Leading up to announcing our preliminary lineup on May 1st, we'll be announcing 2-3 talks each day.

Starting off we're very proud to announce that Rob Flickenger will be talking about how he built a Five Fists of Science inspired Lightning Gun and his adventures with making use of many of the Hackerspaces in Seattle in his talk It takes a village to make a lightning gun.

Also, we'd like to feature Beth Kolko who will be discussing how her lab is discovering new ways of saving lives around the world with inexpensive and practical hacker-style solutions in her talk Shift Labs: Changing the World one Hack at a Time.