YouFab 2016 Kick Off Party

The YouFab Global Creative Awards are our global awards celebrating digital fabrication. 

Fab Meetup Vol. 5 will be happening a special way—as the YouFab 2016 Kick Off Party!The event will take place in two parts. The first part will be the introduction of YouFab Global Creative Awards by Co founder of FabCafe Bangkok Kalaya Kovidvisith. Working with the theme of technology and creativity, she will share her experience in MIT Media lab’s Affective Computing group and how the future will change with digital fabrication and how it’s been changing its boundary. Entry to this month’s special-edition Fab Meetup is free of charge.The second part features Prima Chakrabandhu Na Ayudhya from iced and Bit Studio. They’ll be giving presentations on their projects in the usual Fab Meetups style. 

We welcome everyone to take part, whether you are considering sending in an entry to YouFab or not! 

[About the event]
Date：10 September 18:30-21:00　
Entrance Fee：Free

[Program]
1. YouFab 2016 Kickoff
Mariko Suzuki and Kalaya Kovidvisith
2. FAB Speakers
icedea, Bit Studio and DriveBot
3. Bits Band Competition Awards ceremony
4. Networking time

[Who is it for?]
If you want to do networking with Makers.
Are you an artist who incorporates/is thinking of incorporating digital fabrication into your works?
Are you interested in applying for YouFab Global Creative Awards 2016?

[About Fab Meetup] 
Fab Meet up is an event to share ideas and experience over a relaxing drink with the diverse crowd at FabCafe. At each event, 5 or 6 creators will make a short presentation related to the topic, “make” or “fab”. Everyone is welcome to join in the events!  

[FAB SPEAKERS]
Prima Chakrabandhu Na Ayudhya

A world renowned ice-cream designer and founder of iceDEA 
http://www.icedea.com/

Kiattiyot Panichprecha
Founder of a design technologist collective, Bit studio
With passions in technology and art, Kiattiyot “Boon” Panichprecha worked as Technical Director in VFX industry for Method Studio in Los Angeles and Framestore CFC in London. He got his Master of Computer Science from University of Southern California and Bachelor of Engineering from Chulalongkorn University. He founded Bit Studio in 2012.
http://www.thebitstudio.com/

Atthaphong Beam Limsupanark
Co-founder Drivebot
Learn more about the story behind fitbit for car.
http://www.drivebot.io/

[Moderator]
Kalaya Kovidvisith
FabCafe Bangkok co-founder 
Gear Walker
Maker Evangelist

[Gallery]