The Manufacture Houston Podcast

04. Halliburton Labs: Advancing Cleaner, Affordable Energy

In today’s episode, we speak with Dale Winger, Managing Director and Scott Gale, Executive Director of Halliburton Labs. Halliburton Labs has a unique “scalarator” program that is helping a variety of companies meet the challenges of cleaner, more affordable energy.

For decades, Halliburton has scaled engineered solutions for the global energy industry. Simply put, we know that energy requires scale. We recognize that a clean energy future requires many new innovations at scale. That is why we are helping entrepreneurs solve the scientific, technical, and logistical challenges to drive cleaner, affordable energy in the 21st century. 

If you have been working on disruptive technology and are nearly market ready, funded (or fundraising), and have a strong team, we want to hear from you! See if you fit within one of the challenge areas we have identified.

03. Houston Exponential

Today’s guest is Harvin Moore who leads the team at Houston Exponential (HX). HX is Houston’s leading non-profit innovation catalyst and it brings together companies, organizations and people to accelerate growth in Houston.

 

Harvin Moore, President and CEO of Houston Exponential

https://www.linkedin.com/in/harvinmoore/

https://houstonexponential.org/

 

Houston Exponential (HX) is a non-profit organization created to accelerate the growth of Houston’s innovation ecosystem. We believe Houston is where the world will come to solve problems that matter. HX is leading the charge to turn Houston into a hub for high-growth high-potential companies by creating pathways for innovation to flow at scale. We are aligning ecosystem support around strategic initiatives that are connecting, attracting, and promoting startups, investors, corporations, government, and universities.

02. Sewn Goods Collaborative: Immigrants to Businesspeople

In this episode, we meet Anne Whitlock and Lauren Caldarera who helped create the Sewn Goods Collaborative, a group of immigrants who turned the need for face masks during the pandemic into a growing business in Houston.

 

Connect Community:  

Connect Community is a place-based non-profit that takes a holistic approach to community development in the Gulfton/Sharpstown neighborhood of Houston, TX. Serving a majority immigrant and refugee population, Connect Community works alongside residents, best-in-class partners and local stakeholders, to amplify voices, spark innovation, obtain resources, and accelerate human potential.  

  

Sewn Goods:  

Sewn Goods is a collective of small batch manufacturers, non-profits, educational institutions and local sewists that came together in the wake of a pandemic to address a public health crisis. Sewn Goods members pivoted from their traditional product Iines and, with the help of local talent, produced over 70,000 masks to keep neighbors, frontline and healthcare workers safe with high quality reusable cloth masks.   

Since then, the need for locally made sewn goods has increased. Sewn Goods is now investing in the upskilling and training of local talent and working with several small batch manufacturers to meet the needs of a growing soft goods market in Houston. 

01. A Billion Industrial Workers

In this episode, Alchemy CEO and co-founder, Mush Khan talks about his journey and his reason for building a manufacturing business.