266- Aaron Katske Reveals How 3D Printing is Revolutionizing Manufacturing

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

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5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Aaron Katske Aaron Katske is the Vice President of Information Technology at Velo3D, a leader in metal additive manufacturing. With over 15 years of experience, Aaron oversees IT strategy, security, infrastructure, and applications. He has led high-performing teams in various industries including software and manufacturing and is passionate about the revolutionary possibilities of 3D printing and transforming the future of manufacturing. Outside of work, he enjoys scuba diving adventures and exploring the underwater world. Aaron Katske Reveals How 3D Printing is Revolutionizing Manufacturing What does it take to transform manufacturing with 3D printing? How is the landscape evolving? In this podcast, we explore these questions and more in an engaging discussion with additive manufacturing leader Aaron Katske. Drawing on over 15 years of experience, Aaron provides perspectives on aligning IT with business goals, assembling top talent, and gaining stakeholder buy-in during rapid growth. Expect a view on the past and future of manufacturing as we cover topics like leveraging technology for strategic impact, hiring the right people for challenges, and visualizing the role you want. No matter where you are in your IT leadership journey, you will gain valuable lessons on maturing organizations and influencing executives from Aaron’s insights. Tune in for a compelling look at how to drive innovation and build high-performing teams.

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0:00.0	Welcome back, everyone to dissecting popular IT nerds.
0:09.6	I'm your host, Doug Kameen, and today I'm talking with Aaron Katsky,
0:13.0	vice president of information technology at Velo 3D in Campbell, California.
0:17.5	Pretty sure is in Silicon Valley.
0:19.1	Welcome to the show, Aaron.
0:20.8	Hey, Doug, nice to be with you, and yes, it is in the heart of Silicon Valley.
0:25.1	Nice, nice. So before we started here, we were struggling with Microsoft Teams. Like,
0:32.3	isn't this, this is like the bane of our existence on some levels is trying to get teams to work right
0:38.5	because we have to use it everywhere.
0:41.3	Yeah, it really is a kind of new phenomenon for every meeting that you have to allow a
0:47.2	five to ten minutes window for everybody to get everything working.
0:50.5	And team seems to be the one that troubles at least me the most but yeah it's it's
0:56.3	always a very interesting proposition of what can go wrong in a visual video and audio conferencing
1:01.1	platform yeah you know for me like and I've adapted teams just because that's what we use at work but
1:06.6	when I think about the ones that do give me a challenge it, it's Google meat that really drives me bonkers because it's all web-based and there's no way around that.
1:18.1	So, like, you have to, you know, all these steps have to go kind of like correctly in order for it to function right.
1:23.4	Of course, if you're using Google Chrome, then everything works flawlessly, I think.
1:28.6	I wonder, is that plan, they plan to plan that, I bet you.
1:33.8	I guess is if I'm developing a video conferencing platform, I'm going to use my browser to do all the testing.
1:39.8	So I'm Firefox or the opera gets a very, very far second, never they're doing it.
1:46.2	But yeah, I don't know.
1:47.8	The Google platform, they seem to work real great.
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