Dane Laughlin is an Innovation Engineer at INVISTA, a Koch Industries subsidiary, focused on integrating emergent technology across INVISTA's global operations space for process improvement. Acting as an internal specialist and project manager, Dane has worked on projects in environments ranging from a corporate cubicle to the manufacturing floor. Utilizing his biomedical engineering background, his core focus is to streamline the interface between people and technology to improve execution accuracy and increase efficiency.
In addition to being a technologist, Dane is also an Inventor with four patents in areas ranging from the visualization of deep brain stimulation to bone conduction communication. Dane’s core competency is in AR/VR implementation, wearables, IOT, and data analytics. Using these tools, he is looking to change the way that employees interact with their work as well as their training.
Dane Laughlin didn’t set out to be a virtual reality guru. It just sort of happened. In college at Wichita State University, he was working toward a biomedical engineering degree and medical school, but after shadowing a few doctors, decided medicine wasn’t for him. Unsure what to do next, he looked to his peers for inspiration.
