Maker Cities
Maker Faire Bay Area 2015
May 15th-17th
For a Maker culture to thrive it needs a healthy habitat: affordable workspaces, tools and supplies, job training and entrepreneurship services, makerspaces, and celebrations. Four people actively engaged in building Maker Cities discuss state of the art initiatives, policies and recipes towards better Maker habitat.
Peter Hirshberg
Peter Hirshberg is at the epicenter of the noisy, connected world of online conversation. Peter has led emerging media and technology companies at the center of disruptive change for more than 20 years.
http://hirshberg.tumblr.com/
Nick Pinkston
Nick is the Founder/CEO of Plethora - a rapid manufacturing service that lets you go from CAD to parts faster than ever before using a new kind of robotic factory that instantly configures itself to make almost anything.
http://Plethora.com
Neil Hrushowy
Neil Hrushowy is the manager of the City Design Group in the San Francisco Planning Department. The City Design Group provides urban design services for the City of San Francisco, combining the disciplines of city planning, architecture and landscape architecture. Its responsibilities include placemaking, design review, design innovation, urban design policy, and research, with a portfolio that ranges scale of parklet to neighborhood-wide public realm plan.
http://www.sfplanning.org
Libby Schaaf
Mayor Libby Schaaf was inaugurated Oakland, California’s 50th mayor on January 5, 2015. A native Oaklander, Mayor Schaaf previously served one term as a member of the Oakland City Council. A former Council chief of staff and top mayoral aide to Jerry Brown, Mayor Schaaf has two decades of public service experience that began while she was a young attorney leading volunteer efforts in Oakland.
