an informal party to rock CES 🤘
​It's the most wonderful time of the year: CES is almost here!
​CES is the one event all year when everyone in hardware is in the same place at the same time. That's true for informal, our friends at Onshape, KD Product Development, Tomorrow Lab, Intercreate and SEACOMP, and it's certainly true for the Hardware Meetup community. So we're bringing everyone who's in Vegas together to kick off an epic week of hardware with us.
​We'll be back at the Punk Rock Museum, but this time we'll have the entire place to ourselves. That includes their bar, the museum itself full of all things punk rock history, and the parking lot, where we'll have a food truck, robots and live hardware demos.
​Why the Punk Rock Museum you ask? Because what's more punk rock than building a hardware company? You have to be a special kind of crazy to choose this path, but damn if it isn't a ton of fun.
​Speaking of, we'll have some really cool (and really fun) hardware demos at the party:
​Autonomous vehicle rides with Saferide.ai
​Teleoperated heavy industrial equipment with Carbon Origins
​Augmented Reality glasses from Raven Resonance
​Scent experiences from OVR Technology
​Meet Ace, the Talking 240Z from Soulinterface.ai
​New standards for rotary controls from The Haptics Company and XeelTech
​The portable monitor reimagined by Standout
​And many many more (if you want to demo email us at [email protected])
​Thank you to our sponsors for helping make this event possible.
​Our Supporting Sponsor
​Onshape by PTC is the leading cloud-native CAD & PDM platform used by global enterprises to agile hardware teams who are done dealing with crashes, lost files, and outdated tools. Onshape runs on any device with zero IT overhead, enables secure real-time collaboration, and includes built-in PDM with branching, merging, and full version history.
​Try Onshape for free via their Discovery Program, or if you’re a startup, you can apply to their Onshape Startup Program.
​Our Digital Sponsors
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​KD Product Development is an engineering, supply chain development and manufacturing services company that helps innovative companies get smart, connected and highly cosmetic products to market quickly and efficiently.
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​Tomorrow Lab is a New York–based hardware innovation studio that partners with startups and established companies to invent, prototype, and scale market-ready physical products through a holistic integration of design, engineering, and manufacturing.
​Intercreate, a San Francisco-based product development firm, drives product success through expert electrical, firmware, and embedded software engineering. We love what we do and enjoy the collaborative partnership of solving complex challenges to launch market-ready innovations.
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​informal is a freelance collective for the most talented independent professionals in hardware. 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.
​See you soon 🤘