I won't take much more than about two hours.
First, I want to get the thank yous out of the way. First off to Kennametal, Sherri McCleary has been active with
us in this project for a long time and we appreciate the support that Kennametal and Sherri has provided to this
effort. It's really really appreciated.
Also, I wanted to mention thank you to our panelists, which we just did again.
But finally, well, not finally, I also want to mention that we have had some project sponsors who have been working
with us every Friday for a long time to try and not pull off this conference necessarily, this luncheon, but to figure
out how do we take a town like New Kensington and an area like New Kensington and a region like the Alle-Kiski
Valley and turn it into a digital belt.
I'd like those folks to stand up. They're on the back of the program, so if youre from ABC CREATE, Arconic,
CMU Create Lab, The Corner, Economic Growth Connection of Westmoreland, Kennametal, Siemens
and Westmorland County Industrial Development Corporation.
Please give these folks a hand.
(Applause)
A little late, but ok.
Alright
Um,
Alright, and then
Finally, and most importantly thank you to the Penn State New Kensington Staff. I want to point out some
people in particular.
Corinne Coulson, Kary Milan, Pat Hollinger and Candee Christy.
On top of the jobs that they have they, trying to keep this campus afloat, they have put a lot of time into
making sure you are fed, and that there's actually a program and you didn't just show up and
it was me and a guitar trying to figure out how to entertain you for an hour and a half, so if you could give
those those folks a hand, I'd really appreciate it.
(Applause)
As I mentioned, we meet every Friday, and we've been doing that for a while, and the reason is because we
believe. We believe that there is a future for this area, and we believe that there is a future for our students,
there is a future for our companies and there is a future for our institutions.
We believe that future is Industry 4.0,
and we really think that as we've been meeting, that the connection between business and industry and
education has never been more needed, more appropriate or more on the verge of producing a
workforce that is beyond any other workforce in the region or in the country.
I say that because I really think that this lunch was the result of that planning. What we tried to do was make
sure that educators had a chance to hear from business and industry, the struggles that they're facing in the
near future. These things that Illah was talking, these things that the companies are talking about, they're not
here next year, they're not here 10 years from now, some of them will be, they're not here five years from
now, they're here now.
They're dealing with these issues now. They need a workforce that is a different workforce and some of
them don't even know that yet.
So, the fact that we are working together is extremely important and we wanted you to understand that
because we need you to be believers.
The reason why we need you to be believers is that we have to change.
It bothers me every day that I'm going to get up on this stage this Saturday, and I'm going to graduate students
who've not heard about Industry 4.0.
Who don't realize that the second they graduate, the clock is ticking on their retirement. It's up to them
There is no company that's going to come in and employ them for 35, 40 years.
They're going to have to think about that.
They're going to have to negotiate that.
They're going to have to enter a world where there are 4-11 different careers.
Not jobs. Careers.
I bumped into an interesting young lady a couple of weeks ago. My wife and I were having lunch,
and she had a Ph.D. in English. We thought, "Wow that was pretty neat."
She said, "Yeah, you know what I had to pivot." She used that word; we use that word a lot in the entrepreneurial
ecosystem, which I pretend to be a part of now. I said, "You had to pivot?" She said, "Yeah, there were no jobs."
"So what do you do now?"
"I'm a data analyst. I do data data analytics."
"What do you plan to do?"
"Well, I might go into software programming."
I mean, those are three different things, and she's all of, well she looked like she was 14 years old. She was all of
maybe 35.
The world is changing, and I think we need to get together and change that.
There's some great news on that front.
The first is that we have advantages in this area that, as I've been out talking to people about 4.0, and if you
bump into me, you will hear the word 4.0 50 times.
So, I talk about it a lot to a lot of different types of people, and when I do that,
um,
and now we're getting contacted by others who are also thinking about this.
What I found is, that we have advantages in this area that very few other regions have.
There is a group called The Seven, and they're up in Milwaukee.
Basically, it's seven counties trying to figure out how to prepare a digital, a workforce for the digital age.
When he heard that we had a school system, a set of school systems.
When he heard that we had business and companies involved.
When he heard that we had a Corner with entrepreneurial training
When he heard of all the things that we had; the resources in Pittsburgh at our disposal.
He said, "You know what, nobody has that."
I want to talk just a second about what some of those opportunities are.
Because, what's in front of us is the opportunity to become the digital belt of this region.
