Atlas World Magazine - SUMMER 2022

ISSUE - SUMMER | 2022 Eva Konecna - Enhancing People Operations Eva Konecna Getting a Weldzero - Enhancing handle on your Project People resources PG22 Operations PG12 PG4 weareatlas.com The innovation core of ATS Global

Welcome iteration and continuous improvement Editors word Highlights are watchwords round here and we knew we could build on our initial Welcome back to the Atlas World success with something even more Magazine! Can you believe it’s been Word from Martin 2 impactful. a whole season already since the last edition? We (Kat, Mike, and Alex) We’re delivering it digitally again hope you’ve had a fantastic summer Atlas by numbers 3 and we’ve provided even more and are ready to catch up on all the opportunities for engagement goings on in Atlas World. throughout the magazine. We want Eva and her POps 4 A Word from to hear from you; tell us what you As this is the Summer Edition, we process enjoyed, what you found challenging, want to bring the bright vibes and Martin and what you want to see in the future. happy sentiments that come with the season. Progress report 6 Welcome back to another edition of the In terms of content, we’re looking at Atlas World Magazine. It’s the Summer how Atlas enables the POPs team with We’ve got more in depth discussions edition and we hope it captures the Eva Konecna. We’re diving deep into with the people who make Atlas what Atlas staff highlights 7 spirit of the season! It’s been a sizzling the details of WeldZero, one of the it is. We’re also looking at one of the summer for everyone, with record most extensive innovation projects most extensive innovation projects temperatures being recorded across we’ve had the chance to enable yet. we’ve had the pleasure of enabling - Atlas Optimise 9 the country, but that hasn’t stopped And we’re walking through more parts WeldZero. the Atlas team from surging forwards of the Atlas Platform that you might Innovation projects since we last spoke. not be as familiar with yet. Alongside that, we’ve got a whole 13 heap of interesting Atlas based fun As the season comes to a close, we In our progress report, we’ll also talk for you to get into. Making working from 15 wanted to take another chance to you through the latest happenings in collect stories from Atlas world, from Atlas. Three months is a long time in Enjoy this Summer Edition of the home work globally the people who make Atlas what it is. agile development, and we think you’ll Atlas World Magazine and we’ll be Stories that demonstrate how Atlas be surprised and excited by how much back in Autumn for another! does things better. there is to cover. Kat, Mike, Alex Key contributors: We had such a fantastic response You’ll also have the opportunity to Alex Matheson | Content Editor to the first edition of the Atlas World learn about how we’re achieving what Katerina Mouliadou | UK Innovation Lead Magazine that creating a follow up we achieve as a totally work from Mike Santiago-Griggs | Web Strategist seemed a daunting prospect. But home business. ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE SUMMER, 2022

Maintaining efficiency and cohesion At a glance is a challenge at the best of times, but as a truly global technology SPEAKING house we’ve had to find innovative means of getting around a whole team of satellite employees. Atlas by I’ll leave it there for now though and 12 save spoiling any of the engaging Languages content hidden in these digital pages. numbers Read on, engage with Atlas World, and engage with us however you feel most comfortable. Our digital doors are always open and we love chatting 332 about what we do! Yours sincerely, YEARS OF INDUSTRY RELEVANT EXPERIENCE Martin Kelman 54.6 Chief Digital Officer of . . . . ATS Global and Atlas TONNES OF C02 SAVED Looking back EACH YEAR at Spring 6 This edition of the Atlas World Magazine HIGHER EDUCATION has been very people focused. With such YEARS... a diverse and talented group of bright MASTERS minds making up the world of Atlas, we thought we’d put together a nice infographic highlighting the wealth of talent our small 48 team brings to the table; wherever they Countries of happen to be on the globe. 70 YEARS FURTHER EDUCATION residency ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE SUMMER, 2022

