, ’cause each turbine is its own separate little power plant that all connect to a substation, so if you have bought a hedge and the substation goes kaput for 24 hours, you could lose your shirt. It does seem kind of risky, depending on what the scale is here. If you’re doing all of Texas or all of [00:18:00] Victoria, maybe that makes a little more sense, but yikes. That’s gonna be a rough market.  Yolanda Padron: Yeah, the market’s already open, right? Like, you can bid day ahead, um, instead of just real-time prices. But so this, this would be really interesting for owners, right? To be able to track that a lot better than just that gut feeling, which obviously I know people working in trading aren’t just going off of their gut feeling. I know it’s a very, very intense thing. Nobody go against me, please. This is very intense, and it’s better– They do a better job than I could ever do. They do great, 10 out of 10. But this– I think this is really interesting for those of us especially who maybe aren’t super in tune with what, uh, all goes into it. So being able to have something that helps you plan it a bit more for, you know, people like you mentioned earlier, the people that have their home batteries in Australia and are just working on the market itself and maybe [00:19:00] not– don’t have those 10, 20 years of experience of, of actually working on the market. So this is, this is exciting.  Allen Hall: Does that explain all the weather sources and the weather companies when we go to a wind, a larger wind or solar event that there does seem to be a lot of people offering weather insights? Is that what that’s about, is they can hedge? If you have a slightly better weather model, that would give you an advantage in this kind, kind– really kind of market? Is that the, the goal of all those weather firms?  Matthew Stead: Uh, absolutely. And, you know, we’re, we’re part of that because, um, ice, ice, um, you know, reduces power output, and ice forecasting and weather forecasting is, uh, really important in, you know, the Nordics, where you don’t want to be promising certain power and find you can’t deliver ’cause everything’s iced up. So, you know, we, we do work with forecasting companies to improve the, [00:20:00] uh, the quality, and it does have a mer-material difference on, on the financial markets.  Allen Hall: So is that something that we can all get paid for? by these weather companies and these, uh, forecast companies if we provide insights on lightning, so to speak, and icing, uh, is that a revenue chain for at least one of us? Matthew Stead: Absolutely.  Allen Hall: Maybe I like this more and more. I was, I was very hesitant of this exchange, thinking like, “Oh man, not a, not another highly leveraged situation with energy. That doesn’t sound smart.” But, yeah, if we can make a small fortune, Matthew, I think we should do it.  Matthew Stead: Fun fact, there was a flight from, um, yeah, from London to Australia the other week, um, and it’s a direct flight, you know, so 17 hours, and, uh, there was a change in the weather. So there was a change in the weather, and that aircraft didn’t have enough fuel to fly to Perth anymore, so it had to land in the outback of Australia.  Allen Hall: No. Did that happen?  Matthew Stead: Yep, because there was a [00:21:00] change in the weather.  Allen Hall: Are there just, like, kangaroos lined up in a runway shape to get the airplane on the ground? Or how do they– Is there a runway out in the outback that would accommodate a large… That’s a large airplane that’s making a London to Australia trip. Triple 7380? It  Matthew Stead: was a Dreamliner. Um, but, um, it, yeah, it landed in Kalgoorlie. So Kalgoorlie’s a mining town. Yeah, they’ve got, they’ve got big stuff in Kalgoorlie. Allen Hall: In this quarter’s PES Wind magazine, in which there is a whole bunch of great articles, a interesting article about grease. Grease not the country, although I would love to go visit Greece. Grease the lubricant that’s in all our bearings and keeps the world moving at any one particular time. Uh, Sh-Shell was talking about doing a lot of research on grease, and when poor lubrication, uh, happens, it’s one of the leading causes of bearing failure. And so when you see a bearing all tore up, usually the first indication is, is there’s something wrong with the grease. Uh, [00:22:00] so Sh-Shell and bearing maker SKF and the University of, uh, Twente joined forces to answer a deceptively simple question: How do you predict when grease inside a bearing will let go? Well, their answer comes down to film thickness. The microscopic layers of grease that keeps the steel from grinding on each other is the magic variable. The work won a major tribology award and is already feeding into, uh, some of the tools that operators use to schedule relubrication before a bearing fails. And It all comes down to lubrication. That’s the lifetime of a wind turbine. There’s so many pieces that are rotating and are heavily loaded with really complicated bearing surfaces. If you don’t have the grease right, it’s just not gonna work. And what’s happening at Shell is one of those pieces, and we’re [00:23:00] learning so much more. And as we, uh, evolve in the technology and become smarter about the molecules we use and how we use them, uh, this is gonna have a big impact. And I know, Yolanda, you’ve been up to– Well, you’ve been to a couple of wind farms recently. Do you s- see– still see huge grease problems that I usually see when I’m on site? Matthew Stead: Mm-hmm.  