3rd DC Hardware Happy Hour + 2023 Holiday Event @ Building Momentum

The Hardware Meetup community is excited to announce DC’s 3rd Hardware Meetup! We’ll be keeping it casual for this one: let’s grab a drink and some delicious bites in celebration of a great first year for the DC Hardware Community. We’ll share a toast to the end of 2023 and the start of 2024! Be sure to bring your projects, products, and prototypes to share with the group.

Hardware Meetups happen across 20+ cities monthly and help bring together different professionals to connect and meet each other.

Agenda

• 6:00-7:00 - Arrival, mingle, grab refreshments
• 7:00-7:30 - Welcome + Holiday/New Year Hardware 30 Second Asks
• 7:30-8:00 - Hardware Demos
• 8:00 - 9:00 - Mix + Mingle

Thank you to our partners
informal is a freelance collective for the most talented independent professionals in hardware and hardtech. With expertise in a diverse range of industries from consumer electronics to automotive, climate tech to medical devices, informal members work with clients at every stage to design, manufacture, and scale top-quality physical products. Whether you're looking for a single contractor, a full-time employee, or an entire team of professionals to work on everything from product development to go-to-market strategy, the informal collective has the perfect collection of people for the job. Learn more.

Positive Deviancy is a Platinum Level Connector Organization that matches early stage hardware startups with DOE's American-Made Prize Challenges. Positive Deviancy's Embryia Accelerator program, in partnership with the Department of Energy, offers free application and proposal services for the Solar Prize Round 7, where 20 startups will be awarded $50k in early-stage Innovation Awards.

Building Momentum is an award-winning, Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) with global impact. Based in Alexandria, VA, Building Momentum provides corporate training and consulting, research & development, small business support, workforce development and youth programming alongside their flagship military training programs.

If you want to help support the next meetup, please reach out to [nate@informal.cc](mailto:nate@informal.cc) for sponsorship inquiries.

See you soon!