FAB26 Boston

FAB26 is the 22nd edition of the annual Fab Lab Conference & Symposium — six days that bring the international Fab Lab community back to its birthplace in Boston and Cambridge, across the MIT campus and Fab Hub Kendall.

As Network Lead at the Fab City Foundation, I'm hosting the ceremony where new cities publicly pledge to join the Fab City global initiative — a commitment to produce more of what they consume locally by 2054. It's a milestone moment for each incoming city and for the network as a whole.

Workshop — Fab City Collective

A hands-on World Café showcasing inspiring Fab City projects from across the global network. Through four themed stations — Circular Materials, Youth & Education, Local Production & Inclusion, and Sensing & Observation — participants engage directly with our Collective members, explore replicable community initiatives, and take part in practical activities. The session is designed to foster peer learning, encourage collaboration, and ensure every participant leaves with an actionable idea and new connections within the Fab City community.

Workshop — Fabricating the Future

From Fab Labs to territorial orchestration. A fab lab faces inward: it teaches the tools, runs open innovation, makes things behind its own four walls. A hub faces outward — it becomes the active node of its territory: it senses the ground, gets the right people to decide, makes the response, then feeds what it learns back to the network. This hour is about making that turn, and you'll do the work in the room.

A hub orchestrates the territory on a commons your community owns rather than rents. It senses the ground with residents, not from a dashboard. Bring one space you can act on, and leave with the smallest fundable step that turns it toward being your city's R&D infrastructure.

Find me here