101st NY Hardware Meetup // Software for Hardware
The Hardware Meetup community is excited to announce the 101st New York Hardware Meetup at Viam.
Hardware Meetups happen across 30+ cities around the world, bringing together hardware professionals to network and learn from each other.
SPEAKERS
Michael Lee is a senior software engineer at Viam, with experience from MongoDB and Amazon. He actively mentors high school robotics programs. Ask him about his 20% projects in the Viam office.
Bradley Rothenberg is the CEO at nTop, a design software for high-performance engineering. nTop revolutionizes how engineers design for additive manufacturing, solving problems that were once impossible to overcome
Jimmy Pan is the Head of User Experience at Naya, bringing the currently fragmented and frustrating physical product design journey into one integrated platform, from idea to product. With over 100+ integrations from miro to g-suite, collaboration across any file type from 3D models to shop drawings, and proprietary AI features that help generate insights and automate work, Naya enables teams to 10x their outcomes – speed, cost, and customer love. Naya is loved by product teams at Google, Adidas, MillerKnoll, and studios from NYC to LA to Mumbai
Roland Mokuolu is the Co-founder of Partsimony (along with his twin brother, Rich Mokuolu). Partsimony is a supply chain management platform that helps manufacturers and hardware companies manage their hardware from the prototype stage through production.
AGENDA
6:30-7:00 - Arrival, mingle, grab refreshments
7:00-7:10 - Welcome and introduction
7:10-8:10 - Guest speakers with audience Q+A
8:10-8:30p - Community open mic
Anyone will have the chance for a 30 second pitch to demo a prototype or talk about what they are working on.
8:30-9:30p - Mix + mingle
Thank you to our sponsor
Viam is a smart device platform that bridges the gap between hardware and software engineers and makes it easy to turn great ideas into production-ready devices, regardless of what hardware you want to use. Viam makes smart devices configurable, so hardware engineers can easily test and demo their hardware to enable a wide range of software engineers to start working with their devices.
Thank you to our partners
Viam is a smart device platform that bridges the gap between hardware and software engineers and makes it easy to turn great ideas into production-ready devices, regardless of what hardware you want to use. Viam makes smart devices configurable, so hardware engineers can easily test and demo their hardware to enable a wide range of software engineers to start working with their devices.
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