Feature article To that end, we sat down with Eva Konecna, Global People Operations Officer for ATS Global, to talk about Eva and her her experience with the platform, and how she’s been using it to improve POps process the processes within the People Operations department at ATS Global. Alex: Hello Eva, thank you for joining us Eva: My pleasure. Alex: What’s your favourite thing Alex: What is something you wish Each person gets a notification about Atlas? Atlas did that it doesn’t do now? automatically as they need it and the tasks can only be completed Eva: My favourite thing about Atlas Eva: There are some things we can’t when the right steps are taken. It would be how I can have control do directly, that we can do with the means we don’t have to waste time over many things within Atlas. I can team’s help right now. Dashboards, searching through communications create processes that work for our for example, need some input from to see whether people have done the department, I can assign roles to the the support side. But, I like the idea right thing here or there, we can see appropriate people, making sure that that I can define and control the that at a glance. they get the right notifications at the dashboards myself. So, there’s some right time. That’s probably what’s the limitations there. But they will be Alex: How does Atlas help save most attractive for me, the level implemented soon. budget within the department? of control. We talk a lot about what Atlas can Alex: How does Atlas help you save Eva: Actually, the process we have do for businesses, the innovation Alex: Have you used any other time in your role? within Atlas at the moment was it enables and how it can help any systems you’d like to comment on? Eva: We save time by not having designed following the introduction company of any size in any industry to send constant emails back and of an initiative to reduce our reliance transform. With that in mind we Eva: The only other one would be our on external recruitment agencies. main time-keeping and expenses forth, asking for people to do various Before we built the process in Atlas, thought it was worth putting our software which has some of the things. Instead someone can start money where our mouth is for this the process and as it goes, every we had no standardised approach to edition of Atlas World Magazine and functionality of Atlas. It doesn’t approving the hire of new employees have the same power for creating step can be completed in turn by the show how Atlas is having a positive workflows, so we prefer to use Atlas! right people. effect in our world. ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE SPRING, 2022

and no way of controlling if the hiring be combining them into one process then the Division Manager then validates manager used internal or external that covers all our needs for this area and comments on the request and recruitment measures. The Hire as we understand the platform and provides overall approval for the hire. In Approval process that we have in functionality much better now than turn, whilst focus continues to be on the Atlas has significantly improved the when we started! reduction of external recruitment spend, communication flow between key our Chief People Officer (CPO) also gets stakeholders and approvers, and we Alex: That’s a solid iteration! a notification. They are delivered the now have visibility of those roles that initial request, along with all its details are approved for external recruitment and supporting information, as well spend. Since the introduction of the as the confirmation from finance that new process in Atlas we have seen the hire has been approved. A rejection a global reduction of €100,000 in at any point of the process sends out recruitment spend. That is significant! notifications to the hiring manager with In addition to cost reduction, time is the reasons why. saved, and with more processes running in the future, that’s more time saved and Approvals then split the process, and now more money saved! two different parties get notifications. The local People Operations team gets a Alex: If something goes wrong notification that the recruitment process with Atlas, how do you go about needs to be coordinated, and the hiring troubleshooting it? manager gets a notification that the hire has been approved by the CPO. From Eva: We go to support first, but we’re there we can continue the hiring process also fortunate enough to be part of the Eva: Each process starts with the hiring and get the new hire onboarded. company that produces it, so we can go manager. So they begin the process by straight to the experts! But the support requesting a new employee be hired. This is obviously from the top down, from from Atlas is certainly excellent. This sends a notification to finance, the the process view. Within each task that’s financial controller, who reviews the presented to the people as they need Alex: So, could you give us a run request and checks budget allocation for to be involved, there’s fields for them to through of the HR Processes you’ve new hires. Then they either confirm the input the right information and data that created and use in Atlas? request is covered financially, or deny it. can then be passed down the process to Eva: Of course! So the two we’re using Depending on their response, either the the next relevant person. currently cover the hire approval hiring manager gets a notification with all the relevant information, or we move to Alex: Thank you, Eva, for taking the process for ATS Global, and the same the next step. time to talk us through all of this! for the various divisions within ATS Global. They’ve been developed for If the hiring of the specified employee Eva: You’re very welcome. approving any new hire. We’re going to is approved by the financial controller, ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE SPRING, 2022