I really believe we have an opportunity to become the digital belt for the country, in ways that benefit small,
neighborhood, small communities like the ones that we live in.
Just a couple things.
Part of our resources here at Penn State is our own faculty.
Dr. A, who asked a question, is really thinking hard about how do you integrate business courses and business
programs and business students into being able to manage in a digital 4.0 world.
Right.
Dr. Xu is here. She also-she's an entrepreneurial expert, so that's her kind of field.
Dr. Tan is a person who is researching the juxtaposition, the inner relationship, the connection of humans with
robotics and what does it mean.
So, when you talk about how do we learn from robots and how do robots learn from us
and what are the impacts of that. That's something that he does research on.
Dr. Cuiffi,
who was on the panel, is developing what we hope will be the state-of-the-art factory 4.0 simulator.
Being developed on this campus, tested on our students, tested in, for our regional companies.
We're hoping to take that simulator and adjust it to the tool and die industry, adjust it for education,
so the students and people in smaller companies have the chance to see how industry 4.0 can affect them.
It's not just our faculty, but it's all of Penn State faculty.
Because we have the Corridor of Innovation up at Penn State - or here in New Kensington, we've been able to
attract researchers down to look at things like roofs, social issues involved in mindset
Something we're working on, we have a stackable computer now, which is a simulated super computer
so we can develop large data sets
so students can get some of the experience dealing with the data analytics that people have mentioned.
Um
But even beyond that, we have Pittsburgh.
I mean the fact that we CREATE Lab
that is right down the road from us, really.
It takes about 40 minutes to get there.
Um
Involved with us to help the school districts figure out how to enhance creativity and innovation
through the use of technology, it's incredible.
And the entrepreneurial ecosystem that is out there in this area,
many of you are in the room, that provide expertise and knowledge and guidance and consulting services
for companies that are trying to get into 4.0.
We have that resource in a way that very few others do.
We also have Pitt. I hate to say that word; I'm waiting for the lightning bolt to strike me, but I guess I got away with it.
Um
Pitt, Carnegie Mellon,
We have Arconic, Siemens and Kennametal, which have taken the initiative to get involved with us
and meet with us every week to figure out how can we start to work on getting better connected
to the educational system and to providing opportunities for everybody.
So,
I want to just leave you with an understanding that this is not something that's just talk.
It's not panelists sitting up here talking.
It's not a luncheon that's going to be over and done.
There are real, tangible things that have happened and are happening
to position this area for a future that I think will benefit all of us.
The first is, if you all don't know, we do have a Corner
building called The Corner.
It's an entrepreneurial center and coworking space.
It's a place where we will, in the spring and then full-fledged out in the fall, next year,
be offering 4.0 programming
for students, for companies, for individuals, for entrepreneurs.
We run entrepreneurial programming out of there.
Rhonda Schuldt is somewhere, she's - raise your hand - there she is.
who handles the entrepreneurial programming for us.
So if you have an idea,
we have an incredible amount of resources to take that idea and turn it into a business.
We're using that entrepreneurial center
to provide experiences for students so they develop the entrepreneurial mindset that is so critical
to some of the things that have been talked about by business and industry here.
We plan on producing intrapreneurs out of that programming.
We're building
um
a state-of-the-art factory simulator
as I've mentioned. I keep talking about that. I hope it becomes a reality.
Um
And then,
it's coming, guys. It's coming, believe me.
We also just worked with Siemens to talk about how we can get our students familiar with software
to develop digital twins.
The software packages that are coming in to develop, basically, virtual twins of product.
So that you can send those to someone like Arconic and have them look at it virtually before you are able to
produce it for them physically.
We think that's going to be huge.
We also have a plan to adapt - for the - We have a plan to adapt the future workforce.
So now on your sheets, here.
If you have this sheet,
If any of you have seen this.
You'll see on the front side with the boxes,
that our effort to do an entrepreneurial center turned from just providing an entrepreneurial center
that was going to produce entrepreneurs, to really going out and tackling
the Rust Belt to digital belt on four different levels.
The first is the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
and I'm going to talk about something else with that in a minute.
The second is workforce development, which we think the factory simulator can help with.
But do you know that there are people in New Kensington that have trouble filling out an online application?
And it's not only New Kensington.
It's Vandergrift. It's Apollo. It's Pittsburgh. It's all over.
