David Doe

Designer - Redshoe

2:00 PM

Opening Credits & Welcome Coffee

Enjoy a fresh cup of coffee before the presentations. We’ll be handing out pamphlets that outline this evening’s details.

David Doe

Designer - Redshoe

2:00 PM

Opening Credits & Welcome Coffee

Enjoy a fresh cup of coffee before the presentations. We’ll be handing out pamphlets that outline this evening’s details.

2:00 PM

Opening Credits & Welcome Coffee

Enjoy a fresh cup of coffee before the presentations. We’ll be handing out pamphlets that outline this evening’s details.

Since we started, Hardware Club’s mission has always been about bringing the best minds in Hardware together.


This year, the Hardware Club Founders Summit will bring together 300 outstanding founders for a full day of intensive learning, pitching and targeted networking in San Francisco. 


We’ve carefully crafted an incredible lineup of speakers who are prepared to arm you with new strategies, insights and know-how to help you scale.

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Registration & Welcome coffee

Enjoy a fresh cup of coffee and take the opportunity to connect with fellow community members, before the presentations kick off.

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

The haRdware club adventure

Alexis Houssou, Founders & Managing Partner, Hardware Club

9:15 Am - 9:45 AM

 What makes you so special? How grit makes the ordinary extraordinary

 David Gengler, Founder of NOKE

9:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Surprising hardware development lessons hidden in an Andalusian Tango

Gerhard Pawelka, CEO of Cooper Perkins

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM

COFFEE BREAK


10:30 AM - 11: 00 AM

Navigating the treacherous waters of international trade

Mike Geyer, Head of Marketing and Business Development at Fictiv

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

BUILDING AND SCALING A SUBSCRIPTION BUSINESS

Eric Chan, Director of Partnerships and Growth at Chargebee

11:30 AM  - 12:00 PM

Methodologies, tools and tactics which will position your project for success

Kacper Sulisz, CEO, InFullMobile & Peter Tuszynski, CTO, InFullMobile

12:00 pM - 12:30 pm

Bootstrapping Bare Conductive from a community to consumers to corporates

Matt Johnson, Co-founder & CEO, Bare Conductive

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Networking lunch 

Connect with VCs and Partners as they start coming in for the afternoon section of the event.

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Registration & Networking lunch

Connect with VCs and Partners as they start coming in for the afternoon section of the event

1:30 PM - 2:00 pm 

Opening words

Alexis Houssou, Founders & Managing Partner, Hardware Club

 

2:00 pm - 2:30pm

Strategic investing and Partnering

Rajesh Swaminathan, General Manager, Applied Ventures

Kemal Anbarci, VP & Managing Executive, Chevron Technology Ventures

Austin Noronha, Managing Director, Sony Innovation Fund

Cédric Eloy, Head of Innovation Strategy, Armstrong by DAHER


Moderated by Aymerik Renard, General Partner, Hardware Club

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Molekule: scaling science & Building consumer presence

Jeff Clavier, Founder, Uncork

Jaya Rao, Co-founder & COO, Molekule

3:00 pm - 3:20 pm

 

Move Purposefully and Fix Things

Maryanna Saenko, General Partner, Future Ventures

3:20 pm - 3:50 pm

networking & Emails

3:50 pm - 4:20 pm

founder stories

- Inventory. Visibility. Action. byDavid Wiens, Co-founder & CEO, Pulsa

- Redefining Farming, George Varvarelis, Founder & CEO, Augmenta

- Software is eating the bike industry, Adrien Roose, Co-founder & CEO, Cowboy

4:20 - 4:50 pm

From detroit to silicon valley: fragmentation & opportunities in mobility

Adrien Roose, Co-founder & CEO, Cowboy

Zhe Huang, Investment Manager, Denso Ventures

Ryan Evans, Founder & CEO, Inboard

Varun Jain, General Partner, SE Ventures

Moderated by Jerry Yang, General Partner, Hardware Club

4:50 PM - 5:20 pm

founder stories

Featuring:

 - Success Percolating in Hardware by Nathan Gilliland, CEO, Bellwether

- What’s Better Than Watching Grass Grow? by Terry Olkin, Co-founder & CEO, Left Hand Robotics

- Hardware as a service in enterprise by Vince Gaydarzhiev, Founder & CEO, Alcatraz

5:20 pm - 5:50 pM

Hardware Investing

Li Sun, Partner, Foundation Capital

Nate Williams, Founder & Partner, Union Labs

Sunil Nagaraj, Partner & Founder, Ubiquity VC

Shahin Farschi, Partner, Lux Capital

 

Moderated by Aymerik Renard, General Partner, Hardware Club

5:50 pm - 6:00 PM

Closing words

Alexis Houssou, Founder & Managing Partner, Hardware Club

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Networking cocktail



Hardware Club is a community-based venture firm dedicated to full-stack companies.


We run a fund that invests in early-stage full-stack companies building hard technologies and gather the best hardware companies worldwide in an exclusive community.

 

We are constantly looking for outstanding founders, building game-changing products or technologies, targeting very large markets.

 

Our $50M fund is dedicated to pre-seed to series A investments, with check size ranging from $100k to $1,5M.