Progress report people from one of the main markets Data Store and a whole but the processes mapped couldn’t we want to target. Beyond that, it new engine under the hood easily lend themselves to data driven was an excellent chance to listen to analytics. Dashboards, functions, and the needs and problems of system other exciting aspects of process A Successful integrators in a whole new market. mapping were possible, but required The Atlas Team were present in a level of technical knowledge Summer Denver for a few days, presenting to that crept away from the ideals of the conference over two of the days usability that no-code should enable. In the last edition of the Atlas World and engaging with BennetAI and Now, Data Items can be created Magazine we discussed the road various stakeholders throughout their and inserted into processes that are ahead for Atlas, focusing on our work weeklong visit. minutely definable and easily tracked. with third parties like BennetAI to Each Data Item is unique and comes increase our reach. In the background, with more options for configuration we’ve also been working on updates than you can imagine. to the Atlas Platform that will allow us The next major step forward to Atlas to realise its full potential. isn’t one the average user would One season on and we’ve got Two major updates (well, many notice, but certainly something that will exciting updates on both fronts. minor and major updates really) have have a big impact moving forwards - a occurred that will enable the Atlas whole new workflow engine. The Control System Platform to truly realise its potential. With the new workflow engine in Integrators Association On the front end, we have the Data place, the bright minds behind the Store. And behind it all, a whole new development Atlas can return to (CSIA) Conference workflow engine powering things. rapid, iterative, customer focused The Data Store enables truly data improvements to the platform, but The first big step towards solidifying driven process mapping. It comes with an underlying technology that our relationship with BennetAI and the with a bit of a learning curve for enables even greater things. audience they reach was attending anyone familiar with Atlas in its the Control System Integrators As first steps into what looks like a The many minor and major changes Association (CSIA) Conference in very fruitful partnership, we couldn’t gestational state, but once you’re up that went into the development of June. We arrived as fledgling partners be happier. The gang even got to take to speed, you’ll see how much more the new workflow engine are too and left as firm friends. in an MLB game when they weren’t robust and versatile the system is. numerous and technical to go into busy building revolutionary new Previously, data within Atlas was here, but nevertheless, they’re the It was an incredible opportunity to approaches to system integration! stored as a single type, lacking changes that will enable the next demonstrate what Atlas was capable versatility. This meant you could leaps forward in Atlas World. of to a captive audience filled with map processes and build complexity, ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE SUMMER, 2022

Atlas Staff Highlights Colin Gray which will start to virtually mirror elements of any business. It could be a platform of no defined Location: Salisbury, UK boundary from a business, manufacturing or Role: Senior Business Analyst process and data perspective. Started: December 2021 What non-Atlas piece of tech excites you most right now? What were you doing before you joined Atlas? The single most complex, risky, yet fundamentally My last role within ATS Global was Smart the most exciting technical object including all the Manufacturing Manager, looking after the projects supporting functions and staff would be the James and staff within the UK’s Manufacturing Operations Webb Telescope. Management (MOM) Team. We wanted to take the The fact that its potential outcomes are shared opportunity in these magazines What’s the most exciting part of your role? across a broad diverse community of like minded to shine a light on some of the and forward thinking people, with the aim of bright minds that make Atlas the The interaction and discussions with customers improving our world’s collective knowledge and bubbling cauldron of innovation to understand not only the way in which Atlas can understanding of a topic that far surpasses our that it is. be of benefit to them but to also understanding mere existence. their drivers and key issues within their domain. This allows me to influence the direction of This harmonisation of thought and discovery the development team and the potential future has become more unified and exciting by the roadmap of the product to ensure that the introduction of this “piece of tech”. enhancement of the product is supported by real world requirements. It’s the potential outcome of If you were going to make a signature Atlas these that drive me. cocktail, what ingredients would you include in it? What excites you most about Atlas, now and in 1 shot of learning, introduce and slowly mix a the future? reduction of preconception, shake with flexibility, allow to mature and grow by adding ideas, then It’s around the basic ease of use and flexibility, place on a map of possibility. and also the ongoing roadmap which are the most exciting elements. The enhancement of Whilst that’s going on, have a beer or two! user interfaces and the increasing maturity of Atlas Optimise will bring a more flexible platform ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE SUMMER, 2022

