Public Invention Conference 2021: Work To Be Done

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PubInvCon (Public Invention Conference) 2021 Agenda - Jan. 9th, 20201

The conference will have two phases: the public conference, and the board meeting. The public is invited to both. Special people may be invited.

The Public Conference is conceived of as 3 hours in the morning (10:00 AM CST, 8:00 AM, 11:00 AM EST PST), to 1:00 PM CST, and  the board meeting will be 3 hours in the afternoon with a one hour break (2:00 PM CSTCentral, 3:00 EST).

  1. Introduction - 10:00 CST - 15 minutes - Robert L. Read
    1. Code of Conduct
    2. Review of Agenda
    3. Mission and Values
  2. Review of 2020 projects 10:15 CST  -- (fuller voting wisdom of crowds)
    1. Introduce The Fuller Scale - 10 minutes
    2. COVID-19 Vent List - 
      1. Sonika Goginenii from Fraunhofer 
    3. Vision of Open Source Medical Device Ecosystem - Robert L. Read
    4. Pandemic related
      1. VentMon - Lauria Clarke
      2. SFM3X00 - Lauria Clarke
      3. PIRDS - Robert L. Read
      4. VentDisplay - Geoff Mulligan
      5. VentOS - Ben Coombs
      6. PIOC - Ben Coombs
      7. Patient Inflating Valve - Avinash Baskaran
    5. Non-pandemic
      1. Math Tablet - David Jeshcke
      2. Gluss Controller Video - Robert L. Read
      3. ProtoLicense - Marc Jones
      4. Moonrat - Halimat Farayola
      5. REc - Chris Ferguson
  3. Fun Exercise: - 11:30 CST - Rachel Carp
    1. Evaluating microFullers for our active projects
    2. Evaluating microFullers for selected proposed projects
  4. Status and Relations 12:00 - Robert L. Read
    1. Finances - 5 min.
    2. Conferences - 5 minutes
      1. VentCon1 - Robert L. Read
      2. VentCon QA - Ben Coombs
    3. Rice University Team - 10 minutes
      1. EcoPot Team - Rice Ecopot Team
      2. Portable Incubator Team
  5. Parallel Organizations
    1. Helpful Engineering - 4 min. Ben Treuhaft
    2. OSMS - 4 min. Victoria Jaqua
    3. COSMIC - 4 min. Dr. Philip Edgcumbe and Patrick Wilkie
  6. Academic papers: -- 2 min. Robert L. Read
    1. Published:
      1. ICMME
      2. Anesthesia
      3. ICMA (upcoming, from previous work)
      4. Fraunhofer work
    2. Respiratory Care - Megan Cadena (5 minutes)
    3. VentMon to HardwareX - Lauria Clarke (3 minutes)
  7. Non-academic publication -- Robert L. Read - 1 minute
    1. LibrePlanet COVID-Vent List
    2. Maker Plan C videos
    3. Other media interviews
  • Plans and Vision - 12:30 - 15-minutes
    1. Spin off new non-profit for FDA approved devices
    2. Continue growing invention teams
    3. Better outreach and publication
    4. Continued academic publication
    5. Building an open source ventilation ecosystem
    6. Focus on health and climate change
  • Challenges
    1. Outreach remains a problem -- how do we change the way the world thinks?
  • Award Recipients - 12:45 CST - Robert L. Read
  • Closing call to action - 12:55 CST

Check out Ben Coombs essay on humanitarian inventing!