Yolanda Padron: I didn’t think that was an issue that was gonna go away anytime soon. But it’s good to know that, that there’s something being done about it that’s more revolutionary than just paying someone to clean the turbine every once in a while.  Allen Hall: And the contaminants that get into the greases are a huge problem, particularly where there’s any sort of sand, dust that climbs in. So keeping those joints clear and those rolling surfaces clear is a major effort. And knowing when to relubricate. And, and Matthew, you guys see pitch bearings and all kinds of problems up on blades that are lubricated that have run out of their lifetime early. It does seem like the first thing you see on particularly pitch bearings [00:24:00] is grease on the side of the turbine from them. Matthew Stead: Yeah. I think that’s– uh, there’s even a special code that the, the visual drone inspection companies have. They’ve got codes for, um, grease and so, yeah, exactly, that’s an early flag. But also dust. You know, sometimes dust from the inserts and from the bolts. Yeah. So it’s, yeah, interesting topic.  Allen Hall: Well, I, I think it’s one of the key pieces to keeping the turbines running. And I know if you travel a lot around wind turbines, the, the grease is the thing that the technicians always talk about, and there’s so many different tools to go out and look at these things. But lubrication, we gotta get to it. And, and Shell, and SKF, and a number of others are, are working at it to make, hopefully, our lives a little bit easier. So if you wanna go check out this article by Shell, go visit peswind.com and download a copy today. That wraps up another episode of the Uptime Wind Energy podcast. If today’s discussion sparked any questions or ideas, we’d love to hear from you. Reach out to us on [00:25:00] LinkedIn, and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. So for Yolanda, and Matthew, and an absent Rosie, I’m Allen Hall, and we’ll see you here next week on the Uptime Wind Energy podcast.

This episode of 50 Shades of Green takes you straight into the heat — literally and figuratively — of London Climate Action Week. Hosts Adam Lake and Katie Lanegran unpack a timely, wide‑ranging discussion hosted by Climate Group on energy efficiency, electrification, cooling, finance and the role of technology in closing the gap between climate ambition and execution. From sweaty conference rooms in London to the bigger picture of global climate weeks, this special edition weaves practical solutions with policy and market realities.With some introductory framing from Mike Umiker - Managing Director, Energy Efficiency Movement, Climate Group's Mike Peirce introduces a powerhouse panel: Erika Gupta (Siemens Financial Services), Ana Troncoso (ABB), Emma Harvey‑Smith (Green Finance Institute) and Chris Skidmore (Climate Action Coalition; former UK Energy and Clean Growth Minister). Together they interrogate why, despite clear economics and existing technologies, energy efficiency remains underfunded and fragmented. Topics include the critical role of efficiency as “the first fuel,” the challenges of scaling retrofit projects, and innovative financing models like energy efficiency as a service, retrofit-as-a-service, and property‑linked finance (PACE) that spread costs and align benefits over time.The conversation zeroes in on cooling: rising air‑conditioning demand, public health impacts of extreme heat, and the uncomfortable tradeoffs between keeping people safe and avoiding runaway electricity demand. Panelists highlight solutions that don't rely on brute‑force AC expansion: smarter HVAC controls, motor-driven system optimization, thermal and electrical storage, load‑smoothing strategies, and liquid cooling for data centers. The discussion also explores how electrification must be “efficient electrification” to avoid overwhelming grids and lock in costly infrastructure.Finance and policy emerge as pivotal themes. The guests explain why aggregation, standardized project pipelines, fit‑for‑purpose data and mandates are necessary to mobilize institutional capital. Real‑world case studies — from university decarbonization partnerships to large industrial motor replacements — demonstrate that when projects are designed at scale, paybacks shorten and impact multiplies. The episode spotlights the Global Property‑Linked Finance Initiative and practical routes to unlock capital for retrofits.Technology and AI are presented as double‑edged tools: powerful enablers of optimization, digital twinning and demand management, but also potential sources of inefficiency if misused. The panel calls for responsible, targeted AI deployment to drive measurable efficiency gains and for broader consumer education so households and businesses seize the right opportunities at the right moments (mortgage renewals, retrofits, tech upgrades).Warm, candid and solution‑focused, this episode is for policymakers, investors, technologists and anyone frustrated by the slow pace of implementation. Listen for pragmatic ideas on scaling energy efficiency, financing the retrofit revolution, making cooling sustainable, and turning climate ambition into measurable action — before the next heatwave.Siemens and ABB are members of Climate Group's Smart Energy Coalition, for more information contact smartenergycoalition@climategroup.org or visit: https://www.theclimategroup.org/smart-energy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Before the internet, there was the transatlantic cable. It transformed global communication, shrinking the distance between continents from weeks to minutes. But in its earliest days, that connection came at a steep price: one company