Episode 20 - The Air Conditioning Podcast | Doug Donovan | Interplay Learning

The Air Conditioning Podcast

G’day guys and gals!

Welcome back to The Air Conditioning Podcast for another episode. This week we were pumped to have US based company Interplay Learning join us and chatted with CEO, Doug Donovan. Interplay Learning have helped over 80k professionals advance their skills by enabling them to choose from dozens of interactive courses, led by industry experts in VR troubleshooting.

Here’s a taste of some of the questions we covered….

> Tell us more about Interplay and what you guys do (4:00)

> So can you talk us through how the Virtual Reality side works? (5:30)

> When it comes to the training and holding of tools, are you essentially holding nothing or do you hold a physical object to replicate holding a tool? (9:00)

> Do you have brand specific software to simulate the varying manufacturers? (11:00)

> Can you tell us more about your team? I noticed that your Chief Technology Officer had previously worked for Pixar Animations. How has this helped your business? (13:45)

> We don’t seem to be seeing the skills gap like you are in the USA, can you tell us more about that and how you guys are influencing? (15:30)

> Do you have any plans to, or are you already, looking to introduce Interplay Learning outside of the USA? (18:45)

> With the courses you offer, are you looking to take apprentices all the way through their apprenticeship or are you more of a complimentary course? (20:45)

And heaps more!

It was a fascinating discussion and a brilliant concept, and particularly helpful during difficult circumstances like the present COVID-19 and social distancing scenario, where visiting a particular venue in groups is not particularly desirable! We look forward to them rolling it out completely in Australia and were grateful to Doug for his time and explaining about the cool stuff they are doing at Interplay Learning. (Thank you also to Ria for organising the interview!)

If you’d like to check out Interplay Learning further (and we suggest you do), you can visit them at interplaylearning.com

Thanks for joining us again guys, we hope you enjoy the episode and if you’re enjoying what we’re doing, we’d be grateful if you could give us a quick Review!