1st Sydney Hardware Meetup @ espresso Displays
The Global Hardware Meetup community is excited to announce our very first meetup in Australia, in Sydney!
Join us at espresso Display's HQ to showcase, witness and chat all things consumer hardware, robotics, deep tech, and startups. Everyone is welcome.
🤖 If you have your own hardware to demo, bring it!
You'll have 2 mins during the Community Open Mic to demo a prototype or talk about what you are working on. We're looking for prototypes, finished products, and part samples from the hardware on your desks.
In the Audience 👀
Charlie Brown, Technology Editor at Channel Nine's Today Show
Amar Kashyap, Investment Manager at XT Ventures
Steven Fenech, Editor at Tech Guide
We have a great group of guest speakers
Part 1: The Founder Journey
Paul Skevington is the Co-Founder and CTO at Minimis Technologies, a startup building standalone AR fitness tracking sunglasses and minimalist phone user interfaces. Paul is a passionate hardware innovator with 27+ years experience in pushing physical boundaries from heart pumps to medical robotics, and now AR.
Annabel Hay is the Founder and CEO of CLUTCH Glue, a patented clothes adhesive that offers a strong, sweat-resistant, water-soluble bond that works on all materials. Launching in December 2022, CLUTCH went viral, reaching over 200 million views on social media and selling over 150,000 units in its first two years. Valued at $10M+ and appearing on Shark Tank, CLUTCH is now available in over 20,000 stores worldwide.
Scott McKeon is the Co-Founder and Head of Growth at espresso Displays, an award-winning consumer electronics company known for their range of ultra-thin portable monitors. Launched in 2019 via Kickstarter, they now are online and in retail stores around the world.
Part 2: The Engineer, Incubator & Investor Journey
Rose Naji is a Vacuum & Fueling Engineer at Atomcraft, developing the world's first nuclear fusion device built and operated by university students. Rose has also worked on the R&D of engines for satellites.
Leah Lucas is the Program Manager at CSIRO's Lindfield Collaboration Hub, supporting deep tech hardware startups commercialise their research. She is a passionate advocate for hardware startups and spent 3 years in the San Francisco Bay Area working at Circuit Launch: a co-working space and fab lab supporting robotics and electronic hardware startups scale their businesses.
Abhishek Maran is an investor at Rampersand VC, a seed-focused fund established in 2013. Rampersand has invested in 30+ seed-stage companies including GoTerra and Quantum Brilliance. Before working at Rampersand, Abhi was an investor at an early-stage VC fund and a Product and Operations associate at a pre-seed fintech marketplace. In his spare time, he writes a regular blog called Superfluid.
Drinks and nibbles included
Courtesy of hardwaremeetup.com, which started in SF, NYC, and Boston and now runs across 30+ cities with 30,000+ members around the world, bringing together hardware professionals to network and learn from each other. Prior sponsors include: Y Combinator, Kickstarter, SOLIDWORKS, Lumafield, Particle, Misty West, and more.
A special thanks to former Australian Olympian Tyler Martin, Co-Founder of Yes You Can Drinks for donating their award winning non-alcoholic cocktails to the event!
Agenda
6:00 - 6:20pm: Refreshments, mix, mingle
6:20 - 6:30pm: Welcome & intro
6:30 - 7:15pm: The Founder Journey
7:15 - 7:45pm: Open mic
7:45 - 8:30pm: The Engineer, Incubator & Investor Journey
8:30 - 9:00pm: Mix, mingle, and wrap up the night
Thank you to our venue host!
espresso Displays is an Award-Winning Touchscreen Monitor that turns your laptop or phone into a portable workspace.
Thank you to our community partners!
informal is a freelance collective for the best independent professionals in hardware and manufacturing. Whether a client is looking for a single contractor, a full time employee, or an entire team of professionals for product development or go-to-market, informal has the right collection of people for the job. https://www.informal.cc/contact/
If you want to help support the next meetup, please reach out to michael@hardwaremeetup.com for sponsorship inquiries. See you soon!