Asa Calow
Creative technologist and Madlab co-founder
Asa is a freelance creative technologist based in Manchester, UK. With over a decade’s industry experience he has worked on a range of social and commercial projects: from intranet web services for 3i and AstraZeneca through to hardware prototyping and co-design with hard to reach communities in North West England and data-driven textual analysis technology for a Yorkshire based start-up.
He is a founder/director of the Manchester Digital Laboratory AKA MadLab, a community space for science, technology and art in Manchester City Centre. MadLab hosts meetups and workshops on everything from WordPress and Arduino through to DSLR film-making, 3D printing, “girl geeks”, coding for under-18s and more. He is also the organiser of DIYbio Manchester, “an institution for the do-it-yourself biologist”.