SF Blue Tech
may happy hour
OCEAN BIOMIMICRY
may 14
5:30pm – 8:00pm
south beach yacht club
$15 / $20 after 8
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When plastic was invented, it solved real problems. Today, our oceans and ecosystems pay the price of that innovation.
Man continues to design things where nature must adapt. What if we flipped the switch?
Biomimicry is the practice of studying nature’s best ideas—models, systems and processes—and imitating them to solve human challenges sustainably.
Nature is looked upon as a mentor that has spent 3.8 billion years developing solutions that are efficient, regenerative and sustainable. The practice of biomimicry is in use within naval design, architecture, engineering, product design and materials science.
south beach yacht club
899 2nd street, san francisco
located aside SF Giants stadium
agenda
5:30pm: networking, dinner and drinks
6:30pm: welcome
6:45pm: presentations
7:30pm: Q&A
return to networking
register
step 1: register and pay
optional
step 2: order Build-it-Yourself Potato, Salad, Chips, Dessert meal
thank you to meeting host venue
South Beach Yacht Club
installation of panels along SF city front
** We regret this event is not a reciprocal yacht club free event for members of other clubs.
PRESENTERS
Mariana Ortiz
Research and Development
stealth mode robotics start up
Mariana believes that brilliance without ecological intention is how we will end up with yet another “plastic” invention.
She tasks every engineer and founder formulating today’s companies and ideas to consider the question: “Does it work?” She urges all to then consider: “Does it belong?”
A mechanical engineer passionate about cleantech and nature-inspired innovation, Mariana is currently working in robotics R&D and studying as a Biomimicry Practitioner. There, she bridges engineering, biology and design to create sustainable solutions.
Her capstone project, a fog-harvesting system inspired by desert beetles, exemplifies her approach: learning from nature’s billions of years of evolutionary progress.
second presenter
ECOncrete, used to create
portions of the SF Living Seawall
A tile deployed at the seawall adjacent to the San Francisco Marina Small Craft Harbor. This type of tile was part of a separate preliminary experiment, before the official Living Seawall Pilot Project began. Photo: Corryn Knapp/SERC
ECOncrete technology is used in marine construction projects from ports to urban waterfronts, and from coastal protection to offshore assets. The proprietary additive is incorporated into third-party designs, from blocks and seawalls to standard units such as Tetrapods, in order to meet project-specific requirements that and deliver longterm ecological uplift in marine construction developments.
ECOncrete is being used in living shorelines, coastal revetment strengthening, subsea infrastructure and protection systems and more.