Hexagon Radio

Hexagon Radio is Hexagon's company podcast feed, and it works less like a single show than a shelf of related programs sharing one address. What ties them together is physical infrastructure and the data that describes it. Offshore platforms, wind turbines, underground mines and structural columns all come up, usually alongside the software or sensors meant to keep track of them. The partner interviews are the most formal strand. Some are presented in collaboration with Petroleum Economist, including 'Leveraging AI to maximize the value of oil & gas Digital Twins', led by Paul Hicken with guests Martin Bergman and Rick Standish. That discussion describes AI working at several levels: helping engineers cope with brain drain, letting a digital twin agent talk to an ERP agent so users stop hopping between subsystems, and supporting predictive maintenance and safety risk assessments. More than once, the data foundation is called the key. Another Petroleum Economist conversation, with Hans Kaur and Julio Caterin of Hexagon's Asset Lifecycle Intelligence division, raises a familiar field problem: a maintenance technician reaching a remote site without the right part. Their case is that companies can start small. Hydrocarbon Processing contributes a booth interview with Mark White. He talks about SDX2, a reengineered SaaS-only asset lifecycle platform, and argues that transformation efforts fail when value is not measured across the lifecycle. Then there is Resource Revolution, a numbered mining series hosted by Adam Simon, a University of Michigan professor. Here the tone shifts from product briefing toward open conversation. Mateus Quintela, with close to 13 years in underground mines, remembers a favourite mine in far northern Sweden where a whole city is being moved so mining can continue. Misael Cabrera, director of the School of Mining and Mineral Resources at the University of Arizona, is asked about the tension between cutting climate impact and mining the metals that climate technology needs. He answers in terms of demand. The planet's population has doubled in his lifetime, and those people want a hot shower, a cold beer and a way to get to work. In a separate episode, Megan talks with Steve Thurgood of Leica Geosystems about surveyors moving into monitoring, and he compares wireless tilt and distance sensors to schoolchildren nattering away in a classroom. The vendor never drops out of view. One closing points listeners to Hexagon's booth at Mine Expo, and another to case studies on the Leica Geosystems Monitoring website. That makes the feed most useful as a view of how Hexagon and its partners frame the problems of asset-heavy industry, not as neutral coverage. For mining, go straight to Resource Revolution; for the digital twin argument, begin with the Petroleum Economist episodes.