Today I have a special guest. If there was a black belt in his field, he would certainly be one of its holder. He’s a master of a type of project management and innovation style, agile, specifically he’s into scrum, which is the most commonly used agile framework. My guest is Joe Justice from the USA, President of Scrum @ Hardware at Scrum Inc, and CEO, founder of a company called Team WIKISPEED.
In this episode we elaborate on the topic of scrum. Raw transcript is available at: https://www.thehardwareentrepreneur.com and show highlights can be seen below:
My guest is Ákos Dömötör, CEO of OptoForce, Hungary.
Ákos Dömötör, with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and two Master’s in Management, started out in the global graduate program at LEGO, then taking up a position in Denmark. He then left the creative space in Denmark in 2014 to be the CEO of his venture, OptoForce, in his native land, Hungary. In 2015 OptoForce, producer of force/torque sensors for industrial and service robots, gained a huge revenue growth of 600% and now works with some of the most important robotic companies, universities in the world.
In this episode we bring you the world of robotics closer to you, discussing how they feel, i.e. how they touch, trends in the robotic field, how Ákos and his team differentiates their company from competitors, how they iterated on the business model a number of times to reach the current version that works. We talked about manufacturing aspect, challenges and many more.
In this episode we elaborate on the robotic sensing, the highlights as seen below.
In this episode, you’ll hear a short, dense analysis on the rise and demise of a well-known company, Pebble, which produced the first smartwatch. I chose to talk about this topic as the latest news from them was a shock. The goal with telling you their story, their shocking ending, as always, is that you get to learn from others, in this case from a company’s story that had its highs and in December its low moment. So hopefully, you’ll get some actionable insights.
Highlights can be seen below.
My guest is Radu Diaconescu, co-founder and Business Development Manager at Swie.io.
Swie.io is an industry 4.0 company, which is building the world’s largest distributed manufacturing network. They believe that electronics manufacturing should be easy and accessible to everyone. Swie is the next-generation platform for agile electronics manufacturing, guaranteeing the shortest lead time in the industry.
Radu is an electrical engineer, with M.Sc. in Management of Technology from EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, and industrial experience at Honeywell. He is currently managing Swie.io's business development efforts and sits in the Board of Directors.
In this episode we elaborate on the topic of agile electronics, the highlights being as seen below.
My guest is Bernhard Petermeier, founder of CargoSoul, community leader of Technology Pioneers at World Economic Forum from Geneva, Switzerland. CargoSoul was active in the technology development towards the holodeck concept we know from Star Trek.
My guest is Anya Cherneff, co-founder and Executive Director of Empower Generation. Her company is a social enterprise that connects women in Nepal with global hardware suppliers, which provide solar technology.
This is the first episode of The Hardware Entrepreneur podcast. In this episode, I’ll elaborate on why I started this podcast and how you, listener, can benefit from listening to the episodes.