40Fires and Nesta have announced the Open Hardware Conference, which will take place in the Nesta offices in London on the 4th December 2009 between 10am and 8 in the evening:
Collaborative Strategies and Challenges of Making Things the Open Source Way
This is an event to bring key projects, their participants and stakeholders together in the emerging field of Open Hardware development, organized by 40Fires in partnership with Nesta.
The 40Fires Foundation is a forum to develop energy-efficient cars, and other sustainable products, using an open source approach.
The event aims to inform participants about Open Hardware, to be a space to discuss and learn and to explore practical solutions and potential collaborations to help Open Hardware work better, for a better world.
Confirmed speakers include Christian Alhert of Minibar and Open Business fame, Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino of Tinker.it and I‘m going from Face. Patrick Andrews of Riversimple/40 Fires will be talking about The Hyrban, the Open Source car, Adrian Bowyer about the RepRap Project and its Community, Andrew Katz will discuss A framework for open licensing of hardware and I’m going to discuss a hybrid approach (bottom-up and top-down) to open innovation.
Should be a cracking day, join us!
