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join us after 24 hours of building! teams have spent their weekend applying the latest machine learning models to different hardware to solve spatial challenges.

each team will showcase their project as well as pitch to win best build.

teams will be pitching to four judges:

  • ashley is former tech lead at google alphabet's x, the moonshot factory. with a background as a research engineer and pm in robotics, she works across electromechanical systems to solve some of the world's hardest problems.

  • robert is a product lead at waymo, a self-driving company within Alphabet. he's worked in academia, big tech, and startups across sensing, health, semiconductors/photonics, and of course, robotics wearing both technical and product hats. 

  • santhi is founder, angel investor, and venture fellow at designer fund. her previous company moxxly launched a discreet breast pump system and she has a phd in mechanical engineering from stanford.

  • vince is a 7x entrepreneur and silicon valley impact tech investor, inventor of the "seven second startup & scaleup value impact pitch," and serves as a mentor and startup judge at mit, stanford, techstars, alchemist, google, sxsw, and nasa.

agenda

  • 12:00p-12:30p - welcome and walk around showcase

  • 12:30p-1:45p - final pitches

  • 2:00 - winners announced

thank you to our partners for helping make it happen

  • studio45 is a clubhouse and coworking space for professionals building physical products

  • informal is a freelance collective for the best independent professionals in hardware and manufacturing. informal members work with companies at every scale to design, manufacture, and ship physical products.

  • blues wireless makes cloud connectd products actually possible with out of the box connectivity.

  • ​and more here.

community partners

  • massmelt is a diverse set of hardware product development services dedicated to supporting organizations as they build their vision of the future.

  • sf hardware meetup, community of 9,000+ hardware professionals meeting monthly to building meaningful connections

prize sponsors

  • runpod is a gpu cloud platform for training and scaling inference on ai models. cloud credits offerered to top team ($1000 value)

  • studio45 wants to see teams continue to build and is offering a membership package to top winning team ($1200 value)