If those people aren't participating in the economy now,
how are we going to take care of them when we go to a digital economy?
and that's what we want to try and change, and we think we can through working with companies
like Siemens, and Arconic and others.
We can find ways to use technology to train that workforce.
The future workforce,
You may not know this, but if you are in business right here,
you are being joined today
by 40-50 educators
who've been working for fours years on a Grable Grant
to use technology to enhance creativity and innovation in the classrooms.
They've already been
working on producing the type of individuals that you want to be in your workforce,
and they're doing it in amazing and creative ways.
What we really want you to do if you are a business today,
is think about how to get involved with them so they can continue
to make new and, I think, dramatic steps in providing the workforce you need.
Um
We also have something on the infrastructure,
where we're trying to work on building,
in New Kensington,
a city that looks better,
a city that is connected,
a city that offers things like a digital lab.
I'm going to go into that right now.
In the future,
what we hope to do as an immediate step and the next thing for us, is to build a digital lab,
which is a maker space.
A maker space is where you go and create,
well you, flush out a project or a concept or a product.
Most maker spaces are physical;
they have machines,
the lathe machines and printers and things like that.
We're thinking it's going to take us two to three years to build one anyway,
why don't we build a digital lab, a maker space for the future
and not for the past.
What we will be able to do if we can build this thing
is be able to provide your students,
small companies,
current workforce,
future workforce
the ability to try things out
in the workspace of tomorrow.
It will provide our students an opportunity to get software skills to develop those digital twins
that are needed for a big company.
It will provide small businesses a place to come where they can't do it on their own.
So if you're a tool and die company of maybe 5 or 6 people,
you don't know what you need for Industry 4.0;
you know the technology is coming.
You also don't have the ability to invest in the tools that are going to be needed.
We want to provide those tools to you,
and we want to make sure that you can succeed.
We have a long way to go between here and when that's built,
but that's the direction for us,
and we've got some big players helping us, and we're really, really appreciative of that.
So
We also have adjusted programming I've talked about.
Um
We have ABC Create,
which I just mentioned.
What we're hoping to do with that group,
is have them examine what they're doing
so we can see what's missing in Industry 4.0,
and we can work on it starting in kindergarten.
So, K-12, we're starting to work on
how are we providing these students
an introduction into the types of technologies that are out there.
How do we teach them to continually pivot and learn so that they can use technology as a tool
and outpace robotics and artificial intelligence over the course of their lives?
And then when they graduate, how can we make every single one of them come to Penn State New Kensington,
ah ha, there's the ultimate goal, right?
How can we make them come to college
and engage in the same type of learning so that when they graduate,
they have the skills that make them, set them apart from any other workforce?
There are very few places in the country that have this amount of resources,
this ability to do this,
and we want to really take that forward.
So most of all, what's next is to try and get you involved.
There are a couple of things.
The first is,
this is really simple,
nothings free, right?
You have,
and it's green so you can find it,
you have a survey.
This is very, very important to us because what we are doing right now is,
we're getting ready to develop the organization,
the tools and the resources to meet your needs.
What we need you to do is to fill this out so that we know what your needs are.
So, that's the first thing that you need to do; that's an easy way to get involved.
On the back,
on the bottom, you'll see that there are different things we're planning.
We're planning a -
- to do programing and what to know if you are interested in that.
We're hoping to do a resource fair to so you the technologies that are out there
if you're in business or if you're in education.
We hope that you'll receive information about a membership.
This thing is so messy and so big
that we can't possibly provide services to everything
and meet everyone's needs, but what we can do
is develop a place where you can come
and get the answers to your questions.
We want to be a clearing house for you,
and we want to keep up to date on what's happening in technology,
and we want to keep you up to date with what's happening in business,
and we want to keep you up to date with what's happening in education.
In order to do that we need to know what your needs are.
Then, we're going to take those back,
and if you're interested and you connect with us, we would love to have you join us,
and we will know what that looks like after we've been through these surveys.
We are going to continue this.
We are going to continue working with you.
We are going to continue to bring you together,
and we are going to continue to develop the best workforce,
I was going to say in the history of the planet, but that might be a bit much,
but we're going to develop a workforce that will let everyone one of our students succeed
and provide every one of our businesses in the area with an opportunity to succeed as well
in an age that is new and different,
but also exciting.
So, thank you very much for coming today.
Thank you for taking the time.
I appreciate that, and I look forward to working with you in the future.
(Applause)
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