The composites community benefits from several associations and entities that work to forward advanced materials research, one of those being the Institute for Advanced Composite Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI). In this special National Composites Week installment of CW Talks, CompositesWorld interviews IACMI CEO Chad Duty to discuss the myriad ways that composite materials and composites manufacturing contribute to the products and structures that shape our lives. Duty discusses the institute's 10th anniversary, its mission in the industry and rising to meet the challenges and opportunities facing the composites industry today.