An Evening Where Manufacturing, Robotics, and AI Collide

We're back at Formlabs for our first meetup of the fall season! 🤖 Bring your latest builds, demos, announcements, or asks to share during our Open Mic! SPEAKERS + FEATURES Stay tuned for speaker announcements! Community Open Mic - As always, jump on the mic at the end of the meetup for your own chance to show off, pitch, ask, or demo! Agenda 6:00-6:45p - Arrival and networking 6:45-6:55p - Welcome and introduction 6:55-7:40p - Guest speakers and audience Q&A 7:40-8:00p - Community open mic 8:00-9:00p - Mix + mingle About Boston Hardware Meetup Hardware Meetups happen across 30+ cities around the world, bringing together hardware professionals to network, share knowledge, and support each other and the larger hardware ecosystem. The Boston Hardware meetup has been happening since 2013 and is one of the largest local communities inside the global Hardware Meetup network. Thanks to our hosts Formlabs is a 3D printing technology developer and manufacturer. The company develops and manufactures 3D printers and related software and consumables. Thanks to our partner informal is a freelance collective for the most talented independent professionals in hardware. With expertise in a diverse range of industries from consumer electronics to aerospace, informal members work with clients at every stage to design, manufacture, and scale 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. WANT TO GET INVOLVED? Sponsorship: We offer exclusive access to our member community through sponsorships. Host an event at your space: We love bringing our community of members to new spaces. Speaker: Do you have a talk or tale from your own hardware journey? We'd love to feature you at a future event Interested? Email us at boston@hardwaremeetup.com

Campus Deep Tech and MassVentures are bringing together a curated group of startups, investors, industry leaders, and academics to open up Tough Tech Week. 300+ innovators from across Boston region universities and hard tech ecosystem will come together to celebrate the region's most promising startups, forge new connections, and showcase transformative technologies. Industry leaders & investors will present 'reverse pitches' where they will identify specific challenges and opportunity areas where they would like to see innovators focus next. Startups and leading academics will share the cutting-edge technologies they are developing and their commercial potential. If interested in competing in the startup track or research track, please fill out this interest form: https://forms.gle/eU4MPMM5qP7457heA Sample of Investors & Industry Tech Scouts In the Room: SOSV, MassVentures, Equinor Ventures, Engine Ventures, Woven Capital, Gigascale Capital, Fine Structure Ventures, Aligned Climate Capital, Cerberus Ventures, Planeteer Capital, Clean Energy Ventures, 2048 Ventures, MassCEC, MassRobotics, National Grid Partners, Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Sumitomo Chemicals, M Ventures, GC Ventures, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Turner Construction, PepsiCo, ExxonMobil, NVIDIA, and more… 3 Segments / Technology Categories: 1st) Robotics, Sensing, Electronics & Physical AI: Robotics, autonomy, drones, sensors, computer vision, microelectronics, power electronics, IOT, edge AI 2nd) Nanotechnology, Critical Materials, Quantum: Quantum, photonics, critical minerals / rare earths, semiconductors, additive manufacturing 3rd) Climate Tech, Energy, Hard-to-Decarbonize Industries: Batteries, grid, nuclear, fusion, geothermal, chemicals, fuels, CCUS, industrial heat, cement, steel, agtech, biotech Cross-Cutting Themes: Resilience & Dual-Use Why Attend: Discover breakthrough technologies Engage directly with scientists working at the frontier of extreme heat resilience and cooling technologies