Anna Thornton is a Professor of the Practice in Boston University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Over 20 years of industry experience, along with her background as an academic, has enabled Dr. Thornton to develop and deliver unique graduate and undergraduate courses, including “Additive Manufacturing,” “Product Realization,” “Manufacturing Processes,” and “Product Design.” Throughout her career, Dr. Thornton has been engaged by over 70 global startups and established companies to analyze and improve product development, manufacturing, and quality systems. She applies first principles to design unique solutions for a wide variety of industries, from medicine and healthcare to transportation, aerospace, pharmaceuticals, automotive, and consumer products and toys. Dr. Thornton holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge.
Revving up the Maker Revolution
Event Overview
In this webinar hosted by the Hardware Accelerator team at Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, industry experts and startup founders share their hard-won advice, revealing the obstacles they faced making the leap from idea to prototype to manufacturing and how specializing helped them succeed. You’ll discover how these entrepreneurs harnessed trends and resources to scale product companies focused on specific industries, like climate and agriculture technology.
Interested in learning more about Rev’s hardware accelerator programs? Visit the Hardware Accelerators website.
RESOURCES / NEXT STEPS
Rev’s Prototyping Accelerator Program
Rev’s Prototyping Accelerator Info Session (2/10)
SC Johnson Summer Startup Accelerator
Product Realization: Going From One to a Million
Otherlab
Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future
What You'll Learn
- The unique challenges makers and product startups face and how to best overcome them
- Resources and organizations that can assist makers and startups as they scale
- The industry, manufacturing, and investor trends currently fostering product and hardware startups
Speakers
Joy Weiss is president and chief executive officer of Tempo Automation, the world’s fastest manufacturer for prototyping and low-volume production of printed circuit board assemblies (PCBA). Tempo’s breakthrough, software-automated PCBA manufacturing platform delivers unprecedented speed, quality, and transparency at the most critical time in a product’s life cycle — prototype through new product introduction — when fast iteration and time to market are imperatives. Ms. Weiss was one of Tempo’s earliest investors and its first outside advisor, serving on the Tempo Board of Directors since December 2015. Before joining Tempo as CEO, she served as vice president at Analog Devices; she also previously held CEO roles at Dust Networks and Inviso. Ms. Weiss received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Ken Rother is an entrepreneur who has built and exited two successful tech/media startups. His experience is centered in operations, sales, product management, and technology. Mr. Rother is director of Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, which runs several hardware accelerator programs. He also is the managing director of eLab, an accelerator program for Cornell student startups, as well as a visiting lecturer of management at Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management.
Saul Griffith is founder and chief scientist at Otherlab and Rewiring America. Otherlab is an independent R&D lab helping government agencies and Fortune 500 companies understand energy infrastructure and deep decarbonization. Rewiring America is a growing nonprofit, working to launch a movement that electrifies everything, starting with 121 million households. An engineer and inventor, Dr. Griffith has been a principal investigator and project lead on federally funded research projects for agencies including NASA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-e), National Science Foundation, and United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM). He was awarded the MacArthur Genius Grant in 2007 and received his Ph.D. in 2004 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the junction between materials science and information theory.
Anna Thornton is a Professor of the Practice in Boston University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Over 20 years of industry experience, along with her background as an academic, has enabled Dr. Thornton to develop and deliver unique graduate and undergraduate courses, including “Additive Manufacturing,” “Product Realization,” “Manufacturing Processes,” and “Product Design.” Throughout her career, Dr. Thornton has been engaged by over 70 global startups and established companies to analyze and improve product development, manufacturing, and quality systems. She applies first principles to design unique solutions for a wide variety of industries, from medicine and healthcare to transportation, aerospace, pharmaceuticals, automotive, and consumer products and toys. Dr. Thornton holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge.
Joy Weiss is president and chief executive officer of Tempo Automation, the world’s fastest manufacturer for prototyping and low-volume production of printed circuit board assemblies (PCBA). Tempo’s breakthrough, software-automated PCBA manufacturing platform delivers unprecedented speed, quality, and transparency at the most critical time in a product’s life cycle — prototype through new product introduction — when fast iteration and time to market are imperatives. Ms. Weiss was one of Tempo’s earliest investors and its first outside advisor, serving on the Tempo Board of Directors since December 2015. Before joining Tempo as CEO, she served as vice president at Analog Devices; she also previously held CEO roles at Dust Networks and Inviso. Ms. Weiss received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Ken Rother is an entrepreneur who has built and exited two successful tech/media startups. His experience is centered in operations, sales, product management, and technology. Mr. Rother is director of Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, which runs several hardware accelerator programs. He also is the managing director of eLab, an accelerator program for Cornell student startups, as well as a visiting lecturer of management at Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management.
Saul Griffith is founder and chief scientist at Otherlab and Rewiring America. Otherlab is an independent R&D lab helping government agencies and Fortune 500 companies understand energy infrastructure and deep decarbonization. Rewiring America is a growing nonprofit, working to launch a movement that electrifies everything, starting with 121 million households. An engineer and inventor, Dr. Griffith has been a principal investigator and project lead on federally funded research projects for agencies including NASA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-e), National Science Foundation, and United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM). He was awarded the MacArthur Genius Grant in 2007 and received his Ph.D. in 2004 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the junction between materials science and information theory.
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In this webinar hosted by the Hardware Accelerator team at Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, industry experts and startup founders share their hard-won advice, revealing the obstacles they faced making the leap from idea to prototype to manufacturing and how specializing helped them succeed. You’ll discover how these entrepreneurs harnessed trends and resources to scale product companies focused on specific industries, like climate and agriculture technology.
Interested in learning more about Rev’s hardware accelerator programs? Visit the Hardware Accelerators website.
RESOURCES / NEXT STEPS
Rev’s Prototyping Accelerator Program
Rev’s Prototyping Accelerator Info Session (2/10)
SC Johnson Summer Startup Accelerator
Product Realization: Going From One to a Million
Otherlab
Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Futurehttps://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/view/K020122/primaryAmerica/New_YorkeCornell