Rodrigo Seoane Location: Barcelona, Spain What non-Atlas piece of tech excites you most right now? Role: UX Designer Specialist The 2 dollar water filter from Faircap. I’m sorry to disappoint you Started: July 2021 for not choosing some device/digital tech product but Faircap is an amazing innovation case! Faircap is a social enterprise convinced that drinking water should be accessible to everyone in the world What were you doing before you joined? and wants to close the gap for almost 1 Billion people who do not have access to drinkable water. I believe, using the words of Sangeet, every business is an engine. It needs to do a certain set of things repeatedly to create value. If you were going to make a signature Atlas cocktail, what ingredients would you include in it? For the past 6 years I have been a facilitator and collaborator to the Boundaryless team. In a nutshell, Boundaryless is a small Gin Nordès (UK classic with spanish flavour) + Schweppes consulting firm that helps global customers with Business Strategy Elderflower Tonic + Saffron and Organisation Design for the age of Ecosystems. Flavours from the North mixed with Nature’s most tasteful and What’s the most exciting part of your role? exquisite medicine. With just a pinch you can transform any recipe and also will keep you (or your business) healthy. Like using Atlas. ;) Atlas is aiming to lead the digital transformation for industry 4.0. It is a huge and exciting challenge in itself. As the UX specialist I have the opportunity to be hands on and leading the conversation that will co-create the strategies, usability and design for the many products/systems/platforms required to be #1 global player in No/ Low Code SaaS for the IIoT field. What excites you most about Atlas, now and in the future? Every business is an • Learning about the industry 4.0 sector engine. It needs to do • Applying the platform thinking theory • High skilled international team working together remotely a certain set of things • We are working on the edge of innovation for the sector repeatedly to create • Digital transformation is a natural calling for me. value ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE SUMMER, 2022

Knowledgebase computing and next level connectivity. What we’re trying to say is, Atlas Optimise lets businesses organise, track, and make Atlas Optimise gives customers use of everything, everyone, and everywhere within their organisation and throughout complete control of their resources. their supply chain. Resources are a hard thing to define, Getting to Know but when it comes to Atlas Optimise and what it can help a business keep an eye on, it’s basically anything within the scope of the company. Getting a handle on your resources In each edition of the Atlas World That might mean the people they Magazine, we want to shine a engage with, from employees to spotlight on one aspect of the Atlas partners to leads and beyond. It Platform. Last time we walked you might also mean physical resources, through Atlas Play, this time we’re for example ingredients, finished looking at Atlas Optimise. products or waste. Atlas Play is really the backbone of A resource could be defined as a the Atlas Platform, where each of workplace, a warehouse, or even the additional products surrounding a space on a shelf. In the more it both support it and enhance conceptual realm, it could be defined it. Atlas Boost provides powerful as expertise that a company has in data crunching capability. Atlas the form of an expert employee’s Edge opens up the world of edge knowledge and know-how. ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE SUMMER, 2022

Atlas Optimise allows each seeker How Atlas or solver to be tracked individually On the face of it and in great detail. Each seeker or Optimise is solver is made up of a complex set Behind the scenes is all well and of data that can be tracked, shared, good, but the look and feel was already being compared, and connected. equally important. Atlas Optimise has put to use Underneath and surrounding all of been designed from the beginning that is rock solid, seamless security. with usability in mind. The Atlas As the platform deals regularly with IP Platform as a whole is designed The Atlas Platform is growing, and other industry sensitive materials, to be used by any expert in any changing, and evolving every day. it was important that security organisation, and Optimise is no That’s all part and parcel of agile protocols were industry beating. different. development. Atlas Optimise in particular has seen probably the A slick, easy to navigate and most amount of change in the last understand front-end was important year, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t not only for the Seeker-Solver already made its impact. Exchange, but for the product in general. Detailed information can As the product develops, we’ve been be viewed at a glance, interfaces putting it to use enabling our partner are easily navigable and the user Bennit AI and their Seeker-Solver experience is always top priority. Exchange. We hope you’ve enjoyed this look The exchange looks to pair industry at Atlas Optimise and the ways it’s experts with the people who could being used already. We’d love to hear make use of their expertise. On your thoughts on it though. What the surface it’s a simple idea, but are some features you’d like to see underneath there’s a mountain of included in the product? Can you security considerations, resources think of any ways you’d put it to use tracking, and complicated in your projects? implementation that needs the right technology to bring it all together. Make sure you head over to the engagement page to leave That’s where Atlas Optimise steps in. your thoughts and comments. ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE SUMMER, 2022

