Welcome Guest Speaker Redwood Stephens, President of Synapse

Synapse Product Development (www.synapse.com (http://www.synapse.com/)) provides a fully streamlined engineering and realization process for product development. They can take your concept from engineering development, manufacturing through introduction in the market.

Redwood will demystify the process and discuss the advantages of outsourcing many of processes related to product development such as ideation, building, and testing prototypes to oversight for manufacturing.

Redwood has been passionately developing technology and products for over 16 years. His career has primarily been split between technology startups and product development companies. In the startup space his focus has been the development of energy efficient hydrogen fuel-cells and fuel-processors. In the product development space he has designed products ranging from high efficiency stoves to high volume electromechanical devices. Although Redwood has worked on a broad range of technologies and processes, some areas of focus have been heat transfer, combustion, fluid dynamics, hydrogen fuel cells, micro–filtration, water purification and high volume manufacturing methods. Redwood holds 2 issued patents and 8 pending patents.

Redwood understands that to small development stage companies, cash is important. So is hitting your schedule and delivering your product. Redwood will cover some key topics on how to think about outsourcing support for your development efforts. After the presentation, we'll break into smaller groups for discussion and Q&A on how companies can leverage outside resources when working towards early milestones, full on engineering development, and going to manufacturing.

Complimentary pizza & beverages including beer and soda will be served starting at 6:00pm so please arrive early so that you can have a drink and network among others who are passionate about Hardware Startups.