Susan Long

Innovation Lead
Susan Long
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It's so old I don't remember - I think a friend's brother!

Susan supports people on the ground to produce what they need, when they need it, where they need it. Building on expertise manufacturing in crisis situations, she works to find new partners, and ways, to get digital and appropriate equipment where it’s needed, and connected to global leaders in product design and development, appropriate and digital manufacturing technologies. A passionate believer in changing systems to work better for the people, she’s spent the last decade in international development, in Africa and Asia. Loves making things, running by the sea, dancing to a good beat!

Sessions

From Disaster Response to Readiness: When a crisis hits, can local makers and manufacturing be ready to respond?

Andrew Lamb, Susan Long, vaibhav chhabra, Theresia Njodzeka, Eric Nitschke

Zusammenfassung
COVID demonstrated the enormous potential of localised manufacturing to address supply chain disruptions. But it also highlighted the gaps. As crises become more prevalent, what can be done before they happen, to ensure there is a resilient community of makers, of all generations, ready to respond?
Klimakrise
Gesundheit
Internationales
Teilhabe & Zugang
Loft
Podiumsdiskussion
Englisch
Conference