Matt Connarton Unleashed 1-11-25 hour 2

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0:57 Speaker 5: Welcome everybody as we enter our number two new Maarrow dose of Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of wm NH ninety five point three FM and Glorious. It's a little snowy but glorious a Manchester, New Hampshire. Today is, of course Saturday, January eleven, twenty twenty five. Jenny is here at the news table account for Yes and joining us on the show for the first time. We have Flow Nicholas from Region Valley Tech Hub. A good morning, Flow.

1:28 Speaker 6: Good morning, and thank you so much for having me today.

1:31 Speaker 5: Absolutely, I'm glad that a mutual friend of ours, Anthony tone Peyton, connected us and very happy about that and.

1:39 Speaker 7: We were kind of talking off here.

1:42 Speaker 5: I know and understand almost nothing about what you do, which will make this particularly interesting for me and hopefully for the listeners as well, because I look forward to you kind of explaining it, and I know that it involves technology and innovation and all this kind of thing, but so I will have a lot of questions along the way, and some of the questions I have might seem kind of foolish because I don't know anything about this, but I am very curious because it all sounds positive and we need as much positivity as we can get in this world.

2:16 Speaker 6: Oh yeah, No, we definitely do and ask away.

2:20 Speaker 8: And this is exactly why I'm here, yes, is because we understand that not a lot of people who are right here at Manchester know what's going on right here at Manchester. So it's a pleasure to be here, to be able to kind of get people excited about the amazing innovation that's happening right here.

2:36 Speaker 7: All right, so tell us about what you do.

2:39 Speaker 8: So I'm the Chief Impact and Commune Engagement Officer of Region Tech Hub and it's led by Advance Regenitive Manufacturing Institute also known as Army with an Eye not Army but a why So I always have to kind of make sure people know that. So what is going on is around the country. There are thirty one designated tech hubs and we are fortunate right here in New Hampshire we are at designated tech hub and each tech hub has a unique and specific technology that they're building and for us right here in New Hampshire, our technology is biofabrication, which is essentially regenitive medicine.

3:26 Speaker 8: And think of this, right, we all know someone who has some type of chronic disease. Yes, And for example, I had an aunt who had kidney issues and had to be on dialysis. Okay, and historically what happens is like dialysis is not necessarilways like the permanent solution.

3:49 Speaker 9: Right.

3:49 Speaker 8: Typically people who get dialysis need a kidney they need a kidney replacement.

3:55 Speaker 6: But unfortunately, you.

3:56 Speaker 8: Know, with a lot of off these organ replacement there is like a waiting list.

4:01 Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, right, and that waiting list is long.

4:05 Speaker 8: Just imagine when you go to the er, how sometimes you're in there for hours?

4:10 Speaker 7: Right.

4:10 Speaker 8: So it's a similar concept of why does someone have to.

4:16 Speaker 6: Die in order for someone else to live?

4:19 Speaker 9: Right?

4:20 Speaker 8: So this whole using stem cell therapies coming up to solutions for treating these chronic diseases.

4:28 Speaker 6: Right, And it's.

4:28 Speaker 8: Almost like essentially in a simple layman tern like manufacturing and scaling of organs. Okay, right, so just really kind of revamping this industry right the by fabrication industry which is being created right here in your Hamshire and really focused on those critical chronic diseases and coming up with the solutions to treat them.

4:56 Speaker 5: Yeah, it's interesting that people. You know, obviously we have a lot of listeners in the local area. We also have listeners who online from across the country and even around the world, and people, I'm sure most listeners have no idea that you know that there is even I mean, we've got a pretty vibrant tech sector here in this area that people probably don't even know about. You know, the average people living right here in Manchester might not realize it. But you know, if you go down to especially you know, and by the river there the mill buildings, there's a lot.

5:32 Speaker 8: Of tech around exactly where it's happening. Yeah, and there's actually a lot of tech that's happening. I've been monitoring the tech industry for years and at one point in time I actually had my own tech show and it was called Get Tech Smart Oh no kidding, and it was focused on featuring technology that was happening right here in the States. I would invite leaders from different tech companies here to talk about the technology all the way from cybersecurity to AI for example, and all this stuff.

6:00 Speaker 8: Like again where a miliad is right behind us, and there's all various companies and we are like a stud up heart for all these companies that are working on these therapies that are going to be helping to treat some of these chronic diseases. And I'm I also on the board of directors for the New Hampshire Tech Alliance, okay, which kind of oversees this tech stutup hub that's happening right here in New Hampshire. There there is more technology in New Hampshire that even I knew before I started this research.

