Sponsors
Sponsors at Maker Faire Detroit 2011
We offer a variety of sponsorship opportunities and exhibit options and are ready to work with you to create a custom presence for you onsite (one that will meet your marketing goals and budget). Please contact us at: sales@makerfaire.com or call us 707.827.7272 for more information. We look forward to partnering with you.
Thanks to our 2011 Detroit Sponsors!
Presented By
Michigan Economic Development Corporation
We make things in Michigan. We always have. And, we do it better than anyone else in the world. Centuries of entrepreneurial DNA allow us to innovate, to re-invent and to chase down dreams. Success begins in Pure Michigan. Discover opportunity. Visit www.MichiganAdvantage.org or call 1-888-522-0103.
Ultimate Maker Sponsor
Ford Motor Company Fund
Ford Motor Company founder Henry Ford believed in the power of innovation and Ford Fund continues that tradition through sponsorship of community events such as Maker Faire. Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services works to strengthen communities through partnerships and programs focused on innovative education, driving safety and American heritage and community life. For more information on programs made possible by Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services, visitwww.community.ford.com.
Ford Sync
TechShop
Maker Sponsors
Autodesk
Autodesk, a leader in 3D design software for architecture, entertainment, and engineering industries, will showcase a free, downloadable design tool—called Autodesk 123D—that allows anyone to design 3-D models, and then turn them into real-life products. This tool will help more people participate in the world of design, in a way that is accessible and fun, as our goal is to unlock the creativity everyone.
Digi-Key
As an authorized global distributor of electronic components, Digi-Key represents more than 440 of the world’s leading suppliers. The combination of great customer service, the availability of over two million diverse products and the company’s fast and efficient shipping capabilities makes Digi-Key your totally integrated electronic component distributor.
Pluto
Pluto is an integrated studio that creates broadcast, web and live content for some of the largest, and smallest, companies in the world. We are a collection of artists, designers, editors, drummers, painters, MAKERS and dog lovers. Our core services include editorial, motion design, animation, sound design and visual effects.
Real Integrated
At Real Integrated, we make connections. We are a full-service marketing company working to really understand consumers and what they focus on every day. We create messages that matter because they feel real. And we integrate them into people’s real lives. This is the new ideal. This is Real Integrated.
TechTown
TechTown is a high-energy community of entrepreneurs, mentors and partners seeking to reignite Detroit's entrepreneurial culture by becoming the world's best business incubator. TechTown brings the resources of Wayne State University to startup companies to diversify and strengthen Michigan’s economy in high-growth emerging industries. For more information, visit www.techtownwsu.org.
Sidekick Sponsors
Automotive Hall of Fame
The Automotive Hall of Fame is the place to begin your automotive experience in southeast Michigan. It is where you can celebrate the men and women whose innovations changed the world and revolutionized our way of life, providing ordinary people unimagined freedom and opportunity for exploration.
Compuware
Think. Invent. Create. Make. We do that, too. Compuware is excited to join Michigan’s largest assembly of inventors. Like you, we share the same passion and enthusiasm for innovation and technology. Meet some of the makers behind our latest app and learn how we deliver the best-performing technology worldwide.
Etsy
Our mission is to enable people to make a living making things, and to reconnect makers with buyers. Our vision is to build a new economy and present a better choice: Buy, Sell, and Live Handmade.
Intuit
Pepsi
Could a soda really change the world? You tell US. What do you care about? The Pepsi Refresh Project can plant trees in parks. Build homes. Even teach kids how to rock out. That’s because Pepsi’s funding ideas that move the world forward. Pepsi is giving away millions in dollars each month to fund great ideas, both big and small. Submit your ideas and vote for your favorite ideas at refresheverything.com. Pepsi – Every Pepsi Refreshes the World.
ShopBot
ShopBot Tools began in the workshop/barn of Ted Hall over 12 years ago out of a maker’s need for a computerized cutting tool.
