Hardware Happy Hour at AuSIM Garage!
Time to take a break and get connected with local Mountain View builders!
We’ll be hanging out with at AuSIM Garage with high bay door's open and sunshine plenty, sponsored by ChipHub.
As usual, prototypes, product ideas, asks, answers, and anything else related to hardware that’s on your mind are welcome for open mic.
Agenda
5:30-6:15 - Arrival, mingle, grab food and refreshments
6:15-6:20p - Welcome, Intros, Sponsor, AuSIM Garage and Informal Spaces
6:20-6:40p - Theme: Supply Chain
Presentation: Brogan Miller - Culture in Manufacturing
Presentation: Aftab Farooqi - BOM Challenges
6:40-6:50p - Community discussion (open mic) around SW/HW opportunities in supply chain.
6:50-7:20p - Open mic and demos
Anyone will have the chance for a 2min pitch to demo a prototype or 30 seconds to introduce themselves and talk about what they are working on.
8p - Doors close!
Presenters
Brogan Miller, Doula Studios - "Doula for early stage hardware start-ups"
Brogan, a veteran of Stanford's Product Design program and School of Education, helps founders get better odds for success.
https://doulastudios.comAftab Farooqi, ChipHub - Has broad and decades-long manufacturing and supply chain experience.
Thank you to our partners
AuSIM Garage at Informal Spaces - a professional hardware node part of Bay Area network! Located in Mountain View - get affordable industrial workshop space alongside resources and tools needed to build a business making physical products.
ChipHub is an AI-native procurement software for the hardware OEMs: Hardware procurement Re-Imagined from Supplier Discovery to Supplier Management.
Imagine the experience of being able to save millions of dollars quarter over quarter by negotiating with thousands of suppliers over millions of parts with instant view of the spend and savings analytics - all on one platform.
Imagine the experience of deploying AI agents for finding form-fit-function compatible parts in minutes with the reports delivered to your inbox.
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See you soon!