controlled the only reliable cable across the Atlantic, and sending a twenty-word telegram could cost more than $100. In this special America 250 episode of The Optimistic Outlook, guest host Lauren Espin tells the remarkable true story of the engineers and entrepreneurs who challenged that monopoly and helped usher in a new era of global communications. Drawing on original letters and archival research from the Siemens Historical Institute, the episode follows Werner, William, and Carl von Siemens as they designed and built the Faraday—the world's first purpose-built cable-laying ship—and embarked on a mission that nearly failed in the middle of the Atlantic. Through firsthand correspondence between the brothers, you'll experience the technical setbacks, fierce competition, and determination that ultimately led to one of the greatest engineering achievements of the 19th century—and helped expand access to international communication at a pivotal moment in history. In this episode, you'll learn: How the first transatlantic telegraph cables changed communication, and why access remained limited Why the Siemens brothers built the Faraday, the world's first purpose-built cable-laying ship What happened when the cable snapped twice in the middle of the Atlantic How rivals attempted to derail the project with false reports that the Faraday had sunk Why September 15, 1875, marked a turning point in transatlantic communications when the Siemens cable opened for traffic and outperformed the existing route on its very first day Whether you're interested in the history of technology, engineering, telecommunications, global infrastructure, entrepreneurship, or the stories behind the innovations that shaped modern life, this episode offers a fascinating look at one of the most consequential—and least-known—chapters in communications history. Show notes: Siemens in the United States - https://www.siemens.com/en-us/company/about/siemens-usa/ Siemens' History and Heritage - https://www.siemens.com/en-us/company/history-heritage/

In der heutigen Folge sprechen die Finanzjournalisten Nando Sommerfeldt und Holger Zschäpitz über den Circle-Schock, die Abivax-Erleichterung und Ernüchterndes von Nike. Außerdem geht es um Siemens Energy, Citigroup, Siemens, Bank of America, Abivax, SMA Solar, Jefferies, Circle, Visa, BlackRock, Alphabet, Coinbase, Cognizant, Intuit, Charter Communications, Boston Scientific, Oracle, Trimble, Leidos, UBS, OHB, iShares MSCI World Momentum Factor Advanced ETF (WKN: A3CUJS), iShares Edge MSCI World Quality Factor ETF (WKN: A12ATE), Vanguard FTSE All-World High Dividend Yield ETF (WKN: A1T8FV), iShares Edge MSCI World Minimum Volatility ETF (WKN: A1J781). Und hier der Podcast-Link zur Cash-Burners Lilium-Story: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0aFq46uMdsSDB7gRA1IXri?si=E66fBk32QEKoKAmgQRSp4g&nd=1&dlsi=e4be74d32e4148ff Wir freuen uns an Feedback über aaa@welt.de. Noch mehr "Alles auf Aktien" findet Ihr bei WELTplus und Apple Podcasts – inklusive aller Artikel der Hosts. Hier bei WELT: https://www.welt.de/podcasts/alles-auf-aktien/plus247399208/Boersen-Podcast-AAA-Bonus-Folgen-Jede-Woche-noch-mehr-Antworten-auf-Eure-Boersen-Fragen.html. Hier könnt ihr den AAA-Newsletter abonnieren: https://www.welt.de/newsletter/article232797673/Alles-auf-Aktien-Der-taegliche-Boersen-Newsletter-fuer-WELTplus-Abonnenten.html Und – ganz neu: AAA gibt es jetzt auch auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alles_auf_aktien/ Disclaimer: Die im Podcast besprochenen Aktien und Fonds stellen keine spezifischen Kauf- oder Anlage-Empfehlungen dar. Die Moderatoren und der Verlag haften nicht für etwaige Verluste, die aufgrund der Umsetzung der Gedanken oder Ideen entstehen. Hörtipps: Für alle, die noch mehr wissen wollen: Holger Zschäpitz können Sie jede Woche im Finanz- und Wirtschaftspodcast "Deffner&Zschäpitz" hören. +++ Werbung +++ Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte! https://linktr.ee/alles_auf_aktien Impressum: https://www.welt.de/services/article7893735/Impressum.html Datenschutz: https://www.welt.de/services/article157550705/Datenschutzerklaerung-WELT-DIGITAL.html

As AI systems scale, the infrastructure challenge is no longer just about chips, models, and software performance. It is increasingly about the physical systems that allow computation to happen at all: power delivery, cooling, water access, and the speed at which new capacity can be brought online. Power conversion is becoming a much more important design question. As racks move from conventional power densities toward megawatt-scale configurations, every inefficiency in the electrical pathway becomes more consequential. For stakeholders across the energy sector, that makes AI infrastructure more than just a datacenter story. It is also a story about grid constraints, industrial load growth, thermal management, and how developers can design facilities that are efficient enough, flexible enough, and resilient enough to operate at the scale AI now demands.Host Sylvia Leyva Martinez is joined by Nick Wright, Vertical Solutions Manager at Siemens. Their conversation explores why the growth of the AI factory is pushing operators to rethink traditional electrical architecture, especially the number of conversion steps required to move power from the grid to the chip. Nick explains why conventional AC-heavy setups are under pressure as compute loads become denser, more dynamic, and more power-intensive, and why more direct AC-to-DC pathways are drawing increased attention. The episode also examines what that shift means in practice: less energy lost in