Inside Corporate Maker Spaces
Maker Faire Bay Area 2019
May 17th-19th
Companies are seeing the value of enabling their employees and providing access to tools (and environments) for hands-on prototyping and exploration. Hear from Maker Space leadership at Microsoft and Google about how these shared spaces are working in and for these companies.
Kenny Spade
Kenny Spade is a lifelong maker. After 8 years as a Technical Evangelist, he now manages The Garage for Microsoft Silicon Valley and San Francisco where he provides opportunities for employees and interns to create what’s next. Whether visitors want to build a drone, experience VR, or 3D scan and print themselves, Kenny is there to help.
https://www.microsoft.com/garage/
Aaron Cunningham
Aaron is the global makerspace lead at Google. Leading a team of over 250 volunteers, he focuses on Googler engagement and growth at over 50 makerspaces in Google offices around the world. Previously, he was a technical program manager and unmanned test pilot for Project Wing at X.
Dale Dougherty
Dale is founder and CEO of Maker Media, which publishes MAKE magazine and organizes Maker Faire. He is also Chairman of the Maker Education Initiative (www.makered.org).
https://makerfaire.com
