Makers and “One Belt One Road” (OBOR)
International Cooperation Forum, National Mass Innovation & Entrepreneurship Week 2016
The National Mass Innovation & Entrepreneurship Week is held annually in China since 2015. Aiming to build up a mass innovation & entrepreneurship platform for city promotion, exhibition and demonstration, exchange and connection, culture communication etc., to put forward a new generation of innovation and startups trends. The National Mass Innovation & Entrepreneurship Week will be held in different cities in China organized by local municipal government including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Xi’an, Chengdu, Wuhan, etc..
Fab Lab — “One Belt One Road” (OBOR) International Cooperation Forum
The “One Belt, One Road” is a project initiated in China to connect Europe, Middle East, Asia, and Africa. It is an initiative with seventy countries and government organizations in supporting globalization. It is the revival of the ancient Silk Road routes to have countries connected by building new infrastructure focused on transportation and energy.
The Fab Lab OBOR Forum is an event with a theme on the Shenzhen Open Innovation System and the Commercialization of Fab Labs. There were guest speakers from Africa, Europe, China, and United States focusing on the topic.
[Organizations]
Hosted by:
Shenzhen Municipal Government
Organized by:
Shenzhen Committee of Science and Technology Innovation
Shenzhen Open Innovation Lab
[Date]: All Day Saturday, October 15, 2016
[Venue]: 5/F Reporting Hall, Block B, Building 5, Software Industry Base, Shenzhen Bay Entrepreneurship Plaza
Guest Speakers:
Jeremy brings to IFTF a background in macroeconomic and currency theory, geopolitics, and international entrepreneurship. Jeremy focuses on the future of logistics, distribution, and communications in “high delta markets” (formerly frontier markets), drawing on his entrepreneurial and professional experience in West Africa over the past four years. He is passionate about drawing divergent links between subjects, finding the links between creativity and quantitative analysis, and creating collaborations of mutual benefit between people of all kinds.
In addition to his work with IFTF, Jeremy is the co-founder of the Rise Up Development Collective, a nonprofit that supports a health clinic for Ghana’s Wli Todzi community, and the Director of MCP for the Handshake Network.
Silas Okwoche lives and works in Lagos-Nigeria where dots need connecting to solve critical problems in Africa’s largest economy. He is a serial tech entrepreneur and co-founded Nerve Mobile in 2014. Silas & his team at Nerve are building smarter mobility solutions for Africa’s mobile 1st Generation. Nerve won the Tech Trail Blazers 2015 Prize for emerging markets as well as the DEMO Africa 2014 prize.
Before Nerve, Silas worked for frontier tech firms in Nigeria where he executed IT projects for diverse public & private organizations. He is also at the fore front of the maker movement in Nigeria, initiating the Lagos Fab Lab project. Silas has background in engineering and picked up core coding and business skills along the way. Silas loves to play lawn tennis, believes in Africa’s bright future and hopes to visit space someday.
Olaide Muideen Oladipupo is a hardware inventor and problem solver with multiple years of experience across many hardware and software disciplines. He is currently serving as the managing director of Skylead global Company where he leads a unique team to create enterprise solutions for large companies and train Nigerians in modern computing technology.
Robin Wu is a distinguished entrepreneur. He has attracted great attention for copying (shanzhai) Apple iPad within 60 days in 2010 and one of the earliest people who developed an EPC for $99 in 2008. US CNN, Singapore Lianhe Zaobao, and many other foreign media has coverage on these accomplishments. Robin has more than 10 years of experience on product development based on INTEL chip. He worked for ARCHOS as a Project Manager, JOINTECH as a Project Development Director of Shenzhen CZC and a General Manager of Division VI of Shenzhen Huaqiang Industry Co., Ltd.
Candy Li now works for World Peace Industrial Group, WPG Holdings as the Promotion of Application Technical Solution department manager. She has 8 years experience in electronic technical application industry and the promotion of the solution. She is now dedicating time to the establishment of the WPI maker and IDH platform.
Miguel Guerrero is a Spanish architect specialized in digital fabrication and its implementation in the local industry. He obtained his bachelor degree in architecture at the ETSA Granada (2005 Granada, Spain) and completed the Master in Advanced Architecture at IaaC in 2011 (Barcelona, Spain). He developed his professional activity between Barcelona and Granada, making projects such as the Endesa Pavilion, the Leka Open Source Restaurant, open source furniture and other designs in commercial and industrial architecture. He received awards in several competitions such as the Centro Andaluz de Diseño in Córdoba where he got first place, or the Park of Violón in Granada. He is directing the FabPro office focused on architectural and industrial design as well as prototyping and product development, both of which is developed in a Fab Lab. He is now working in the Fab City Poblenou network of laboratories, with the aim to respond to local needs in the field of digital fabrication.
