Product Management in B2B Hardware Companies: Fireside Chat

Join us for a fireside chat where we will be discussing lessons learned and mistakes made 🔥 on the journey of early stage HW / IoT startup to post Series-A growth company.

Both Smartex and Okra recently raised Series-A. Smartex raised $24M, and Okra raised $12M. Now both companies are growing headcount, scaling distribution and integrating new products. This will be a wide ranging discussion that will cover topics from:

• How these product managers brought their visions to life
• How they managed to get IOT based hardware deployed all the way to factories in Uzbekistan and rural villages in Nigeria
• How to grow teams and (spoiler alert: FUN TOPIC) how to manage support efficiently as the amount of field-deployed tech grows exponentially.
• ++ more

It’s a learning journey and will be a candid discussion where Smartex and Okra will share lessons and failures, so that we can hopefully all come out of this with a better understanding of how to build and scale HW / IoT startups better.

Would love to have you there - also keen for additional insights and will have a Q&A - all are welcome!

We've proud to have a great line-up of speakers for this event:
António Rocha: Co-Founder & CTO/VP Product, Smartex
Paulo Ribeiro: Co-Founder & VP Engineering, Smartex
Gabriel Marques: Product Manager, Smartex
Nithya Menon: Head of Product & Technology, Okra Solar
Afnan Hannan: Co-Founder & CEO, Okra Solar (Moderator)