Ayah Bdeir

Ayah Bdeir is the founder and CEO of littleBits, an award-winning platform of easy-to-use electronic building blocks that is empowering everyone to create inventions, large and small. Ayah is an engineer, interactive artist and one of the leaders of the open source hardware movement. An alumna of the MIT Media Lab, she co-founded the Open Hardware Summit and was awarded the highly prestigious TED fellowship as one of 25 innovators from around the world. Her TED talk: “Building Blocks that Blink, Beep and Teach” has over 1 million views.