ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Welcome to the ProtoPod — the podcast for engineers, innovators, entrepreneurs, and trailblazers shaping the future of tech and innovation.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
32 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
54 episodes
since April 2, 2025
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Can speed change the physics of defense innovation? In this episode of the ProtoPod, host Jordan sits down with Dr. Doug Milburn (Founder of ProtoSpace Mfg / Protocase) and Jimi Hendrix (Director of Regional Programs at the North Carolina Military Business Center - NCMBC) to break down why velocity…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Recorded live at IREC 2026, this episode of ProtoPod features Roberto Rodriguez of Blue Origin and Joshua Kaufman of Mercury Space Systems for a conversation about aerospace careers, hands-on engineering, and life after university.
YouTube version: https://youtu.be/tRp4NKAc6mo
Today, we’re joined by Adam Trumpour, founder of Launch Canada, the organization behind Canada’s biggest student rocketry competition.
Adam’s spent years in propulsion and aerospace engineering, and now he’s helping build a pipeline of engineers who are learning rocket science by actually laun…
In this episode of the ProtoPod, Jordan sits down with Paul Ziadé, Co-Founder and CEO of North Vector Dynamics, a Canadian aerospace and defense technology company building next-generation capabilities in areas like counter-drone systems, air defense, autonomy and hypersonic technologies.
Paul …
Today on the ProtoPod, we’re joined by Kevin Sloan, Director of the University Rover Challenge. For nearly two decades, Kevin has helped build one of the most impactful hands-on engineering competitions in the world.
For more information on this year's competition, visit: https://urc.marssociety.o…
Today on the ProtoPod, we’re joined by Ashton Meginnis, Head of Space Systems at AstroForge. AstroForge is a startup focused on building spacecraft to chase down asteroids—and ultimately mine them.
To learn more about AstroForge: https://www.astroforge.com/
To learn more about Protocase &…
In this episode, we’re joined by Jim York from Elliott Machinery to talk about metrology, GD&T, and why so many engineering drawings break down in the real world.
Today on the ProtoPod, we’re joined by Fernando Romero — a turbomachinery repair engineer at Sulzer, co-founder of Iron Age Audioworks, and the mind behind All About Turbo.
Fernando lives in the real world of keeping critical machines alive — and he’s also the kind of engineer who goes home and bu…
On today's episode, we’re joined by Karthik Gollapudi, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sift.
Sift is building the telemetry backbone for mission-critical systems — helping aerospace, robotics, and defense companies make sense of massive streams of real-world data.
We’ll talk about…
On today's episode, we’re joined by Dave McQuinn from Allen-Vanguard.
Dave has spent nearly two decades developing technologies designed to stop improvised explosive devices and protect people in some of the most challenging environments in the world.
We’ll talk about engineering under pres…
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