Oakland Fab City 2019 Retrospective
This report has been a long time in the works. We were unable to wrap up our Emerging Manufacturer Study by the end of 2019, and as we entered 2020 and completed that project, we found ourselves in the midst of a global pandemic.
In any case, this document details the plans and achievements of the Oakland Fab City team in 2019 and early 2020. We included some real time updates including the grassroots PPE production effort that sprung up in this area and many others. This effort is exemplary of the value of a robust ecosystem of designers, engineers, educators, employers, and investors. The larger ecosystem that includes all these people is the framework on which we can build rapid response, resiliency, and plant the seeds of long-term innovation and the resulting local economic impact.
The rapidly changing world we inhabit needs this resource. We hope you agree, and will work with us secure investments to ensure that this happens.
The full report is below: