IoT Field Trip to Enventys Partners – Build Consumer IoT Products!

Join us for a fun field trip to Enventys Partners to see Consumer Product IoT Lightning Talks! Enventys Partners is a full service product development and launch agency that takes products from napkin sketch to the store shelf.

In 16 years they have done over 700 patents, has numerous products on the market, raised more than $140 million through crowdfunding and had over a dozen products on Shark Tank!

We will not be meeting at our normal location. This meeting is a special field trip at Enventys Partners! There should be enough parking in the parking lot adjacent to the building but people can park in the street around the apartment building too.

Talk 1 - Trends in consumer IoT devices
Industrial Designer, Richard Woodard, presents current trends in consumer IoT design with a case study for an EP designed wearable.

Talk 2 - Particle Applications
Director of Engineering, Jeremy Losaw discussed the use of Particle devices to build consumer and enterprise devices at EP.

Talk 3 - Crowdfunding Your IoT Product
Director of Business Development, Reid Phillips discusses crowdfunding and marketing strategies for IoT products.

Bios:
Richard Woodard
Richard Woodard is an industrial designer at Enventys Partners. Growing up in two very different cultures, he quickly became fascinated with the relationships between the many aspects of the world. In his work, he strives to create meaningful experiences by using his knowledge of human factors, materials and manufacturing, and using insights gathered from various research methodologies in order to develop beautiful forms and interactions,

Before Enventys Partners, he was working in the augmented reality sector performing design research and developing applications for both education and enterprise with the goal of providing real added value solutions using the Microsoft Hololens. Throughout his career, he has also been providing his services and expertise as a contractor in a number of various industries.

Jeremy Losaw
Jeremy Losaw is the Director of Engineering at Enventys Partners, a full service product development and launch agency in Charlotte, NC. He guides product development programs for inventors, startups and established firms from napkin sketch to production in diverse market sectors like IoT, connected home, consumer goods, sports/sports protective, and many more.

Many of his products have been launched at CES including the Inirv smart cooking device which was also featured on Shark Tank. He has built the IoT development team at Enventys Partners to serve the increasing demand for smart device development and many of his projects have been successfully launched via crowdfunding.

Jeremy is also a an established writer and speaker. He has been contributing articles for technical magazines for nearly ten years and is currently writes for Inventors Digest magazine about prototyping techniques, new technology and IoT. He speaks at IoT and other tech meetups in the south east.

Reid Phillips
Recently named one of Charlotte’s "30 under 30" for entrepreneurship, Reid lives and breaths startups. Beginning with Mountain Khakis while still in college, he assisted with business development and scale, laying the foundation for their growth and eventual acquisition by Remington. Upon graduation, he co-founded KYCK.com, a software platform for the youth soccer industry, where he simultaneously product managed the development of their online suite of tools and managed business development. Following KYCK’s acquisition by NBC Sports and for the last three years, Reid has served as Director of Business Development for Enventys Partners where he consults with hundreds of startups each month to develop their go-to-market and growth strategies.