In less than 2 weeks, the Hardware Innovation Workshop with be held at Xerox PARC (what a historic location!):
The day and a half long event has quite an exciting list of speakers:
Featured Speakers:
- Massimo Banzi, Co-Founder of Arduino
- Ayah Bdeir, Founder of littleBits
- Carl Bass, President & CEO of Autodesk
- Brad Feld, Co-Founder of Foundry Group
- Limor Fried, Founder of Adafruit Industries
- Mark Hatch, Co-Founder & CEO of TechShop
- Jay Rogers, Founder & CEO of Local Motors
- Kai Backman, co-founder and CEO of TinkerCad
- Ted Hall, founder and president of ShopBot
- Andrew "Bunnie" Huang, founder of Chumby
- Nathan Seidle, founder and CEO of SparkFun Electronics
- Phillip Torrone, Creative Director of Adafruit Industries
The downside is that it is almost $800 for a ticket. The price is understandable in the context of a professional conference, but that is a bit pricey for an individual like me who doesn't have a business prospect in hardware. For those that do, I would imagine it will be money well spent.
MAKE: Blog posted a video where Tim O’Reilly and Dale Dougherty discuss the event:
Finally, I really like message at the bottom of workshop's website:
open hardware
+ new fabrication technologies
+ innovative and connected makers
= the maker movement
Anyone planning to attend? I'd love to hear how it goes.
Cheers,
Drew