Shenzhen Maker Fair, Demo Products Designed in Shenzhen!

Currently typing this at Shenzhen’s startup weekend! This weekend is definitely a defining time for the “critical mass” to get Shenzhen’s startup and entrepreneur community on the map! Also this weekend is the Shenzhen Maker Faire which my friend Eric Pan and others from Seed Studio and Chai Huo hackerspace are organizing. He invited me to speak at the afternoon event, about my experience coming to Shenzhen, China and how I got into the startup community.

I’m posting this today to get the word out about it – and will try to update it with more photos

A Maker Faire is a place for old and young, professional and hobbyist who are interested in “making” every kind of things. May it be art, technology, interaction, sculptures, robots and much much more.
Exhibitors can show their creativity, demonstrate their products or services and exchange Ideas with like-minded, get in touch with potential customers or even investors.

Vistors can enjoy the program at and around the Maker Faire, participate in workshops and events for young and old, learn soldering, making clay art or even welding. There will be a lot of interesting people to meet, a lot of interesting products and all kind of arts to look, hear and even taste. So just visit us and give yourself the chance to be inspired and astonished by the beauty and power of creativity.

The Maker Faire slogan is: “A seed of wisdom for the future”

Time: Sunday April 8, 2012

Location: f518 design

About the Maker Fair

A Maker Faire is a place for old and young, professional and hobbyist who are interested in “making” every kind of things. May it be art, technology, interaction, sculptures, robots and much much more.
Exhibitors can show their creativity, demonstrate their products or services and exchange Ideas with like-minded, get in touch with potential customers or even investors.

Vistors can enjoy the program at and around the Maker Faire, participate in workshops and events for young and old, learn soldering, making clay art or even welding. There will be a lot of interesting people to meet, a lot of interesting products and all kind of arts to look, hear and even taste. So just visit us and give yourself the chance to be inspired and astonished by the beauty and power of creativity.

Shenzhen Maker Fair Agenda

Time (April 8)

2:00 PM
David Li
The emergence and development of the creator-off space
Shanghai new workshop to create the founder and foreman of the passenger space

2:30 PM
Michael Michelini
The Startup Weekend in Shenzhen “entrepreneurial weekend in Shenzhen”
Michael was the organizer of the Startup Weekend in Shenzhen alone from the United States in 2007 came to Shenzhen in the civilian entrepreneur, has been to explore, share and build a network of foreigners venture in Shenzhen.

3:00 PM
Lyn, Jeffery
Creative: record off characteristics of the design capacity + capacity with Chinese characteristics

Dr. Lyn is a well-known U.S. science and technology culture scholars and strategists, IFTF (Institute for the Future), director of long-term independent, original research on new technologies, cultural change. In living and working in China for 25 years, she had studied the subject of record passenger movements and the fit of the Chinese manufacturing sector.

3:30 PM
Zhi-Qiang Qin
Modern robot technology and application

Zhi-Qiang Qin: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Huazhong University of Science and Technology, joint training, Ph.D., Shanghai Jiaotong University, postdoctoral, science and training director of the Shenzhen Municipal Federation of Robotics, the Shenzhen Municipal Science and Technology Bureau experts

4:00 PM
Ian Lesnet
The forward fast from alpha (How to set the community forces to speed up the design)

The ian Leslet: Hacker, a senior, the former Hackaday editor, Dangerous the Prototype founder, Bus Pirate and other open source hardware inventor

4:30 PM
1 minutes School
1 minutes laboratories Crazy new breed bred laboratory refresh thinking through a series of counter-conventional thinking behavioral experiments inspire young people to take action.
Salon

Includes 4 times:
entrepreneurial weekend, local history and development of Shenzhen, robot salon, history of the geek culture development

Closing Ceremony
4.8
Includes 4 events: entry contest of the primary and secondary school of science and technology of Shenzhen, music performance, fun duel between Chinese and international makers

I’m just excited to see this Shenzhen melting pot of opportunity and entrepreneurs finally take flight!