Speaking engagement2026
Featured guest
Handelsblatt Disrupt
Will AI soon solve the problems you had to solve at Tesla?
Context
In a 44-minute conversation with host Larissa Holzki, Steven discussed studying in Germany, building battery production as an early Tesla engineer in China, and founding IndustrialMind.ai in the United States. The conversation explored what virtual AI engineers could take on—and what meaningful human work may remain.
The argument
“Industrial AI is not a story about removing engineers. It is about encoding scarce manufacturing knowledge so that better engineering becomes available at scale.”