Oct 19 2011
Designing Life in Biohackerspaces – Derek Jacoby
With just one month left until TEDx Victoria, we’re getting pretty excited. And why not? The panel of speakers keeps getting bigger and better and everyone’s telling us how much they’re looking forward to the event.
Today, we’re thrilled to announce our newest speaker, Derek Jacoby. Derek is the founder of makerspace, Victoria’s first hackerspace. Hackerspaces are community-operated physical places, where people can meet and work on their projects. This November 19, he is going to speak about hackerspaces for biology. Is that intriguing or what?
We hope you will join us on November 19 to hear more from Derek.
Derek Jacoby
Designing Life in Biohackerspaces
Derek Jacoby is a PhD student at the University of Victoria. After a decade at Microsoft Research working on speech recognition he returned to school to merge his interests in biology and computing. In 2009, he founded a team at UVic to compete in IGem, an MIT-sponsored synthetic biology competition. In 2010, he founded makerspace.ca, Victoria’s first hackerspace which now offers members and the public cheap access to personal manufacturing tools – a 3D printer, a laser cutter, woodworking tools, and a metalshop. After two summers in Silicon Valley as a student and then instructor at Singularity University at NASA Ames, and an instructor at Biocurious.org, Derek is ready to bring tomorrow’s technologies home to Victoria.
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[...] am pretty excited for Derek Jacoby’s talk titled A hackerspace for biology. He sounds like a pretty interesting guy, and like myself has a strong interest in both computer [...]