Welcome to the 2013 Hardware Innovation Workshop
Experience the open hardware revolution firsthand!
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WINNER, Best First Time Event Award
The premiere event in 2012 received two Folio awards: winner for Best First Time Event (B-to-B) and honorable mention for Best Overall Single Event (B-to-B). This year, we intend to raise the bar: more compelling themes, new twists, and a roster of speakers whose knowledge is essential, whose stories are inspiring, and whose enthusiasm is contagious. Together with co-chairs Dale, Travis and Renee, they will lead the conversation across a range of relevant topics impacting the maker business landscape.
MAKE Hardware Innovation Workshop
A Xerox Company
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA
When MAKE set out to host its first business conference to share the insights into the unique culture, enabling technologies, and innovations of the maker movement, location mattered.
PARC, a Xerox Company was the obvious choice. An historic and beautiful setting with a long legacy (over forty years) of innovation through open source, developing products and platforms that have changed the world.
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From PARC, a Xerox Company:
PARC, a Xerox company, is in the Business of Breakthroughs®. Practicing open innovation, we provide custom R&D services, technology, expertise, best practices, and intellectual property to Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies, startups, and government agencies and partners. We create new business options, accelerate time to market, augment internal capabilities, and reduce risk for our clients.
Since its inception, PARC has pioneered many technology platforms — from the Ethernet and laser printing to the GUI and ubiquitous computing — and has enabled the creation of many industries. Incorporated as an independent, wholly owned subsidiary of Xerox in 2002, PARC today continues the physical, computer, and social sciences research that enables breakthroughs for our clients' businesses.
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The Maker Movement Meets the VCs
"[The maker movement is] as significant as the shift from agriculture to the early industrial era." Jeremy Rikin, Wharton economist. Bloomberg Business Week, 2/16/12
Why It's China's Turn to Worry about Manufacturing
"Artificial intelligence, robotics, and digital manufacturing . . . these technologies will make manufacturing more creative, less expensive, more local and more personal." 1/10/12
More than Just Digital Quilting
"The maker movement could change how science is taught and boost innovation. It may even herald a new industrial revolution." 12/3/11
Moving the Economy: The Future of the Maker Movement
"I'm motivated and moved by the idea, the belief-that the people who invent and build and make things have the power to change the world." TJ McCue, 10/26/11 Forbes Blog
Big DYI: The Year the Maker Movement Broke
"Between MakerBot, Adafruit, MakerSHED and SparkFun, that's well over tens of millions of revenue . . .it's a real industry now." Phillip Torrone, Adafruit. 8/6/11
Maker Faire and the Growth of Do-It-Yourself
"The movement that caught on in the garages and basements of California's Bay Area is showing signs of true financial power." Gwen Moran 10/25/11