SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT
We're honored to feature:
Cody James (@codyaims)
Founder and CEO, Open X
Previously announced:
>Antonio Gracias - Founder, CEO, and CIO of Valor Equity Partners
>Blake Scholl - Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic
>Daleep Singh - Vice Chair and Chief Global Economist at PGIM
>Doug Petno - Co-CEO and CIB at JP Morgan Chase
>John Henry Harris - CEO of Harbinger
>Jim Belosic - Founder of SendCutSend
>Kelly Loeffler - SBA Administrator
>Alexis Ohanian - Founder of 776
>Ed Mehr - CEO and Co-Founder of Machina Labs
>Bryon Hargis - CEO and Co-Founder at Castelion
>Emil Michael - Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering at DoW
>Del Costy - President and Managing Director at Siemens Digital
>Brendan Carr - FCC Chairman
>Mike Pyle - Deputy Head, BlackRock Portfolio Management Group
>Justin Lopas - Co-Founder and COO, Base Power Co.
>Augustus Doricko - CEO, Rainmaker
>Mike Solana - Chief Marketing Officer, Founders Fund
>Alan Schwartz - Executive Chairman, Guggenheim Partners, LLC
>Ambassador Waltz - U.S. Representative to the United Nations
>Dan Wright - Co-Founder and CEO of Armada >Andrew Lonsberry - CEO of Path Robotics
>Tara Murphy Dougherty - CEO of Govini
>Chris Power - CEO of Hadrian
>Mark Widmar - CEO of First Solar
>Lukas Czinger - Co-Founder and CEO of Divergent
>Jacob Helberg - Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
>Filip Aronshtein - Co-Founder and CEO of Dirac
>Scott Kupor - Director of U.S. Office of Personnel Management
>Chris Raymond - President and CEO, Boeing Global Services
Breaking: Open X (@TryOpenX) says its COLAB forward-deployable manufacturing lab is now supporting live combat deployments, with dozens of units fielded across six countries.
COLAB is a containerized lab built to bring upskilling, repair, and fabrication closer to the edge.
The system has also been fielded with Special Operations Forces and Marine Forces Special Operations Command. Separately, two research and development COLAB units deployed to Operation Epic Fury.
I stood inside Skill Factory #000 this week. Surreal
Soon we will begin moving our teams from California, Utah, and Florida to all operate in Texas
This will be our new HQ
We are hiring for the final core team
3D Designers, Animators, Editors
You will create the world’s highest quality training material. The building blocks of industry. GD&T, CAD, CNC.
These works will be gifted to America, free. A precursor to unbelievable human potential
Shout out to USSOCOM & AFSOC for letting our guys borrow one of your COLABs before you deploy it
No flyers, no marketing material, but a few great meetings. We bought two booths and just slapped it down on the floor and hit power on
Everyone loved it!
This is @TryOpenX
It is Skill Factory. It’s all our work on the training platform. It’s why we all left industry, and what I’ve give millions for.
I will see this returned to America before my death. I do not care if it costs my life.
Skill Factory #001 will be in Texas
We grew 20x this year, it’s a blur. We launched COLAB, which has been ultra high demand, especially when paired with the skills platform.
We now have COLABs deploying in Japan, Germany, UK. Soon in all US states
Imagine if your local makerspace or shop class was funded by local employers
And they gave projects / things to build, they donated older machines and materials
What if we removed HR from the hiring cycle? What if builders in industry could just come talk and build with you