From harsh childhood to top American tech entrepreneur—Ping Fu at 2013 ALA Annual Conference
NEWS For Immediate Release May 6, 2013
Contact: Mary Mackay
CHICAGO - Attendees will get inspired by Auditorium Speaker Ping Fu’s journey from her childhood during China’s Cultural Revolution to becoming a top American innovator and tech entrepreneur who founded Geomagic, a 3D digital reality solution company. Ping Fu appears at 2013 ALA Annual Conference from noon - 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 29.
This program will resonate as more than an incredible personal story for attendees considering or implementing maker programs in their library. “I was a maker all along,” she said in an interview with MAKE Magazine. She says that making and craftsmanship are highly revered in China, and working in Mao’s factories led to her interest in connecting software to the physical world, that in turn became her vision for Geomagic and 3D technology.
Ping Fu’s story of personal and business resilience is told in her memoir Bend, Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds (Portfolio/Penguin). The book relates how she was separated during China’s Cultural Revolution from her parents at age 8, endured hunger and humiliation, was forced to work in factories rather than get a school education and ultimately exiled at 25 when she came to the U.S. She quickly made a new life for herself as an entrepreneur, worked at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and ATT Bell Labs and is a member of President Obama’s National Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship and a board member of Long Now Foundation. Her appearance is sponsored by Portfolio/Penguin.
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