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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 LinkedInOpen Source Ventilator WebsiteOSV on TwitterOSV on LinkedinFundraiser by Dugan Karnazes : Open Source VentilatorWatch: Engineering Together to Save Lives

 

 

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