Fab Lab Member Conference

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Monday, August 3, 2015

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Tune in LIVE August 3, 9:00 Read more >>

8:00-9:00 Registration

9:00-11:00 Fab News & Notes

  • 9:00-9:10 fabercize (Hiro Tanaka)
  • 9:10-9:25 morning announcements:
    1. Neil Gershenfeld
    2. Sherry Lassiter
    3. Dean of Architecture, Hashim Sarkis
  • 9:25-9:40 news
    1. Marie Planchard, Solidworks
    2. Laurent Provost, Saint Gobain
    3. Tory Voight, Google
  • 9:40-10:10 Fab Lab introductions and reports
    1. Early Childhood Fab (Jan Morrison)
    2. Fab Lab Toscana (Fiore Bassile)
    3. Amazon and FabLAT (Beno Juarez)
    4. Fab Lab Taipei (Ted Hung)
    5. Fab Lab Toulouse (Nicolas Lassabe)
    6. Fab Lab Oslo (Jens Dyvik)
  • 10:10-10:30 workshop briefs (workshop leaders)
  • TBD Fab13 Site Competition: Floranopolis, Brazil

Conversations: Making Robots

11:00-12:00

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Russ TedrakeDirector, Center for Robotics, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
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Sangbae KimMIT Biomimetic Robotics Lab
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Mick MountzFounder, Kiva Systems
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Gill PrattProgram Manager, DARPA Robotics Challenge, DARPA Defense Sciences
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Marc RaibertFounder, Boston Dynamics
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Radhika NagpalSelf-organizing Systems Research and Robotics Group, Harvard University

Workshops

14:00-18:00

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

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8:00-9:00 Registration

9:00-11:00 Fab News & Notes

  • 9:00-10:30 News and Notes
  • 9:00-9:10 fabercize (Wendy Neale)
  • 9:10-9:25 morning announcements (Neil and Sherry)
  • 9:25-9:40 news
    1. St. Gobain (Laurent Provost)
    2. Autodesk (Rick Rundell)
    3. ESP8266 (Swee-Ann Teo)
  • 9:40-10:10 lab and project reports
    1. Fab Lab Israel (Ohad Meyhus)
    2. Fab Lab Ekurhuleni (Caiphus Chaulke)
    3. Fab Lab Jeddah (Mohammed Tayeb)
    4. Fab Lab ESAN (Isaac Robles)
    5. Fab Lab San Diego (Katy Rast)
    6. AS220 (Shawn Wallace)
  • 10:10-10:30 workshop briefs
    1. Fab13 Competition: Florianopolis Heloisa Neves
    2. Fab13 Competition: Chile

Conversations: Making Movies

11:00-12:00

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Will StaplesScreenwriter; Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, and Call of Duty video games
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Paul DebevecChief Visual Officer, USC Institute for Creative Technologies
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Janet and Jerry Zucker (video)Zucker Productions; Science and Entertainment Exchange
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Alex McDowellCreative Director, 5D GlobalStudio at Wondros; Professor of Practice, University of Southern California
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Sebastian SylwanFormer Chief Technology Officer, Weta Digital
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Bran FerrenCo-Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Applied Minds
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Workshops

14:00-18:00

19:00

In Celebration of Fab Lab 001: SETC Read more >>

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

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8:00-9:00 Registration

9:00-11:00 Fab News & Notes

Conversations: Making Life

11:00-12:00

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George ChurchRobert Winthrop Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
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Peng YinMolecular Systems Lab, Harvard Medical School
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Joseph JacobsonMolecular Machines Group, MIT; Co-founder, Gen9
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Pamela A. Silver Ph.D.Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
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Workshops

14:00-18:00

Thursday, August 6, 2015

Fab 11 Symposium: How to Make (almost) Anything Read more >>

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Friday, August 7, 2015

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9:00-10:30 State of the Fab Lab Network

Conversations: Making Policy

11:00-12:00

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Megan SmithUnited States Chief Technology Officer
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Rep. Bill FosterCongressman (Il-11); Fermilab; Electronic Theatre Controls
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Rush HoltCEO, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Executive Publisher, Science Family of Journals
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13:30-15:00 Working Groups

15:00-16:00 Wrap Up

16:00-17:00 Fab Academy Graduation

18:00 Fab 11 Party

Saturday & Sunday, August 8-9, 2015

Boston Fab Fest: Making Impact Read more >>