The i.Lab

CMSgt Eishen, CMSgt Leifer and SrA McBride discuss a change agent's responsibilities when pushing an innovative idea forward.

In this episode CMSgt Ian Eishen and 1Lt James Carney sit down with a pair of Innovation Corps instructors and discuss the history of the program, the training methodology and how a unit can use this training to empower their Airmen.

Jeff Bezos gave the Keynote speech at the 2018 Air & Space Symposium and provided recommendations and lessons learned for the Air Force. The entire interview is worth your time but we took some of the highlights and discussed how we felt those recommendations could be implemented at the squadron level.

The Hacking4Defense program provides a great opportunity to partner military members with academia. Our unit is now on its fourth iteration with the program and each iteration has provided professional development, networking and problem solving opportunities for our Airmen.

In this episode, we discuss the process to get an idea into the Hacking4Defense program, our lessons learned from previous iterations and our two current projects with the University of Virginia and the US Air Force Academy.

We just completed our Squadron Superintendent offsite at TechCrunch Disrupt. We used the entrepreneurial and technical discussion as a back drop for planning for the next year in our organization.

In this episode, we interview SMSgt Green and discuss his 30 day in-residence experience with the Stanford Ignite Veterans program this summer. He describes the application process and what it was like to live on campus for one month. We also discuss how this program fits inside the "PME Next" ecosystem and the how it can augment traditional military professional military education.

We discuss why we started a podcast and a few of our local initiatives we are using to develop our Airmen