Don't miss Wikimedia, OLPC, Leap Motion, Voltaic and more at Expand NY!
We're getting more and more impatient waiting for Expand New York with every subsequent speaker announcement -- and we've got five more names to lay on you right now. This November, we'll be joined by Wikimedia's director of mobile, Tomasz Finc, Leap Motion's director of developer relations, Avinash Dabir, The One Laptop Per Child Association's chairman and CEO, Rodrigo Arboleda, founder / CEO of Voltaic Systems Shayne McQuade and Michael Carroll, a professor of law at American University Washington College of Law and founding member of Creative Commons.
And, of course, we've already announced a number of folks who will be joining us on November 9th and 10th, including LeVar Burton, Reggie Watts, Ben Heck, Peter Molyneux, Ben Huh and speakers from companies like Google, Sony, Pebble, Adafruit and The Electronic Frontier Foundation -- and we've still got more to come. Check out the full list below.
Rodrigo Arboleda, Chairman and CEO, One Laptop per Child Association
Ayah Bdeir, Founder, CEO, Little Bits
Jeff Branson, Educational Outreach Coordinator, Sparkfun
LeVar Burton, Actor, Director, Educator, co-founder of RRKidz
Michael Carroll, Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law
Avinash Dabir, Director, Developer Relations, Leap Motion
Jill Fehrenbacher, Editor-in-Chief, Inhabitat
Tomasz Finc, Director of Mobile, Wikimedia
Mark Fraunfelder, Founder, Boing Boing, Editor-in-Chief, Make Magazine
Beth Ferguson, Founder, Sol Design Lab
David Gerrold, Science Fiction Author
Ben Heck, Master Modder on The Ben Heck Show
Ben Huh, CEO, Cheezburger
Joichi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab
Timothy Jordan, Senior Developer Advocate, Google Glass
Oskar Kalmaru, Co-founder, Memoto
Chris Lewicki, President and Chief Engineer, Planetary Resources, Inc.
Mike Masnick, Founder and CEO, Techdirt
Eric Migicovsky, CEO, Pebble
Peter Molyneux, 22Cans
Phil Molyneux, COO / President, Sony Electronics
Annalee Newitz, editor-in-chief, io9
Julie Samuels, Staff Attorney, The Electronic Frontier Foundation
Becky Stern, Director of Wearable Electronics, Adafruit Industries
Sonny Vu, CEO and Founder, Misfit Wearables
Reggie Watts, Musician, Comedian, Comedy Bang Bang
Pat Yongpradit, Director of Education, Code.org
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