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Revision as of 04:54, 19 September 2018

FAQ

Next Meeting: Mr Romain Kidd, CEO of MyMiniFactory

Sept 18, 2018

Romain Kidd is the founding CEO of MyMiniFactory, the 3D Printable Object-Sharing Platform, a sort of GitHub for 3D object design. He is also CEO of MyMiniFactory's sister company iMakr, which offers 3D printing and scanning solutions for industry and hobbyists.

MyMiniFactory has a staff of 54 and 50,000 free and paid 3D printable objects produced by 10,000 designers. The platform runs competitions in which designers are invited to design products for major companies, such as Ikea and Esso UK. Romain has been CEO since it was founded in 2013. He works part time as an advisor to EC1 Capital Ltd., a leading London-based web and mobile venture investment fund.

Romain has an engineering master's degree from Imperial College, London.

Month Day of Month Speaker Title
February 21st Dr James Luke Recent Developments in Artificial Intelligence
March 14th Mr Simon Wright Gene Editing and Intellectual Property Law
April 25th Prof David Howey Energy storage technologies - batteries and beyond
May 23rd Dr Mohammed Al-Ubaydli Patient-Centred Medicine
June 12th Dr Vinton G Cerf Google and the Internet
September 18th Mr Romain Kidd 3D Printing
October 15th Prof Paul Newman Mobile Autonomy
October 28th Dr Gary McLean Towards a Vaccine for the Common Cold

2019 Programme

Provisional dates for 2019 are as follows:

Month Day of Month Speaker Title
February 12th Dr David Kingman Small Modular Fusion.
March 12th Kelvin Henney: software reliability.
April 2nd
May 7th
June 4th
September 11th
October 1st
November 5th