Name: 4th SD Hardware Meetup @ Performant Manufacturing | Connectivity and the Cloud
Start: 2024-08-22T18:30:00-07:00
End: 2024-08-22T21:30:00-07:00
Location: Performant Manufacturing

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We're back for another Hardware Meetup! Thank you to our friends **[Andrews Cooper](https://www.andrews-cooper.com/)** and **[Belwest](https://www.belwest.org/)** for helping make the evening possible.

This month we're meeting at Performant Manufacturing's new space in Barrio Logan, and focused on a topic near-and-dear to any hardware professionals putting their products on the internet. We have a great panel planned with professionals from the Google Cloud team, Passage, and Andrews Cooper.

Our panelists are:

**Robert Castruita** has over 20 years of IT work experience, including extensive experience in a large enterprise network and systems design implementation for maintaining critical world-wide communications systems. Robert has had a colorful career supporting the Creative Artists Agency, Dell Inc., Booz Allen Hamilton, VMware and most recently Google. His overall architectural expertise translated directly into client success through the development of engineering and design implementation. He has managed and spearheaded efforts in the planning and development of Cloud IT architecture and network-based designs.

**Aaron Young** is a senior electrical engineer at Andrews Cooper. He has 15 years experience in hardware design for consumer and medical products with experience at Philips for defibrillators and Meta on Oculus VR systems. He has been responsible for developing Defibrillators, VR headsets, household electronics, and electronics test equipment. He has focused on product design in the IOT market. For example with a product called 'Joule' - a smart kitchen device that sends/receives data utilizing a cloud interface. At Andrews Cooper Aaron has started an internal IOT project to serve as a starting point for companies wanting to design a device with cloud capabilities.

**Curt Collinsworth** is the CEO and Founder of Passage. He’s spent over 25 years in design, creating and running successful UX and software design teams around the world. Most recently, he served as the Global Head of UX and an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Logitech, where he started their first UX team and grew it to 30 people across 3 continents. As an EIR at Logitech, Curt started and ran a team that created a new product and service across both hardware and software. He also has spent time at some of the best design consultancies in the world, running both design and UX teams at leading shops like fuseproject in San Francisco, CA and frog design in Germany. Curt loves to travel and has lived in Germany, Finland and Russia. An avid sailor with his own vessel, Curt can be found off the California coast most weekends.

*Hardware Meetups happen across over 30 cities around the world every month, helping bring together founders, engineers, and other hardware professionals to networks, share insights, and collaborate with each other.*

**Agenda**
6:00-6:30 - Arrival, mingle, grab refreshments
630-7:30 - Welcome and introduction, Google Cloud & AC speaker
7:30-8:00 - Community Open Mic
8:30-9:30 - Mix, mingle, and close out the night

**Thank you to our host**
**[Performant Manufacturing](https://performantmfg.com/)** is a San Diego-based multidisciplinary team of engineers and technicians supporting the growing demand for electro-mechanical hardware and automation solutions. We are a fast moving small-scale contract manufacturer, having the ability to source, assemble, test, and ship small to medium batches of hardware products. With over a decade of experience in hardware development and fabrication, we collaborate closely with product development companies, offering rapid hardware development and build services, enabling them to concentrate on their core business.

**Thank you to our sponsor**
**[Andrews Cooper](https://www.andrews-cooper.com/)** is an engineering services firm specializing in highly complex technology development within ambiguous environments. Innovative, tech-driven companies partner with AC to streamline product development and maximize the chances of a successful product launch. Regardless of where you are in your product lifecycle, improve your speed to market with AC’s engineering teams in Research & Development, Product Engineering, Hardware Testing, and Manufacturing Automation.

**And thank you to our partner**
**[informal](http://informal.cc/)** is a freelance collective for the most talented independent professionals in hardware and hardtech.

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