What You'll Hear
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Robotics, automation, and industrial AI in the real world
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Workforce realities: the American worker and the next generation of builders
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Policy and infrastructure conversations that actually affect production
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Factory modernization, throughput, uptime, safety, and ROI
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Investing in the industrial base (operators, founders, and funders)
Our Focus
Four Pillars of American Reindustrialization
Automation & AI
Increase throughput, precision, and uptime
Manufacturing
Secure supply chains and scale U.S. production
Capital & Policy
Finance and enable industrial expansion
Workforce
Develop skilled talent for modern factories
Your Hosts
Colin Russ
Colin Russ is an industrial and energy operator who has spent over a decade in and around manufacturing performance, process improvement, and operations technology. Based in Erie, Pennsylvania, a Rust Belt manufacturing city, he is focused on rebuilding practical optimism for American production. On ReForge, Colin brings a ground-level view of what reindustrialization looks like in real plants and real communities.
Matthew Chang
Matthew Chang is the founder of Chang Robotics, an engineering and robotics firm that designs and commissions Factory 5.0 automation systems for real factories. He has led large-scale robotics and autonomous deployments in manufacturing, and he brings the mix most “future of manufacturing” content misses: firsthand execution, clear ROI thinking, and a bias toward what works on the factory floor.