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Future of Work Part 1: Skills Assessments
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Living in a Material World – How Advanced Materials are Shaping the Future of Technology

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IQT Explains: Space Origins & The Startup Ecosystem
This episode kicks off a three-part space series featuring some of IQT’s domain experts to explore IQT’s space efforts through the years and how they’ve helped enhance national security. In this first episode, host Vishal Sandesara is joined by IQT’s Dave LoBosco and Tom Gillespie to expand on the origins of the space startup ecosystem and the history of IQT’s space efforts that helped shape the current framework used today.
IQT Explores: Advanced Materials Innovation
Materials innovation touches almost every aspect of our daily lives, and the materials we rely on are advancing at an exponential pace. On this week’s IQT Explores episode, Vishal Sandesara is joined by Victoria Chernow and Steve Taub to discuss the history of advanced materials and how they are developed today, the investing landscape, and what the future may hold for this ever-evolving industry.