Global Community Bio Summit

HELLO AGAIN!

The Community Biotechnology Initiative at the MIT Media Lab organized the fourth annual Global Community Bio Summit October 9-11.

Although we weren’t able to meet in person this year, our goal remained to host a space for the global community of DIY biologists / community biologists / biohackers / biomakers and members of independent and community laboratories to convene, plan, build fellowship, and continue the evolution of our movement.

Take a look at the 2020 Virtual Conference site to see how, despite this challenging time for our global community, we worked together to make a virtual Summit just as amazing as the in-person events we have organized in previous years.

Now more than ever, we are devoted to the mission of building a movement that emphasizes collaboration across geographic, cultural, ethnic, gender, and creative backgrounds with the goal of accepting everyone interested in joining.

Thank you for joining us!

Pictured below: Our Bio Summit 2019 Family

Bio Summit 4.0 Participants

This year’s Bio Summit maybe have been virtual, but the program was as epic as ever.

Click through the images below to learn more about what happened at GCBS 4.0!

 statement of shared purpose (3.0)

This Statement of Shared Purpose (v3.0) was co-created together with the 350+ participants of Bio Summit 2.0 in 2018. Gratitude to Abel Cano and Marshall Ganz for working with us to develop the experiential process that yielded this statement, and also to Melissa Teng and Gianni Giacomelli for the thoughtful discussion and help. It is an important draft to help our global family communicate and make explicit the implicit, and articulate what brings us all together. Deep appreciation and gratitude to all who contributed to the statement and the process!