conversion, less excess heat to manage, different implications for cooling design, and a growing role for higher-voltage DC systems, digital twins, monitoring technologies, and new protection equipment. Along the way, the discussion widens beyond the building itself to consider how AI facilities may evolve into more grid-aware assets, capable of interacting more intelligently with the broader energy system rather than functioning simply as passive loads.For developers, IPPs, utilities, financiers, and infrastructure planners, the episode offers a clear signal that power architecture is becoming a strategic decision much earlier in the project lifecycle. One of the key takeaways is that this is not a simple story of DC replacing AC. The more relevant point is that as racks scale, reducing unnecessary conversion steps can improve efficiency and system performance in ways that matter economically at very large scale. But the conversation also makes clear that conversion efficiency is only one part of a much broader infrastructure equation. Access to reliable power, water availability, cooling strategy, workforce readiness, supply chain bottlenecks, equipment lead times, and safety considerations all shape whether a new AI facility can be delivered on time and scaled over the long term. The players most likely to succeed will be the ones that stop treating power as a late-stage procurement issue and instead plan holistically across energy, compute, operations, and grid interaction from the beginning.This episode is brought to you by twentytwo & brand -- a marketing and PR agency built specifically for energy leaders.Lots of agencies say they work with energy companies, twentytwo & brand was built for them. They've partnered with more than 120 companies driving the energy transition — from growth-stage startups to globally recognized industry leaders. Media relations, brand design, video, paid advertising, and community engagement — they cover it all under one roof. No onboarding lag, no industry crash course -- they speak your language on day one.If you're ready to sharpen your story and supercharge your marketing, find them at twentytwoandbrand.com/woodmac.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Tamara(Tamie) Adams, Chief Revenue Officer of Octave, joins host Dan Sixsmith in the New York studio during one of the most pivotal weeks of her career ,the day before Octave rings the bell on the NASDAQ. Tamie shares how she was recruited into a $1.6B carve-out from Swedish parent company Hexagon, and walks through the transformation she's driven across sales, customer success, enablement, and channel in her first nine months. The conversation covers her philosophy on CS as a driving force in revenue output, the evolving role of AI in enterprise selling, why negotiation has fundamentally changed, and what it really takes to be a successful CRO today. Tamie also reflects on her career journey from finance to Oracle to a PE-backed exit to Siemens and leaves listeners with her personal definition of success.Timestamps​0:00 — Introduction​0:27 — Octave rings the bell on the NASDAQ: a $1.6B carve-out from Hexagon​1:07 — How Tamie was recruited as CRO​3:16 — First moves: assessing systems, personnel, and data​5:06 — State of Customer Success coming in​5:43 — Rebuilding channel sales and alliance partnerships​8:11 — CS as a true profit center: 200% pipeline growth​14:39 — AI for selling: research, prompting, and the risks​17:29 — The art of storytelling in sales​19:17 — How negotiation has changed​25:36 — CRO tenure: why it's 18–22 months and how to break through​27:42 — Top skills required for a successful CRO today​29:17 — Tamie's origin story: race cars, finance, and Oracle​35:10 — The first CRO role: PE-backed, move with speed, exit to Siemens​37:22 — Definition of success: "A little bit of grit and a little bit of grace"

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In today's hybrid and digital workplaces, the instinct for many busy managers is to rely on quick tech tools like AI or generic emails to communicate care. Henna Pryor argues this approach is actually backfiring. She challenges leaders to recognize that we are living in an "age of doubt" where skepticism is the default posture, urging them to close their "signal gaps" by aligning what they say with how they actually show up. Joe Mull sits down with Henna for a conversation about workplace trust and leadership skills. As a workplace performance expert, speaker, and author of Good Awkward and the upcoming book The Signal Gap, Henna brings a wide-ranging career background. From surviving the grueling hours of Big Four public accounting to spending fourteen years in executive search, she uses her front-row seat to team dynamics to help leaders build trust at work and become more believable and impactful. Henna breaks down the difference between cheap and costly signals, explaining why simply expressing gratitude is no longer enough to make employees feel valued. She shares stories from her own career (including her first job at a diner and the sting of being ignored as a high-achieving employee) to illustrate the importance of leadership communication. She also warns against "intent smuggling" and the dangers of public microclaims in the digital age. In this episode, you'll learn:

Brad Haeberle, EVP of Services for Smart Infrastructure Buildings at Siemens, joins Sarah Nicastro for a direct, experience-led conversation on what separates a service business from a service organization and the mindset that drives Siemens' approach to customer outcomes, growth, and digital transformation.

