2012 Bay Area Event – Agenda
- When: May 15-16, 2012
- Where: PARC, A Xerox Company, Palo Alto, CA
- What: 1½ day conference:
Tuesday, May 15th 3pm-7:30pm
3pm | Registration Opens: Make your own digital (or analog) name badge for the workshop. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4pm | Welcome to PARC, a Xerox Company Steve Hoover, CEO |
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The Maker Movement: A Business Phenomenon Tim O’Reilly, Founder & CEO of O’Reilly Media |
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Keynote: Adafruit Industries Limor Fried, Founder of Adafruit Industries Phillip Torrone, Creative Director of Adafruit Industries |
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5pm | Showcase Preview John Dimatos, MakerBot Industries Andrew Filo, Special Projects Greg Borenstein, Author of Making Things See: 3D Eric Gradman, Monkeys & Robots |
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5:30pm |
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Hardware Startups Transforming Business
A unique opportunity to experience and engage with makers up close and personal in a curated showcase of maker projects, products, and platforms presented in a casual atmosphere. Completing the visual feast will be a gastronomic display with creative food stations to please every palate.
Wednesday, May 16th 8am-6:30pm
8am | Continental Breakfast |
8:30am | Opening Remarks Dale Dougherty, Founder & Publisher of MAKE magazine |
8:45am | Keynote #1: Introduction to the New Making Carl Bass, CEO of Autodesk |
Keynote #2: Fundamental Changes Enabling the *New* Making Jay Rogers, Founder & CEO of Local Motors |
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9:45am | Session #1: Hardware: The New Open Source Driving Innovation Massimo Banzi, Co-Founder of Arduino Tod Kurt, Co-Founder of ThingM |
Open Source Spotlight: Ayah Bdeir, Founder of littleBits Robert Cook, Co-Founder of MetaWeb |
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10:30am | Break |
11am | Session #2: Collaborative by Design Allan Chochinov, Partner & Editor-in-Chief of Core 77 Nathan Seidle, Owner & CEO of SparkFun Electronics Greg Borenstein, Author of “Making Things See: 3D Vision with Kinect” |
11:45am | Futurecast: Materials: The Next Frontier Catarina Mota, Co-Founder of openMaterials |
12pm | Taking the "Hard" out of Hardware Liam Casey, Founder & CEO PCH International |
12:15pm | Lunch |
1:30pm | Session #3: Personal Fabrication & the Prototyping Revolution Mark Hatch, Founder & CEO of TechShop Ted Hall, Founder & CEO of ShopBot Tools |
Fab Spotlight: Kai Backman, Co-Founder & CEO of TinkerCAD David Lang & Eric Stackpole, OPENRov |
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2:15pm | Session #4: Making At Scale Andrew “Bunnie” Huang, Founder of Chumby Zach Kaplan, CEO of Inventables Nick Pinkston, Founder of CloudFab |
3pm | Session #5: Capital Strategies for Hardware Startups Marcus Schappi, President of Ninja Blocks Alon Hillel-Tuch, Co-Founder of RocketHub Brad Feld, Co-Founder of Foundry Group |
3:30pm | Break |
4:15pm | Session #6: Accelerating Hardware Innovation Ben Einstein, Managing Director of Bolt Jeremy Conrad, Co-Founder of Lemnos Labs Helen Zelman, Co-Founder of Lemnos Labs Travis Good, Co-Chair/MAKE Columnist |
5pm | Closing Comments Tim O’Reilly, Founder & CEO of O’Reilly Media |
5:30pm | Closing Reception |