Madelynn Martiniere

Madelynn Martiniere is an international strategist and facilitator working with innovators, entrepreneurs and executives to build, activate, and scale open innovation ecosystems for a more equitable and sustainable future.

She is currently Managing Partner at Armillaria, a systems design lab working to co-create critical digital infrastructure for a more thriving world.

Over the past decade she has worked with dozens of organizations to bring about ethical models of economic development, community design, and production of technology (hardware and software). She has extensive expertise working across nonprofits, startups, grassroots movements, corporate innovation labs, and government initiatives.

An early leader and advocate for the Maker Movement, she has been director, board member, and advisor to a plethora of global maker programs and organisations, with a particular focus on democratizing the means of education and production in marginalized communities.