Displaying items 1-10 of 18 in total of Voices from The Bench with the tag "ids".
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421: Katherine Steinbock-Dyke: From Girl Scout Cookies to CEO of Whip Mix
April 20th, 2026 | 1 hr 3 mins
3d printing, analog dentistry, analog vs digital, articulators, asiga, australia, bench culture, bench work, business evolution, cad cam, career growth, ceo, collaboration, continuous improvement, corporate culture, customer relationships, dealer network, dental, dental community, dental education, dental equipment, dental industry, dental lab, dental labs, dental manufacturing, dental materials, dental resins, dental schools, dental technician, dental technicians, dental technology, digital dentistry, employee benefits, entrepreneurship, europe, family business, furnaces, future of dentistry, global markets, gypsum, heritage, hr, human resources, hybrid workflow, ids, industry insights, industry trends, innovation, innovation strategy, international business, katherine steinbock-dyke, lab day, lab life, lab owners, lab workflow, laboratory, large labs, latin america, leadership, legacy, management, materials science, mentorship, mixers, model trimmers, networking, next generation, operations, partnerships, podcasts, polymers, product development, production, relevance, small business, storytelling, succession planning, team building, technician, technicians life, trade shows, voices from the bench, whip mix, win program, workflow efficiency
This week we chat with Katherine Steinbock-Dyke of Whip Mix about growing up in a family-run dental company and unexpectedly working her way to CEO. She shares her path from HR and corporate roles into operations, product development, and ultimately leadership—highlighting the balance between tradition and innovation in today’s evolving lab landscape. The episode mixes stories of continuous improvement, digital transitions, and industry travel, all wrapped in the perspective of someone focused on keeping a legacy company relevant for the future.
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386: Farewell to IDS 2025 & exocad Part 11 with Agata Bak, Iman Ansari, & Larry Bodony
August 18th, 2025 | 1 hr 1 min
9, bite finder, black pearl, ceramic, challenge, clients, coffee, consulting, dating, dental, designer, exocad, gc, growth, iceland, ids, in house, laboratory, last minute, lava scanners, love, managing time, marriage, metal, mill, new suit, outsource, partnerships, president, resume, retired, risk, social media, technician, trade shows, veneers, voices from the bench, walking
All 11 hours of conversations from the exocad booth at IDS 2025 is coming to an end. This episode starts by telling the story of how Agata Bak and Iman Ansari fell in love and eventually opened Black Pearl Dental Lab. Then we meet the man responsible for the growth and popularity of exocad in North America, Larry Bodony.
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385: IDS 2025 & exocad Part 10 with Pierre-Luc Duchesne, Dereck Donnelly, & Dr. Eimear O’Connell
August 11th, 2025 | 58 mins 12 secs
1on1, art, back to the future, box, canada, dental, ds core, education, exocad, exoplan, feedback, fp1, fusion, glaze, grandmother, hero, ids, invisalign, ireland, itero, laboratory, maple syrup, marketing, master cup, nexus, packaging, panther, phototgrammetry, prep, public, scan, scotland, sleep apnea, smile design, stain, surgical guides, technician, teeth, vita, voices from the bench
Back for the 10th time with conversations from the exocad booth at IDS 2025. First up are two people creating excellent customer experiences with Panthera, Pierre-Luc Duchesne and Dereck Donnelly. Then we meet the Irish dentist in Scotland, Dr. Eimear O’Connell who uses digital to give her patients the best treatment possible.
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384: IDS 2025 & exocad Part 9 with Paul Dowling, Jacqueline Ffrench, & Thomas Baaske
August 4th, 2025 | 1 hr 2 mins
3d, 4 day work week, academy, ai, better life, business, community, dental, dentures, digital, efficient, exocad, feedback, generations, global, health, ids, inventory, ireland, ivotion, lab day chicago, laboratory, leadership, lean manufacturing, part time, polish, printing, removables, repair, small changes, soft reline, strength in the industry, technician, voices from the bench, well being, workflow, zirconzahn
Back again to a time in Germany when we recorded in the exocad booth at IDS 2025. This week we start with Paul Dowling & Jacqueline Ffrench who are doing amazing things in Ireland for the lab community. Then we meet Thomas Baaske from Ivoclar that tells us all about the new printed denture material, the inventory system, and Ivoclar at IDS.
