Dr. Ripi Singh is now an NDE 4.0 coach, with significant research background which started with aging airplane program in 1992 at Georgia Tech. Ripi serves as Chair of ASNT Committee on NDE 4.0 and Vice Chair of ICNDT SIG on NDE 4.0. Decades of his research work on fatigue and fracture, damage tolerance, human factors in NDE are well published and frequently referred to. Ripi is now working hard to bring industry 4.0 perspective and innovation processes to the NDE community and CT Eco-system: with his virtual coaching lectures and articles. He is also on various university advisory boards, US delegation to ISO 56000 on Innovation Management, International Association of International Professionals, and CT Academy of Science and Engineering. Ripi is an author of 4 books, over 100 peer-reviewed publications, and dozens of keynote lectures.