“Read the Air”: Introducing the Most-Easy-to-Use Air Quality Monitor Ever Built! The Airnote with Safecast

Speakers

• Shigeru Kobayashi

  Professor, Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences [IAMAS]

  Shigeru Kobayashi explores methods for people with diverse skills, perspectives, and experiences to collaborate on innovation using open source hardware and digital fabrication, and the appropriate rules for dealing with the intellectual property created in the process. He is the author of Prototyping Lab 2nd Edition and Idea Sketching. He is the general director of Ogaki Mini Maker Faire, a biennial maker movement festival held in Ogaki City, Gifu Prefecture, since 2010.

  Shigeru Kobayashi explores methods for people with diverse skills, perspectives, and experiences to collaborate on innovation using open source hardware and digital fabrication, and the appropriate rules for dealing with the intellectual property created in the process. He is the author of Prototyping Lab 2nd Edition and Idea Sketching. He is the general director of Ogaki Mini Maker Faire, a biennial maker movement festival held in Ogaki City, Gifu Prefecture, since 2010.

• Ray Ozzie

  CEO of Blues Wireless

  Ray has long been a pioneer in the areas of communications and social productivity. Through late 2010 he served as chief software architect of Microsoft, the company’s most senior technical leadership role that he assumed following its acquisition of Groove Networks – a company he founded in 1997 to develop software for secure peer-to-peer business team collaboration. Ozzie currently serves as a director of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Safecast, and Balena, and serves as CEO of Blues Wireless. Prior to Groove, in 1984 Ozzie was founder and CEO of Iris Associates, the creator and developer of Lotus Notes that was ultimately acquired by Lotus and IBM. Under his leadership, Lotus Notes grew to be used for e-Mail and low-code collaborative applications by hundreds of millions at most major enterprises worldwide.
  
  Ozzie has been part of the PC industry since its inception, having led development of Symphony at Lotus, and as a developer on the teams developing 1-2-3 at Lotus and VisiCalc at Software Arts. Previously, he served on the National Research Council’s Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, and as a director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).

  Ray has long been a pioneer in the areas of communications and social productivity. Through late 2010 he served as chief software architect of Microsoft, the company’s most senior technical leadership role that he assumed following its acquisition of Groove Networks – a company he founded in 1997 to develop software for secure peer-to-peer business team collaboration. Ozzie currently serves as a director of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Safecast, and Balena, and serves as CEO of Blues Wireless. Prior to Groove, in 1984 Ozzie was founder and CEO of Iris Associates, the creator and developer of Lotus Notes that was ultimately acquired by Lotus and IBM. Under his leadership, Lotus Notes grew to be used for e-Mail and low-code collaborative applications by hundreds of millions at most major enterprises worldwide.
  
  Ozzie has been part of the PC industry since its inception, having led development of Symphony at Lotus, and as a developer on the teams developing 1-2-3 at Lotus and VisiCalc at Software Arts. Previously, he served on the National Research Council’s Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, and as a director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).

• Rob Oudendijk

  Safecast bGeigieZen Lead Researcher

  Goals: Learn to understand life and so: – to contribute to make life for all people better. – not only present but also future generations. – contribute towards resolving conflicts in the world. Experience in chronological order: Learning experience: – Learn from my mother. – learned from nature. – Learned from friends and teachers. –

  Goals: Learn to understand life and so: – to contribute to make life for all people better. – not only present but also future generations. – contribute towards resolving conflicts in the world. Experience in chronological order: Learning experience: – Learn from my mother. – learned from nature. – Learned from friends and teachers. –

• Mat Schaffer

  Observability Engineer at Elastic Cloud

  Mat is an Engineer and Team Lead at Elastic Cloud who loves working with high scale cloud operations and time series data. His career has spanned from enterprises to startups, Java to Ruby and many others. At Safecast, he helps organize the API team, maintains Cloud infrastructure, builds new data exploration features, and keeps our wonderful data open and available for the world to benefit.

