Detroit Hardware

The Hardware Meetup community is excited to kick off Detroit’s third meetup, this time during the Reindustrialize Summit. We'll be meeting at Newlab Detroit in Michigan Central, a hub for hardware and manufacturing startups in the motorcity and a hot spot for the growing movement to re-industrialize the USA.

No-one working in hardware hasn't been impacted by the past 6 months, let alone the past 5 years. Tariffs, supply chain shocks, inflation, tightening liquidity markets, and growing competition abroad have brought the impacts of de-instrialization into sharp relief for everyone in our industries. The next 5 years are going to be about renewing our capacity to build real things, and the Reindustrialize Summit is at the white hot core of that movement.

We'll hear from speakers working at the forefront of the reindustrialization movement, from founders building hardware companies right here in Detroit to software developers building the hardware development tools of the future. As always, we'll have an open mic after the presentations, so anyone in attendance can share what they are working on, ask for help, or offer assistance to others.

Hardware Meetups happen across 30+ cities monthly and help bring together different professionals to connect and meet each other.
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Guest Speakers:
Adam Leeb - Reshoring manufacturing by learning from Asia.

Adam is CEO and Cofounder of Astrohaus, the company behind the Freewrite line of distraction-free writing tools. He has over a decade of entrepreneurship and product development experience with deep expertise in bringing consumer products to market. Adam is an MIT graduate, with a degree in Mechanical Engineering focused on Product Design.

​Agenda
6:00-6:30 - Arrival, mingle, grab refreshments
6:30-6:35 - Welcome and introduction
6:35-7:15 - Guest talks and Q+A
7:15-7:30 - Community open mic

• ​Anyone will have the chance for a 2min pitch to demo a prototype or talk about what they are working on.

​7:30-9:00 - Mix + mingle
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Thank you to our sponsor
​Onshape by PTC is the leading cloud-native CAD & PDM platform that runs on any device, anywhere-requiring zero IT. Onshape is for product design companies who are fed up with the errors, time waste, and hidden costs of outdated file-based CAD & PDM.

​Thank you to our partners
Informal is a talent collective helping builders connect with freelancers for design, engineering, and physical prototyping tasks. Working with top teams like Neurosity, Aduri, and Makerbot in the past, Informal will help recruit and match a team to meet any of your prototyping needs.

​Newlab is a Venture Platform focused on climate & deep tech with place-based communities for founders and startups in Brooklyn, Detroit, and Latin America. Through its community of startups, applied innovation programming, physical infrastructure, and direct investment, Newlab helps commercialize and scale the critical technologies needed to decarbonize the economy. Newlab is located on the Michigan Central District and works hand in hand with Michigan Central to run programs that further establish Detroit as the future of Mobility.

​Parking
Newlab is located at 2050 15th Street; the main entrance (revolving doors) is between Dalzelle and Marantette (Northwest corner).
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Parking is available on-street or at the Bagley Mobility Hub Parking Garage, at 1501 Wabash Street.

If you're parking at the Bagley Mobility Hub, take the pedestrian walkway straight over to the entrance.

​If you want to help support the next meetup, please reach out to nate@informal.cc for sponsorship inquiries.

​See you soon!