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Next Meeting: Mr Romain Kidd, CEO of MyMiniFactory

Sept 18, 2018

Romain Kidd is the founding CEO of MyMiniFactory, the 3D Printable Object-Sharing Platform, a sort of GitHub for 3D object design. He is also CEO of MyMiniFactory's sister company iMakr, which offers 3D printing and scanning solutions for industry and hobbyists.

MyMiniFactory has a staff of 54 and 50,000 free and paid 3D printable objects produced by 10,000 designers. The platform runs competitions in which designers are invited to design products for major companies, such as Ikea and Esso UK. Romain has been CEO since it was founded in 2013. He works part time as an advisor to EC1 Capital Ltd., a leading London-based web and mobile venture investment fund.

Romain has an engineering master's degree from Imperial College, London.

Month	Day of Month	Speaker	Title
February	21st	Dr James Luke	Recent Developments in Artificial Intelligence
March	14th	Mr Simon Wright	Gene Editing and Intellectual Property Law
April	25th	Prof David Howey	Energy storage technologies - batteries and beyond
May	23rd	Dr Mohammed Al-Ubaydli	Patient-Centred Medicine
June	12th	Dr Vinton G Cerf	Google and the Internet
September	18th	Mr Romain Kidd	3D Printing
October	15th	Prof Paul Newman	Mobile Autonomy
October	28th	Dr Gary McLean	Towards a Vaccine for the Common Cold

2019 Programme

Provisional dates for 2019 are as follows:

Month	Day of Month	Speaker	Title
February	12th	Dr David Kingman	Small Modular Fusion.
March	12th	Kelvin Henney: software reliability.
April	2nd
May	7th
June	4th
September	11th
October	1st
November	5th