  Mat is an Engineer and Team Lead at Elastic Cloud who loves working with high scale cloud operations and time series data. His career has spanned from enterprises to startups, Java to Ruby and many others. At Safecast, he helps organize the API team, maintains Cloud infrastructure, builds new data exploration features, and keeps our wonderful data open and available for the world to benefit.

• Tim Wong

  FabCafe Taipei / Loftwork Taiwan co-founder

  Tim was born in Hong Kong and lived in the US for 17 years. He relocated to Taiwan in 2008, because he believes Taiwan has the good opportunity to create a creative platform that cultivates innovative ideas and projects with creative talents from different background.

  Before co-founding FabCafe Taipei in 2013 and Loftwork Taiwan in 2014, He has been an urban design practitioner for 7 years and worked on urban design projects across the US, Middle East, and various Asian cities. He graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Design with dual Master degrees in Architecture and Urban Design.

  Tim was born in Hong Kong and lived in the US for 17 years. He relocated to Taiwan in 2008, because he believes Taiwan has the good opportunity to create a creative platform that cultivates innovative ideas and projects with creative talents from different background.

  Before co-founding FabCafe Taipei in 2013 and Loftwork Taiwan in 2014, He has been an urban design practitioner for 7 years and worked on urban design projects across the US, Middle East, and various Asian cities. He graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Design with dual Master degrees in Architecture and Urban Design.

• Pieter Franken

  Co-founder of Safecast

  Pieter is co-founder of Safecast. His career in Financial Services spans over 25 years, specializing in O&T, Fintech, innovation and large-scale transformations. He has held C-level and executive positions with industry leaders such as Citigroup, Shinsei Bank, Aplus, Monex Securities and Monex Group. Pieter is Senior Advisor to Monex Group and is Vice-Chair of the Alternate Investments Committee (AIC) of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ). He is a member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) International Technology Advisory Panel (ITAP) and is Board Director at AFIN, a MAS/ABA/IFC co-founded initiative to accelerate Financial Inclusion across Asia and the Middle East. He’s a much looked after advisor and expert speaker on a wide range of topics and is known for providing deep insights pulling from is wide experience in IT, financial services, and innovation management.

  Pieter is co-founder of Safecast. His career in Financial Services spans over 25 years, specializing in O&T, Fintech, innovation and large-scale transformations. He has held C-level and executive positions with industry leaders such as Citigroup, Shinsei Bank, Aplus, Monex Securities and Monex Group. Pieter is Senior Advisor to Monex Group and is Vice-Chair of the Alternate Investments Committee (AIC) of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ). He is a member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) International Technology Advisory Panel (ITAP) and is Board Director at AFIN, a MAS/ABA/IFC co-founded initiative to accelerate Financial Inclusion across Asia and the Middle East. He’s a much looked after advisor and expert speaker on a wide range of topics and is known for providing deep insights pulling from is wide experience in IT, financial services, and innovation management.

• Azby Brown

  Writer, Safecast researcher, leading authority on Japanese architecture, design, and environmentalism

  AZBY BROWN is a native of New Orleans, and has lived in Japan since 1985. He is a leading authority on Japanese architecture, design, and environmentalism, and the author of The Very Small Home (2005), Just Enough: Lessons in living green from traditional Japan (2010), and The Genius of Japanese Carpentry (2014). Since the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant disaster in March 2011, Azby has been lead researcher for Safecast, a highly successful global volunteer-based citizen-science organization devoted to developing new technology platforms for crowdsourced environmental monitoring which promote open-source and open data principles. In his writing and media appearances, Azby offers a credible, critical, and independent voice to counter partisan talking points.

  AZBY BROWN is a native of New Orleans, and has lived in Japan since 1985. He is a leading authority on Japanese architecture, design, and environmentalism, and the author of The Very Small Home (2005), Just Enough: Lessons in living green from traditional Japan (2010), and The Genius of Japanese Carpentry (2014). Since the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant disaster in March 2011, Azby has been lead researcher for Safecast, a highly successful global volunteer-based citizen-science organization devoted to developing new technology platforms for crowdsourced environmental monitoring which promote open-source and open data principles. In his writing and media appearances, Azby offers a credible, critical, and independent voice to counter partisan talking points.