3D-Printing, Drones, and Bio Tech - BuzzConf Nights: Melbourne, April 2016

3D-Printing, Drones, and Bio Tech. A Classic emerging technology lineup for the next BuzzConf Nights event!

We thought last month's BuzzConf Night was a great snapshot of the energy and variety of the BuzzConf festival, and we're really excited to be doing it again! If you want a little taste of what BuzzConf is all about, this event is a great place to start, and you can see what happened at the last event on our website (https://buzzconf.io/first-buzzconf-nights-event-success-melbourne/).

Held in The Savoy Tavern in Melbourne, there will be plenty of options to eat and drink late into the night!

We'll be holding similar events all over Australia, so if you're not in Melbourne but would like to be involved in one of the other events just let us know!

This month, Linux Users of Victoria (https://www.meetup.com/Linux-Users-of-Victoria/) will join us in place of their usual meetup. We're very excited to be supported by our local user groups in this way, and look forward to seeing them at this event.

Agenda

6pm - Drinks and socialising
7pm to 8:30pm - Technical presentations and demos
8:30pm until late - Music, drinks, and party

Presentations

The Future of Health & Biotech - Angus Hervey (https://buzzconf.io/speakers/angus-hervey/) and Tane Hunter (https://buzzconf.io/speakers/tane-hunter/)
A transformation of medicine is underway, moving from a science of treating diseases to a science of improving health. We are beginning to gain control over the basic biological processes of life. We can now cut and paste our DNA, we are learning how to slow down the process of aging and developing machine to brain interfacing. Tane and Gus from Future Crunch will dive into the exciting things happening at the frontiers of healthcare and biotechnology.

Gus Hervey and Tane Hunter are founders of @future_crunch, the excellent online publication offering fresh and intelligent perspectives on how humanity is finding new solutions to our biggest challenges. Gus is a science communicator, with a background in environmental economics and international political economy, and Australian manager of Random Hacks of Kindness. Tane is a bio-informatician, working with big data in the biological realm, and specialising in cancer research.

Making sense of molten plastic - Adam Purdie (https://buzzconf.io/speakers/adam-purdie/)

A walk-through of current state of play for home 3d printing and the biggest challenges making and getting your stuff printed, then move onto some interesting non-home 3d printing and where Adam sees it going in the next few years. Adam will talk about the leading and emerging tech in home 3d printing including colour FDM printing, nylon/carbon fibre printing, SLA projector and laser printing and where they may lead.

Adam was trained in business computing and electronics in NZ in the late 90s.
He has been developing software for 17 years and is currently working for Odecee as a build engineer and CI/CD developer. In his spare time he builds robotics platforms, integrated engine management for a motorbikes, website management systems, he is a diver and a painter.

The Hexo+ Story - Etienne Zwiebel (https://buzzconf.io/speakers/etienne-zwiebel/)

How a bunch of geeks knowing nothing about drones went from a dodgy prototype to the sweet final product.

Etienne is an experienced software engineer with over seven years’ experience in the field of embedded real time software and aeronautics. Today he is in Melbourne to develop the Australian branch of Sogilis, helping any company in its quest of success through kicking ass software dev.

“Because being a hit in France was getting boring: now we want to be a hit in Australia!”