TechShop Los Angeles Town Hall: Tech & Innovation in LA Twitter Recap

Earlier this week, TechShop CEO Mark Hatch  returned to Maker City LA at The REEF to lead a discussion about the state of LA's tech and innovation landscape with special guests Ava Bromberg (The REEF SVP),  Michelle Garakian (Office of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti) and Brent Bushnell (CEO of Two Bit Circus). Local tech innovators, maker community members, entrepreneurs and potential investors came out to join the conversation and to support TechShop's efforts to open a 9th outpost  at The REEF, in downtown LA.

Check out these choice tweets from the event:

What is @techshop? A place for community to partake in the #makermovement -@MarkHatch pic.twitter.com/z0J6VObgYN

— Consensus Inc. (@ConsensusLive) May 22, 2014

We can inspire a whole generation to think about what's possible: to do, make, create @techshop town hall #bringtechshoptola

— Maker City LA (@MakerCityLA) May 22, 2014

Michelle Garakian of @LAMayorsOffice starts tonight's tech panel by sharing the Mayor's vision of tech as the bridge for the middle class

— Consensus Inc. (@ConsensusLive) May 22, 2014

Er, are you team #SiliconBeach or Team #techLA? Competition much? Between Manufacturing/Contemporary Art/Digital Media LA is a star!

— Consensus Inc. (@ConsensusLive) May 22, 2014

We have heritage industries that are phasing out in LA, our innovation capital funders need to step up & invest in LA.

— Consensus Inc. (@ConsensusLive) May 22, 2014

Yay new acronyms! Remember STEM? How about STEAM? Science Tech Engineering ARTS and Mathematics.

— Consensus Inc. (@ConsensusLive) May 22, 2014

FACT: LA graduates more engineers than anywhere in the country. Let's give them a reason to stay here. #techLA #makercityla

— Consensus Inc. (@ConsensusLive) May 22, 2014

How do we spark cross-pollination in LA? Events, physical rallying points, these things are critical...

— Maker City LA (@MakerCityLA) May 22, 2014

.@techshop coming to @MakerCityLA will be such a game changer! Imagine making space , machinery and tools accessible to the people

— Consensus Inc. (@ConsensusLive) May 22, 2014

That's a wrap! Thx to @MakerCityLA & @techshop for bringing this discussion together. Here's to keeping the convo going to spur more action!

— Consensus Inc. (@ConsensusLive) May 22, 2014

In March, TechShop announced plans to open in downtown Los Angeles at The REEF. For more information on investing and/or joining the campaign to bring TechShop to Los Angeles, go tohttp://invest.techshop.ws/los-angeles.

 Big thanks to new Maker City LA community member Consensus Inc. for live tweeting this event!

COSTUME CAFE HEARTS MAKER CITY LA

LA-based costume designer and host of the darling Costume Cafe Podcast, Colleen Monroe recently interviewed our very own Ava Bromberg about the vision behind The REEF, Maker City LA, and The Atelier - our one-of-a kind creative work-space for fashion/costume/accessory designers and textile artists!  It should be noted that this interview took place in the podcast studio, conveniently located  in our very own Media Lab! Listen to the full interview here or check out the highlights below:

Who:

Ava Bromberg

Career:

Urban Planner and Visionary who creates creative spaces for designers and makers to collaborate and learn from one another to forge new breakthroughs in design

Recent Project:

The Reef: A Creative Habitat, Los Angeles, California

Podcast Quote:

"Costume and Fashion Designers have really been isolated in their own silo, and I think ideally, they should be in a community with other creators, as well as, learning other skills that help them as 21st century creatives."

- Ava Bromberg