In this episode, Host Fabian Alefeld speaks with Lin Kayser, CEO of Hyperganic Group. Lin shares the knowledge and vision he acquired from being a successful tech entrepreneur for more than 30 years. Lin has gone from industrial automation to bringing the Hollywood film industry into the digital age. He has had leadership roles in organizations focused on sustainability, renewable energy, and space flight. His company, Hyperganic, wants to radically change the way objects are engineered and designed using advanced algorithms to help engineers achieve groundbreaking design complexity. 

During today's episode, Fabian talks to Lin about what inspired him to start Hyperganic Group, how Hyperganic’s innovative platform can change the way products are engineered and designed, why the platform is the perfect fit for the next generation of Additive Manufacturing (AM) and AM engineers, and his vision for the future of AM and code-based design. 

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Key Takeaways:

[1:54] Lin’s dynamic career path progressed from accidentally inventing a movie playback software to buying a 3D printer and creating Hyperganic.

[7:03] Lin describes how Hyperganic changes the game in manufacturing. 

[12:38] Can current software engineers be supercharged to bridge the gap in manufacturing jobs and code-based design? 

[19:16] Hyperganic is creating highly-optimized objects on demand, appropriate technologies, and client-specific applications. 

[23:54] Lin’s vision for the future of AM includes licensed algorithms and humanless factories. 

Shareables:

“In 2008, when Al Gore gave his famous talk on an Inconvenient Truth on climate change. And that kind of shook me awake. I joke that I thought we had already solved the environmental crisis by separating our trash. And here is this guy talking about this monster that is barreling down on us. I felt what the hell am I doing in the entertainment industry.” — Lin Kayser, CEO, Hyperganic 

“Hyperganic tries to dramatically accelerate innovation by moving manufacturing and engineering to a software paradigm.”— Lin Kayser, CEO, Hyperganic

“There is one aspect of our technology that is interesting. What you do when you create an object using our technology is you don't create an object, you create a process that creates objects.” — Lin Kayser, CEO, Hyperganic