NewCo Boston 2016

Session Title: From Popeye to Pop-up:  
An Exploration of Design with Ship Designers Turned Card Creators

 

Meet the Lovepop co-founders and creative team responsible for the 3D pop-up ships, birthday cakes, and unicorns you just saw on Shark Tank! Witness the design process unfold from idea to sketch to prototype to consumer testing, and get a behind-the-scenes look at our technology during a live demo on in-house laser cutters.  Learn about how we crowdsource ideas to generate the most innovative designs possible, and you'll have the opportunity to suggest our next awesome pop-up design.

Session Title: Mosaics & Robots: Adapting an Ancient Art Form for the 21st Century

 

How do you take an ancient art form, traditionally handmade by master craftsmen, and make it accessible for today's customers?

At Artaic, our goal is to make ordering custom tile as simple as purchasing stock product. We modernize the creation of architecturally compelling mosaics through fast design iterations, free sampling, and American robotic production.

As part of this session we will lead attendees through our entire process - from design to fabrication. Attendees will get an up close look at Tessera, our proprietary design software, and each part of our robotic manufacturing process. At the end, attendees will have a deeper understanding of our process and how we are able to quickly and efficiently produce large-scale mosaics for clients such as MIT, Disney, Legal Seafoods, MGM Resorts International, the Ritz-Carlton, and more.

Session Title: How Can a Small Team on a Shoestring Budget Save a Million Lives?

*Note to attendees: This session is being held in Salem, MA.* 

Get a behind-the-scenes tour of Design that Matters, a Salem nonprofit and an international leader in social impact design. Learn how we design award-winning medical devices that are saving countless newborn lives in the developing world, using human-centered design, rapid prototyping and an open collaboration with hundreds of students and professional volunteers. DtM's CEO Timothy Prestero will lead a discussion on how to apply those same resources and processes to your own product challenges. We will invite you to critique two new products in development, and in exchange we'll bang out a custom t-shirt for you on the spot!

Special Message to Attendees:
We recommend parking in the Museum Place covered garage:
1 New Liberty Street, Salem, MA 01970
Right next to the Peabody Essex Museum. 

Session Title: Using the 'Organs-On-Chips' technology to emulate living human biology

Emulate will demo their "Organs-on-Chips" technology inside their new innovation laboratory at The Innovation & Design Building - showing how they combine micro-engineered environments with human cells, to emulate living human biology. The system offers reserachers and product development teams a new standard for predicting human response in real-time - with greater precision and control than today's cell-culture or animal-based testing methods.

Learn and discuss how Emulate's bold new precision medicine and personal health initiative - named "Patient-on-a-Chip" - is developing unique 'human-chips' personalized with an individual's own living cells - to help transform the way each of us understand our own body, and manage our own health.

Watch a short video from Emulate here. 

Special Message to Attendees:
Emulate's Seaport facility is located at 27 Drydock Avenue(last building). Our building is just a short 5 minute walk from the garage,  and there is a Silver Line stop out front. Upon arrival, please take the elevator from lobby to 5th floor. Workspace entrance is on your left. 

Session Title: How IBM and their partners are driving innovation in Boston, a panel discussion

Join the Boston-based IBM team and some of their local partners in an open panel discussion as they share how IBM is working side by side with startups and developers to drive innovation in the Boston community. The session will provide details on how IBM, a global Fortune 500 Company, brings together local technical resources, innovative technologies, and the many benefits of its Global Entrepreneur Program to help emerging Boston start ups and developers create winning technology products and businesses. Lunch will be provided.

Special Message to Attendees:
This IBM session is being held at CIC Cambridge located at 1 Broadway on the 5th floor in the Havana Room. 

Session Title: Accelerating the Pace of Engineering and Science

With today's powerful computers and advanced computational methods, engineers and scientists are taking on the "Grand Challenges" of our time: Renewable energy. New medicine and healthcare technology. Cleaner air and water. Smart transporation systems. Weather and climate forecasting. Breakthroughs in these areas are accelerating, made possible by engineers and scientists using MATLAB and Simulink - mathematical computing software developed and supported through the collaborative efforts of more than 3500 MathWorks staff worldwide. In this session, attendees will learn about MathWorks, its products, and its people, and how they are helping to accelerate the pace of engineering and science.

Special message to Attendees from MathWorks:
Attendees will be treated to product demonstrations, a brief tour of our facilities, and will learn why MathWorks was recently recognized by Glassdoor as one of the Top 20 "Best Places to Work" in the U.S. Refreshments will be served. Please no vendors, agencies, or service providers.

Session Title: Modernizing the Food System by Harnessing Technology

The agricultural industry is ripe for change, and design and technology has the potential to make a significant positive impact, and create a flexible and more resilient food system. Come visit Freight Farms to learn more about their expanding network of farmers across the world, and tour the company's flagship product, a climate controlled hydroponic farm built inside a 40 foot shipping container.