Celebrating 50 Years of NI at NI Connect 2026

About this episode

In this episode, Ritu Favre discusses the history and future of National Instruments and LabVIEW's Nigel AI.

National Instruments (NI) was started 50 years ago by Dr. Truchard—known to many as ”Dr. T”—along with Jeff Kodosky and Bill Nowlin.”. NI recently became part of Emerson. He was joined by Ritu Favre, President, Test and Measurement Business Group, and Kevin Schultz (CTO) at this year’s NI Connect 2026 in Fort Worth, TX. In this episode of Inside Electronics, we talk with Ritu Favre about NI in general and about LabVIEW’s Nigel AI.

People in this episode

Host: Full Name

Guest: Ritu Favre

Topics covered

• National Instruments
• LabVIEW
• AI technology
• Test and Measurement
• 50th anniversary
• NI Connect

Keywords

• National Instruments
• LabVIEW
• AI
• Ritu Favre
• NI Connect
• Test and Measurement
• 50 years

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: National Instruments, Emerson

Places: Fort Worth, TX

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