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383: IDS 2025 & exocad Part 8 with Dr. Milad Shadrooh, Dr. Robbie Hughes, Zelko Relic, & Ben Weber
July 28th, 2025 | 1 hr 1 min
ai, computer sciences, confident, dental, dental therapist, digital workflows, education, exocad, hand holding, ids, implants, infrared, inspiration, laboratory, liverpool, models, move or remove, moving teeth, palate expanding, printing, scale, singing excited, smile makeovers, software, solution, stadiums, suck down, technician, training, trimming, under the hood, voices from the bench
A jam-packed episode featuring conversations from the exocad booth at IDS 2025. Two doctors that are teaching others the ways of digital at Avant Garde Dentistry, Dr. Milad Shadrooh and Dr. Robbie Hughes. Then we have a great time getting to know Zelko Relic, the CTO of Align Technologies. We wrap up the episode with Ben Weber from ModuleWorks.
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382: IDS 2025 & exocad Part 7 with Jade Connors and Lisa Aguirre
July 21st, 2025 | 1 hr 6 mins
artist, bego, blinged, dd, dental, dental inkjet printer, dirty talk, exocad, front office, gemstones, heal the mind, ids, influencers, japan, judge, kol, laboratory, lecturing, managing, mental health, music, national denturist association, paper vs patients, pictures, positive attitude, product manager, rdt, roland dga, sick, stickers, switzerland, technician, travel, vita, voices from the bench, work hard and play hard
Back again.... still.... with more amazing conversations from the exocad booth at IDS 2025 in Cologne, Germany. First is past podcast guest and Canadian Denturist Jade Connors. Then we learn all about DGShape and the Roland mills with Lisa Aguirre.
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381: IDS 2025 & exocad Part 6 with Björn Zäuner and Tillmann Steinbrecher
July 14th, 2025 | 1 hr 58 secs
articulation, bite, bottlenecks, ceo, code, customer feedback, dental, design, distributors, emotional engagement, exocad, growth, hand articulate, ids, jaw motion, laboratory, memes, milling center, open software, ortho lab, psychology, purple, remakes, researcher, smile design, student, technician, training, user interface, voices from the bench, xsnap
Barb and Elvis bring two powerhouse conversations from the exocad booth at IDS 2025 featuring two people that are changing digital dental design every day. Björn Zäuner tells the story of Bite-Finder and how it can lower remakes by up to 50% and then we chat with the CEO and co-creator of exocad, Tillmann Steinbrecher.
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380: IDS 2025 & exocad Part 5 with John Krier & Dr. Jeff Horowitz
July 7th, 2025 | 1 hr 6 mins
above the line, add, airway, be involved, below the line, bored, ceo, clients, cpap, culture, dental, dentist, designer, exocad, fda, feedback, foundation, ids, invisalign, knight dental lab, laboratory, melatonin, midwinter, palate expansions, panthera, partners, sleep, sleep apnea, technician, tmj, voices from the bench
The conversations from the exocad booth at IDS 2025 just keep coming! This week we talk to two Americans in Germany. John Krier is the CEO of Leixir Dental Group, Barb's boss and Dr. Jeff Horowitz that talks about creating airway passage and his podcast Dentist IN the Know.
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379: IDS 2025 & exocad Part 4 with Juan David Jaramillo, Luis Diego Monsalve, Steve Campbell, & Dr. Nicolas Rohde
June 30th, 2025 | 1 hr 10 mins
acrylic, ai, aligners, berlin, cam software, columbia, dental, denture teeth, designs, exocad, global, growing, ids, ios scans, laboratory, milling machines, nails, on-stage, patient acceptance, pure chance, recruitment, regulation, resin, selling, software, speaking, strategies, technician, testing support, vhf, video, voices from the bench, water
We are back with another jam-packed episode featuring conversations from the exocad booth at IDS 2025 in Germany! First up are the two gentlemen behind New Stetic, Juan David Jaramillo and Luis Diego Monsalve. Then we chat with past guest and good friend Steve Campbell about exocad ART and we wrap up the episode with Dr. Nicolas Rohde from VHF milling machines.
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378: Brandi Nowak & Marybeth Starr Are Bringing a Festival to Labs
June 23rd, 2025 | 1 hr 4 mins
bag, branding, brother, computers, darby, dental, dental tech supply, digital, disney, dsl family feud, evening events, exocad, family, fun, ghost tour, harvest, hurricane, ids, jazz, laboratory, ladies of the mill, laughter, legacy, nowak, peddler, psychiatrist, remote work, river boat, roadshow, tae kwon do, technician, telesales, vendor, voices from the bench, zahn
This week, Elvis and Barb talk to the ladies from Nowak Dental Supplies that is bringing to life NOLA Lab Fest. Brandi Nowak and Marybeth Starr talk about this amazing event happening November 7-8 in New Orleans.