Fireside Chat with Ben Joffe from HAX

Join us for the evening of Hardware Innovation and entrepreneurship brought to you by H (http://hardware.co/)ARDWARE.co and betahaus.

We will kick off with a talk from legendary Benjamin (Ben) Joffe form HAX (http://www.hax.co/) and continue with an open debate on the topic of Entrepreneurship in Hardware, potential of Shenzhen market and valuable resources that offers comparing to Europe and Germany Hardware development and connections.

If you just wish to scratch the surface of the topic or get into in-depth conversations about it, well, you just have to join us!

The Intro talk will start at 6pm sharp at betahaus Cafe, the debate will follow right after.

There is no event without cool people in it. We can guarantee some awesome Hardware startups will be mingling around, as well as some founders of HARDWARE.co. Don’t hesitate just pop by, mingle, debate and have a blast!

BENJAMIN JOFFE

GENERAL PARTNER, HAX

Benjamin (@benjaminjoffe) is General Partner at HAX (www.hax.co (http://www.hax.co/)), the world’s top accelerator for hardware startups. Benjamin is a recognized expert on innovation ecosystems with 15 years experience across China, Japan, Korea and USA. He has keynoted in over 200 events across 23 countries including TEDx, SXSW, LeWeb, TechCrunch Disrupt, GMIC and lectured at INSEAD, Berkeley and Stanford.Prior to HAX, Benjamin worked in consulting, telecom and gaming, and founded the consultancy Plus Eight Star Ltd., where his team worked with clients such as Microsoft, Tumblr and Harvard Business School to identify and analyze innovative services from Asia's digital space. Benjamin is also an angel investor in a dozen Asia-based and hardware startups. He speaks English, Japanese, Mandarin, Korean and Spanish with a French accent.

About HAXLR8R

HAX (www.hax.co (http://www.hax.co/)) is the world's most active investor and accelerator focused on hardware startups.

It invested in 65 hardware startups ranging from robotics to wearables, 3d printing, medical devices, and IoT. HAX developed a "Lean Hardware" methodology that leverages iterative prototyping, the Shenzhen manufacturing ecosystem and crowdfunding for global product launches. The top campaigns among the 35 successful ones are Prynt (smart instant camera), Voltera (PCB printer), Particle (IOT connectivity solution) and C.H.I.P., the world’s first $9 computer ( http://www.kickstarter.com/hax ).