Tough Tech Today with Meyen and Miller
This is the premiere show featuring trailblazers who are building technologies today to solve tomorrow's toughest challenges.
- Update frequency
- every 22 days
- Average duration
- 47 minutes
- Episodes
- 34
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2024
Google Maps for gold? AI-Assisted Mine Prospecting is Tough!
In one sentence: When the frontiers of geology overlap with the frontlines of contested regions, international collaborations help protect minerals core to our civilization.
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Overview:
There’s a wo…
Unlocking new mRNA Treatments with Jake Becraft, CEO of Strand Therapeutics
In one sentence: Unlocking new mRNA treatments will save lives, but it's not as simple as that.
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Overview
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Jake Becraft of Strand Therapeutics is an expert in designing and programming mRNA, cr…
Freedom Without Fear - Making injections effortless with autoinjector tech to saves lives, with Conor Cullinane of Pirouette Medical
In one sentence: A needle shaped like a hockey puck is a ‘revolutionary’ medical device that can deliver epinephrine during a severe allergic reaction on Earth or in space.
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Overview
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EpiPens…
Tough Tech Today in 2020 and Beyond (Year in Review)
A chat to review the first year of Tough Tech Today.
$2.5B Exit Entrepreneur, Sujal Patel, is Creating a Proteomics Startup to Upgrade Human Health
In one sentence...
Human health upgrades may be unlocked by a data storage expert focused on probing the proteome.
Overview:
It’s not everyday that one hears about the crucial relationship between digi…
A moon rover startup gears up for launch, featuring Justin Cyrus of Lunar Outpost
In one sentence...
Living on the Moon requires infrastructure that Justin Cyrus of Lunar Outpost knows can be helpful here on Earth.
Overview
Earth’s moon is viewed as the upcoming base of operations fo…
When tough tech and dual-use ventures collide, with the U.S. Air Force Banshee Program
Banshees of the United States Air Force hunt for mission-enhancing technologies.
The world's largest startup accelerator, MassChallenge, teamed up with the Air Force Labs to establish the Banshees tr…
Bringing heroes home, featuring Caleb Carr of Vita Inclinata
In one sentence...
A helicopter rescue mission gone awry fuels this man’s mission to bring heroes home safely with drones built for aircraft load stabilization.
Overview
As a Black Hawk helicopter’s rot…
Bootstrapping mass spectrometry, featuring Mazdak Taghioskoui of Trace Matters
He built a mass spectrometer from scratch and reinvented it in the process!
Bearing a smile, Mazdak “Maz” Taghioskoui says he immigrated to the United States from Iran for a good education and same-da…
Tough Tech Venture Capital and America's Innovation Engine with Orin Hoffman
While aboard a plane nosediving into Baghdad, one may be forgiven for pondering how one’s life path could lead from vacuum cleaners to minesweeping robots. Yet, not only does Orin Hoffman, of MIT’s T…
Venturing into federal tech, featuring Will Dickson and Trinity Torres of FedTech
What happens to the ideas generated across the United States federal government’s research initiatives? Will Dickson and Trinity Torres walk us through the pathways of taxpayer-funded technological a…
Launching dual-use ventures, featuring Katy Person of the MIT Innovation Initiative
Dual-use ventures – tough tech startups pursuing commercial relationships with the private sector and federal government, are a unique class of companies with whom Kathryn "Katy" Person, of the MIT I…
Commercializing Satellite Propulsion, featuring Louis Perna of Accion Systems
