The Different Paths of Automation with Ale Walker (LinkedIn Live)

This week, Nikki and guest host Courtney Fernandez speak with Ale Walker, Director of Business Development at Gray Solutions. Ale has lived an eventful life going from pro-golfer to doing business development in the industrial automation and robotics world.

Ale speaks about her past, the importance of bringing tech to rural communities, and just having a good time and enjoying what you do.

This is the first in-person episode where we are all together (aside from a virtual pop-in from Ali G) and we want to thank Rapid Robotics for hosting us.

Thanks to our special episode sponsor Siemens!

Thank you to all our supporters, especially our main sponsors Clarify and FactoryFix

Co-Hosts are Alicia Gilpin Director of Engineering at Process and Controls Engineering LLC, and Nikki Gonzales Head of Partnerships at Quotebeam

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Music by Samuel Janes

Audio Editing by Laura Marsilio

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Ale Walker

Director of Business Development @ Grey Solutions

I was born and raised in a small town in eastern Kentucky called Paintsville. After high school, I went to the University of Kentucky to continue my golfing career while majoring in Management and Marketing. After college, I earned my LPGA Symetra Tour card and played for a year. While in school, my mom was just starting an advanced manufacturing school, eKAMI, to re-train displaced coal miners back into the workforce. It was during this time that I learned about all things automation - CNC machining, robotics, AMRs/AGVs -and discovered my passion for the manufacturing industry. I knew after my golfing career, I wanted to get into manufacturing, help solve the labor shortage, and give workers more meaningful work through automation and robotics. This has lead me to where I am today with Gray Solutions. We are headquartered in Lexington, KY, and are serving food and beverage manufactures all across the globe.