Innovators Around the Globe Contribute to Coronavirus Intervention

Judy Warner

| 已创建：五月 19, 2020 | 已更新：February 5, 2021

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Watch how the pandemic brings together a group of open-source innovators to fight COVID-19.

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Innovators Around the Globe Contribute to Coronavirus Intervention

Colin Keogh PhD, CEO & Founder at The Rapid Foundation, has been on the front lines of the effort to combat ventilator shortages ever since a Facebook group called Open Source COVID-19 Medical Supplies (OSCMS) first presented the problem.

As cofounder of Open Source Ventilator (OSV) Ireland and a member of its core team, Colin offers his uniquely qualified perspective on open source innovation: its obstacles, its advantages, and its impact on world governments and regulatory bodies both now and in the future.

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Show Highlights:

Racing a pandemic: How Open Source Ventilator (OSV) Ireland turned a single Facebook post into an enterprise-scale organization composed of hundreds of engineers around the world.
Silver linings in the time of COVID-19: evaluating the role of innovators in an epidemic, and how the lines separating government bodies and open source innovators become blurred in times of need.
What young engineers are bringing to the table, and how the contributions of open-source innovators compare to that of Fortune 100 companies of today.
‘Fail fast and break things’ vs. the traditional approach to engineering: reconciling the two faces of modern innovation.
Slack, Zoom, and Altium: the collaborative tools OSV Ireland used to produce solutions quickly while managing its unprecedented explosive growth.
Welcome aboard; solutions are required: How OSV turned the usual medical design process on its head.
‘The provision of information is gonna be very important’: How the pandemic has affected the navigation of medical device regulation from country to country, and what innovators can expect from regulatory bodies in the future.
How new revelations brought about by the pandemic will affect the interaction of medical device developers and regulatory bodies in the future.
Colin’s delivers his unique perspective of the overall impact of COVID-19 on the world, and how engineers will use this experience to continue to overcome the obstacles ahead.

Links and Resources:

Colin Keogh on LinkedIn
Open Source Ventilator Website
OSV on Twitter
OSV on Linkedin
Fundraiser by Dugan Karnazes : Open Source Ventilator
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Judy Warner在电子行业的不同领域有超过25年的经验。她拥有PCB制造、射频和微波PCB以及合同制造的背景，专攻Mil/Aero应用。她还在多家行业出版物撰写文章、博客和日志，例如Microwave Journal、PCB007 Magazine、PCB Design007、PCD&F和IEEE Microwave Magazine，并且是PCEA（印刷电路工程协会）的活跃委员会成员。2017年，Warner加入Altium，担任社区参与总监。除了主持OnTrack Podcast和创建OnTrack Newsletter外，她还推出Altium年度用户研讨会AltiumLive。Warner致力于为全球PCB设计工程师提供资源、支持和建议。

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