{"id":9600,"date":"2023-10-04T08:58:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T12:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/?p=9600"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:11:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:11:05","slug":"jane-poynter-rapid-fire-episode-future-car-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/on-the-move\/ed-bernardon\/jane-poynter-rapid-fire-episode-future-car-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane Poynter | Rapid Fire Episode | Future Car Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-megaphone\">\n<iframe frameBorder=\"0\" height=\"482\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm\/?e=TLFIE2574684591\"\nwidth=\"100%\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><!-- Megaphone -->\n\n\n<p>Welcome to another Rapid Fire Episode presented by your host, Ed Bernardon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had the pleasure of interviewing Jane Poynter, the founder and Co-CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceperspective.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Space Perspective<\/a>, a company that aims to make space travel available to everyone. They have designed a spaceship called Neptune, which is the most accessible, most sustainable, and safest way to launch from Earth. You can hear more about their amazing project in my previous conversation with Jane.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As usual, I ended our chat with some quick questions for Jane, from her favorite astronaut to her vision of the future of space travel. She gave some fantastic answers that you don\u2019t want to miss!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Future Car Podcast | Rapid Fire Episode | Jane Poynter\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/olv6-vUP0-A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>What was the first car you ever bought or owned?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Mini.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Tell me your best speeding ticket story. Have you ever gotten a speeding ticket?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, no, no, no. So, here&#8217;s what you have to know is that I used to race motorbikes. So, I am not telling you any of my stories about speeding tickets, Ed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>In three words, how would you describe what space travel in the future will be like? What will it look like?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>It&#8217;s for everyone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>What is your ultimate adventure that you still hope to take some day?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Space. I haven&#8217;t been to space yet. That is what I&#8217;m hoping to do as soon as next year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"bio-block row\">\n    <div class=\"col-3 order-first bio-pic\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/09\/Jane-Poynter-head-shot.jpeg\" alt=\"Jane Poynter | Co-Founder of Space Perspective\" \/>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"col-9 bio-info\">\n        <div class=\"bio-header\">\n            <h4 class=\"speakerintro\">Jane Poynter | Co-Founder of Space Perspective<\/h4>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"bio-biography\">\n            <div class=\"bio-biography\">\n<div class=\"bio-biography\">\n<div class=\"bio-biography\">\n<p>Jane is co-founder of Space Perspective and is charged with ensuring all Space Explorers have the most meaningful and memorable journey possible. As a member of the Biosphere 2 design team and original crew who lived for two years inside the sealed, self-sustaining habitat, the first prototype space base built and operated. She then co-founded and was President of Paragon Space Development that today has technologies on almost every human spacecraft in operation in the U.S. In partnership with the World Bank and United Nations. She holds a patent for the world\u2019s first self-sustaining habitat used in multiple space programs and bred the first animals to complete multiple life cycles in space.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"bio-contact\">\n            <p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jane-poynter?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Connect with Jane on LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bio-block row\">\n    <div class=\"col-3 order-first bio-pic\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/07\/Ed_Bernardon_Color-1-scaled-e1600198438346.jpg\" alt=\"Ed Bernardon, Vice President Strategic Automotive Initiatives \u2013 Host\" \/>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"col-9 bio-info\">\n        <div class=\"bio-header\">\n            <h4 class=\"speakerintro\">Ed Bernardon, Vice President Strategic Automotive Initiatives \u2013 Host<\/h4>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"bio-biography\">\n            <div class=\"bio-biography\">\n<div class=\"bio-biography\">\n<div class=\"bio-biography\">\n<div class=\"bio-biography\">\n<p>Ed is currently VP Strategic Automotive Initiatives at Siemens Digital Industries Software. Responsibilities include strategic planning and business development in areas of design of autonomous\/connected vehicles, lightweight automotive structures and interiors. He is also responsible for Future Car thought leadership which includes hosting the Future Car Podcast and development of cross divisional projects. Previously he was a founding member of VISTAGY that developed light-weight structure and automotive interior design software acquired by Siemens in 2011, he previously directed the Automation and Design Technology Group at MIT Draper Laboratory.\u00a0 Ed holds an M.S. in mechanical engineering from MIT, B.S. in mechanical engineering from Purdue, and MBA from Butler.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"bio-contact\">\n            <p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/edward-bernardon-922442\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Connect with Ed on LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to another Rapid Fire Episode presented by your host, Ed Bernardon.&nbsp; I had the pleasure of interviewing Jane Poynter,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85609,"featured_media":9601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[420,2],"tags":[348,371,373,298,299,385,330],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[888],"class_list":["post-9600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ed-bernardon","category-on-the-move","tag-automotive-2","tag-digital-future","tag-digital-transformation-tag","tag-digital-twin","tag-digitalization","tag-podcast","tag-xcelerator"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/10\/External_Siemens_Graphic_LinkedIn-2.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9600"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9606,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9600\/revisions\/9606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9600"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=9600"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=9600"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}