Rapid Prototying Meetup with Altium

​Startups, makers, technologists, and engineers - join us for the Cicada's Rapid Prototyping Meetup with Altium.

​Born out of the University of Tasmania, Altium is a global leader in PCB design, with a history of empowering startups like Nuheara, Ellume Health, Gilmour Space Technologies, and Fleet Space to successfully develop electronics.

​Altium will host a 1-hour session on electronic PCB design in the cloud age, covering topics including:

• ​Opportunities to get your product to market quicker

• ​Mitigating prefabrication issues

• ​Alleviating component part delay issues

​After the session, there will be an opportunity for audience Q&A as well as a chance to network amongst the hardware community.

​About Altium

​Altium, LLC (ASX: ALU) is a global software company headquartered in San Diego, California, who are accelerating the pace of innovation through electronics. For over 30 years, Altium has been delivering software that maximizes the productivity of PCB designers and electrical engineers. From individual inventors to multinational corporations, more PCB designers and engineers choose Altium software to design and realize electronics-based products.

​About the presenter

​James Harriman worked as a Technical Officer for the Navy, overhauling and certifying electronic systems, where he first created printed circuit boards with tape on film.

​He worked for ABC Radio on broadcasting and studio equipment due to his interest in audio technologies and recordings. With a growing interest in software and databases meant he jumped at the chance of working for Altium. This was the ultimate combination of electronics and software, and why James is still working here over 25 years later and brings a great oversight on the advancements in technology, electronic design and best practices.

​Now he is responsible for maintaining the technical relationships with companies globally, as well as various other jack of all trades jobs in Altium.