Live at Techonomy (4/4)! polySpectra: Raymond Weitekamp

🖨3D printing, Massless and 🧪making materials that don't suck with Raymond Weitekamp

Sep 6, 2022

Fellow Climate Warriors,

It’s our fourth and final in-person episode from Techonomy’s 2022 Climate Conference, and we’re wrapping things up by talking about 🖨3D printing, Massless and 🧪making materials that don’t suck while drinking 🥃Madre Mezcal with Raymond Weitekamp.

Raymond is the founder and CEO polySpectra, and you’ll hear all about the important discovery he made while he was doing his PhD research at Cal Tech. He’ll tell us how he landed in Silicon Valley leading the charge towards massless, and how the heck he still has time to work on a second music album on the side.

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Raymond Weitekamp, Founder and CEO of polySpectra, on moving towards massless:

“PolySpectra A.R. is our new augmented reality tool to give massless prototypes to people in product development. The massless mission is to leverage distributed digital manufacturing to reduce global energy usage by 25% by 2050.”

Using the world’s most rugged photopolymer resins, Raymond’s company is also helping engineers print end-use components that actually hold up, reducing waste by lasting longer and being more viable for actual use.

Raymond received an AB in chemistry from Princeton and continued his education at CalTech where he worked in labs with Professor Bob Grubbs and Professor Harry Atwater. He invented a component for a polymer that can be light-activated and creates tough 3D-printed materials, and has been recognized in Forbes’ 30 under 30.

🥃 What we drank during the episode: Madre Mezcal

Enjoy the show!