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Open Source Hardware Event 2026

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Alumni Lounge (Pyle Center)

Alumni Lounge

Pyle Center

Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St #130, Madison, WI 53706, United States
Bethany Philbrick (Open Source Program Office), Kyle Stuart Cranmer (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))
Description
This event will consist of short talks and/or presentations from researchers at UW-Madison about their hardware projects that are openly shared, and keynote speeches.
 

Our list of featured keynote speakers currently includes:

  • Katherine Scott, developer advocate for the Robot Operating System (ROS) and Gazebo projects at Intrinsic and the Vice President of the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA), as a keynote speaker on open source hardware, innovation, and community (with live Q&A).
  • Paul French, leads a research group at Imperial College London based in the Physics department and a satellite laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute, will be joining as a keynote speaker, discussing innovation, building, and the role of open approaches in advancing research and technology (with Q&A).

UW-Madison and Madison community based speakers include:

  • Kevin Eliceiri, Professor of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Center for Quantitative Cell Imaging at UW–Madison
  • Stephanie Whitehorse, Director of Intellectual Property for Physical Sciences at WARF
  • Lennon Rodgers, Director of the Grainger Engineering Design Innovation Lab, College of Engineering
  • Matt Sinclair, Assistant Professor in the Computer Sciences Department
  • Emily Bick, Assistant Professor in the Department of Entomology
  • Michael Botts, Scientist with the Wisconsin Energy Institute
  • Chris Meyer of Sector67, a Madison-based non-profit collaborative makerspace, sharing lessons from supporting community-driven hardware, software, and creative technology projects.
 
Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of how open hardware is being developed on the UW-Madison campus and how openly sharing hardware can help propel academic research.
 

Acknowledgements

This workshop is organized and supported by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Open Source Program Office and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Data Science Institute.

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