Drew Westrick
Co-Host of Glasslab Podcast
Drew Westrick has hosted 12 Episodes.
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Episode 18: What is a venture studio? With Dick Aderman
February 29th, 2024 | 44 mins 32 secs
accelerator, boomerang ventures, design, engineering, glassboard, glasslab, product development, vc, venture capital, venture studio
In this episode of the Glasslab Podcast, we sit down with Dick Aderman of Boomerang Ventures to discuss his career path, his current role, and the differences between an accelerator and a venture studio.
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15: Best Practices for Early Stage Product Founders with Devon Campbell of Prodct
July 10th, 2023 | 44 mins 5 secs
product development, quality, regulatory, risk management
On this episode of Glasslabs, we talk with Devon Campbell, Founder at Prodct Medical Device Advisory, about best practices early-stage founders can take when creating a new product and how companies like Product and Glassboard support their development.
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13: Elevate Ventures and Powderkeg with Toph Day and Matt Hunckler
March 30th, 2023 | 1 hr 2 mins
elevate ventures, innovation, powderkeg, startups, venture capital
On this episode of Glasslabs, Elevate Ventures CEO Toph Day and Powderkeg CEO Matt Hunckler join us to discuss the convergence of innovation, community, and capital in the "Unvalley," aka the Midwest.
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12: Innovatemap with Mike Reynolds
February 1st, 2023 | 44 mins 31 secs
digital design, founder, indianapolis, product development
In this episode, we talk to Mike Reynolds, the CEO of Innovatemap about how his career in SaaS allowed him to build a world-class digital design development company.
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10: 16 Tech Innovation District with Emily Krueger
October 31st, 2022 | 42 mins 43 secs
16 tech, innovation district
This week we talk with Emily Krueger, CEO of 16 Tech Innovation District about how Indianapolis is joining the growing innovation industry and the impact it will have on the city and businesses.
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8: Cybersecurity with Nick Sturgeon
August 31st, 2022 | 53 mins 2 secs
collaboration, cybersecurity, device security, iu health, product development
This week we talk with Nick Sturgeon, Founder and Executive Director of Indiana University Health's Medical Device Security Lab about the importance of cybersecurity and how to quantify your efforts against attacks.
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6: Battery Innovation with Ben Wrightsman
June 30th, 2022 | 52 mins 49 secs
This month we sat down with Ben Wrightsman. Ben is the President & CEO of the Battery Innovation Center (BIC). We dive into the world of advanced battery technology and talk about the role competitive motorsports play in advancing battery technology.
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5: Product Innovation with Jennifer Fisher
December 22nd, 2021 | 44 mins 18 secs
This month we sat down with Jenny Fisher. Jenny is a Senior Innovation Guide at Roche Diagnostics, where she helps develop strategies to increase ideation and explore, evaluate, and introduce new innovation tools for early concept creation and prototyping.
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4: Machyne Makerspace
November 2nd, 2021 | 40 mins 38 secs
In the is episode we discuss the value Machyne Makerspace brings to our area. We talk about how this maker space has helped us in product development and hear from the people running it.
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3: Take Hardware Development Remote
October 4th, 2021 | 37 mins 49 secs
In this episode we take a deep dive with Sean, an IT expert, on the importance of security. During the past year most of us have had to work remote at some point. Working remote causes more risk for security to be compromised. Key things we talk about are VPN's, 2 Factor Authentication, and more.
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2: Hammerhead Interview
September 2nd, 2021 | 43 mins 46 secs
This week, The Glasslab Podcast sat down with Rob and Laurence from the Hammerhead cycling computer team. We discuss the difficulties of putting out development fires, managing a global and remote team, and how to pick hardware that supports continuous software improvement.
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1: Product Development Tools
August 25th, 2021 | 41 mins 53 secs
We are happy to announce our first episode to The Glasslab Podcast! We discuss the importance of the product development tools we use that inspire innovation in our everyday rapid prototyping process. The Glasslab Podcast is your window into the design and development of hardware-based products.