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Hardware Meetup - Consumer Hardware
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| With Emilie Williams (Creative Dir., Hydrific), John Anderson (Design & Tech Partner, Smart Design), Daniela Macias (Global Experience Design, Colgate Palmolive). |
| Venue, To Be Announced, New York
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Nov 14 (Thu) @ 06:30 PM
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The Hardware Meetup community is excited to announce the 102nd NY Hardware Meetup at Smart Design.
Hardware Meetups happen across 30+ cities around the world, bringing together hardware professionals to network & learn from each other. You might not realize it, but NYC is a hotbed for this kind of innovation & tonight you'll meet two companies working at the cutting edge of this technology.
This month we'll be at Smart Design, an innovation & design consultancy based in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. From its origin as a pioneer in universal design over 40 years ago, to its role today as a partner in strategy, design, & engineering, Smart empowers ambitious organizations to create the future they envision.
SPEAKERS
John Anderson takes a lead role in shaping the technology discipline at Smart Design through innovative processes, pilots, & experiments. With a background in agile start-up techniques & a design-minded approach to engineering, he has more than a decade of experience in consulting, product design, software engineering, & entrepreneurship. A frequent speaker on technology at General Assembly panels & in classrooms, John also received an Emmy in the Best Kids Digital category for his work with PBS's The Electric Company.
Daniela Macias is a NYC based industrial designer with 14 years experience leading the creation of global household & consumer products for Colgate-Palmolive. In her current Experience Design Manager role, she is responsible for the design leadership of expert cross functional teams working on packaging structures & experiences for Personal Care, Pet Nutrition & Home Care brands that hundreds of millions of people around the world love & use daily.
Emilie Williams is an industrial designer & Co-Founder & Creative Director at Hydrific, part of LIXIL. With a mission to enable the sustainable home of the future, Hydrific, the new venture she helped co-found 3 years ago, just launched its first water-conservation focused smart home product, Droplet. With over 20 years of consumer product design experience, she has crafted an impressive portfolio of housewares, electronics, & plumbing products for top-tier brands, holding more than 130 U.S. patents & dozens of international awards like RedDot, iF, IDEA, G'Mark Japan, German Design Award, GOOD Design, & more.AGENDA
6:30-7:00 - Arrival, mingle, grab refreshments
7:00-7:10 - Welcome & introduction
7:10-8:10 - Guest speakers with audience Q+A
8:10-8:30p - Community open mic
Anyone will have the chance for a 30 second pitch to demo a prototype or talk about what they are working on.
8:30-10:00p - Mix + mingle
Thank you to our sponsor
Smart Design is an innovation & design consultancy based in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. From its origin as a pioneer in universal design over 40 years ago, to its role today as a partner in strategy, design, & engineering, Smart empowers ambitious organizations to create the future they envision.
Thank you to our partners
Makelab is a 3D manufacturing service that produces parts, prototypes, & production runs for companies in the robotics, medical, cpg, hardware, & manufacturing sectors. We manufacture locally in NYC, San Francisco, & ship nationwide. Makelab works with companies like Informal, Peleton, Stand+, Nonfiction Design, & Estee Lauder to accelerate agile product development while ensuring quality outcomes
informal is a freelance collective for the most talented independent professionals in hardware & 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, & 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.
If you want to help support the next meetup, please reach out to nate@informal.cc & christina@makelab.com for sponsorship inquiries.
Location Instructions
Please use our Google Maps Pin Drop for the entrance to our space.
Enter through the following Navy Yard entrances: Sands Street (most direct from the subway) or Cumberland Street. Please have your confirmation email on hand to show to the guard attendant.
The entrance is between building 41 & our building 127. When you enter our building there is an interior door that will provide elevator access. If you are driving, you can park alongside any of the brick buildings within the Navy Yard
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