6:35 Speaker 7: Yeah.

6:36 Speaker 5: Yeah, And what you're doing in terms of biofabrication, is that the right truth?

6:41 Speaker 6: That's correct?

6:42 Speaker 5: You know, we do talk about well it's funny, just a total coincidence. But in the first hour of the show today we had on Natalie Moseley Klinautik, who wrote a book about her son as CRPS, and you know, so we talked about this stuff a lot. And Jenny does a lot of healthcare activism and so forth. So so these these subjects come up on the show. But I years ago I had met someone by chance. I don't remember his name, but he had come to New Hampshire specifically for he was talking about he had to get a prosthetic hand and I think it was a hand, and he had he had come to Uh.

7:22 Speaker 5: This not somebody I really know, just somebody I happened to meet by chance, and but he was telling me he had come to New Hampshire. This was probably ten years ago, but he had come to Manchester specifically because there was research being done here, right, you know, developing something that would work for for someone like him. It was and it was like, oh, and that was kind of when I first started to realize what was going on here and this research that was being done here and development.

7:48 Speaker 8: Oh, there's so much going on from looking at you know, diabetes, tweeting diabetes all the way to you know, other injuries like you know, ligament injuries like rotato cuff you know, uh, and using again kind of like those stem cell therapies. And this is exactly why I'm here, is because part of the tech cub and what we're doing in the Tech cup Uh, because this is the new industry.

8:13 Speaker 6: Uh, you need the workforce, you need the talent.

8:17 Speaker 8: So there's a lot that's going on in terms of raising awareness through various programs where we have you know, education Workforce and Development teams that are going into classrooms working with schools to start that early exposure of hey, did you know.

8:32 Speaker 6: About biof fabrication. Did you know?

8:35 Speaker 8: Like this whole new industry, this whole new career path that you can take. And and it's and it's not just Army Advance Regenerative Manufacturing Institute who was a part of this.

8:45 Speaker 6: There is a large.

8:46 Speaker 8: Consortium of organizations that are all participating in building and scaling this new industry. Okay, so I'm working with people from you and ahe working with people from from this new The granted why for example right here in Manchester is a part of it because we recognize the fact that so you can create this new industry, right, you can create this new workforce, but we have existing issues childcare, house it, transportation. So we're also looking at that and we're teaming up with organizations to say, okay, let's say we want to create these you know, six seven thousand jobs.

9:24 Speaker 8: Where are people going to live, right, and people have to go to work, but somebody has to take care of the kids if they have kids.

9:31 Speaker 10: Right.

9:32 Speaker 8: So there's all these other issues and challenges that we're aware of that as part of this scaling and building that we're really being intentional ensuring that we're bringing in strategic partners that are going to help us.

9:45 Speaker 10: Right.

9:46 Speaker 8: And the other thing is what you said earlier when we kicked off, is I'm right here, the milliad is behind me, and I had no idea what's going on. And that is the story that I'm hearing a lot when I'm going out and meeting with community organizations, especially those that are in underinvested communities.

10:05 Speaker 9: Right.

10:05 Speaker 6: And there are people who are looking for work and they don't know about these career paths right. And we've had job openings that have been available. We have apprenticeship programs that are available.

10:18 Speaker 8: So you know what, maybe you don't want to go to four year you know school option, you know, to get a four year college degree, but you still want a career right where you can grow and scale and climb the ladder. So we have all these positions that are open and that are continuously growing. But people need to know, we need to feel the positions, and it starts by me being right here and educating the community of what's happening right here in Manchester.

10:45 Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's great to tell people about it because well, not only is it important too, you know, because you do have you need people to take these career paths obviously, but also it's something to be proud of, right, It's something that everybody in this area should be really proud of that this is happening here because it's so cool and most people don't.

11:05 Speaker 7: Know, right.

11:06 Speaker 8: I mean, the plan, right is for us to become the global epicenter for this biofabrication industry. And you know, normally, like when I talk about New Hampshire, you know there's some people who still don't even know where, you know, where New Hampshire is, right, right, and so first so it for us to be this kind of you know, some people think about it as like a very rural entire state.

11:31 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, right, yeah, we've Jenny and I've personally had to fight that stereotype with with with people online who think that I think that that's.

11:41 Speaker 6: What New Hampshire is farm land right right, Yeah, Yeah, people there are.