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Innovation Projects Laing O’Rourke wanted to eliminate Project Budget weld defects in their robotic welding £3.9m cells for construction panels. (Government £1.6m) Aiming for zero ATS Budget £626k defects in welds Timeline Apr 2020 - Sept 2022 - WELDZERO We’ve been welding, as humans, for A major contributing factor in defect By leading the way on defect free millennia. As technology advances creation is that welding is a highly welding in automated manufacturing, our understanding of metals and skilled profession. Any person the UK positions itself as a creator of BMW looked to gain a better how we bond them progresses too. without the right training and years key enabling technologies in today’s understanding of welding processes These days we’re able to automate of experience might create these world. That’s where the WELDZERO and minimise the need for reworks in welding on massive scales, allowing defects. Globally, the talent pool of Project takes centre stage. their car components. for truly modern manufacturing. top quality welders will always be limited. As the innovation core of ATS Global, One element of the welding process Atlas enabled WELDZERO to create a that has always been an issue WELDZERO aimed to eliminate digital ecosystem in which real-time though is defects. The process of welding defects by gaining a better process inspection could happen. We welding is susceptible to creating understanding of the welding aimed to allow instant optimisation defects that weaken the bond process and improving automated with the goal of achieving zero between two components, that could welding within manufacturing. With defects in the welding process. create gaps in the weld, increase the use of digital tools, the goal was porosity and other problems. In many to create significant improvements in Each of the end users had unique cases this can be catastrophic, so quality, accuracy, precision and cost. challenges related to welding. identifying and minimising them has Ultimately, we want to WELD with always been a priority. ZERO defects! ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE SUMMER, 2022

SubSea7 wanted to automate the aimed to prove that advanced The Outcome Benefits: welding process of underwater technology can help to seek and gas pipes. destroy defects as they occur. WELDZERO’s success will Demonstrating the viability Bringing state of the art accelerate the wider adoption of of zero defect welding using I4.0 technologies as the project digital technologies data handling into real- demonstrated the effectiveness of world manufacturing digital welding. Showing that each step of the manufacturing welding As with all advances provided by the process can not only be handled fourth industrial revolution (I4.0), digitally, but also automated within data is at the heart of it. Welding a unified platform, provided massive processes in the manufacturing incentives for manufacturers at home world create massive amounts of and abroad. How cutting edge very useful data, but without being technology benefits able to process it in a timely manner, With a diverse set of use cases Strengthening the UK’s global it lacks potency. and satisfied end users, Atlas manufacturing position welding and WELDZERO successfully Atlas enabled WELDZERO to turn demonstrated that zero defect With WELDZERO, Atlas and mountains of data into usable insight welding is an attainable goal. Not TWI aimed to eliminate defects in real-time. only that, but Atlas was able to completely. That doesn’t necessarily demonstrate that a singular platform mean that every weld will be perfect, By integrating cutting edge sensor is capable of handling defect free but it does mean that no defect will technology, direct control of welding welding for use cases as disparate as go undetected and that the process technology was realised, as well the welding of underwater gas pipes of spotting, fixing, or redoing a weld as constant and instant feedback. to minute automotive components. where a defect appears becomes That data was processed at the Increasing productivity and automated and instantaneous. edge, decreasing data handling time Next steps efficiency in manufacturing and maximising the efficiency of welding ops by up to 40% Atlas has provided a digital platform computations in the cloud. Atlas has made such a great in which WELDZERO can map and impression that we are in commercial automate not only the welding This combination of technologies discussions with two of the end users process, but also the detection of created a data rich environment where for their facilities to adopt Atlas after and reaction to defects. Using edge automation was achieved in both this project ends. sensors, 5G, edge computing, and manufacturing and quality control. the power of the cloud, the project ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE SUMMER, 2022

