10th San Diego Hardware Meetup | The Road to Scale: San Diego's Zero-to-One Hardware Story
We're back for another Hardware Meetup, the location is at Pure Project Vista! Mmm tasty.
Building hardware is tough, but it doesn’t have to be lonely. San Diego has an incredible local ecosystem to support the full hardware lifecycle, and a welcoming technical community eager to lift up it’s own. For this month’s Hardware Meetup we’re bringing together a stacked panel to kickstart a conversation on making and scaling physical products right here in SD.
Together, we'll walk the full journey from ideation, design, funding, prototyping, and production. You’ll meet:
-A local product founder to share the gritty realities of getting to market
-An industrial design firm to talk about moving from concept to prototype
-A manufacturing partner and this month’s sponsor—SEACOMP— to discuss how they help brands cross the bridge from a concept to scaled manufacturing across North America and beyond.
-Technical folks from the community excited to get to know people just like yourself!
Thank you, SEACOMP!
Community Note: We've moved the dedicated nearshoring edition to later this year. Nearshoring will still be part of the discussion at this event, but within a broader conversation on building and scaling hardware companies in SD.
Event details: Thursday, June 25 at 6:30pm PDT
Location: Pure Project Vista, 1305 Hot Spring Way Vista, CA 92081
Agenda
6:30–7:00 – Arrival, mingle, grab refreshments
7:00–8:00 – Panel discussion and audience Q&A
8:00–8:30 – Community open mic — Anyone will have the chance for a 2min pitch to demo a prototype or talk about what they're working on.
8:30–9:30 – Mix + mingle
See you there & bring hardware demos for open mic! 🤖
And thank you to our partners...
SEACOMP is a US-based electronics manufacturing partner for hardware companies ready to scale. They know building hardware is hard and the right partner changes everything. With manufacturing in China and a new 60,000 sq. ft. facility in Mexico, SEACOMP helps you grow your business. Learn more here: www.seacomp.com
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Hardware Meetups happen in over 50 cities around the world, helping bring together founders, engineers, and other hardware professionals to networks, share insights, and collaborate with one another.
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If you want to help support the next meetup, please reach out to nate@informal.cc & nadimameguid@gmail.com for sponsorship/logistics inquiries.