Making the Built Environment Smarter with Hardware

We're excited for this next Hardware Collective event focused on the built environment! Come join to meet other like minded professionals, enjoy good food + drink, and hear some founders and industry leaders talk about different ideas in the space.
Guest Speakers

• Alex is co-founder and lead software engineer at Urban Machine, who's mission is to reclaim the 37M tons of wood waste from construction and demolition. His previous experience was as CTO + Co-founder of Aotu, a video analytics platform.
• Miranda is a mechanical design engineer at Tesla doing battery cell product development. She will share her insights on electrification trends in the residential sector.
• Dan is a CA commercial real estate broker, advises technology companies, startups, biotech/life sciences companies, investment firms, and financial services firms with their workplace needs in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and beyond. Raise is a modern real estate technology and brokerage firm building innovative products and delivering workplace solutions for global clients. We're reshaping how you navigate real estate decisions through WorkplaceOS, our innovative platform combining active searches, lease management, and occupancy analysis.

Agenda

• 6:30 - 7:00p - Arrival, mingle, grab refreshments
• 7:00 - 7:10p - Welcome and introduction
• 7:10 - 7:30p - Alex with audience Q+A
• 7:30-7:50 - Miranda with audience Q+A
• 7:50-8:10 - Dan with audience Q+A
• 8:10 - 8:30p - Community open mic - Anyone will have the chance for a 2min pitch to demo a prototype or talk about what they are working on.
• 8:30p - 9:30p Mix + mingle

Thanks to our partners

• Studio 45 is a coworking and event space located in Bernal Heights that provides the workspace, tools, resources, and community to build a business making physical products.
• Circuit Launch - Robotics & Hardware Electronics Community. Over 32K Sq/Ft of Private offices, shared electronic and prototype labs for startups, growing companies, and inventors. Plus mechlabs.ai is their build-it to learn-it mechatronics education program.
• Port Labs is a home for emerging companies developing physical products. Hardware companies in climate tech, IoT, robotics right in downtown Oakland.
• Silicon Valley in Your Pocket - Are you investor-ready? Check out our free hardware investor readiness self-assessment. You'll get a free report with your score and guide to investor expectations.