interviews

Paul Eremenko (DARPA; Co-founder, P‑1 AI) on how his startup aims to build AI engineers and why hydrogen aviation stalled

Tom Coughlin (IEEE; President, Coughlin Associates) on how looming memory constraints could reshape data center buildouts

Leonard Siebert (Technical Project Lead, KU Leuven) on how laser-assisted melt printing could make drugs dissolve more effectively

André Pujadas (CEO and Co-founder, OnePlanet) on why solar recycling should be treated as manufacturing infrastructure

Doosan Robotics on how AI is reshaping who can use automation, and how quickly it can deliver value on the shop floor

Zachary Jackowski (Vice President of Atlas, Boston Dynamics) on how the industry is still “just at the crawling stage of AI capabilities”

David Alonso (COO, HyAxiom) on why scalability and on-site generation are becoming critical as AI data centers outgrow the grid

Intel veteran Sanjay Natarajan on how Moore’s Law may evolve beyond digital computing

Dr. Tim Holme (Co-founder and CTO, QuantumScape) what it takes to make lithium-metal solid-state batteries practical for electric vehicles

Michelle Simmons (Founder and CEO, SQC) on why silicon remains uniquely suited for fault-tolerant quantum computing

Aya Durbin (Product Lead, Boston Dynamics) on why humanoids’ deployment, reliability, and autonomy matter more than simple motion

Patrick Planing (Professor, HFT Stuttgart) on what technologists consistently underestimate about human behavior

Swiss watchmaker David Candaux on where energy is truly lost inside a movement, and how mechanics matter over aesthetics

SpaceX veteran Tom Mueller (CEO, Impulse Space) on why in-space mobility is becoming the next critical layer of the space economy

Axel Körner (University of Stuttgart) on why adaptive façades matter in a warming climate

Charlie Diggs (CEO, Dynasafe) on what engineers get wrong about explosives work and how new technologies are reshaping the field

Dame Sarah Silverman (Principal, St Hilda’s College, Oxford) on climate-resilient infrastructure and the limits of AI in geotechnical design

Asegun Henry (MIT) on his vision for clean energy and why decarbonization demands urgent investment

Loay Elbasyouni (Blue Origin) on how efficient power systems can transform aerospace and AI

Benjamin Lee (University of Pennsylvania) on how AI’s growth won’t be sustainable without smarter infrastructure and energy-aware design