Startup Grind Warsaw Hardware Startups

Last-minute tickets will be available at the door. 30 pln. Welcome to the Startup Grind Warsaw event. On Wednesday Apr 13th we will be talking about #Hardware #Startups - in english. Join us if you are a #Maker, #HardwareHacker, #3DPrinting enthusiast or an #investor looking for interesting hardware startups. We know that Hardware Startup are tough, more risky, more complex, more costly but also more sexy than purely software startups. Together with our speakers we would like to inspire you and show examplex of success and hard work. On the other hand will discover reasons why most of these startups fail and how you can avoid that. By mixing 4 different roles (startup, entrepreneur, investor and expert) you can see 4 different perspectives of the same topic. Also will be great to hear from our American guest how makers ecosystem develops in the State of Nevada and what we can learn from that to build better #MakerSpace and #FabLab in Poland. Agenda: 6:00 pm Networking 6:30 pm Interview with a Startup - Sarah Petkus 7:00 pm Interview with an Entrepreneur - Paweł Twardo 7:30 pm Networking break 7:45 pm Interview with an Investor - Maciej Frankowicz 8:15 pm Interview with an Expert - Zdzislaw Sobierajski 8:45 pm Networking (pizza & drinks) Our speakers: Sarah Petkus (Startup) - Founder of RobotArmy www.robot-army.com , a hardware hacker and kinetic artist from Las Vegas, who aspires to achieve world domination through drawing and building robots. 2 years ago successfuly rised money for this idea with a Kickstarter campaign. Check her projects at zoness.com Paweł Twardo (Entrepreneur) - the leading representative of the OpenSource RepRap 3D printer community in Poland. Created the first forum about 3D printers reprapforum.pl and built 3D printers manufacturing company Monkeyfab.pl Maciej Frankowicz (Investor) - Venture Partner and Investment Manager at Arkley (www.arkley.vc), in charge of finances, due diligence and manages the investment pipeline. Maciej earned his stripes as co-founder of the award-winning startup Adiotrip. On top of his duties for Arkley, he is a business developer for Arkley's portfolio company ZMorph3D zmorph3d.com Zdzislaw Sobierajski (Expert) - industrial product design manager, constructor and connector. Expert in planning and budgeting projects and their implementation for new industrial products. Serial Winner of Red Dot Design Award 2011 and 2012, nominated to German Design Award 2013 and 2014. More at www.sobierajski.pl