Hardware Development Unconference [Cross promotion]

This event is inspired by the Polyglot Software Unconference and will follow a similar format. Purchase Tickets @ http://hwunconference.com/2025

From the organizers:

Hardware?

This unconference is focused on bringing hardware products into reality, like wearables, industrial sensors, machinery, and more. From industrial design to firmware to project management to legal, if it's key to building & launching hardware, it's a good fit here! Share your hard-won lessons, your weird new way of doing something, and your dives down rabbit holes and learn from the best in Vancouver's hardware development community. Some sessions from last year included:

• All about waterproofing electronics
• Bayesian statistics analysis for prototype data
• Compliant mechanisms
• Reverse engineering: 3D scanning hardware & software, integrations into prototyping
• How to pitch a VC as a hardware startup
• Manufacturing using etching & diffusion bonding

What BCIT Applied Research and Innovation brings to this event

BCIT Applied Research and Innovation is bringing something new to the 2025 Hardware Unconference, a dedicated Solutions Lounge hosted by their award-winning MAKE+ applied research team. Visit the BCIT Solutions Lounge and pick the brains of engineers, technologists, industrial designers, and project managers with deep expertise in real-world product development. Whether you're facing a design bottleneck, testing issue, or manufacturing roadblock, come in, lounge around, talk it out, and leave with new ideas, new connections and maybe even a breakthrough! With over 35 years of experience helping companies take products from concept to commercialization, the MAKE+ team brings deep expertise in everything from 3D-printed prototypes to medical devices, advanced manufacturing, health technologies and much more. As the only academic applied research group in Canada certified to ISO 13485 (Medical Devices), they bring industry-leading standards to every project, ensuring safe, effective, and market-ready results. The MAKE+ multidisciplinary applied research team, backed by state-of-the-art facilities, has supported 100s of companies and innovators in solving complex problems.

What's included in a ticket?

• Unconference badge and entrance
• Morning coffee/tea, lunch, & snacks throughout the day
• Invite to the Hardware Unconference Slack

Schedule

9:00 - Registration 9:30 - Opening and Introduction 10:00 - Session Pitching and Voting 11:00 - Scheduling / Demonstration 11:15 - Session 1 12:15 - Session 2 13:15 - Lunch 2:30 - Session 3 3:30 - Session 4 4:30 - Session 5 5:30 - Closing Remarks