2015 Open Hardware Summit
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.9939994812012px;">The <a style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: #2361a1;" href="http://openhardwaresummit.org/"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Open Hardware Summit</strong></a> is the annual conference organized by the <a style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: #2361a1;" href="http://oshwa.org/">Open Source Hardware Association</a>and the world’s first comprehensive conference on open hardware: a venue to discuss and draw attention to the rapidly growing Open Source Hardware movement.</p> <p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.9939994812012px;">Speakers include world renowned leaders from industry, academia, and the maker community. Talks cover a wide range of subjects from electronics and mechanics to related fields such as digital fabrication, fashion technology, self-quantification devices, and DIY bio. As a microcosm of the Open Source Hardware community, the Summit provides a friendly forum to be as inclusive as possible. The Open Hardware Summit was founded in 2010 by <a style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: #2361a1;" href="http://twitter.com/#%21/pipix">Alicia Gibb</a> and <a style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: #2361a1;" href="http://twitter.com/#%21/ayahbdeir">Ayah Bdeir</a> with support from Peter Semmelhack and <a style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: #2361a1;" href="http://www.buglabs.net/">Bug Labs</a> in its founding years. Read more <a style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: #2361a1;" href="http://www.oshwa.org/research/brief-history-of-open-source-hardware-organizations-and-definitions/">history</a>.</p>