Wooden Architecture, Furniture Designer and Digital Fabrication. Graduated of the Career of Architecture, Designer Furniture Innovation with professional experience in digital fabrication, Parametric design and traditional carpentry. Graduate Program on Digital Fabrication in CBA-MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in 2014. Member of the Fab Lab Peru Association and coordinator of the Latin American Fab Lab Network (FAB LAT) and Fab Women Makers & fabbers.
Aspiration to apply new knowledge within a company and / or institution and achieve personal growth and better capacity.
Vaneza founded an innovative business model for the digital carpentry, for repowering industry in her country by applying new technologies and innovating in design engineering. iFurniture is an online platform of furniture using digital technology that helps the user to create unique and custom pieces supported by a team of designers and architects who specialize in handling digital tools. iFurniture is a young company that offers flexible, transformable, mobile and modular innovative furniture and in its manufacturing process using digital fabrication, CNC machines making a custom product where the user can participate in the selection and process of purchase through an online sales platform.
Silvia Lindtner is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan in the School of Information. She researches, writes, and teaches about DIY (do-it-yourself) maker culture, with a particular focus on its intersections with manufacturing and industry development in China. Drawing on her background in interaction design and media studies, she merges ethnographic methods with approaches in design and making. This allows her to provide deep insights into emerging cultures of technology, production, and use, from a sociological and technological perspective.
Together with Anna Greenspan (NYU SH) and David Li (XinCheJian), Silvia Lindtner is also the co-founder of the Research Initiative Hacked Matter. Hacked Matter, since its inception in 2011 has organized a series of workshops, lectures, public panel discussions, as well as hands-on engagements with questions of DIY making, manufacturing, and innovation ecosystems.
Agenda:
Theme: Shanzhai and Africa
Moderator: David Li, Founder of Shenzhen Open Innovation Lab
9:00–9:30 | Sign in
9:30–9:40 | Moderator opens the forum and introduces the participating VIPs
9:40–9:55 | Jeremy Kirshbaum, research expert of IFTF in Africa. Speaks about Shanzhai Innovation in Frontier Markets
9:55–10:10 | Silas Okwoche, Co-Founder of Nervemobile. Speaks about Technology Design for Emerging Markets.
10:10–10:25 | Oladipupo Muideen, Program Director of Skylead Global Company. Speaks about Technology in Africa: Moving Forward, Going Faster.
10:25–10:40 | Robin Wu, CEO of MEEGOPAD. Speaks about One Belt One Road: Combination of Mobile and Internet in Africa with China Manufacturing.
10:40–10:55 | Candy Li, Technical Market Expert of ATU Team of World Peace. Speaks about Gongban with Innovation
10:55–11:20 | Interactive Q&A between the moderator and VIPs
11:20–11:30 | Exchange & Interaction
Theme: Fab Lab Network and Taobao Village
Moderator: David Li, Founder of Shenzhen Open Innovation Lab
14:00–14:30 | Sign-In
14:30–14:40 | The moderator opens the forum and introduces the participating VIPs
14:40–14:55 | Miguel Guerrero, Director of Fab Lab Barcelona and Fab City Project. Speaks about From Opensource Designs made in a Fab Lab to Local Distributed Production.
14:55–15:10 | Vaneza Caycho Ñuflo, Program Director of Peru, Fab Lab Lima, and CEO of iFurniture. Speaks about Digital Design and Local Production, as well as Global Impact in the Network.
15:10–15:25 | Silvia Lindtner, Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan. Speaks about Whose Innovation? and Stories from Accra and Shenzhen.
15:25–15:35 | International Fab Lab strategic cooperation contract signing ceremony
15:35–16:20 | Interactive Q&A between moderator and the VIPs
16:20–16:30 | Exchange & Interaction
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Shenzhen Open Innovation Lab
Shenzhen Open Innovation Lab, established by Maker Collider and SIDA, is a space and a platform for worldwide makers to communicate and cooperate. Shenzhen Open Innovation Lab is also the first Fab Lab authorized by MIT CBA in Shenzhen as a research and development partner of FabLab 2.0.
Shenzhen Open Innovation Lab embodies four functions including Fab Lab promotion and FabLab 2.0 research and develop, innovation and entrepreneur education courses, global maker service platform, and supply chain collaboration service. The lab dedicates in exploring the issues and developing solutions to connect the massive production ecosystem to small hardware startups so as to promote the international standing of Shenzhen in the development of digital intelligent hardware and manufacturing and build a future intelligent hardware Silicon Valley by combining new open source method and current manufacturing system in Shenzhen.
