Robotics Startup Bootcamp at RoboBusiness

By Mike Oitzman | September 22, 2023

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Beginning a robotics firm, in addition to rising and scaling, has many challenges. These can embrace taking a robotic from prototype to manufacturing, elevating funding, navigating authorities rules, reaching their audience, and extra. 

The Robotics Startup Boot Camp at RoboBusiness, which takes place in Santa Clara, CA on October 18-19, will present “ideas of the commerce” and embrace discussions across the many widespread challenges that may make or break an organization alongside the way in which. Subjects will embrace authorized formation, dilutive and non-dilutive investments, IP and patents, path to manufacturing, accounting, when to convey on advertising, gross sales, & HR specialists, and fundraising & exits.

The BootCamp will function 5 audio system that can share their first-hand expertise working with startups:

• Drew Fortin is the Founder and CEO of Lever Expertise. Fortin is a people-first, values-driven chief with over 20 years of development technique and team-building expertise throughout retail, advertising know-how, native media, and HR tech. He’s obsessive about the shift that AI, robotics, and Web3 have on the employer-employee relationship and the nice issues it means for people in the way forward for work. This led him to discovered Lever Expertise – the expertise technique company – which helps 200+ firms run tech-enabled methods to maximise the leverage of their workforce.
• Christie Bluhm is the Audit Principal at Clifton Larson Allen (CLA). Bluhm has greater than 20 years of expertise offering accounting, auditing, tax, and advisory providers to producers, distributors, and know-how firms. She has intensive expertise with assurance engagements—overseeing your complete engagement from planning to fieldwork and reporting. Moreover, she offers advisory providers to companies and their house owners on monetary evaluation, normal enterprise questions, purchase/promote preparation, and tax planning.
• Aaron Capron is a Companion at Finnegan’s Palo Alto workplace. With greater than 18 years of expertise, Capron counsels purchasers of all sizes, starting from start-ups to Fortune 500 firms, on prosecution, post-grant concerns, portfolio administration, and pre-litigation methods. He has drafted and overseen the drafting of a whole lot of patent purposes for electrical, electronics, telecommunications, and software-based applied sciences.
• Daniel Theobald is the Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Vecna Robotics. Theobald has a long time of expertise main analysis scientists and groups of engineers in creating cutting-edge know-how. He has 67 issued patents and greater than 30 patents pending.   Along with founding Vecna Robotics, Daniel additionally co-founded MassRobotics, a non-profit devoted to the worldwide development of the robotics trade and Twisted Fields, an natural analysis farm devoted to the development of automation in agriculture.
• Joyce Sidopoulos is the Co-Founder and Chief of Operations at MassRobotics, an innovation hub, collective workspace, and laboratory for robotics startups. MassRobotics’ mission is to allow and develop the subsequent era of robotics firms. In her position, Sidopoulos works on initiatives to develop the breadth and depth of the robotics ecosystem and develops high-impact applications, highlighting startup know-how, matching startups with funders and clients, partaking with robotics adoption, connecting expertise to employers and dealing with academia to commercialize analysis.

RoboBusiness is the main occasion centered on creating industrial robots. There can be 60-plus audio system, 100-plus exhibitors and demos on the expo flooring, networking receptions, the Pitchfire Robotics Startup Competition and extra. You possibly can try the current list of speakers, to which extra can be added.

RoboBusiness can be co-located with the Field Robotics Engineering Forum, an occasion centered on efficiently creating robots that function in wide-ranging, outside, dynamic environments.

Additionally co-located with RoboBusiness is DeviceTalks West, the premier trade occasion for medical know-how professionals, presently in its ninth 12 months. Each occasions appeal to engineering and enterprise professionals from a broad vary of healthcare and medical know-how backgrounds.