We’re hosting a meetup and demo day with Indiegogo on Monday, June 8th. Ben Bateman (Director of Design & Technology categories) of Indiegogo and Liz Wald (VP, Technology & Design) are coming to Taiwan for a short visit to meet hardware technology creators and startups that might be interested in crowdfunding their projects as well as to learn more about Taiwan’s hardware ecosystem from makerspaces to manufacturers and the supply chain.
We enthusiastically seek hardware creators and startups to pitch or demo their project to get feedback from our panel (Ben & Liz of Indiegogo, Agne & Lucas of HWTrek, Bernard Chan of Alpha Camp). At the same time this is an opportunity for experts from manufacturing and the supply chain to understand the market opportunity for working with hardware startups and makers that crowdfund their projects. We extend an open invitation to creators/startups, tech media and bloggers, and manufacturing and supply chain experts to sign up to attend the event.
Event details:
- Date: June 8, Monday
- Location: Brown Sugar (No. 101, Songren Road, Xinyi District, Taipei / 台北市信義區松仁路101號)
- Registration: ACCUPASS – http://www.accupass.com/go/meetindiegogo
- 13:00 – 14:30 Media Interviews
- 14:30 – 15:00 Registration
- 15:00 – 15:05 Opening Remarks: How HWTrek Changes the Way Hardware is Done, Lucas Wang (HWTrek)
- 15:15 – 15:35 How Maker’s Succeed with Indiegogo, Ben Bateman (Indiegogo)
- 15:35 – 15:45 Successful Marketing Campaigns for Crowdfunding, Agnė Šerpytytė (HWTrek)
- 15:45 – 16:15 Startup/creator pitches
- 16:10 – 17:00 Q&A
We’re excited about and looking forward to meet members of our thriving community of hardware creators and industry experts in Taipei. See you then!
Our Guests:
Ben Bateman is the Director for Hardware, Design, and Technology at Indiegogo, where he focuses on developing strategies and tactics to help campaigns more effectively raise funds. Ben has worked with some of Indiegogo’s largest campaigns including the Ubuntu Edge, Canary, Scanadu Scout, and many more. https://www.hwtrek.com/profile/1850
Liz Wald is the Vice President for Technology and Design at Indiegogo, where she works to ensure Indiegogo campaign owners creating amazing products in IoT and connected home, health-tech, fitness wearables, drones, robots etc. have the best possible experience raising funds and getting global exposure. After leading the Indiegogo efforts to build business outside the US across all Indiegogo categories, I am now focusing on the technology and design category globally. https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizwald
Bernard Chan is the Founder of Alpha Camp, a Taiwan-based startup bootcamp. Most recently he was an Entrepreneur in Residence at TMI Holding where he helped to launch HWTrek. Previously he was Regional Director of Ad Network and Platform at Yahoo!, managing their display ad network and exchange. Before Yahoo!, Bernard was a management consultant at Bain & Company, where he consulted for clients in China retail, telecom, and private equity sectors. Bernard began his career as telecom semiconductor engineer in the US. https://www.hwtrek.com/profile/139
