What does it actually take to turn a good idea into something that can be built, trusted, and used in a crisis?
Six years ago, Helpful Engineering did not exist. Then a pandemic hit, a group of strangers found each other online, and within months they had built a movement that would eventually mobilize more than 20,000 volunteer engineers, scientists, and makers around the world.
In this episode of the Modern Industrialist Xchange Podcast, Jason Hehman sits down with Amish Chadha, the organization’s Chief Risk Officer, to talk about what that movement actually built, what it got wrong, and what a shipment of broken oxygen concentrators taught the team about the real cost of an information gap in a supply chain.
This is a conversation about risk, failure, and what it takes to build something people can trust when there is no playbook to follow.
The experts
Host: Jason Hehman, Industrials Vertical Lead at TXI and founder of the Modern Industrialist Xchange (MIX) community. Jason works at the intersection of technology, operations, and workforce in manufacturing and industrial sectors.
Guest: Amish Chadha, Chief Risk Officer at Helpful Engineering, a nonprofit that organizes volunteer engineers, scientists, and makers around the world to solve real world problems through open source engineering. Amish has been with the organization since its earliest days in March 2020, when it formed in response to pandemic era shortages of PPE and medical equipment.
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