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Derek Chang and the distance between a sport and its fans
Before he led Liberty Media, Derek Chang sold the promise of a better seat: on television, across borders, and in the neighborhood sports bar. Now Formula 1 and MotoGP put his understanding of audiences to a different test.
The Producer Behind AWS re:Invent
She turned a cloud computing conference into one of tech's biggest annual gatherings, and she runs it from a small mountain town in Oregon.
Pirelli Makes the Only Tyres in Formula 1 - and a Calendar It Won't Sell You
For 154 years the Milan tyremaker has chased a single idea: power is nothing without control. Today that means sensors buried inside the rubber, 3,800 factory-approved fitments, and a grip on the premium car that its bigger rivals can't quite copy.
Mark Sommer
Mark Sommer is the founder and CEO of Gamma Alloys, a Santa Clarita-based materials company that 'decorates' metal powders with ceramic nanoparticles to make aluminum strong enough to 3D print into aerospace and automotive parts. He simultaneously leads Del West Engineering, the Formula 1 world's go-to maker of titanium valves and lightweight valvetrain components. Backed by Boeing HorizonX, his bet is that of the roughly 5,500 industrial alloys in use, only a few dozen work with 3D printers today, and Gamma's nano-ceramic process can unlock the rest.