Former strategy consultant by day and social entrepreneur by night, Anneke Jong is the Director of Digital Media at Bre.ad and a student at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Former strategy consultant by day and social entrepreneur by night, Anneke Jong is the Director of Digital Media at Bre.ad, a student at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a contributing writer to The Daily Muse.
The job of kicking off this year's South By Southwest Interactive conference fell firmly in the hands of none other than MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis -- and really a show like this couldn't ask for a better, more enthusiastic evangelist for emerging technologies.
Earlier this week I had a chance to sit down with the Mayor and employers like BRE Properties, Starbucks, and Jawbone who understand that summer jobs offer young people a chance they desperately need, while at the same time helping businesses develop a stronger pipeline to the local workforce.
Bre Pettis showed us the Square Helper, a credit card iPad accessory that one 3D printer owner is selling -- an example of the "desktop industrial revolution, " the MakerBot CEO loves to talk about.
The city weathered a reputational hit more than a decade ago after the implosion of Bre-X Minerals Ltd.
What about the Bre-X scandal of 1997--when promises of a mountain of gold in Borneo turned out to be a few ore samples salted with gold dust?
The extruder is designed specifically for use with MakerBot PLA, a new plastic material based on corn, that Bre Pettis claims wont expand when exposed to the heat -- which means it wont contract when it cools, leading to smoother printed objects and less cracking.
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Graham and Bre Carrington-Sykes say they can now look forward to developing a 'glamping' site in the grounds of their hotel at Llandyrnog.
Continuing a shift in focus from apps to hardware, Makerbot CEO Bre Pettis spoke about the 3D printing renaissance, in which all manufacturing needs, even prosthetic limbs, can be created through this new technology.
We've also got interviews galore -- we'll be talking with Sony CEO Kaz Hirai, SMS Audio CEO (and rapper, we're told) 50 Cent, rally car driver Ken Block, Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington, Stern Pinball CEO Gary Stern, MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis and CEA president Gary Shapiro among many, many others (including a very special appearance from Gallagher -- this is Vegas, after all).
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