Vent-Con 2020 To Discuss the State of Open Source Ventilators

Next Thursday, May 21st, Public Invention will be hosting Vent-Con 2020, a virtual mini-convention focused on open source ventilators and the related learnings and developments that have transpired over the past few months with the Covid-19 pandemic.

The three hour online event provides an interesting program that looks at the ventilator community, its challenges, developing world matters, and much more. Make: is a co-host, with founder and president Dale Dougherty providing a closing address.

You can register for the conference on Eventbrite. It’s a free event.

Speakers include:

• Dale Dougherty, Founder of Make: magazine
• Karen M. Sandler, Executive Director of the Free Software Conservancy
• Dr. Erich Schulz, Anesthetist (Anesthesiologist) and thought-leader
• Tim Artz, leader of the Ventilator teams at HelpulEngineering
• Karene Melloul of Kenya Emergency Network for Innovation (KENI)
• Marcos Mendez of OpenVentilator (Brazil)
• Marta Belcher, outside General Council of Protocol Labs
• Jochai Ben-Avie, Head of International Public Policy, Mozilla Corporation
• Deepti Sharma, Conference Organizer
• Robert L. Read, PhD, Head Coach of Public Invention

Program

• Past, Present, and Future
• Clinical Issues and making the right compromises from a physician’s view point
• Contributing to the Modular Open Source Ventilator(s) – A Call to Action
• Third Party Testing/Government Approvals
• Demand Analysis and Production at Scale
• The Pandemic in the Developing World
• Appealing to Investors from an Investors point of view
• Closing Address: Dale Dougherty’s Plan C and an Open Future
• Closing and Resources available to you and next steps

Slack discussion for the show can be joined here.

See you next week.