Product Realization Group: 2016 Hardware Symposium

Silicon Valley's Premier Event

for

Hardware Professionals, Investors, & Service Providers

Theme: "Hardware Renaissance"

Product Realization Group's (PRG's) Hardware Symposium is your opportunity to network with a dynamic community of hardware professionals including startups, ramping, and established businesses; investors, incubators, service providers, professional societies, universities, and governments, as well as learn about the latest hardware trends from industry experts in an informal setting at Silicon Valleys' iconic Computer History Museum.

During this event you will:

• Network with hardware companies, investors, & professionals
• Learn how hardware is shifting in Silicon Valley from our Expert Panel
• Understand how to design products for behavioral change
• Enjoy award winning BBQ brought to you by Chef Rodney Baca
  
• Experience 10 new hardware product demos

Past years have included GoPro, Whistle, Neato Robotics, Boosted Boards, Intuitive Surgical, Knox Medical, Sandstone Diagnostics, Motiv Power Systems, Kumu Networks, EMC, Mentor Graphics, Lemnos Labs, Berkeley Foundry, Stanford StartX, Indiegogo, August Capital, Sand Hill Angels, Draper Nexus, Keritsu Forum, ST Ventures, SME, ASQ, Cities of San Jose and Fremont, San Jose Mercury News, Forbes (and many others).

Keynote

Behavioral Product Design

Speaker: Sunil Maulik, PhD, Managing Parter at SunilM1

Learn from Sunil ...

• The neuroscience of how we make decisions
• "Lenses" from Design Thinking
• Designing products to make them habit forming
• Using unpredictable variable rewards to make products sticky
• Using variable content to scale products into target markets

Expert Panel Discussion

The Future of Hardware Products

Moderator: John C. Hollar, President & CEO, Computer History Museum

Panel...

• Carol Sands, Founder of The Angels' Forum and Halo Fund
• Gareth Keane, PhD & MBA, Investment Manager at Qualcomm Ventures. Kauffman Fellow and Hardware Startup Advisor
• Ron Keith, founder and former CEO and Chairman of Riverwood Solutions
• Stephen Baker, Vice President, Consumer Electronics Industry Analyst at NPD Group

Learn from seasoned Industry Veterans:

• Strategies to raise (more) money for your start-up
• Emerging technologies and platforms to incorporate into new designs
• Optimizing global design and supply chains to achieve scale
• Adapting your business to changing consumer purchasing behaviors
• 5 trends that will shape hardware products in the future

Bonus...

• Bring your most pressing questions about starting and scaling high-technology hardware businesses
  
• Gain "real world" practical answers from a diverse set of industry experts
• 10 PRODUCT DEMO's Including: Ario Lighting, Hatch Baby, HoneyPoint3D, Moti.io, NextThing, Rokid, Sensel, Stickybones, Type A Machines, Whirlwindvr, and more...

Agenda

• 8-9:00am Registration & networking
• 9:00-9:20am Welcome address
  
• 9:20-9:50am Keynote: Behavioral Product Design
  
• 9:50-10:00am Break
• 10:00-11:30am Expert Panel: The Future of Hardware Products
  
• 11:30-2:30pm Exhibitor Hours
• 12:15-1:30pm BBQ Lunch and networking - Expo Area
• 2:30pm Event Close

*Note: This agenda is subject to change

Thanks to our GOLD Sponsors

• Arena Soultions
• Avnet
• Creative Ventures
• Extron
• Fusion Design
• Matrix Requirements
• Keating Consulting
• Levin Consulting
• Voler Systems
• Riverwood Solutions
• Rush Order
• Texas Instruments
• Silicon Valley Manufacturing Rountable
• SME

Thanks to our SILVER / BRONZE Sponsors

• DigiKey
• E-Systems
• General Foundry
• Sonic Manufacturing Technologies