Bio

Clare co-founded Code Club in 2012 to inspire the next generation to learn to solve problems and create inventions with code.. Since its foundation over 13,000 Code Clubs have been created, reaching over 150,000 children around the world each year. In 2016 she led Code Club in a merger with Raspberry Pi Foundation where she led Community and Marketing until 2018. Previously Clare was a UX designer and art director in the mobile, tech and advertising sectors.

Clare has been nominated as one of the most influential women in UK tech by Computer Weekly for three years in a row and was awarded an MBE for services in technology education in the Queen’s 2015 New Year’s Honours List.

Talk Beschreibung

Clare will talk about how she started to turn a simple idea into a worldwide movement with just a laptop, an internet connection and help from some good friends. She’ll talk about the creative, lean prototyping methods she used to test her ideas and how Code Club passes on this approach to inspire the next generation of problem solvers, inventors and world changers.

She’ll describe the challenges she encountered on the way and how you can learn from her mistakes and then take your chance to change the world.

Dieser Talk wird auf englisch gehalten.

Bio

Dr.-Ing. Burkhard Maaß is Co-Founder and CEO/CTO of Ingpuls, the only German producer of shape memory alloys. He lectures shape memory technology at the Ruhr University, where he studied mechanical engineering, got his PhD in Materials Science and also, where he used to play as a kid. He’s been living in Bochum for most of his life – returning even after living in sunny Spain and tropical Venezuela.

Talk Beschreibung

Founding a startup sounds easy: buy a macbook, register a domain, code a homepage and app, start selling. That’s basically it. But founding a startup to set up an industrial scale production facility takes a lot more effort before you can get started. At the same time it is something that fits in the Ruhrgebiet better than anywhere else. Processes like casting and forging have been common in the Ruhrgebiet since the rise of steel production. They do not sound as if they belong in a digital world. And yet, we use them to produce cutting edge technology today. Our Shape Memory alloys are Smart Materials that are unique in the world, and they are a bridge in multiple ways. They connect the digital and the analogue world and are used in modern products, which become smarter and more adaptive each year. Smart materials are a key technology for that development. They also connect the past with the future. The days of the heavy industry may be over, but the identity of the Ruhrpott has been defined by its industrial past, and it might very well be the basis on which its future will be forged. Literally, not as a figure of speech.

Dieser Talk wird auf englisch gehalten.