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In 1965 Gordon Moore extrapolated five data points to make one of the most famous graphs in history, forecasting that the doubling of the number of components in an integrated circuit would continue for a decade. He was off by a little bit; the trend actually continued for fifty years. Moore's Law, as this came to be known, has defined the digital revolutions in communications and computation. Since the first fab lab was opened in 2003 the number of those has been doubling for more than a decade, surpassing 1000 now. That exponential trend was first noticed by Sherry Lassiter, aka Lass. Since there's already more data to support what could be called Lass' Law than Gordon Moore originally had, the FAB13 Symposium will look ahead to fifty years of doubling in digital fabrication performance and access.The day is organized as four moderated conversations with global leaders looking at the underlying science and technology, the opportunities and threats they bring, their implications for feeding minds and bodies, and their impact on society. The overall goal will be to develop and share recommendations and roadmaps from each of these panels.

SPEAKERS

Check out this year's participants:

Moderators

Neil Gershenfeld

Director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms

Tomás Vivanco

Co-Director Fab Lab Santiago | Director Distributed Design Foundation | Assistant Professor Design School Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Sherry Lassiter

President & CEO, The Fab Foundation

Tomas Diez

Urbanist. Fab City Research Lab Director. Fab Lab Barcelona Director

Alan Gershenfeld

Co-founder and President, E-Line Media

Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld

Professor at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University

Speakers

Kate Adamala

Protobiology. Biochemist, Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development at the University of Minnesota.

Ben Laurie

Head of Security and Transparency, Google DeepMind. ‎Programmer, Protocol Designer, Cryptographer

Primavera de Filippi

Blockchain researcher at Berkman Center for Internet & Society - ‎Harvard University

Jose Sanchez

Architect / Programmer / Game Designer, Principal at the Plethora Project

Alastair Parvin

Co-founder at WikiHouse Foundation, Architectural & strategic designer with 00 London.

Jake Read

MIT

Alysia Garmulewicz

Professor, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Materiome

Jens Dyvik

Co-founder of Fellesverkstedet Fab Lab. Former Fab Lab Nomad. Makes machines that make machines

John N. Randall

Atomically Precise Manufacturing | President of Zyvex Labs

Puneet Ahira

Co-founder and Chief Architect @ shift7

Beno Juarez

Director Floating Fab Lab Amazon | Fab Lab Lima

Lito Ibarra

ICANN Board Member

Patrick Colgan

Senior Adviser - Government of Ireland

Nadya Peek

Researcher at MIT, Center for Bits and Atoms working | Machines that Make Machines

Skylar Tibbits

Director Self-Assembly Lab - MIT

Gian-Paolo Bassi

CEO Dassault/ Solidworks

Yogesh Kulkarni

Executive Director of Vigyan Ashram, Pabal in India

Patricia Diaz

Founder @Musintec

Dina El-Zanfaly

Fab Lab Egypt Co-Founder and Co-Director

Léna Kernoa

Chargée de projets digitaux et innovation, Maker Tour

Anna Lowe

Co-Founder, Kumasi Hive and MakerNet

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CORPARTES

Rosario Nte 660, Las Condes, Región Metropolitana, Chile

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