FAB11 Symposium - How To Make (almost) Anything

Symphony Hall

Symphony Hall

The Fab Symposium: How To Make (almost) Anything will take place August 6th at Boston’s famed Symphony Hall.  It is a one-day event that explores the principles, applications and implications of digital fabrication. This year our focus will be on the incredible makers who have emerged from fab labs and digital fabrication education over the last 12+ years, who have made significant social, economic and community impact in the world and who are inventing the future. The speakers are graduates of the famed “How to Make (almost) Anything” class at MIT, of the global Fab Academy and of exceptional fabrication backgrounds. From the White House to Google to Barcelona to Togo, these makers are changing the world around us.

Details about speakers and participants will be updated frequently on the conference schedule page as well as on our social media channels!

Sign up on the Boston Symphony Ticket Purchase Website page today as space is limited.

Phone orders are also available at +1 888 266 1200 (Monday-Friday: 10:00am-6:00pm EST, Saturday: 12:00pm-6:00pm EST)

Moderators

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Mitchell BakerChair of the Mozilla Foundation
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Haakon KarlsenSolvik Gard, Norway
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Mel KingDirector, South End Technology Center
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Stuart KestenbaumFormer Director, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
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Melissa FranklinDepartment Chair and Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University
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Martin Luther CulpepperMaker Czar, MIT Mechanical Engineering
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Andrew McAfeeCo-Director, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy; Associate Director, Center for Digital Business
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Marko AhtisaariCo-founder, The Sync Project; former Head of Product Design, Nokia
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Neil GershenfeldDirector, MIT Center for Bits and Atoms

Speakers

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Markus KayserMediated Matter Research Group, MIT
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Hiroya TanakaKeio University; Fab Lab Japan
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Skylar TibbitsMIT Self-Assembly Lab; SJET LLC
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Vicente GuallartBarcelona City Architect; founder Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
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Meejin YoonHead, Department of Architecture, MIT
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Kelly DobsonGoogle ATAP; Former Head of Digital + Media, Rhode Island School of Design
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Sam CalischMIT Center for Bits and Atoms
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Kamau GachigiFounder, Fab Lab, University of Nairobi; Executive Director, Gearbox
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Ed BaafiFounder, Modkit
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Max LobovskyCo-founder, Formlabs
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Raffi KrikorianEngineering lead, Uber Advanced Technologies Center; former VP of Platform Engineering, Twitter
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Ayah BdeirFounder, littleBits
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Matt KeeterFormlabs; Antimony developer
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Fiore BasileFab Lab Toscana, Italy; Fab modules developer
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Ara KnaianCo-founder, NK Labs; Project Ara
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Tomas DiezBarcelona fab lab; Smart Citizen developer
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Nadya PeekMachines That Make developer, MIT Center for Bits and Atoms
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Amon MillnerAssistant Professor, Olin College; developer, Scratch
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Will LangfordRobotics, Fabrication; MIT Center for Bits and Atoms
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Kenny CheungNASA Ames Research Center
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Manu PrakashDepartment of Bioengineering, Stanford University
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Rehmi PostLead Scientist, Samsung Think Tank Team; Co-Founder, ThingMagic
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Rich DeVaulLeader, Google [x] Rapid Evaluation Team
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Yael MaguireEngineering Director, Facebook Connectivity Lab; Co-Founder, ThingMagic
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Josh GordonsonCo-Founder, Olopede
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Ted HungFabLab Asia Network Board member; Founder, FabLab Taipei
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Ohad MeyuhasFounder, FabLab Israel / Hope Lab
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Heloisa NevesDirector, Fab Lab Brazil Network; Coordinator, Insper Fab Lab; Founder, WE FAB
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Reginald BryantIBM Research Africa
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Blair EvansExecutive Director, Incite Focus, Detroit
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Richard DavisTransformative Learning Technologies Lab, Stanford University
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David SengehMIT Media Lab; TED Fellow
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Abubakari AdamCentury College, Minnesota; Takoradi fab lab, Ghana
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Makeda StephensonNat'l Tech Outreach and Community Help Chair, NSBE
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Dina El ZanfalyMIT Design and Computation; Fab Lab Egypt
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Sherry LassiterMIT Center for Bits and Atoms; President, Fab Foundation