clapping good morning. Im kate executive director of sf made and i want to welcome all you have you to our Second Annual state of local manufacturing breakfast thank you all for coming today. I think we have a exemplify agenda and the goal is to help all of you to understand the role that plays here in San Francisco and whether youre coming as a Real Estate Developer or as a policymaker a really leverage mates become a powerful aet in San Francisco. Before i turn the speaker over to mayor ed lee i want to start by thanking our sponsors our lead sponsor it pg e and our supporting sponsors are effort city. We have a list of tremendous supports across the room ill briefly read off all of you. The American Industrial center that has the highest number of manufacturers on the city were thrived to have them. Bold build patch stuffy and basis are first branch bank the Family Foundation good and strong maureen successors e. R. Associates and anyways adams and pacific Waterfront Partners and ur
Only figured out what the computer was for. The digital revolution. The maker revolution is really a combination of the two, digital meet industrial. It is the digitization of the Manufacturing Technology but not just introducing Digital Technology into factories because we had that decades, since the 1970s. What it is is personal computers to democratization, the introduction of digital manufacturing tools to anybody and everybody. That is when we see the web innovation mall, when we see the creativity, the energy of everybody start to come to bear on the Biggest Industries in the world. This is the Maker Movement. There are many definitions of the Maker Movement. I think the credit for the term goes to Dale Dougherty who works for oreilly of Oreilly Publishing company. Around 20052016 recognized there was something going on, he saw web generation starting to use their hands more and Work Together in communities and share ideas a little more. Digital tools he created a magazine for th
North does not understand the military . So the budget hearings required us of course, we dont talk about all of the sudans but i like teaching the course. The idea to give a government check there is extra responsibilities. And also one more project, a book giveaway . One time oneshot that we have a load of fox we collected a bunch of books have never been paid per truckload to go to a landfill. So lets do another and another. We just passed five 5 6 billionth book. Looked at the football field. Side to side with and that is about to tractor to there and it is a library and a box. Then we send items so some of the review books we dead and we believe we have the largest volunteer base contribution in the world that we can ship in expensive way. We have 4,048 contained but other organizations start at 16,000 because they use individuals. We bring them in and sort them out. And but to other countries . We have done 40 countries. Most african but you pakistan, tajikistan and south america
And i think we could have given them some insight and some suggestions to make it better if they had done that. Secondly, i think that the fact that we dropped 2,700 pages on the congress and said were going to vote on this in three days, you know, its just not the right way to process statute, particularly as complicated as those 2,700 pages are. We will go down in legislative history, probably not for good, was Speaker Pelosi saying we have to pass this bill to find out whats in it. Thats just not good process. And it has spawned hundreds of thousands of pages of regulation, which is still being sought to find out, what does this really mean and how is it going to be applied to the states. And we have a boon dog will of a problem that is going to be a challenge for us. At the end of the day for us in utah and other states that are struggling, how has our approach to Health Care Reform and operate in an a. C. A. World, how do we fit in with the law of the land . Our exchange, we have