DON SIDLOWSKI

Hailed as the "Founder and Father of the Wisconsin Fab Lab Initiative", Don Sidlowski serves the people of Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan as Founder of the Northwoods Broadband & Economic Development Coalition. A super-regional entity originally committed to the transformation of Wisconsin north of Highway 29 into a nationally-recognized high speed internet economic zone, attracting businesses and resident workers from around the country, its mission has evolved to expansion of all economic development and education based on broadband as the underlying and enabling technology. Working in this advocacy capacity as a non-compensated volunteer, he is responsible for helping scores of rural Wisconsin communities to first become broadband sufficient and then leverage the asset for economic development. He is the author of the Fab Lab Match Grant legislation that became law in Wisconsin's 2015-17 biennial budget. Don is past Chairman in the Town of Three Lakes in Oneida County where he..