Institute For The Future

Join us for Shenzhen Makers Town Hall & Shenzhen Open Innovation Lab

As part of Shenzhen Makers@World, an international innovators exchange program, join us for a dive into what’s happening in Shenzhen, with 11 legends and upcoming rockstar Shenzhen Makers, on March 2nd at TechCode incubator in Mountain View. If you’re a maker, a manufacturer, or an entrepreneur who wants to make ties to Shenzhen, you can’t miss this opportunity to meet this group of Chinese pioneers - from wearables entrepreneurs to artists, open-source electric vehicle makers to 3d printing and hardware manufacturing gurus.

Shenzhen Makers@World is an international exchange program of makers sponsored by the Foreign Affairs Office of Shenzhen city government and Shenzhen Foundation for International Exchange and Cooperation. The program aims to connect Shenzhen entrepreneurs and creative innovators with their counterparts in the San Francisco Bay Area, in order to build international maker networks and share the latest trends in IoT development and industrial design across both sides of the Pacific. The first batch of 10 makers from the program will visit Silicon Valley in February 2016.

The event is free and open to the public with registration.

EVENT DETAILS

Wednesday, March 2, 2016
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

TechCode
1172 Castro Street
Mountain View, CA 94040

AGENDA

6:00pm | | Doors Open

6:45pm | | Keynote Presentation, David Li

7:15pm | | 10 Shenzhen Makers

8:15pm | | Networking

9:00pm | | End

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SPEAKERS

Opening Keynote with David Li

2016: State of the Shenzhen Open Innovation Ecosystem

David Li
Founder of China's first hackerspace Xinchejian and Director, Shenzhen Open Innovation Lab 

David will share his experiences as a Maker, hardware evangelist, and bridge-builder between Western and Chinese manufacturers and entrepreneurs. David Li has been contributing to open source since 1990. He is member of Free Software Foundation, committer to Apache projects and board director of ObjectWeb. Over the past 20 years, David has started several open source software projects and contributed to many others. In 2010, he co-founded XinCheJian, the first hackerspace in China to promote hacker/maker culture and open source hardware. He also developed Ardublock, the most popular visual programming environment for Arduino. In the past two years, he has become interested in urban farming and is an enthusiastic proponent of aquaponics, which brings the spirit of open source to farming and gardening. In 2011, he co-founded Hacked Matter, with Anna Greenspan and Silvia Lindtner. In 2015, he started a new project called Maker Collider, in collaboration with Intel, with the goal to promote mass hackerspaces in the field of education and in the public sector.

Lightning Round Talks from Shenzhen Makers

3 minute stories from the streets, studios, labs, and factories of Shenzhen, China's "Hollywood of Hardware."

Yang Yang
Founder of UniMaker

Current Project: 3D printing in Large scale(FDM). A large 3D printer that prints a whole car. it designed to work with other project which is design and manufacturing electric vehicle.

Previous: Graduated from industrial design and engineering system, Yang has a broad understanding of a product from design to production, with companies in 3D industry, customized jewelry and medical device, Low Volume Manufacturing (LVM)

Gary Cao
Director of Supplier Chain, Emie, a design-oriented electronics company

Current project: Ground+, which is a project aims to summary and optimize the flow chart of hardware developing, set up a system to train marker how to develop a hardware.

Previous: Chief R&D engineer of ECM microphone for Macbook air2/ iMac Core; Field application engineer for domestic smartphone market, service HUAWEI, XIAOMI, LENOVO, VIVO, OPPO, ONE PLUS; Global marketing manager, lead team to integrate total solution with QUALCOMM, MEDIATEK, NXP, INFINEON, TI, ESS, AUDIENCE, DIRAC, OPALUM

William Du
Industrial Designer, CTO, D+M Creative Haus

Current project: Community-based small open-source electric vehicles. D+M Creative Haus is a wholly-owned subsidiary established by ARTOP Design Group, which has leading position in China's design innovation field and provide whole-industrial-chain services to various industries.

Previous: Open source 3D printing project research in order to lower the cost of prototyping by 3D printing applications.

Roger Li
Co-Founder and COO, Shenzhen Rone Phoenix Nest Design Development

Current project: Smart Armlet, which can monitor dynamic real-time heart rate, and provide scientific guidance to fitness exercise.

A senior maker who helps develop customer resources and resolve to make connection of the creative process of the product. Is working with 5 maker projects including Soundbrenner Pulse by a group of German makers, GogglePal AR by US maker team, smart home, smart toothbrush and wifi dynamic heart rate armlet.

Yan Jin
Supervisor of 2188 Makerspace, Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology

Current Project: Chinese Maker Education Development, developing cross-cultural curriculum for Makers

Previous: Graduate from EDP of Maker Education Foundation; Maker Mentor by Qinghua University Fundamental Industry Training Center. 2015 Maker Competition, 2015 International Maker Week

Yurong Huang
Associate Professor, Institute for Cultural Industries, Shenzhen University

Current Project: Research on Chinese Maker Movement and report: Strategic Studies for Shenzhen to speed up the construction of the International Maker Center: from the comparative perspective between China and the United States.

Previous publications: “Influence of Maker Movement on the Transformation of Shenzhen’s Development Mode,” “Influence of Maker Faire Shenzhen on the Construction of Shenzhen’s Creative City,” “A Study on the Formation Factors and Social Impact of China's Maker Movement.”

Jacob Li
Founder and CEO, SOG Technologies

Current Project: promoting China's maker culture by maker related self-media/talk show and tutorials teaching people to learn multiple knowledge and skills like electronics, color and display, music, computer and coding

Previous: 15+ years of Chinese/European/US high-tech company experiences. Familiar with the definition, development, manufacturing, marketing and sales of electronic and IC products.

Ryan Liang
Administrator of ABI Maker Space, Shenzhen DIY

Current Projects: Lazy Planter: an automatic planting machine; M5 Prototype Kit open source electronics education kit; The Curious VR: VR content device; IOT solution: cloud, app, embedded total solution

At ABI Maker Space, helps all types of the company achieve mass production; has helped over 10 start-up companies to understand the Huaqiangbei business mode and Shenzhen maker movement history.

Vito Wang
Visual Artist, 70miles Visual Studio

Current Project: Interactive Installation “Eyes of time”, a tool used to record and recreation“flowing art works” (like Behavior arts) using Arduino and other sensors to collect invisible factors in the art gallery

Previous: Selected digital art works based on open source hardware?such as“There they gone” (2014,Shenzhen New Who Art gallery?Interactive video based on Kinect); “So far” (2015, HKBU Kai Tak Campus, Interactive video based on Arduino); “Moon gate” (2015, Taipei MocA, Interactive video); “N=distortion”(2016,UABB Shenzhen, Statue)

Sam Wu
Student, Physics Department, Shenzhen University

Current Project: 3D Print Technology and Arduino Develop. 3D print modeling and application

Previous: Explored maker movement and 3D printing in highschool, started to learn Arduino at university