| Wed 15th September | ||
| Time | Session | Speakers |
| 9.00am | Registration | |
| 9.30am | Conference opening Welcome to the University of Sheffield and introduction to some of the themes of the conference. | Pete Mylon, Conference Chair |
| 10.00am | Tales from the UNIMAKER community: stories of starting makerspaces This session will consist of lightning talks followed by small group discussions with staff and students. | Staff and students from Imperial, Newcastle, Exeter and Salford universities |
| 11.00am | Break There will be an opportunity to tour The iForge and The Diamond, and to explore the exhibition space. | |
| 11.30am | Remote Making - 3D printing Stirling engines - Experiences as members of an international Makers community - How European universities have integrated making-based learning into higher education despite the pandemic | Tim Baker, UCL Dan Garner et al., Derby Bonny Brandenburger, Potsdam |
| 12.30pm | Lunch Break There will be an opportunity to make one of UCL's 3D printed Stirling engines! | |
| 2.00pm | KEYNOTE: Working with artisan makers in Zimbabwe and Ecuador | Pam Samasuwo-Nyawiri, Vanhu Vamwe |
| 2.45pm | Building a Community of Makers - Implementing EDI within an Engineering Maker Space - Fostering Culture in a student volunteer-run makerspace | Avalon Cory & Corrina Cory, Exeter Amit Jariwala, Georgia Tech |
| 3.25pm | Highlights from the Project Impactive Accessibility Hackathon | Students from UCL |
| 3.45pm | Tech demos/poster session - MakerPresence - Autonomous Mobile Robot - Coding the Bard - Design for laser cutting - Screenbow | Tim Felbinger, Georgia Tech Ahmed Al Ghadani, NUST (Oman) Polly Lancaster, Lincoln Trotec Laser John Barbrook, Lancaster |
| 5.00pm | Drinks Reception Including a tour of the iTEC student-led activity labs | Stephen Beck, Sheffield |
| Thu 16th September | ||
| 9.00am | Breakfast | |
| 9.15am | Starting and running makerspaces (cont.) This session will consist of lightning talks followed by a panel discussion. | Staff and students from UCL, Warwick, Northumbria, NUST (Oman) and Georgia Tech |
| 10.30am | Break There will be an opportunity to tour The iForge and The Diamond, and to explore the exhibition space. | |
| 11.00am | KEYNOTE: UnternehmerTUM - A visual history of UnternehmerTUM MakerSpace and their journey - Demonstrating commercial value to and collaborating with industry - The role of makerspaces/fablabs in the next wave of innovation – smart cities, sustainability and climate change | Vincent Zenkner, UnternehmerTUM MakerSpace (Technical University of Munich) |
| 12.00pm | Lunch Break There will be an opportunity to try some of the maker activities used in the Maker{Futures} schools outreach | Alison Buxton, Sheffield |
| 1.00pm | Project-based Learning - Industry collaboration at the heart of the Morson Maker Space - Wind tunnel project - The PDE Collection: ‘Retail therapy’ | Maria Stukoff, Salford Paul Watson et al., Newcastle Craig Whittet & Hugh Pizey, Glasgow School of Art |
| 2.00pm | Tech demos/poster session - CAD/CAM workshop and showcase - Planetary Rover Wheels - SunrIde Rocket Development - Using ProjectBoard for Project-based learning | CREATE Education & Ultimaker Sanjay Kumar, Sheffield Team SunrIde, Sheffield Nyssa Rubinsztajn, Engineering.com |
| 3.00pm | KEYNOTE: Which prototyping skills should we be teaching novice designers? As few as possible. | Matthew Wettergreen, Rice University |
| 4.00pm | Conference close Drawing together the various themes emerging from the conference and discussing next steps for the HE makerspace community. | Pete Mylon, Conference Chair |
*This agenda is subject to change depending on Covid restrictions and speaker availability.