Dominique Braconnier, founder and CEO of TPAC, has driven the development of cutting-edge ultrasonic technologies, helping industries improve their testing processes. Walter Weber is President and CEO of UTEX Scientific Instruments Inc. He leads a prestige group of scientists, engineers and programmers that work to solve industry’s most difficult nondestructive inspection problems. Walter promotes novel ways of thinking automating NDT and believes there is much work to be done in ensuring that NDT catches up with the rest of factory automation. UTEX produces inspection automation software, ultrasonic instrumentation, and scanning systems for the aerospace, nuclear, and power generation industries.