Sunday, August 7, 2016
6:00 – 7:30 pm
| Welcome Reception for Early Arrivals
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Monday, August 8, 2016
TIME |
TOPIC |
SPEAKER |
ROOM |
8:00 – 11:30 am |
Tours of UVM Fab Lab, Champlain College Maker Lab, Green Mountain Power Inspire Space, and Burlington Generator; depart from Hilton at 8:20 am |
Tours provided by Maker Space hosts |
Hilton Lobby |
1:00 – 2:00 pm |
Keynote: MassChallenge – Creating a Startup Renaissance |
Scott Bailey |
Vermont Conference Room |
2:15 – 3:15 pm |
Concurrent Sessions |
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Session 1: |
Biomimicry: Bringing Nature’s Tools into a Makerspace – Old Lyme Connecticut |
Randall Anway |
Green Mountain |
Session 2: |
Maker Movement: Collaborating with Federal Funded Initiatives |
Karen Birch, Connecticut College of Technology PI, National Science Foundation Next Generation Manufacturing |
Lake Champlain |
3:30 – 4:30 pm |
Concurrent Sessions |
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Session 1: |
Road Pitch, Churn, and Growing Entrepreneurial Communities |
Cairn Cross, FreshTracks Capital |
Green Mountain |
Session 2: |
Integrating Makerspaces with Art and Technology Programs |
Adam Kemp, Princeton |
Lake Champlain |
4:30 – 6:00 pm |
Reception with choice local Maker Exhibits |
n/a |
Mezzanine |
8:00 – 9:30 pm |
Film: Most Likely to Succeed |
n/a |
Vermont Conference Room |
Tuesday, August 9, 2016
TIME |
TOPIC |
SPEAKER |
ROOM |
8:00 – 8:45 am |
Breakfast Buffet |
n/a |
Mezzanine |
8:45 – 9:45 am |
Keynote: “Maker Cities, Towns and Hamlets: How communities come together and what are the pivotal modes of change?” |
Peter Hirshberg, Maker Media and The Re:imagine Group |
Vermont Conference Room |
10:00 – 11:00 am |
Concurrent Sessions |
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Session 1: |
How to Inspire Early Makers |
Greg Defrancis, Montshire Museum & Thad Gembczynski, Deborah Rawson Memorial Library |
Season of the Lake |
Session 2: |
Building a Community to Support Makers: The Burlington Generator Story |
Michael Metz, Burlington Generator, Burlington City Arts, Champlain College |
Green Mountain A |
11:15 am – 12:15 pm |
Integration of Art and Technology |
Jenn Karson, UVM College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences; Eugene Korsunskiy, UVM and SparkTruck; Coberlin Brownell, Champlain College, Ken Howell, Champlain College Maker Lab |
Vermont Conference Room |
12:15 – 12:45 pm |
Lunch |
n/a |
Mezzanine |
12:45 – 1:15 pm |
Keynote: Building Local Networks to Support Robotics and Technology Teams |
Steve Cremer, FIRST Robotics |
Vermont Conference Room |
1:30 – 4:00 pm |
Community Teams working session on Building a Cross Functional Maker Community |
Peter Hirshberg |
Vermont Conference Room |
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