Sydney Hardware Meetup

Hear from three hardware industry experts!

Let's get out of our labs, offices, and workshops and meet each other!

Join us at the Sydney hardware meetup, part of Spark Festival 2024, bringing together entrepreneurs, engineers, makers and enthusiasts with a love of hardware! Hear from those who have gone through the struggles of bringing hardware to market and find others with shared passion.

This meetup hosted by UNSW Founders is a unique opportunity to hear firsthand from industry leaders who have navigated the challenging journey of bringing hardware products to market. This is your chance to connect! 

Our Speakers 

Michael Potas - CEO at Boost Design

Sumeet Yamdagni - Head of Electronics & Instrumentation at Mawson Rovers

Bojan Smiljanic - Design Manager at Tilt Industrial Design

This event will include

• Listening to three amazing speakers!
• Food & Drinks
• Networking with like-minded individuals
• *Opportunity to pitch for 30 seconds

*After the three speakers, audience members will have a chance to pitch for 30 seconds. Do you want to share what you're working on? Find talent? Ask for a job? Anything goes!

About Spark Festival 

Spark Festival has a mandate to coordinate and promote startup-focused events that spark engagement into and across the startup ecosystem.

Spark Festival 2024 is proudly supported by the City of Sydney, and has been made possible by support from the Australian Government Department of Industry, Science and Resources, TURO, Cntrl Print, ACS Labs and Harbour City Labs, Herbert Smith Freehills, Stone and Chalk, Atlassian Foundation, Startup Daily, Net Nada and Startup/Angels.

By registering for this event, you grant full rights to use the images from any photography/video footage for publicity and education purposes. This may include (but is not limited to), the right to use them in their printed and online publicity, coursework presentations, social media and press releases. If you do not wish to be photographed, please inform an event organiser.