During the AASV Annual Meeting, 28 veterinary students interviewed conference speakers to gain additional information about their presentation topic. The next of these interviews is now available to members on the AASV website at https://www.aasv.org/podcast/. Student member Mary Clarke Worthington interviewed Dr. Seth Krantz who presented "Reducing piglet crushing with the application of the SmartGuard® system " in the "Industrial Partners" Session. This interview discusses some of the challenges of SwineTech’s SmartGuard system as well as the benefits of new biometric data the technology provides in addition to its primary function in reducing piglet mortality through decreasing crushing deaths.