11:45 Speaker 7: People in other parts of the country who think that, yeah.

11:47 Speaker 11: We're just hanging out of trees here whatever, no cities.

11:51 Speaker 8: No milk and the cows, and yeah, no running water.

11:58 Speaker 10: Right.

11:58 Speaker 8: And so when I use my social media, like I told you earlier, like LinkedIn is my platform, that's where I'm like popular, and I have a global audience off over seventeen thousand followers, and so they're in shock.

12:12 Speaker 12: You know.

12:13 Speaker 8: I started just really putting a spotlight on your Hamshire a couple of years ago, and people what I hear is like I had no idea that things like that could happen and are happening in New Hampshire. So we have a lot of education in terms of putting a spotlight on you know, who New Hampshire really is as a state and what we have to offer. And I think this really is going to give us a competitive edge, right, not only in the global economy, but especially around the country, give us a competitive edge.

12:45 Speaker 8: And also it's going to enable us to really have this economic growth, right because we're building this new industry, we're creating jobs, we're creating this treatments which will not only is it about the jobs, but it's also about the treatment that are going to be able to help save lives and improve the livelihood of people, especially those you know who suffer from some of these chronic diseases. So there's so much going on, but we my role is to ensure that we're community centered, that we're not doing innovation on the community.

13:20 Speaker 6: We're doing innovation with the community. Right.

13:23 Speaker 8: We want people to participate and engage in what we're building. Right, it's not a only just certain people are going to benefit, but we want to ensure that, you know, it's not the.

13:36 Speaker 6: Although we want to scale.

13:37 Speaker 8: We know about Silicon Valley, we know about places like Texas and Seattle that are booming in the tech industry.

13:44 Speaker 4: Right.

13:44 Speaker 8: But one thing that I talk about, and I said this to somebody, is I remember applanning for a job in Seattle for big company, and then when I looked at the cost of living, I was like, I can't eat. I love this role, but I can't even afford to move to that state. So we're been intentional knowing that you know, there have been times where tech hubs have flourished, but then it has pushed others out of those tech hubs, and we want to ensure that that's not what we do, okay, right. We want, yes, we want this techhub to scale, but not at the expense of people in the community.

14:21 Speaker 7: Right.

14:21 Speaker 8: So that's why I'm here because again we're bringing in different partners. We're calling on partners like you know, the City FA in New Hampshire. We're we're working with other partners as I mentioned from you know you one Ah, Southern University of New Hampshire, Franklin Players, Manchester Community College. The academia is very involved in what's going on, but we're also getting involved people from nonprofit organizations, small businesses to large scale companies. This is really an all hands on deck effort to build this industry.

14:57 Speaker 5: It sounds to me like there's a a real concern too that you know, obviously this industry is growing, but it's tell me if I'm wrong. It sounds like the maybe the biggest concern that you have is getting people into that pipeline on that career path. Because if you have a flourishing industry and a very important one, obviously this is important work. But if you have a flourishing industry but you don't have enough you know, I mean, we live in a time where record low unemployment, you know, so it's I imagine right now in fact, plus in New Hampshire, even in times of high unemployment in this state, we have one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country, even when the rest of the country is doing poorly with it.

15:43 Speaker 5: But so, I mean that sounds like I mean, is that kind of your biggest concern or your biggest challenge is just getting people on that career path because you know, again, if you've got a flourishing industry but you don't have people coming into it actively entering the industry, then you you know, you run the risk of kind of hitting a choke point there right where if you don't have people right.

16:06 Speaker 6: So, I don't think that's the concern.

16:07 Speaker 8: I think my biggest concern I haven't been boosts on the ground in the community is the lack of knowledge of what's actually happening. Okay, so the talent is there, right, but the people don't know that, you know, the jobs that are currently available or the one you know, apprenticeship programs or opportunities that are to come, right. A lot of people don't know. And we're dealing and I've met with organizations that are doing workforce development and talent recruited and and and they're like, we have people, but we don't.

16:37 Speaker 7: Know, right, we don't.

16:39 Speaker 8: We didn't even know that you existed until you came here instead of educating us. And that's why for me, knowledge is power, right. And I've had the opportunity to in December or travel to DC and travel to Arizona and meet with people from other tech hubs as well. And one of the things that I keep it's a right or the fresh of my mind, is a gentleman who grew up on is Native American. He grew up on a reservation and he's now an engineer, but he said he didn't know what an engineer was until he was an adult because he didn't have the exposure.