Article outside of the pressures that COVID-19 placed on businesses. We happen to be one of them. Making working From the very beginning, Atlas has been a global work from from home work home business. As producers of technologies that help businesses globally connect seamlessly on an international scale, it’s never felt that strange to us. The work we do on a A lot of companies made the shift to day-to-day basis speaks to this idea work from home, or hybrid working, of helping businesses operate in during the pandemic. These were different corners of the world without moves made out of necessity that those distances feeling so vast. have since prompted a global shift in how we perceive the workspace. Following in our parent Businesses, industries, and entire company’s footsteps cities have been built around the ATS Global is, as the name suggests, concept of traditional office based a global entity. With offices on almost working. In the last couple of every continent in countries around years we’ve seen these seemingly the globe, ATS has been operating immutable points of view being efficiently through remote means challenged and it’s caused no end for decades now. While this isn’t of lively debate. How is productivity exactly the same as a purely work There are various pockets affected? How does a move towards from home effort, it obviously lays hybrid and remote working affect the the groundwork for starting up a truly in the UK and around environment? Do we need to return remote enterprise. the world where Atlas to the office? With units and divisions across the employees are close Whatever the outcomes of those globe, ATS already had a handle on debates, there are businesses out how to handle disparate peoples enough to meet up there that made the leap to work working towards a common goal from home and hybrid working when Atlas was formed. We’ve done ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE SUMMER, 2022

our best to take that foundation and lines. Invariably though, these get run with it, creating a team of bright photographed and digitised and minds across nations working to migrated to the cloud once the create the best SaaS applications in meeting’s are done. the world. How Atlas operates Team innovating in a efficiently as a global, work workshop, England from home business Many of the means we use to communicate and collaborate will be Charlie H, Summer, 2022 As the platform develops and familiar to you already. Whether we’re What’s next for our global evolves, it’s seeing more use across chatting over messengers or sharing work from home business? the ATS Global as a whole, and documents on the cloud, much of On top of these occasional meetups, within the Atlas Team. Using Atlas what we do on a daily basis is going we have morning stand ups What’s next is what’s happening to map out our daily tasks and bring to be second nature to you. conducted via Teams. As the team now, and to some extent what has cohesion to our global workforce is has grown, a general Atlas stand up been happening all along. With all the a great way to engage those who The only difference is, our “office” is was becoming too unwieldy, so now tools we use to work efficiently as really a conceptual one. While ATS a global work from home business put the hard hours into creating and Global has brick and mortar locations they’re divided amongst the various selling it. And, unlike any other tool areas of development, testing, and that you’ve been introduced to we use, we have direct access to the around the world, our meeting marketing that goes into creating and in this article, there’s one that is rooms are in Microsoft Teams, our conspicuous by its absence; Atlas! people who build it! whiteboards are MiroBoards, our filing selling our products. cabinets are Google Drives and For an insight into how Atlas is being Alongside the specific stand ups, we used in ATS Global, make sure you One Drives. have a general one each morning that read our article on Eva and her POPs There are various pockets in the UK the whole team is invited to known as Process in this very magazine. and around the world where Atlas “The Hangout”. Mondays and Fridays employees are close enough to meet are just for chatting and catching up up for the occasional brainstorming on what everyone has in their Netflix session over coffees and pastries. queues. Tuesday to Thursday are In these instances we relish the themed, where different departments chance to scribble things on big bits share progress on their work, of paper using fat markers, excitedly announce upcoming projects, or look for feedback on current progress. Katerina & Paul 2022 connecting elements with scratchy ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE SUMMER, 2022

