The L&D Challenges Podcast

In this episode, Adam interviews Nishant Raj, Co-Founder of Virtual Learning Factory about VR and digital twins for small manufacturing businesses.

Nishant has over a decade of experience in the manufacturing industry and is an entrepreneur who leverages data and technology to create value for customers and stakeholders. 

He’s co-founded the Virtual Learning Factory. This innovative venture is dedicated to assisting Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in upskilling their workforce through the use of digital twins for both training and operational purposes. Driven by a vision to empower SMEs, Nishant aims to propel them to new heights with the aid of enabling technologies.

In this episode, Nishant talks Adam through the consumer-grade virtual replicas, or digital twins he and his team build to enable small manufacturing businesses to train people at scale on complex machinery. Nishant discusses how they create these replicas, and the impact this has on frontline training. 

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What is The L&D Challenges Podcast?

Welcome to the L&D Challenges podcast series.

If you are in Learning and Development, HR, Talent, or Organisation Development, this is the podcast for you.

The L&D Challenges podcast is a candid look at L&D today. It focuses on real-life practitioners solving real issues in learning and staff development.

In Series 1, we interview ten L&D movers and shakers who shared with us how they think about engagement and impact with their learning interventions.

The guests in this first series range from senior L&D professionals at global corporates like Ricoh, Continental, and EDF to solo L&D practitioners in fast-growing organisations. Each tackles the problem of how we best train and retain talent and maximise the business impact of L&D.

We thought we’d get a few friendly tips and tricks from these interviews about increasing engagement in learning and measuring impact. In reality, we learned so much more and think you will too.