17:16 Speaker 6: So that's what we're trying to do. And that's what my role is.

17:19 Speaker 8: And that's what you know, other organizations we're teaming up with is. You know, there's this ideology sometimes off you know, you when you know the various opportunities that are available to you, right, that empowers you to explore those various career paths.

17:35 Speaker 12: Right.

17:35 Speaker 8: But if you don't know and you are unaware of the various career paths that exists, then it's not on the top of your mind. Off, Hey, that role is a possibility for me because you don't know, right, And what we're trying to do, And one of the efforts that I'm leading is that raising awareness, that matching up people you know, with these opportunities, right, and working with organizations that are also in the community to help us amplify the message, right, because we understand we can't do this alone.

18:10 Speaker 8: I'm but one person, right, But what I have to do is ensure that I am having people who join this concertium who see what we're doing and are like, yes, we want this, we want this to scale, we want this to build, we want to be part of this economic growth, and we're going to help you share the message out into the community.

18:33 Speaker 7: Yeah. In terms of.

18:38 Speaker 5: I mean when you're talking to people about that, well, people like me who don't really know much about it and it's wonderful to have this opportunity to learn about it. What are some things that you tell people to kind of get them excited and invested in it, Like when you like to me, it's exciting when you talk about the biofabrication. If I can say it biofabrication.

18:58 Speaker 6: Yeah, you got them.

19:01 Speaker 7: You know that's exciting to hear about that kind of thing.

19:04 Speaker 5: Is that one of the things that you're communicating to people, because obviously you're communicating to people all the time, right who have no idea about any of this. So I mean, what are some of the things you tell people to get excited about it?

19:17 Speaker 1: Right?

19:17 Speaker 8: I think the first part is really that educational awareness of what it is and also being like really clear because listen, I'm not in the medical industry. I'm actually a license attorney, right, So having people know that, like you don't have to have this PhD in biology and chemistry and you know, life sciences to participate. Like we're creating pathways like the apprenticeship program. The whole premise is that you know, learn and earn. From day one, you're learning about this new industry and you're getting paid.

19:56 Speaker 6: Right.

19:56 Speaker 8: Then you go to classes at like mcc man Community College, and while you're in class, you're getting paid.

20:03 Speaker 6: So we are ensuring that.

20:06 Speaker 8: We're not you know, first of all, one organization said like, hey, you gotta remember, like this stuff is so complex, right, So even for people who English is their main language, this stuff can for some this can be difficult. Now we also have to think about, you know, in New Hampshire, especially right here in Manchester, there are several dialects, there are several languages that have been spoken.

20:31 Speaker 6: So how are we also taking that.

20:33 Speaker 8: Approach to ensure that while we're spreading the information that we're being very clear right and if people are not fully understanding, we're also taking the steps to ensure that we're creating programming that enables people to understand what's going on so that they can be able to participate. So I think the biggest thing is that really being intentional with how are spreading this information to ensure that again everybody in the community understands and have that pathway to be able to participate and engage.

21:10 Speaker 7: Okay, okay, what.

21:11 Speaker 5: Are some are are there misconceptions that people have about it that you encounter that you have to kind of you know, push back on and like like, are there people who are kind of who have some level of awareness but they they just have the wrong idea about it all?

21:27 Speaker 8: Or yeah, I mean listen, I think even for me when I first started doing this, this stuff sounds like from a sci fi movie, right right, right, it's like science.

21:36 Speaker 6: Fiction and real life.

21:38 Speaker 8: Right, It's like, you know, like almost like doctor Frankenstein creating organs and stuff like that. So I think that people are their minds are blown. But I think it comes down to what I just said, is that the biggest misconception is that like, oh, this is for the doctors, you know, the people and the medical Like I can't participate in this because I'm just a janitor or you know, I'm just a right So, and I think that's the biggest thing that we have to dispel is people thinking that this industry is untouchable and that only a select few who you know, might have the credentials and the schooling can participate.

22:23 Speaker 8: And and again when you when I go to some of the meetings and I hear some of the people talk, there are some things I'm like, I have to go google that, right.

22:35 Speaker 6: So, so it's that.

22:36 Speaker 8: Notion off, you know, that biggest myth is that these opportunities.

22:41 Speaker 6: Might not be for everyone.

22:43 Speaker 8: Sure, And that's one of the things that I have to spend a lot of time saying. It's like, no, we don't need you to go to Dotmouth. I mean, if you want to go, that's fine. You know they're part of the concertium. You know they're working with us. But you don't have to go become a medical doctor to participate in this field. Like, we need, you know, people who are project managers, right, we need people who are doing quality assurance, you know, we need people who you know, those labs, you know they need to be cleaned, right, and maybe there's somebody who can specialize in handle in some of that material.

23:15 Speaker 9: Right.

23:15 Speaker 8: We need people who are you know, doing the essentially the lawn, the laundry, right, the lab codes, cleaning them up and you know, so there is We're trying to create opportunities, essentially, uh for everyone, and and yes there might be some roles that are specific to somebody who needs to be a scientist, but there's also going to be a role for someone who We need marketing people, we need communication people, right, And you're.

23:45 Speaker 11: Truly working to make New Hampshire and absolute go to I was just doing a little bit of research on you and you worked really hard last year and got a grant to really put this off from the federal government. Yeah, you got a forty four million dollar grant and there were only twelve issued across the country, right, And you got one of those right here from New Hampshire, and I was reading about it, and just to play off for what you were just saying, this is all about growing the next generation's leaders.

24:14 Speaker 11: And when you were talking about the labs, that's like so important. You think about an operating room, right, you can't have anything in the wrong place, right, same thing in a lab. One wrong particle in the wrong place throws what you're working completely out the window.

24:30 Speaker 6: And you've got to start all over again.

24:31 Speaker 11: So it's vital to make sure that the environment, every aspect of that environment, and how to do that and who's running it.

24:38 Speaker 1: There's so much to.

24:39 Speaker 11: That that you don't Yeah, we don't think about that. We think about lab work, we think about a scientist, think about a doctor, but we don't think about all the other players in the room that are needed to make that advancement happen.

24:52 Speaker 6: Right, you're absolutely right, and thank you for bringing that up.

24:56 Speaker 8: You know this this critical technologies. We're funded by the EDA, right, and and we are so fortunate in New Hampshire.

25:05 Speaker 6: What is both the Economic Development Administration?

25:07 Speaker 8: Okay, right, so and and and that's and that's something that I have to practice. I gotta remem and that's one of the things that we have to work on is sometimes we use as acronyms or the assumption that everybody understands and and that's part of that clear uh communication to have people know what's happened. So, yeah, So this these uh tech hubs, as I mentioned earlier, are funded by you know, the DA and various other initiatives.

25:35 Speaker 1: UH.

25:36 Speaker 8: The National Science Foundation is also heavily invested in in in you know, kind of the scaling of various critical technologies across the country. So to have this happening right here in New Hampshire is incredible. And mind you, two years ago, under the Build Back Better Regional Challenge, there was another forty four million dollars that poured into the state and I actually serve on the board that oversees those funds. And the exciting part about that is we also have created a demobil It looks like a food truck, but it's a biofabrication lab on wheels.

26:17 Speaker 6: That's awesome.

26:18 Speaker 8: Yeah, And it's going into the community and it's going to schools and it's going to community events and people can kind of get on and see kind of like the different equipment, and of course they made it like you know, miniature size, and you know, so that people can kind of see what is happening in some of these labs. And my kids have been on on this demobil Like I had to literally drag my six year old out of it because they had kind of like different activities, hands on activities for them to do.

26:50 Speaker 8: And I had to say, hey, you're not the only one who wants to play with this stuff. And we have an Army has an educational workforce development team that is going into schools in Manchester's Yeah, and they're working with teachers. Uh and they're you know, they have programs where they're training teachers about this new industry and then given teachers essentially that curriculum to go back into the classroom. Uh and and and work on with their kids, their students, I should say.

27:22 Speaker 6: So. So there's so much going on.

27:25 Speaker 8: And the other thing is there's also opportunities for organizations to participate. There are actually grants that are going to be available that are going to be opening up soon into the community that allow organizations to essentially write proposals to show how they can help us in terms of workforce development and and scaling you know this industry with talent recruitment, so that that's coming soon. So hopefully you invite me back. Oh absolutely, We want to keep tabs on so that when we release them, because I'm working with a team that's working on those grants.

28:02 Speaker 8: So when we release them, would love to come back and let people know so that you know, those people in the community can submit those proposals. And again, this is all about that. The key thing that economic growth creating opportunities not just for individuals but also for our businesses and organizations in the state.

28:23 Speaker 7: Yeah.

28:23 Speaker 11: Yeah, the more we talk about this, the better and the more students that may go into STEM or get involved in these things if they know it exists.

28:32 Speaker 7: Right.

28:33 Speaker 11: I think this is wonderful that you have this mobile that you can go around to the different schools and introduce the kids, because I don't see how there is there's no real way otherwise except for out of a book in the classroom or maybe a little video. It's so great to have something hands on that they can touch and feel and get excited about.

28:49 Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, how did you get involved in this flow? You know you're you're an attorney.

28:55 Speaker 11: Yeah, how'd you go to them?

28:56 Speaker 8: Yeah, So I'm an attorney who pivoted into tech and I spent over seven and a half years working for one of the biggest tell of communication companies in the country, and I worked on like four G projects, five G projects.

29:11 Speaker 6: I was overseeing like multimillion dollar.

29:15 Speaker 8: Modifications to sell towers, overseeing teams of various vendors.

29:19 Speaker 6: So I just fell in love with that kind of tech.

29:22 Speaker 8: And innovation and and all that comes with emerging technologies and became kind of just started looking at what was going on globally and then I said, wait a minute, but what's going on locally? And I just started, you know, just on my own doing research and that's when I ran into the New Hampshire Tech Alliance. And that's when I said, you know what, I want to create something on my own that's going to educate people in my community. And that's when I had created Get Tech Smart, which was to essentially educate members of the community of what's going on right here in your hand.

30:00 Speaker 6: I'm sure.

30:00 Speaker 8: And I've had people like the Sea Science Center as a guest because the Sea Science Center is also involved with what's going on. They actually have like a biofabrication summer camp, yeah, where students can.

30:14 Speaker 1: Yeah.

30:14 Speaker 8: And I actually serve on the board of the Sea Science Center. So that's the other thing I started doing was really aligning myself with some of the organizations that were really invested in STEM education instead of aligning myself with them and going to them and saying, how can I help you further your goals? Because I really see how like, if I had been exposed to this when I was younger, at an early age, then my pathway probably would not have been the legal world. It would have been immediately into the tech world.

30:46 Speaker 13: Right.

30:47 Speaker 8: But you know that was my exposure, and that's why I'm a big advocate for raising awareness at an early age, right, that.

30:56 Speaker 6: Early childhood curriculum.

30:58 Speaker 8: And you know you mentioned something that really critical is that hands on, right, Like I didn't learn law, like truly practicing law until I actually worked for a law office. Yeah, right, Because you know, when you go to law school, it's so books, book, book, book book. Yeah, you have mock trials and all that stuff. But if you're not doing internships like in a courtroom or for a law firm, you don't get that hands on experience. So That's why for me, I'm a huge advocate for that kind of hands on education because it's so much easier to learn and then also make it fun.

31:34 Speaker 8: That's why this demobil is incredible. So yeah, that's how I got into this because I'm just such a firm believer in people having opportunities to dream big, but not just to dream, not stop there, but to also have pathways to make those dreams of reality.

31:54 Speaker 7: Yeah.

31:55 Speaker 5: Yeah, do you ever do you ever run into situations where you have to kind of explain to somebody like we live in a time where there's there's there's a segment of the population that is skeptical about any kind of medical science.

32:08 Speaker 7: You know, you know, you know what I'm saying.

32:11 Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot of you know for.

32:13 Speaker 5: People who you know, we watch a couple of YouTube videos and think they know more about you know, uh, more than an immunologist or a virologist or an epidemiologist for example. There's a lot of misinformation, disinformation, all of that kind of stuff out there, right, do you do you have to kind of fight that battle ever where you're you're talking to somebody and they're not getting it, not because not because they don't understand what you're doing.

32:40 Speaker 7: But because they don't, they just don't believe it.

32:43 Speaker 5: Like they think that, you know, any kind of medical advancements or any kind of tech advancements stopped at a certain point and anything after that, it's just the government trying to do something to us.

32:55 Speaker 11: Or something, you know, right, you know what I mean, right, Yeah, a lot of wild ideas out there.

32:59 Speaker 8: Right, nobody's trying to plant any chips. That's not part of the project, you know. To be honest with you, as you were asking that question, now, I was sitting there like really like kind of like have I ran into that? And honestly, no, good that's reassuring, Yeah, I have not. I think again, I keep coming to this. I think what I see really is more off a lack of awareness, and I think where it also is is a shock off what like this is happening like in real life, like right now, like because again I think this sounds like things that you know you see on like a Netflix, yeah, you know show and as some type of you know, science fiction show.

33:43 Speaker 8: I think what I see more is of a shock that this is actually happening and this is this is real, like people are working on, Like what do you mean you want to wait?

33:55 Speaker 6: You want to like be manufacturing organs?

33:58 Speaker 1: Like what?

33:59 Speaker 8: Yeah, Like so if something happens to me, I need an organ like y'all having like this assembly line of organs.

34:05 Speaker 6: Like so those the type of questions.

34:07 Speaker 8: It's like the disbelief not because of like you know, they think it's some conspiracy theory, but more off a wow, like technology has really come this far, Like in my lifetime, I get to actually witness this type of innovation happening, and I think that's where where we're seeing it's people are just like you know, you know, my father always tells me, you know, back in my day when I went to school, you know, I would walk to school and sometimes I didn't have shoes on, right, So it's like, you know, so like my parents are from kind of like that generation to them like being excited to tell their friends like, oh my god, you won't believe like what my daughter is a part of.

34:52 Speaker 8: So is that type of this belief off, we can't believe this is happening.

34:57 Speaker 7: What's been the biggest surprise to you?

35:00 Speaker 5: There is there one thing you can point to that that you've seen or that you know is being worked on that that really kind of stands out. It's just being like, wow, I never even thought I'd seen this in my lifetime and they're doing this is there?

35:12 Speaker 8: Yeah, so real quick, how I met advanced with General Manufacturing Institute and how I kind of started finding out myself that this was happening is they were at a STEM event, Wicked Stem Your England event.

35:27 Speaker 6: Have you guys heard of this?

35:28 Speaker 8: No, there's there's a Wicked Stem Your England event that happens every year.

35:32 Speaker 6: Oh and the Union Leader actually hosts it. They run it. Oh, Billy Wilson from the Union Leader runs it.

35:39 Speaker 8: And and it's bringing in people from not just New Hampshire, but we're getting people from as far as Connecticut, from mom Maine, and you're getting all various you know companies that are coming that are in like in the STEM and and you know they have booths and they have interactive and hands on activities. So when I went to the Wicked Stem Your England event, Army had like, you know, their their table there and they had a pig's heart and I'm like, well that's odd, Like why why y'all have like a pig's heart, like in a glass container, and and they said, what we've done is stripped the pig cells off and and we we don't want it to remember or you know, it's a pig.

36:26 Speaker 8: And then then there's a concept of then you will then put stem cells from a human right into the heart because the heart is closely resembles a human heart. And then this concept off right, this this serialization off the pigs cells and then embedding them with a human and then now you have this heart which now essentially now it's no longer a pig.

36:54 Speaker 6: Now it thinks it's a human. So that to me was the say what again, like.

37:03 Speaker 3: Y'all a joke?

37:03 Speaker 14: It?

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37:05 Speaker 6: So that's how I got introduced to this.

37:08 Speaker 8: Okay, through shock and through I can't believe this has happening, and please may I have more information that I want to be involved? And here I am, like several years later after that one interaction.

37:20 Speaker 7: Oh wow, that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. If you're just joining us.

37:25 Speaker 5: We're talking with Flow Nicholas from the Region Valley Tech Hub and or Army A.

37:31 Speaker 7: What what is aar AM? I what does that stand for? Again?

37:34 Speaker 8: So it's Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute gotcha.

37:37 Speaker 7: Gotcha?

37:38 Speaker 5: Yeah, No, that's this is this is exciting stuff. Do you do you learn about things that you can't talk about?

37:45 Speaker 7: Like like, do you ever do you ever.

37:46 Speaker 5: Learn about something that that's being worked on that you but you can't you can't.

37:51 Speaker 6: Say no because I'm not allowed on that part of the building.

37:54 Speaker 7: Gotcha.

37:57 Speaker 1: Yeah?

37:57 Speaker 8: So no, So that's the fortunate thing. Stuff that I'm allowed to chat about, I'm exposed to. And then there's other things that you know, because some of the funding is from the d O D. Yeah, so they are working on some stuff there too. Oh yeah, yeah, so yeah, so I'm not in that part of the building.

38:14 Speaker 7: Oh okay, I gotcha. I gotcha.

38:17 Speaker 5: So what do you what do you recommend for people who are listening to this who do want to get involved, because as you mentioned, you know, there are various career paths and you know, not everyone's a scientist or is going to be a scientist. But right, like, like, what what do you suggest how do people who think they might want to get involved in this industry?