Corporate sustainability strategy is becoming a profit driver as AI, decarbonization, and resilience converge. Eva Riesenhuber, Global Head of Sustainability at Siemens AG and a 2025 TIME100 Climate honoree, joins Siemens USA President and CEO Ann Fairchild to unpack how corporate sustainability strategy is changing inside large organizations. They explain why decarbonization, climate resilience, and digital transformation are now reinforcing each other, and how industrial AI is reshaping what is possible at scale.  Drawing on examples from industry, infrastructure, and mobility, Eva and Ann discuss why the cost of inaction is no longer theoretical. They explore how a modern corporate sustainability strategy can cut emissions, support circular operations, and strengthen systems, while still delivering measurable business value. Key takeaways: How corporate sustainability strategy is moving from ESG reporting to operational decision-making Where decarbonization and net-zero by 2030 efforts are creating real financial upside How companies are balancing industrial AI's energy use with sustainability gains Why resilience, from grids to supply chains, is central to corporate sustainability strategy What leaders need to prioritize as the energy transition accelerates toward 2030 For CEOs, operators, and sustainability leaders, this episode offers a clear view of where corporate sustainability strategy is headed and why long-term bets are paying off. Show notes Sustainability at Siemens

Patch Tuesday goes big. Congress looks to harden critical infrastructure. A new Windows zero-day drops. Mobile AI creates security blind spots. AI agents fall for phishing. Browser extensions expose millions. Spammers hide behind Google Cloud Storage. CISA crowns its cyber champions. Our guest is Joe Sykora, CEO from Coro, discussing the MSP space and how to address it. Relentless robocalls retreat. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn. CyberWire Guest On today's Industry Voices segment, we are joined by Joe Sykora, CEO from Coro, discussing the MSP space and how to address it. If you enjoyed this conversation be sure to check out the full interview here.  Selected Reading Microsoft's biggest-ever Patch Tuesday fixes 206 bugs, including 3 zero-days (Malwarebytes) ICS Patch Tuesday: Vulnerabilities Fixed by Siemens, Schneider, Phoenix Contact (SecurityWeek) Adobe Patches 123 Vulnerabilities (SecurityWeek) Warner proposes overhaul of critical infrastructure cyber plans as AI threats rise (Nextgov/FCW) New Windows Zero-Day Exploit 'RoguePlanet' Released (SecurityWeek) Lookout Study Reveals 93% of CISOs Blinded by False AI Confidence as 59% of Mobile AI Traffic Flows "Dark" (Lookout) Phishing for Lobsters: How We Tricked OpenClaw into Spilling Secrets (Varonis) MaXSS & Spyder: How two Chrome extensions allow websites to compromise over 10 million browsers (Rebora) How Spammers Are Hiding Behind Google and the New York Times (Comparitech) CISA names winners of seventh annual President's Cup cybersecurity competition (Industrial Cyber) U.S. Consumers Received Just Over 4.1 Billion Robocalls in May, According to YouMail Robocall Index (PR Newswire) Share your feedback. What do you think about CyberWire Daily? Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us by completing our brief listener survey. Thank you for helping us continue to improve our show. Want to hear your company in the show? N2K CyberWire helps you reach the industry's most influential leaders and operators, while building visibility, authority, and connectivity across the cybersecurity community. Learn more at sponsor.thecyberwire.com. The CyberWire is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices