This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Joe Hamann, executive director of UW-Milwaukee’s Connected Systems Institute.
Hamann discusses the recently opened Microsoft AI Co-Innovation Lab, located within the institute. The concept for the lab arose about a year ago, with a goal of helping manufacturers connect with campus and innovate with AI while also giving students opportunities to get involved.
The lab is the fifth of its kind set up by Microsoft around the world and the second in the United States. It’s the first to focus on manufacturing, and Hamann says it aims to help the small and medium companies in the state that make up 90% of the state’s manufacturing industry.