38:35 Speaker 7: What? What's what's the first step?

38:37 Speaker 8: Yeah, definitely, I think the first step is to essentially Google is my trusted advisor, So Google region Valley Tech Up.

38:47 Speaker 6: Everything is so spanking you. Even my role is spanking you.

38:50 Speaker 8: So I'm actually one of the things I'm going to be working on is we're going to be hiring a market and communications specialist where we vamp in our website excellent where it would have additional information. But I truly believe in boots on the ground quickly. Yeah, so definitely go. Also, we are right now. The Region Valley Tech website is embedded in the Advanced or Generative Manufacturing Institute's website. So if you look up Army A r M I, and even if you look up Region Valley Tech Hub, New Hampshire, it will bring you directly U to the website and there is you have the ability.

39:27 Speaker 6: To hit inquire and listen.

39:30 Speaker 8: Any follower that wants to connect with me directly and learn more, please give them my information.

39:36 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely, any uh, any announcements forthcoming that did you want to mention or any And because you know you talked earlier about events like I didn't know about like the one you were talking about the Wicked.

39:54 Speaker 6: The Wicked Stem you're England.

39:55 Speaker 5: Yeah, I had no idea that was that was going on, and the union leaders involved, I mean anything anything coming up that we should know about.

40:02 Speaker 8: Yeah, So we will have events coming up in May, which again now I have an excuse to come back.

40:08 Speaker 6: Yes, yes, and one.

40:10 Speaker 8: And part of one of the events that we do is community Update. It allows anybody in the community the ability to come and hear all the progress that we're making and any other opportunities that might be available.

40:22 Speaker 6: So I would again that's going to be coming up in May.

40:26 Speaker 8: If this is where it's going to be important for us, you know, to have our website, which is coming soon. But we do have a landing page where if people want to acquire and stay tuned to what's going on, I encourage them to do so. But that to me is the big the biggest announcement. But the thing is just again to the point, go to the website, because where jobs are being created, like a great example the granted why in Manchester right here, they are a funded project out of that forty four million.

40:54 Speaker 8: Okay, they're creating a childcare apprenticeship program training childcare work because as we talked about earlier, one of the issues is childcare and we need more childcare workers in some of these centers. So there is that apprenticeship program that is coming soon. They're finishing up. So anyone who's looking to pivot into childcare, that is an opportunity where you will be essentially trained from day one, you know, learn and earn and you'll be able to work in one of these facilities.

41:27 Speaker 5: Oh wow, Okay, that's great to know about. And where's the best place? Is LinkedIn the best place for people to find you?

41:34 Speaker 8: So I know not everybody's located on LinkedIn, but yes I am. You know that's where I have a big followings on LinkedIn. But yes, like I said, if anybody reaches out to you, more than happy to give them my contact information so they can reach out to me directly.

41:49 Speaker 6: I have no problems having one on ones with folks. I encourage it.

41:53 Speaker 8: So yeah, please, if you want to learn more. I've had people just say, hey, can you talk to this person?

42:00 Speaker 6: And I'm not sure. Give me their phone number. I'll talk to them.

42:02 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, oh outstanding, outstanding.

42:05 Speaker 5: Is there anything about this we didn't talk about that we should the people should know about.

42:09 Speaker 6: I think we covered a lot. Yeah, and you know, I try not to overwhelm people.

42:13 Speaker 8: Yeah, but no, if anybody wants more information, please reach out.

42:17 Speaker 5: No, it's very exciting, and uh yeah, we will definitely have you back on soon because we want to you know, we definitely want to follow all of this. And uh no, I think I think it's you know, there's probably going to be people who hear this who are going to want.

42:32 Speaker 7: To get involved.

42:33 Speaker 5: And also it's it's just exciting these technology and when technology is being used for good, right that just in a broad sense, that's exciting, you know, and all the medical advancements and everything that's.

42:45 Speaker 7: Yeah, it's it's uh, it's.

42:47 Speaker 8: Quite a time to be alive, isn't it It is it is, And with all this innovation and the opportunities that are being created, it's also a great time for career paths and workforce development.

42:58 Speaker 5: Yep, yep, absolutely flow Nicholas, thank you so much, my pleasure, Thank you absolutely, and yes we will. We'll definitely have you back soon to keep up on everything going on.

43:08 Speaker 7: So all right, very good.

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