Innovating Through the Trades Shortage

Innovating Through the Trades Shortage

March 3, 2026 · 37 min · Season 4 · Episode 8

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David Trask interviews Robin Cowie about how immersive technology is transforming skilled trades training.

On this episode of Facility Voices, David Trask sits down with Robin Cowie, Chief Executive Officer of Skillmaker, to explore how immersive technology is reshaping the future of skilled trades. Robin’s journey begins in South Africa, where his father, an industrial psychologist, used film to train gold miners who couldn’t read or write—an early lesson in meeting people where they are. That philosophy carried Robin from filmmaking and video games to building hands-on, tech-enabled training sol...

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