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Ayah Bdeir is a Lebanese-Canadian engineer, entrepreneur, and artist. She is the founder and CEO of littleBits, an open source library of electronic modules that snap together with magnets to create inventions. She is also the founder of the Open Hardware Summit, a yearly event that brings together the open source hardware community.
Bdeir was born in 1982 in Montreal, Canada. She received her Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the American University of Beirut in 2004. She then went on to receive her Master of Science in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab in 2007.
Bdeir is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award, the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award, and the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneer Award. She has been featured in Forbes, Wired, and Fast Company, and has been named one of the Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company.
Bdeir is married and has two children. She currently resides in New York City.
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In 2018, she and her work with littleBits were included in Inc.'s Top 5 Women to Watch in Robotics list.
littleBits joined the 2016 Disney Accelerator program. It has also partnered with Pearson, one of the leading curriculum companies in the world to co-create curriculum to support their Science and Engineering program.
In 2014, Bdeir and her work with littleBits were included in the 35 Under 35 Coolest Entrepreneurs list by Inc.
Bdeir was named to Popular Mechanics' 25 Makers Who Are Reinventing the American Dream in 2014 and has spoken at TED, SXSW, Solid, and CreativeMornings about the Maker Movement, the importance of democratizing technology, and the Internet of Things.
As a fellow at Creative Commons, she led the public competition for the Open Hardware logo—now adopted on millions of circuit boards around the world. Bdeir has published academic papers and coined the term "Electronics As Material," which is the idea of "thinking of electronics as material that can be combined with other traditional ones."
In 2012, Bdeir received the TED Fellowship and gave a talk at the TED conference in Long Beach called "Building Blocks That Blink, Beep and Teach."
In September 2011, Bdeir started littleBits Electronics, a startup with the goal to "put the power of electronics in the hands of everyone, and to break down complex technologies so that anyone can build, prototype, and invent." The company is based in New York with funding from such investors as True Ventures, Foundry Group, and Two Sigma.
Bdeir is a proponent of the Open Hardware Movement, an initiative aimed at ensuring that technological knowledge is accessible to everyone, and co-founded the Open Hardware Summit, an annual conference organized by the Open Source Hardware Association. In 2010, Bdeir was awarded a fellowship with Creative Commons for her work in defining Open Hardware and for co-chairing the Open Hardware Summits of 2010 and 2011.
Bdeir earned a Masters of Science degree from the MIT Media Lab and undergraduate degrees in Computer Engineering and Sociology from the American University of Beirut. In 2008, she was awarded a fellowship at Eyebeam in New York City She has taught graduate classes at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) and Parsons The New School for Design. In 2010, Bdeir served as a design mentor on the reality TV show, Stars of Science.
Ayah Bdeir (Arabic: آية بدير ; born 1982 in Montreal, Quebec) is an entrepreneur, inventor, and interactive artist. She is the founder and CEO of littleBits.
