Sandvik voices on mining, leadership, security and sustainability.
Meet Sandvik gives the microphone to people inside the company, from the president of Sandvik Mining to a vice president of software engineering at Mastercam, and the interviewer changes between episodes. Topics include a team that came up with a better plan than its boss and generative AI as a tool for attackers.
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Meet Sandvik is the company's own podcast, and it works like a tour of the business, led by interviewers who change from episode to episode. Susanne Gertell hosts several conversations, Marita Sander and Edward Bergström lead others, and two newly graduated engineers, Roos and Amanda, take over for an episode of mining questions. Guests such as Mats Eriksson and Filip Ivarsson speak from jobs inside Sandvik itself. It is the company describing itself. Leadership gets an honest airing. Mats Eriksson, president of Sandvik Mining, describes proposing a plan, leaving his people to think it over, and accepting their better alternative: no merger, but a task force drawing on several organizations with one clear goal. Susanne Gertell points to the courage it took the team to present something different. Taryn Jatras, Vice President for Sales Area Africa for Rock Processing, brings a sales view. Jatras lists the four divisions the sales area supports, from stationary crushing and screening to rock breakers and boom systems, working from Sandvik entities in 11 countries. Commodity prices come up as a force that can raise or lower customer investment. Jatras traces the milestones of 2025 in order intake and invoicing back to a clear plan set more than two years earlier, plus more staff on the ground and more training. On security, the focus is on people. Matt Zahner, vice president of software engineering at Mastercam, calls security a change of mindset and says the way to change a mindset is to explain the reasons. Asked about psychological safety, Zahner says it starts with trust, so that a bug in the code or suspicious activity gets reported without fear of blame. A conversation with Dennis begins with a staged moment: a stressed employee, an urgent email that seems to come from the boss, and the advice to ask whether it really does. The same episode also covers generative AI, where prompt engineering can trick a model into helping build new malware. Sustainability comes in through data. Filip Ivarsson, a Sustainability Officer at Sandvik, argues that generous emission assumptions let less sustainable companies look better than they are, which discourages honest data sharing. The fix offered is live, automated data gathering, predictive analytics and closer cooperation across industry, along with business models where sustainability and profitability go together. A listener interested in security could start with 'Digital defense starts with people'. Someone curious about management might try 'Leadership lessons from Mining President Mats Eriksson'. The tone throughout is warm and polite, with open questions that let guests explain their work in their own terms.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants to hear managers and engineers at Sandvik explain their own work, from mining leadership and equipment sales in Africa to phishing awareness and sustainability data. Also fits someone curious about early engineering careers in mining.
What sets it apart: Rather than covering an industry from outside, Meet Sandvik is one company talking about itself, with a rotating interviewer and guests who hold roles in its own businesses. Its security conversations focus on people: trust, reporting problems without blame, and doubting an urgent email from the boss.
In each episode of the podcast Meet Sandvik you will meet different persons that give their perspective on Sandvik. Sometimes it's an employee telling his or her story. Sometimes you will meet experts discussing how a hot topic can affect Sandvik.
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Mats Eriksson connects stronger decisions with psychological safety, shared purpose, and the discipline to accept a better plan.
Mats Eriksson's route from computer science in Finland through turnaround work to president of Sandvik Mining gives the episode a useful leadership question: what improves when speed is not mistaken for judgment?
A clear, grounded look at engineering paths and the support work behind mining equipment.
Roos and Amanda frame the episode through their own early engineering paths, one in IT and one in the patent industry, before widening the conversation into what engineering work can look like across companies and sectors.
A stressed email decision leads into the people, processes, and AI risks shaping Sandvik's digital defense.
Sandvik's "Digital defense starts with people" begins with a familiar pressure point: an urgent email that seems to come from a boss, landing when someone is stressed and less likely to pause.
Technology's mechanisms, power's consequences.
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["Meet Sandvik host Susanne Gertell talks with Mats Eriksson, president of Sandvik Mining, about leadership lessons, AI, and how mining moved from machine optimization to system optimization.", "Eriksson says his career followed opportunities instead of a fixed plan, from computer science and IT to sales, Singapore, China, Korea, and Sandvik.", "He argues that AI is both overhyped and underestimated because the industry has more data than ever, but not always the right data quality.", "The conversation keeps returning to psychological safety, diversity, reverse mentorship, and the value of testing \"good enough\" ideas instead of overplanning."]
An interview with Taryn Jatras, Vice President for Sales Area Africa for Rock Processing, discussing her role and Sandvik's mining equipment business in Africa.
Courtney says the most valuable thing to come out of the mine is the miner, and uses that line to explain Sandvik's focus on autonomy and safety.
An interview with Matt Zahner, VP of Software Engineering at Mastecam, discussing cybersecurity challenges in manufacturing software.
Dennis van de Wege, Product Area Architect Security Operations at Sandvik, says digital defense starts with the human because phishing and social engineering can override technical controls.
Philip Ivarsson discusses how digitalization is key to driving sustainability in industry, sharing his background and role at Sandvik.
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Sandvik South Africa reports a 94% absorption rate for its workforce training programs.
Jussi Pura says data and AI could reshape mining over the next decade by improving operational understanding and productivity.
William Smedberg, Portfolio Manager for AI and Automation at Sandvik, describes how monitoring hundreds of sensors per second on Sandvik-built mining machines lets the company warn customers before failures happen.
Shin Voeks discusses his role as president of CG Tech, his background in large multinationals, and his experience with Sandvik's culture and the acquisition of CG Tech.
An interview with Marianne Grauers from Engineers Without Borders about her volunteer work in Tanzania and Sandvik's partnership with the organization.
Brian Huff discusses his 27-year career in electrification and its application to mining.
Winners of the Sandvik Sustainability Award discuss their innovation in circularity for manganese steel used in wear parts for stationary crushers.