People Meet the team We like to talk up the bright minds in heavens they have! After all, a good Atlas when we communicate to the idea is just a good idea without the world at large. Whether we’re talking right people ready and waiting to about the products we put out, or the realise it. expertise we have to offer our partners, From its inception to now, the Atlas the underlying factor is always those team has added expertise from bright minds. developers to designers and from sales to social media. And with every new When the team was formed it was person that joins and makes Atlas their a few people scattered around the home, the team is able to achieve more. country testing an idea. As time has From that first handful of people, passed those ideas have been tested, we’re now sitting at about twenty five solidified, and built upon. There’s been bright minds. Every one of them has a name change (Soda Labs became their own unique perspective on what Atlas), the scope has grown, and so makes a company work. And, every has the team. one of them has their own unique While some have joined and moved on expertise that helps us edge towards to pastures new, many have found their our goal of creating the greatest place here and settled in, and thank SaaS applications in the world. ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE SUMMER, 2022

Buzz industry especially; noone is great at shouting about how fascinating a world it is! Shouting from With all that in mind, we decided we needed to jump into a new way the digital of shouting about our success and our industry from the digital mountaintops mountaintops. The Atlas Podcast We always set out to do things differently at Atlas. From the Even though early versions of the technology and methodologies that medium might have shown up in the power our software, to the user form of audioblogs from the 80s, it’s experience for those changing their only since the mid-2000s and the business with the Atlas Platform. advent of MP3 players that the form That approach extends beyond just really took hold. With the audience the products we develop, and into for podcasting growing exponentially how we communicate about over the last couple of decades, we those products. thought it was time for us to dip our digital toes in. The last two years have obviously disrupted how we get our products The original incarnation of the Atlas into the hands of the people who Podcast launched in November As we speak, industry need them. A global pandemic, a of 2020. It kicked off amidst the whole host of international paradigm lockdown and with a dearth of titans, inventors, and shifts, and the regular shifts in how content vying for attention as more people find and engage with content people were stuck inside and unable thought leaders and mean we need to cover more bases to host or attend the kinds of live than ever. events our industry thrives on. We being prepped for were finding that breaking through interviews Beyond the changes thrust upon us in the saturated webinar market was in the last two years, we came to difficult given global happenings, so realise that within the manufacturing we took a step back and decided on a way of reaching similar or larger ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE SUMMER, 2022

audiences, whilst also having a bit platforms, and editing software was of fun! hastily assembled and the Atlas Podcast quickly found a bump in The first episode of the Atlas Podcast quality from episode 2 onwards. featured Martin Kelman and Alex Matheson chatting about the 5GEM The first run of 25 episodes was Project, the difference between SaaS researched, recorded, and published and COTS, and giving an impromptu on a week to week basis. Guests interview to ATS Global’s chair of the included bona fide celebrities, OBEs, board, Mike James. It was recorded and groundbreaking inventors. On top of the guest interviews, Martin and Alex were also joined on multiple Ella Podmore MBE, McLaren occasions by various bright minds Automotive Ltd from the Atlas Team who shared their expertise on technical topics Interviewed by Atlas in June 2022 from databases to user experience focused design. Many episodes have hundreds of to turn and provide fascinating downloads and the first season, as topics for our news section. In short, we’ve termed it, gained over 1,200 business as usual! unique downloads. After taking a bit The Atlas Podcast will continue to be of a break, the podcast has returned a way in which we can interact and on a biweekly basis and continues to interact with an ever growing, ever find eager ears, now reaching over changing audience. Alongside our 2,000 downloads and counting. traditional communication methods, Alex & Martin, Sept, 2022 ebooks, magazines, videos, and What’s next for the Atlas more, it forms a core means for us to Podcast? shout about the things that excite us. on the equipment available, edited with cheap as free software, and As we speak, industry titans, So, if you haven’t already, dive into posted without any idea how well it inventors, and thought leaders and the Atlas Podcast! Find a full list of would be received. being prepped for interviews. Martin episodes to the right, or wherever you and Alex are rustling up ever more find your favourite pods. Remarkably, it went down a storm! interesting topics for tech spots. And, Better microphones, recording the world of technology continues ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE SUMMER, 2022

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